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Room in San Gimignano Countryside

Bed & Breakfast - Private room · Località Sovestro, San Gimignano, Tuscany 53037, Italy

Independent room for 2 or 3 people in the countryside with free parking, 1 km from the center. Wifi Zone.

Your host, Damiano
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Independent room for 2 or 3 people in the countryside with free parking, 1 km from the center. Wifi Zone.

The Space

Large double room with the possibility of additional single bed, a private bathroom, private parking and a large terrace where you can play barbecue, solarium or reading.

The absolute quiet is excellent for a relax holiday in the countryside.

The house was an old country cottage, now restored.
The country house is surround by vineyard and olive groves, it is also ideally located to explore the many historic town(40-90 minute) and the sea(60-80 minute).

In the surrounding property there is agricolture farm where is possible to taste the famous “Chianti” and “Vernaccia” of San Gimignano and also buy wine and biological olive oil.

The exact address is :
Località Sovestro, 29 – San Gimignano (SI) only 50 meter from Hotel Sovestro .

Gps coordinates :
(phone number hidden)

A touch of nature and art, without sacrificing the well-being and relaxation.
La Capanna di Sovestro is equipped with every comfort: all rooms have indipendent bathrooms with shower, air condition and indipendent heating.

Free WiFi zone
Private parking
Garden space
Room with tv-sa
Air condition
Bathroom with shower
Little pet

You have a smartphone? Great!
The owner Damiano created especially for you an interactive guide that will guide you step by step and help you with advice on places of interest, events and places to eat.
Download APP INFOTOURIST on the App Store or (website hidden) Play, scans the QR code and GO !!

(If you do not have a QR code reader, enter the code 31337 when prompted)

Guest Access

Free WiFi available everywhere.
Free parking space.
Large outdoor area.

Interaction with Guests

Homely and friendly atmosphere.

The Neighborhood

The tranquility of the countryside just a few steps away from the center.

Getting around

There are 2 bus stops, suburban, both about 100 meters away and the bus frequency is 1 hour.

Other Things to Note

We accept well-behaved pets and not left unattended.
We have built and furnished the apartment as if it were their own home, provided the rich and of all that can be used, then We demand respect for the property and its furnishings.
Ask for any doubt.

Room type: Private room
Accommodates: 3
Bedrooms: 1
Bathrooms: 1
Beds: 2
Extra people: $21 / night after 2 guests
Weekly Price: $441 /week
Check In: 3:00 PM
Check Out: 11:00 AM
Cancellation: Strict
Pet Owner: Dog(s), Cat(s), and Other pet(s)
Overall Guest Satisfaction
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  • Vi overnattede tre nætter hos Damiano's forældre og det var fantastisk.
    Sikke en natur og en passende spadseretur ind til San Gimignano, som nok er den flotteste lille by i Italien med forretninger og restauranter.
    Opholdet var perfekt med dejligt værelse og bad samt rigtig god morgenmad.

    May 2014
  • We spent one night at Damiano's family compound where there were a few villa type rooms separate from the main house by a few yards and complete with patio, sun protection and plenty of room for the two of us. The room was clean, completely furnished and with working wifi. There was adequate parking for our rented car, and we enjoyed a restful night of sleep followed by an extraordinary breakfast experience in a separate small dining facility run by Damiano's mother. Damiano's father, Bruno, was as helpful as he could be for someone with very limited English skills. We enjoyed communicating (more effectively than we would have imagined) through the use of hand signs and pointing. He recommended a local restaurant in San Gimignano and telephoned his friend, Hugo the owner, to make a reservation for us. Unfortunately, the restaurant catered to bus traffic on that day so we found a somewhat upscale hotel within walking distance just down the road from our room and ate in its restaurant where the food was as good as we have experienced anywhere in Tuscany.
    We confidently recommend the experience to you. It is a casual 20 minute walk to the walled city of San Gimignano on lightly traveled roads and makes a convenient base of operations for visiting the city. If you have a car and choose to use it to reach the city, you will have to pay for parking as there are very few free parking places which are some distance from the city entrances.

    May 2014
  • nous avons été bien reçu par Damiano qui est un garçon charmant et qui en plus parle le français. la chambre est un peu sombre mais spacieuse et confortable et il y a une terrasse privée sympathique. le petit déjeuner se passe dans un petit chalet à côté et nous avons dégusté de délicieux gâteaux faits maison. ça se situe près de San Gimignano et le cadre est très joli.

    April 2014
  • Damiano non l'abbiamo conosciuto di persona ma siamo stati accolti dai suoi famigliari che ci hanno fatto sentire come a casa. Il Sig. Bruno e sua moglie sono state due persone molto cordiali ed è stato piacevole parlare (email hidden) hanno dato delle informazioni interessanti sulla zona di San Gimignano e dintorni. La camera e il servizio ottimi. Quando ritorneremo in quelle zone sapremo sicuramente dove andare a dormire. Grazie di tutto.

    January 2014
  • THe place is very convenient just outside San gimigniano. you can leave the car in front of the house and walk to the village thru a very nice path wher you cn admire both Tuscany and San Gimigniano. Daliano is the son of Bruno who will welcome you and tell all you want to know about his village. next morning his delicious wife will serve you a very good breakfast. It was a real pleasure to stay with them . THey make you fill at home.

    November 2013
  • Close to San Gimignano. Large rooms. A little difficult to find. Good communication with the son in the house but he was just the man in between because it was his father and mother that run the place and they couldn't a word english which complicated things a little. A lot of good will and humor anyway.

    October 2013
  • I've had a very lovely stay in Damiano's rooms :-)
    He and.his family are very welcoming and friendly. I recommand whithout any doubt this host.

    July 2013
  • We never actually met Damiano, it was his parent's place. They did not speak any English so it was hard to communicate with them. Bruno and Joele were very friendly, showed us around and had breakfast made each morning in a small toolshed. The place was nice but it was hard to navigate through the overgrown flowers and bushes to the driveway down several flights of stairs. There were so many nicknacks on the furniture we couldn't put our stuff anywhere. It was a lovely place and the Fulceri's were very attentive and kind, however the wifi was limited and for us unusable. The people made our experience so much better than the facilities.

    July 2013
  • Thanks Damiano and especially his father Bruno for a wonderful stay in San Gimignano! We couldn't have asked for better hosts. They were very accommodating and helpful, and went above and beyond to make our experience enjoyable. From start to finish, it was a great experience. Damiano's father told us everything about San Gimingnano's history and also recommended nice restaurants in the surroundings. It was a nice opportunity to brush up our Italian language skills and get in contact with locals. The B&B was clean, spacious and beautifully decorated, with special attention to details. There was a nice terrace in front of our room with a lot beautiful plants and flowers and a nice view to the Tuscany landscape. The bedrooms are spacious, with plenty of place for storage. There were also other bigger room available with a kitchen, ideal for a family holiday. Breakfast was also a nice experience with cakes made by Damiano's mother and with a lot of talking with Bruno. The B&B is just 4 min by car from San Gimignano and 20 min walk through the Via Francigena. If I should return to Tuscany I would certainly chose this place again! Thank you, Damiano!

    June 2013
  • I wrote to Damiano on the very day I was leaving to reach San Gimignano and he replied positively and promptly in less than 1h! When i got there in the evening, his parents were there to welcome us. They were extremely nice, friendly and very helpful. They made our stay really enjoyable and pleasant. We had nice chats and enjoyed lovely cakes for breakfast! The room is perfect for your stay in the area, bathroom is very nice and clean, bed is comfortable and they are really just 2 minutes away from the centre!

    A warm hug to Bruno and his special and tasty olive oil!!!! :) Highly recommended and would definitely stay there myself again.

    June 2013
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La Capanna di Sovestro
I'm a student-worker, live in San Gimignano and study engineering in Pisa. I restored a barn with my father for 4 years and since 2008 I manage my small bed and breakfast, created just in there. I like good Tuscan cuisine and fine wine, I like pets and technology.
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Athletic Excellence

"No pressure, no diamonds. We compete, we win. We are Baylor."

Baylor Stadium & Alumni Center

In the Classroom

For the sixth time in Big 12 Conference history, Baylor produced the league's top overall student-athlete graduation rate, as its 2012 federal rate of 71 percent tied the University of Texas for the top spot.

It marked the first time since 2004 that BU student-athletes had the Big 12's top federal graduation mark and the ninth time it has finished either first or second in grad rates among league schools.

Baylor student-athletes continued their winning ways in the classroom, too, as a school-record 159 individuals were selected to 2012-13 Academic All-Big 12 teams, including a record 125 first-team honorees. It marked the fifth consecutive year BU produced 100 or more overall Academic All-Big 12 honorees.

For the second consecutive year, a school-record tying 630 Baylor student-athletes earned Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll status’314 for the 2012 fall semester and 316 for the 2013 spring term. One-hundred-twenty-five (125) of those were named with a perfect 4.0 grade-point averages for at least one of the two terms’59 in the fall and 66 during the spring term.

For the 19th straight year and the 27th time in the last 28 years, Baylor produced at least one Capital One Academic All-American as selected by CoSIDA, as a school-record six student-athletes earned 2012-13 honors: Nick Florence, football, first team; Dana Larsen, women's soccer, first team; Kolt Browder, baseball, second team; Blake Niccum, men’s track & field, second team; Lisa Sliwinski, women’s soccer, third team and Taylor Jackson, men's track & field, third team. Larsen was also tabbed as the Academic All-American of the Year for women’s soccer, becoming just the second Baylor student-athlete ever to earn this distinction for their respective sport.

On the Field

Baylor has won a combined 51 Big 12 Conference championships—29 regular season and 21 tournament championships—in the league's 17-year history, 21 more than it earned in 81 years of Southwest Conference membership.

Baylor's 51 all-time Big 12 Conference titles have come in nine sports: men's tennis (18), women's tennis (15), women's basketball (9), baseball (3), soccer (2), football (1), softball (1), men's golf (1) and equestrian (1).

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All of Baylor's 19 sports have made at least one postseason appearance over the last eight years. Baylor football has reached a bowl game in each of the last four years, registering back-to-back postseason wins in the 2011 Alamo Bowl and the 2012 Holiday Bowl. Women's basketball won the 2011-12 national championship as the first men's or women's basketball team in NCAA history to go 40-0; the Lady Bears have advanced to three Final Fours, twice winning it all. Men's basketball reached the Elite Eight in 2009-10 and 2011-12, and won the 2013 National Invitation Tournament. Baseball made the 2005 College World Series, and softball advanced to the 2007 and 2011 Women's College World Series. Men's tennis has advanced to the Elite Eight eight times in the last nine years and won the national championship in 2004, starting a run of four straight Final Four appearances. Women's tennis' has five Elite Eights include Final Four berths in 2008 and 2011.

A year after watching all 19 of its teams reach postseason play, Baylor's 2012-13 season produced a strong encore, as it advanced 17 teams to postseason play and won five Big 12 Conference championships.

Baylor's five conference titles were one shy of a school record and brought the Bears' all-time Big 12 total to 50 championships, which ranks fourth among current Big 12 teams just one crown behind third-place Oklahoma State. Baylor ranks second in the league with 41 titles claimed since 2003-04.

Baylor finished 31st in the final 2013-14 Learfield Sports Directors' Cup standings compiled by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), and fifth among Big 12 Conference institutions. Baylor earned 498.00 points to record its 10th consecutive top-50 season in the all-sports sweepstakes.

Year of the Bear

The 2011-12 academic year is now nationally recognized as "The Year of the Bear" (#yearofthebear) as Baylor achieved one of the most spectacular athletic seasons in NCAA history:

  • Robert Griffin III: 2011 Heisman Memorial Trophy Winner
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  • Baylor was the only school nationally with a bowl-winning football team, an Elite Eight men's basketball team and a Final Four women's basketball team.
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  • BEST IN TEXAS: Baylor was 41-6 in the four major sports vs. in-state opponents, including a perfect 19-0 in men's and women's basketball (5-1 in football; 10-0 in men's basketball; 9-0 in women's basketball; 17-5 in baseball).
  • NATIONAL COACH OF THE YEAR: Kim Mulkey (women's basketball)
  • NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE YEAR: Robert Griffin III (football), Brittney Griner (women's basketball)

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Forestry colt brings $1.2 million to kick off FTK yearling affair.
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Ferguson, who was representing the Maktoum family of Dubai, said he made his first bid at $1 million while standing in the rear ring. The final bid was only his second one, as Californian B. Wayne Hughes, seated inside the air-conditioned pavilion, was the underbidder.

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"He has continued to thrive; I have always liked him," Ferguson said. "He is not a particularly heavy horse. He has the physical credentials and also family."

The colt, bred in Kentucky by longtime Taylor Made clients Aaron and Marie Jones, was conceived in 2004, when Forestry's fee was $50,000. It has since doubled to $100,000 for the 2006 breeding season.

Alizea's Song, the unraced Unbridled's Song mare who produced the session topper, was bought by the Joneses for $850,000 from the Taylor Made consignment to the 2000 Keeneland July yearling sale. Second dam Alizea, a winning daughter of Premiership, is the dam of Fountain of Youth (gr. I) winner Songandaprayer   and the stakes winners Lifeisawhirl and Island Emperor.

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Soft Falling Rain and Paul Hanagan take the United Arab Emirates Two Thousands Guineas.

Favorite Soft Falling Rain easily dispatched pacesetter Deauville Prince in the stretch and drew off to a clear win in the $250,000 United Arab Emirates Two Thousands Guineas Sponsored by Al Tayer Motors (UAE-III), the feature race during the sixth meeting of the Dubai World Cup Carnival Feb. 14 at Meydan.

The National Assembly colt, ridden by Paul Hanagan for trainer Mike de Kock, took his unbeaten record to six wins after returning from a dominant front-running win in the Guineas trial last month at Meydan. He scored by 2 1/4 lengths as the 1-to-2 favorite in the main event and was timed in 1:36.07 for 1,600 meters (about one mile) in the all-weather track.

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Zahee, a stablemate of Soft Falling Rain, finished third, three-quarters of a length behind Godolphin's Snowboarder, and Deauville Prince hung on for fourth a nose back. Fortify finished sixth after racing mid-division early and then tiring in the final quarter-mile.

De Kock was concerned Soft Falling Rain's ability at the Guineas distance, but owner Sheikh Hamdam bin Rashid al Maktoum said a start in the United Arab Emirates Derby (UAE-II) at 1,900 meters (about 1 3/16 miles) had not been ruled out.

"He is a really nice horse and we will have to decide where he runs next,"  Sheikh Hamdan said. "This 1,600 meters really seems to suit him on this surface and we could stick to this trip. The U.A.E. Derby is possible but he has a lot of speed.

"Wherever he runs here next we are keen to take him to England, and Royal Ascot would be a possibility for him."

South Africa's Equus champion 2-year-old last season, Soft Falling Rain entered with five easy wins in as many career starts. His victories included the South African Nursery Stakes (SAf-I) Apr. 28 at Turffontein in his start prior to the Guineas trial Jan. 17 at Meydan.

Sheikh Hamdan bought Soft Falling Rain, who is out of the winning Giant's Causeway   mare Gardener's Delight, for 350,000 rands at the inaugural Cape Premier Sale in 2011 in Cape Town. He was bred by Highlands Farms Stud, which is owned by the Beck family of Gainesway in Lexington, and is from the family of 1995 Kentucky Oaks (gr. I) winner Gal in a Ruckus.

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Deauville Yearling Sale Average Rises 3.4%

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Tiger Woods stayed out of the water down the stretch to claim his second Players Championship and fourth title this year.

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. — Twelve-hour workdays don’t come often on the PGA Tour, but Tiger Woods, Sergio Garcia, David Lingmerth, and a few others were forced to put in extra time to decide the Players Championship on Sunday.

That unlikely threesome, which began the day as the featured centerpiece not long after dawn — for reasons marvelous and scandalous — would hold the tournament’s fate entirely in their hands as the sun began to set. With one of golf’s most prestigious victories at stake, not to mention $1.71 million, all that was left was to find out whose hands would remain calm, and whose would uncontrollably shake.

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Garcia blinked first, sending not one but two shots from the 17th tee into the cold-hearted water surrounding the famous island green when he was tied for the lead with Woods, who was standing on the 18th tee. Not long after saying he was better off not being paired in the final round with Woods (“We don’t enjoy each other’s company”), the Spaniard did his adversary the ultimate favor, handing him the outright lead by slap-shooting his way to an ugly 7 on the hole. For good measure, Garcia pumped his drive on the 18th hole into the drink and made double bogey, dropping six shots when he couldn’t afford even one.

Woods did his part, keeping his ball on dry land down the stretch and playing mistake-free on the three dangerous closing holes at the TPC Sawgrass Stadium Course. It came on the heels of his 14th-hole blunder — when his drive found the water, leading to a double bogey — that brought Garcia, Lingmerth, and a few more back into the picture.

But when it came time to win, Woods looked like the golfer who now has 78 PGA Tour victories in 300 starts, punctuated by 14 majors. And when it came time to win, Garcia wilted.

By shooting a final-round 70, Woods’s second win at the Players Championship went into the books as a two-stroke victory, over Lingmerth (72), Kevin Streelman (67), and Jeff Maggert (70). Considering everything that went into it — a verbal spat with Garcia, the stunning double bogey with five holes to play, on a course that hadn’t treated him well in more than a decade — Woods was savoring his fourth win of the season, the earliest he’s reached that number. Which is saying something.

“I had an opportunity to win the golf tournament when I was tied for the lead today, and I thought I handled the situation well and really played well today,” Woods said. “Am I surprised? No. I know a lot of people in this room thought I was done. But I’m not.”

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Once Garcia (76, T8) eliminated himself, it was left to Lingmerth, a rookie playing in just his 13th tour event, and first Players. Trailing Woods by one shot, he stuffed his tee shot at the 17th hole to 8 feet. His birdie putt to tie slid high and just right, but he gave himself one final chance, more than 60 feet for a tying birdie at No. 18. His putt to force a playoff scooted past the hole and off the green, and he missed the comebacker for par. Ranked No. 162 in the world coming into the week, he hung with the world’s top-ranked player until the final green.

“It was a great week overall,” Lingmerth said. “I’m in it to win it. Good chances there at the end, and just didn’t putt very well. I didn’t putt well all day, it felt like. Just didn’t get it today.”

Due to a weather delay on Saturday, Woods, Garcia, Lingmerth, and others completed their third rounds early Sunday morning. Lingmerth began the day with a two-shot lead, but he, Woods, and Garcia were tied at 11 under through 54 holes.

Three early birdies in the final round helped Woods build a two-shot lead, which remained until his ugly pull on No. 14 with a 3-wood. The ensuing double bogey created a four-way tie at the top: Woods, Garcia, Lingmerth, and Maggert, all at 12 under.

One by one, they fell away: Lingmerth bogeyed No. 14, and Maggert found the water at the 17th. Woods made a 7-footer for par at No. 15 — “The shot that turned the tide was the putt on 15,” Woods said. “To go double bogey-bogey would have been huge.” He then set up a tap-in birdie at No. 16 that put him in the lead by blasting out of the front bunker to 2 feet.

Garcia matched Woods with a two-putt birdie at the 16th, pulling back into a tie and setting the stage for his 7-6 finish. Five years ago, Garcia won the Players in a playoff at the 17th. Sunday, the hole seized its revenge.

“That hole has been good to me for the most part. Today it wasn’t,” Garcia said. “That’s the kind of hole it is. You’ve got to love it for what it is.”

Not much love between Garcia and Woods, which added a layer of intrigue throughout the weekend, especially when the specter of a playoff between the two seemed a real possibility. But there was more golf left, and as so often happens at the Players, late drama was played out.

“We’ve seen amazing things happen there at 16 and 17,” Woods said. “So many different things can happen, and I was hoping I would be on the good side of it.”

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Tibeto-Burman languages

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Tibeto-Burman and areal grammar

Tibeto-Burman grammar is quite different from that of Indo-European languages, yet it shares many characteristics with the grammars of other language families of East and Southeast Asia. Tibeto-Burman languages are topic prominent, meaning that noun phrases (NPs) can be freely topicalized, or moved to initial position in the clause. Further, the NPs of a clause occur in relatively free order, especially in the verb-final languages. The Lahu sentence in the table consists of a verb phrase (VP) preceded by four NPs (several orderings other than the one given there are possible).

The noun phrases in this sentence include a temporal NP (yàʔ-ni ɔ̄ ‘today’), a subject (ŋà-hı̵ tê qhâʔ ‘our village’), a locative NP (qhɔ̀-phɔ̂ ‘where’), and an object (šā ‘animal[s]’). The VP consists of a main verb (γàʔ ‘hunt’) preceded by an auxiliary verb (ca ‘go and do’) and followed by several particles (e ‘direction away,’ ‘future; irrealis,’ and le ‘substance question’). The verb phrase is the dominant constituent in the clause, and sentences frequently lack “subjects.”

In fact, the notions of subject and object are alien to Tibeto-Burman grammar, as are such grammatical categories as active versus passive voice. Many Tibeto-Burman languages, including Tibetan, Newari, and Akha, are ergative with agents marked like instrumentals. Ergative languages treat the subject of intransitive verbs the same as the objects of transitive ones, unlike accusative languages, which treat the subjects of all verbs in the same way but as distinct from the objects of transitive verbs. Languages of the split ergative type (for example, Limbu and Sherpa) are ergative only in certain tenses and aspects (e.g., only in the past tense or completive aspect).

Tibeto-Burman languages have a penchant for nominalizing whole sentences without embedding them into any larger unit, typically via a particle that is also used in the citation-form of verbs and that has a relative or genitive function in other constructions. (Nominalization refers to the derivation of nounlike structures from verbal ones.) The connection between nominalization and relativization is often made explicit by using the same particle for both functions, as in Jingpo ʔai and Lahu ve.

Aspect (not tense) is the major verbal category, so notions such as completed action, change of state, irrealis, inchoative (or imminent action), and durative are encoded more readily than past, present, and future. The most satisfactory criterion for establishing that a Sino-Tibetan word is a verb is its negatability. Most words that translate as English adjectives are actually only a subclass of verbs, as in Burmese θ ‘go’ > mə-θ ‘not go’ and kâuN ‘be good’ > mə-kâuN ‘not be good.’

In order to express abstract grammatical relationships, the isolating languages of the Tibeto-Burman area have typically resorted to the specialization of full nouns and verbs. Verbs meaning ‘give,’ ‘dwell,’ ‘put,’ and ‘finish’ become bleached semantically until they can serve as markers of verbal categories such as causative, progressive, durative, and completive, respectively. A noun meaning ‘road’ might become a locative particle while another meaning ‘top part’ turns into an accusative marker (a particle indicating ‘[an action] that covers [a noun]’). Often a root morpheme that has undergone this or other forms of grammatical specialization acquires a distinctive phonological shape, usually via destressing, and sometimes assumes a special tone. In Lahu, for instance, the verb ‘come’ has a low-falling tone but acquires mid-tone (la) as it becomes a particle indicating ‘motion toward’ and high-falling tone () as a particle signalling ‘non-third-person beneficiary.’

Verb concatenation is especially striking in the Loloish branch of Tibeto-Burman. Lahu may juxtapose up to five verbs in a row in a single VP, with one verb serving as semantic head while the others are grammaticalized or made more abstract to modify it, as in γa qɔ̀ʔ yù tɔ̂ʔ pî ‘have to take it out for him again’ (literally “obtain-return-take-emerge-give”). In Chinese and Sinospheric SVO languages such as Thai, Hmong, Mien, and Vietnamese, verbs are grammatically transformed into NP markers that function like Indo-European prepositions. Thus, “He cut the sugarcane with a knife” is literally “He use knife cut sugarcane.”

Some languages (e.g., Akha, Newar) have intricate systems of evidential particles that characterize the nature of the speaker’s information, revealing if it is firsthand, hearsay, visual, or auditory. It is typical to have large repertoires of sentence-final particles that express emotional attitudes. These often occur in strings of two, three, or more and are more integrated intonationally into sentences than, for example, English interjections such as wow!. In some measure these fully syllabic emotional morphemes serve the same function as intonation does in nontonal languages.

The lack of gender or number markers on Tibeto-Burman nouns is somewhat compensated for by numeral classifiers, which serve to individuate nouns and may be said to “agree” with particular classes of nouns, such as flat, round, or elongated objects. Another characteristic way of lending phonological and semantic substance to monosyllabic morphemes is via the morphological process of elaboration, which creates redundant (sometimes poetic) four-syllable expressions, of which the first and third, or second and fourth, syllables are often identical. This kind of elaboration is widespread, as in Lahu thī-ŋə̄-thī-khâ ‘silver and gold altars,’ Burmese cit-hrañ-lak-hrañ ‘patiently’ (literally “mind-long-hand-long”), and Tibetan blo-gsal-lag-bde ‘intelligent, skillful’ (“mind-bright-hand-apt”).

Grammatical categories are generally expressed syntactically rather than by inflection in most TB languages, though both Kuki-Chin and Himalayish have considerable verbal morphology. Verbs in Chin languages such as Mizo, Lai, and Tiddim typically have two forms, with complex distribution patterns. In Lai, for instance, Form I occurs mostly in independent clauses and Form II mostly in subordinate ones, but with many complications (e.g., kaap (I) / kaʔ (II) ‘shoot’; toŋ (I) / ton (II) ‘meet’; hniim (I) / hniʔm (II) ‘smell’). Verbs in Written Tibetan may have as many as four principal parts, with at least a dozen different patterns of morphophonemic alternation, sometimes involving only the addition of prefixes and/or suffixes, as with gsig ‘shake’ (present), bsigs (past), bsig (future), sig (imperative). Sometimes vowel ablaut is also used: gsod ‘kill’ (present), bsad (past and future), sod (imperative).

Most complex of all are the agreement systems found in pronominalized languages such as Jingpo, or within the Kiranti group of eastern Nepal, where the person (including first- and second-person inclusive and exclusive) and number (including dual) of subject and/or object may be marked on the verb. This produces agreement systems that are sometimes relatively simple but that sometimes rival a language family such as Algonquian in complexity. Thus, Jingpo has conjugations such as ŋai sa na ǹ-ŋai ‘I will go,’ naŋ sa na ǹ-dai ‘you will go,’ and ši sa na rà-ʔai ‘he will go’ (sa ‘go,’ na ‘future particle’). It remains to be seen whether such systems should be posited for Proto-Tibeto-Burman or whether (as seems more likely) they have arisen independently in the various branches of the family.

Many TB languages have a morphological distinction between plain and causative verbs, signalled either by different prefixes, as in Written Tibetan mnam ‘have a smell’ and snam ‘smell something,’ or by secondary differences in manner of the initial consonant and/or tone, as in Written Burmese nûi ‘awaken’ (intransitive verb) and hnûi ‘wake someone’ (transitive verb) or Lahu vàʔ ‘hide oneself’ and ‘hide something.’

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Bill de Blasio for Mayor

Bill de Blasio for Mayor

From his early days as a City Hall volunteer, to serving on his local school board, to his current position as Public Advocate for the City of New York, Bill de Blasio has spent his life fighting to ensure every New Yorker gets a fair shot. Bill knows we only succeed as New Yorkers if we leave no New Yorker behind and that we need new leadership that will fight for good, clean, strong, safe neighborhoods in which New Yorkers can start businesses, raise their families, and make our communities ever more vibrant. Bill is standing up to the status quo and is the only candidate who will bring real progressive change to City Hall.

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Stop overselling your buses and guarantee customers seats they've paid for.
  • Petitioning Peter Picknelly

This petition will be delivered to:

Chairman & CEO
Peter Picknelly
General Manager, Boston, MA Division
Lenny Rottenberg
Vice President, Operations
Frank Dougherty
Marketing Director
Kimberly Haile
Manager, Customer Service
Michael Cruise
Marketing Manager
K. Bolducci

Stop overselling your buses and guarantee customers seats they've paid for.

    1. Cristina Moon
    2. Petition by

      Cristina Moon

      Providence, RI

Earlier this summer, I waited in 90 degree heat for a Peter Pan bus from Providence, RI to New York, NY. Not only was the bus late, five passengers including myself were left behind because there weren't any seats left on the bus -- even though we had bought our tickets hours, if not days, in advance! The relief bus we were promised never showed, we were never guaranteed seats on the next scheduled bus, and nobody from Peter Pan ever contacted any of us to apologize, offer our money back or guarantee us a ride to New York.

I started this petition because it's not just bad customer service to oversell buses -- the practice exploits people who don't have the resources to walk away and book another ride with a different bus company. Please sign my petition calling on Peter Pan to immediately stop overselling its buses and guarantee passengers a seat on the buses they've paid for. I know that if enough people in the northeast US make enough noise, Peter Pan will want to make the changes necessary to avoid damaging their brand.

Throughout my experience with Peter Pan, I was shocked at how the bus company disregarded the needs of passengers it had left stranded. The driver of the full bus told us that Dispatch was sending a relief bus, and that it would be there within 30 minutes. But the relief bus was canceled and nobody ever contacted us to let us know -- even though there's a Peter Pan representative inside Providence's Kennedy Plaza bus station and I had been tweeting at Peter Pan since the moment we weren't able to get on the original bus.

While I was fighting for a refund of my fare in the following weeks, Peter Pan's customer service later told me that seating is "first come first serve" -- but nowhere on any of the documentation I received from them (an email receipt or my actual ticket) is this stated.

Corporate practices like these harm and exploit the most vulnerable -- people who don't have the money or a smartphone to just walk away and choose another bus line. I want Peter Pan to stop this practice of overselling buses now, and guarantee their customers a seat on the buses they've paid for.

Peter Picknelly, Chairman & CEO
Lenny Rottenberg, General Manager, Boston, MA Division
Frank Dougherty, Vice President, Operations
Kimberly Haile, Marketing Director
Michael Cruise, Manager, Customer Service
K. Bolducci, Marketing Manager
Stop overselling your buses and guarantee customers seats they've paid for.

[Your name]

Recent signatures

    1. Reached 8,000 signatures
    2. Response from Peter Pan!

      Cristina Moon
      Petition organiser

      I've talked to the VP of Operations and the Marketing Director of Peter Pan and they've let me know that they are in the middle of rolling out a new reservations system that will phase out first-come-first-serve ticketing and seating. This is great news!

      I've closed the petition for now, but am waiting for a public commitment to a definite timetable about this new system roll-out -- and for some sort of measure that will give customers the ability to complain and get rectification immediately if they're denied a seat on a bus they've paid for.

      Thank you for your signature and know that Peter Pan heard you! Now, it's just a matter of getting a public commitment.

    3. Reached 7,000 signatures

    Reasons for signing

    • Mark Graham HOUSTON, TX
      • about 1 month ago

      This is just wrong on all levels. Paying customers should receive what they paid for and when they pay for it!

    • Scarlett Peter Pan SPRINGFIELD, MA
      • 4 months ago

      I used to work for Peter Pan and I had to quit because I was deceiving people and helping this greedy asshole Peter! The one that has turned this company to hell. His father was a better man and he will NEVER live up to his father's legacy. Little Peter stop insulting your hard working employees by paying them $9 an hour. You walk past your employees like you are superior. Karma will knock on your door one day. I hope you are ready to answer for your GREED.

    • Kristina Soto PROVIDENCE, RI
      • 7 months ago

      I have spent thousands of dollars on Peter Pan's bus service over the years... they rea

    • joe stetson BRATTLEBORO, VT
      • 8 months ago

      most people can,t walk as far as i can

    • Michael Klein AKRON, OH
      • 9 months ago

      I road Peter PAn buses for many years going to and from home to visit my intended while she studied in the Holyoke-Amhearst area of Mass. I always held the company in high regard. It sounds like whoever is in charge of the company now, needs to be replaced. This is not the Peter Pan I knew. This person will drive the company into the ground with this type of attitude toward customers!!!

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• Petitioned Matt Ubelhor

This petition was delivered to:

Indiana State Rep. District 62
Matt Ubelhor
U.S. Congressman
John Conyers, Jr.
U.S. Senator
Carl Levin
U.S. Congressman
Scott Brown
U.S. Senator
Debbie Stabenow
New York Governor
Andrew Cuomo
Assembly District 88 (Scarsdale)
Amy Paulin
Michigan Governor
Rick Snyder
Indiana Governor
Mitch Daniels
Massachusetts Governor
Deval Patrick
U.S. Senator
Richard Lugar
Secretary of State
John Kerry

Lauren's Law

    1. Jalen Faith
    2. Petition by

      Jalen Faith

      Worthington, IN

All persons of interest have come forward, however with little detail, stating some kind of information from the night Lauren Spierer disappeared; Whether that information being the POI had amnesia, or where they last saw Lauren Spierer.. We want those POIs to take police-administered polygraph tests to CONFIRM what they've already said to police. This petition was only created to find Lauren Spierer, we're not worried about having someone prosecuted quite yet. Finding a missing person is far more important right now, we'll get to that step later!

“We want POIs to take a polygraph and confirm the information they had already given to police. They’re not saying nothing they hadn’t already said,” Faith said. “If they’re innocent, then they shouldn’t have anything to worry about.” - Indiana Daily Student.

Lauren Spierer whom is originally from New York vanished from her college town (Bloomington, Indiana) on June 3rd, 2011 in the early morning hours after a night out with friends.

Description of Lauren Spierer:
- 4'11
- 95 lbs
- Blonde hair
- Blue eyes

She was last seen wearing black pants, and a white tank top with a white top. (image showing what she was wearing the night she disappeared

Since Lauren's disappearance, thousands of tips have poured in, yet few new details have emerged in the case because four of the persons of interest who were last with Lauren that night refuse to come forward with information. Instead, they remain silent, and there is not much else the police can do to advance the case." We believe that by requiring all Persons of Interest (POIs) take a police administered polygraph test will help important details emerge sooner in the investigation, therefore reducing the number of investigators and cutting down on time exerted in solving cases. If the persons of interest are eliminated, investigators are able to better focus their efforts and consider other options more aggressively. Your signature represents hope, and by signing this petition, you are telling legislators that it's time to listen to the pleas of the families of those who have vanished and to put more consideration on the nightmare they face every day as they wait anxiously for answers.

 Thank you for your time!

Links related to Lauren Spierer:
Official Website
Official Twitter
Official Facebook

Do you want to tweet for Lauren? Be sure to use these hashtags!
#findLauren | #Tweets4Lauren | #LaurenSpierer

Do you need to contact the petition creator?
You can contact Jalen Faith by using the messaging system on change.org. At this time we are not accepting media requests. We are answering questions and taking suggestions. Thank you!

Recent signatures

    1. Fight for Lauren #findLauren

      Jalen Faith
      Petition Organizer

      Huge thanks to Teppi Jacobsen for this article.

      Lauren Spierer petition: still working hard for answers to her disappearance

      Lauren Spierer, a student at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN went missing in the early morning hours of June 3, 2011. This is not "new" news as her family, friends and other bloggers/writers continue to keep the story alive in the hopes of finding answers. The biggest tragedy however is the refusal of the people...

    2. Reached 4,000 signatures
    3. Need to contact me?

      Jalen Faith
      Petition Organizer

      You can contact me via email; jalenfaith@gmail.com

    4. Editorial: Teen’s petition sheds light on Constitution

      Jalen Faith
      Petition Organizer

      Thanks to the Herald Times for it's willfulness to help get our story out there!

    5. 'Lauren's Law': Officials say polygraph proposal would be unconstitutional

      Jalen Faith
      Petition Organizer

      Our first news article. Maybe not what we wanted to hear but it's getting the word out about Lauren, and our petition. Let's keep working hard.

      Jalen Faith
      Petition Organizer

      I cannot stress how important it is to share this petition. In order to successfully achieve victory in this petition we need more signatures. Please tweet, and post this to facebook!

    7. Reached 3,000 signatures

    Reasons for signing

    • Meagan Prokopankp MONTREAL, CANADA
      • 11 months ago

      I was going into my first year of university when Lauren went missing. Praying for her and her family. We need answers.

    • Kenneth MacAlister LANGHORNE, PA
      • about 1 year ago

      This is important to me because it can act as a deterrent to this possibly happening to another family. If the POI have nothing to hide they shouldn't fear a polygraph test. To put things in perspective, God already knows what happened. Nothing is hidden from His sight.

    • mike arnold INDIANAPOLIS, IN
      • over 1 year ago

      Please pass this, There would be answers on Lauren Spierer if this was required. At least put suspicions to rest, A PERSON SHOULD WANT TO DO THIS

    • Michele Pizzorno-Schlegel FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CA
      • over 1 year ago

      I am a parent with a son and a daughter going off to college soon. I feel for the family and friends of Lauren and what they are going through. I think of the Natalee Holloway who went missing in Aruba and whose body was never found - the case is now closed. Once time passes after the immediate disappearance, there is no way to go back. Information needs to be found immediately before evidence can be destroyed. We cannot bring back Lauren or Natalee, but we can help the next victim of a similar circumstance.

    • Ashley Ruppert FORT WAYNE, IN
      • over 1 year ago

      I would want all the help I could get if this happened to me!

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Stop the closing of "Germantown High School" in Philadelphia Pennsylvania
  • Petitioned The Philadelphia Public School District/School Reform Commission (SRC)

This petition was delivered to:

The Philadelphia Public School District/School Reform Commission (SRC)
The Philadelphia Public School District/School Reform Commission (SRC)

Stop the closing of "Germantown High School" in Philadelphia Pennsylvania

    1. Petition by

      SAVE Germantown High School

Germantown High is an historic landmark of the community and the City of Philadelphia, celebrating our upcoming centennial in 2014.  This is something the community is proud of.

For the past five years Germantown HS has made tremendous improvements in every area of their education from testing, attendance, graduation, etc., all due to having the great principal, working teachers, excellent programs, supporting parents, an active alumni association, a supporting community and a federal 9.7 million dollar grant from the  Department of Labor. Due to financial issues with in the school district, they are planning to close 37 schools this year, which includes closing all the schools in our community (elementary, middle & high school), 23 elementary schools; 5 middle schools and 8 high schools in other communities.  Unfortunately, 90% of these schools are in predominantly African American communities.

Our focus is Germantown High but this plan will transfer students to other schools miles and hours away causing issues of safety because they are in strange neighborhoods and hardship for some. Yes, we understand that some closing may happen due to a list of school performances, but no one has discuss anything about this plan with the people it will effect.

Now there’s another plan that no one is talking about.  The City’s Mayor just had a ribbon cutting ceremony  for a new $110 million dollar youth detention center, but there's no money to educate the students? Meanwhile the school district needs money and their plan will save them $28 million a year... The dollars and the plan are not adding up. Visit us on Facebook Page (Save Germantown High School) or our website for more details.  Here is a write up from Washington Post:

Here is the contact information for the school district

Send Letters to:

Attention: William R. Hite, Jr.

The School District of Philadelphia

Office of the Superintendent -

440 N. Broad Street - Suite 301 Philadelphia, PA 19130

Recent signatures

    1. Reached 500 signatures
    2. Not Done Yet!!!!

      March 7th is fast approaching but it's not over yet. Please continue to promote the petition and come out tomorrow night, 2-5-2013, Germantown High School, 40 E. High Streets at 6pm. This is your opportunity to let your voice be heard. Bring the whole family, community. Our children need you to show up and show out! Remember, No Voice, No Choice!

    3. Reached 250 signatures
    4. Thank you

      I want to thank all of you who have signed this petition in support of Germantown High School. By doing so you have made your voice heard and will be able to say to the City of Philadelphia and to the world how much you love and support our children and are concerned about their futures. Please take a moment to email or facebook this petition so that your friends will have the same opportunity and so that we can show the School District, SRC and the Superintendent that we won't tolerate anything that negatively affects our children. We will fight until victory is won and their is victory in numbers. Thanks again for showing and telling the world about this injustice. See you all at the victory dance:) Peace and Blessings.

    5. Reached 100 signatures

    Reasons for signing

    • Earl Jordan SHERMAN OAKS, CA
      • about 1 year ago

      I graduated from Germantown HS in 1970. Beyond my parents, this school and experiences reaped set the stage for my life!

    • William Bale CEDAR KEY, FL
      • about 1 year ago

      Class of 1958

    • Asaid Falah PHILADELPHIA, PA
      • about 1 year ago

      If these damn get they school shut down, where te hall they suppose to go, niggaz is gonna b roamin around beatin up innocent bystandards. And if you mix them with King high school! The school they got beef with, you might as well make West Oak Lane a quaranitined zone cause all hell is gonna brak loose.

      • over 1 year ago

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"Matter of Faith" Filmed at CU

This summer five Cornerstone University film students are putting their education into practice working with a film crew in Grand Rapids, with three days on the CU campus.

The crew spent June 13, 14, and 16 filming part of the Christian movie “A Matter of Faith” in a CU residence hall where the main character shot scenes in her dorm room.

Dave Anderson, associate professor of media studies at Cornerstone, recruited the film students for the shoot and supervised their work. Anderson’s daughter, Laura Burnell is producing “A Matter of Faith.”

Seth Cox, a film major at Cornerstone is working as a production assistant. Cox thought this would be a great way to put his “knowledge and skill set to the test.”

The film also used other locations around Grand Rapids, including Aquinas College and local churches and parks. It is expected to be released in theaters in 2014, including Grand Rapids.

The film is about a Christian girl entering college whose father is unsettled by what his daughter is being taught in school, specifically in biology class. The father tries to keep his daughter from straying from the faith.

“A Matter of Faith” is being produced and distributed by Five & Two Pictures, a Christian film production company planning for “A Matter of Faith” to be their biggest release.

Scott Reed, the film’s production coordinator, says that Cornerstone was chosen as a filming location because the school “teaches what we believe this movie is about.”

CU students are grateful for the opportunity to work on this film and are seeing God work through the production.

“The experience so far has been amazing,” Cox said, “You never know how God will act on the set.”

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There are many conditions or symptomatic complexities that can contribute to general leg pain. In order to determine the cause of the pain, you must first try to define the pain by examining the following questions:

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Damage to the nervous system can produce a variety of chronic pain syndromes in the leg.

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Also called fibromyositis ("myositis" means inflammation of muscle tissue) or fibromyalgia ("myalgia" means muscle pain), myofascial pain syndromes result following chronic injury to muscles and their surrounding connective tissue. The disorder is characterized by aching pain, tenderness and stiff muscles, and mainly affects areas where a tendon connects to other muscles. There may or may not be an associated or underlying condition.

When arteries harden and become blocked, circulation decreases, resulting in achy, crampy, tired feeling legs. This condition, called intermittent claudication, occurs when your muscles are not receiving all the oxygen they need, and usually occurs during exercise or anytime you walk long distances. You will typically feel pain in the calf, but the pain can also arise in the foot, thigh, hip or buttocks. You can relieve symptoms with rest, though they will recur when you try to walk or exercise again.

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Bone pain is often due to shin splints, periostitis or stress fractures. Typically, the anterior compartment muscles – the three muscles that lie directly beside the lower leg bone on the front of the leg are affected, usually following running type exercises.

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  • Stress fracture – When the irritation progresses to the bone, and bone resorption predominates over bone production with actual injury to the bone, you have a stress facture. Stress fractures of the lower extremity typically occur in the tibia (large lower leg bone) and the metatarsal bones (long bones in
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The ongoing reconstruction of the 41-year-old Ogden Utah Temple reached a milestone on May 7 when a 14-foot, 800-pound, gold leaf-covered fiberglass version of the iconic angel Moroni statue was lifted and fastened into place atop the temple’s new spire.

Dozens of people watched from various locations around the temple’s fenced-off construction site in the heart of downtown Ogden as construction crews used two towering cranes—one with a basket attachment for two workers and one for the statue—to lift the statue into place and secure it to the spire. The entire process took about 50 minutes.

The Ogden Utah Temple, dedicated in January 1972, has been closed for renovation since April 2011. The work is extensive, including a complete reconfiguration of the temple exterior—it will now face east and be covered in stone and feature art glass windows.

Rooms inside the temple will also be redecorated and refurbished, and the temple’s electrical, plumbing, and mechanical systems will be updated. Parking facilities and landscaping will be redone, and there will also be changes to the nearby Ogden Tabernacle that will increase the temple’s prominence on the 18-acre site.

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Joseph Smith was a witness of the Savior and understood His role in the plan of salvation.

Jesus Christ, the Redeemer

Joseph Smith knew the Savior Jesus Christ and His gospel, and he bore firm and valiant testimony of them. In the scriptures we read of his First Vision and the revelations he received from the Lord. After one of the Savior’s appearances, Joseph declared: “And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!” (D&C 76:22). Here are some of the things Joseph Smith taught about the Savior Jesus Christ. *

The Foundation of Our Religion

“The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it.”

The Resurrection

“Christ Himself has assuredly risen from the dead; and if He has risen from the dead, He will, by His power, bring all men to stand before Him.”

“All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.”

The Atonement

“Christ, who is the image of man, is also the express image of his Father’s person [see Hebrews 1:3]. … Through the atonement of Christ and the resurrection, and obedience to the gospel, we shall again be conformed to the image of his Son, Jesus Christ [see Romans 8:29]; then we shall have attained to the image, glory, and character of God.”

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Using his earlier bust-length portrait as the model for the head, Marshall created this three-quarter-length portrait showing Lincoln standing with a scroll in his left hand as if about to deliver a speech. The portrait was inherited by Oscar Marshall upon the death of his brother, the artist, and donated to the Society by the artist's sister-in-law.
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Build a Wordpress Site From My Mockup

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Job Description

I have created a mockup in photoshop for a wordpress site that I want created.

1. You must be good with building wordpress themes from scratch

2. You must make as many revisions as I want until I am happy.

3. It is just a mockup, so we will need to change the text in the boxes and the logo
to match my site.

4. I want SPEED and QUALITY!!!! I will be hiring the best qualified and fastest time line possible.

Please tell me your bid and your timeline. (Anything over 2 days...don't even apply)

The mockup is attached. Good luck with your bid!!!

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Smart graphic designer

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Job Description

I need a smart graphic designer with a good grasp of english who can read and interpret a script, then make illustrations, vector files, that reflect what is said in the script.
Please, only experienced designers with examples of relevant work

Skills: english


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