dear alex,
i am very pleased that i have inspired you to create your work...the white dove in this desktop stands out to me the most and i love how it is flying high above the city and into the leaf-filled sky.
<3 kristin

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The idea of the dove is really good !
I like it.
The use of the same kind of color is really good.
And photoshop brushe are really usefull in this case

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damn cool damn cool...

-third+hand+saucer

this is awesome. your gallery is amazing. you're going on my watch list.

Ahh, this is so awesome. I love how the dove is solid soaring over a relatively lower-quality cityline. A bit of salvation perhaps? Very nice design here.

DOES slow-and-steady win the race?
When blue-arson is in the hizzouse, the answer is ambivalent.

And that's at best.

When it comes to liberalising their financial markets and industries, many poor countries hope so. Remember the crises that have afflicted financially liberalised economies such as Mexico, Russia, Argentina and some in South-East Asia, and their caution is easy to understand. Why open the gates to foreign capital, only to invite excesses that will cause pain and disappointment later?


The fear of currency crises and the subsequent unemployment, bankruptcies and stalling of economic growth have made many developing countries' governments even more wary about the free flow of capital than they are about free trade in goods. Freely flowing capital can indeed be destabilising. So-called “hot money”—portfolio flows that can reverse direction at lightning speed—can send currencies spiralling up or down and play havoc with economic management. Such an experience during the Asian crisis of 1997-98 led Malaysia, for example, to introduce capital controls in order to thwart what it perceived as outsiders' nefarious schemes. Despite foreign scepticism when the controls were imposed, they seem to have done Malaysia little harm. A more general suspicion of foreign capital, going far beyond worries about flighty portfolio investment, was one reason behind developing countries' refusal to consider further financial liberalisation at the World Trade Organisation's failed ministerial meeting in Cancún in September.


But financial systems can be liberalised a lot without letting in hot money. If a government opens up to investment from abroad—allowing foreign banks to buy local institutions, say, or allowing domestic banks to raise money on international capital markets—local banks can lend more to businesses large and small. This matters, because bank credit is often the only source of finance for many firms. The downside is that banks may become over-eager and make loans on which the returns do not justify the risks. That can produce horrible busts. (economist.com)

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