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Patrick's roots in the North Carolina textile industry stretch back more than a hundred years. In the early 1900s, his grandfather started Kings Mountain Cotton Oil Co., which consisted of a cotton gin, an oil mill, a coal yard and an ice plant--a business for every season. Those industries began to wane in the 1960s, so his father H.L. Patrick bought some used textile equipment and started Patrick Yarns, focusing exclusively on spinning industrial mop yarn...
...different markets means the company is not reliant on any one segment for survival. Patrick has made production evolution and new designs the key components of his business model. Patrick Yarns holds nine patents and six trademarks in engineered yarns and those used for filtration. Natural fibers such as cotton and hemp end up in blankets and upholstery. Synthetic yarns have a variety of commercial uses, including in water filtration, as carpet backing and for automotive fan belts. The technical yarns developed from stainless steel, glass or Teflon find their way into fiber-optic cables and bushings used in spacecraft...
...manufactured foods, has surged by about 50% this year. "The only area of the world economy I know of where the fundamentals are improving are commodities," says investment guru Jim Rogers. "The fundamentals for General Motors are not improving. The fundamentals for Citibank are not improving. The fundamentals for cotton are improving...
...Bareilles swoops in with “Love Song,” her cotton-candy pop radio gem, it becomes apparent that Bareilles’ music is nothing to dance to. Seriously, listen to the five-track set, which represents some of Bareilles’ most popular work. Lots of emotion and love (what? I hate emotion…) might leave you burning off the drunk you’ve built up all afternoon...
...have on this white onesie underneath my jeans and mesh tank top. A cotton leotard that eliminates need for underwear or bra. It’s itching like crazy. I feel about seven years old, and I try to search for something good to say, compliment her on her cool nail polish or the Marc Jacobs sailor top that she has on (except not say Marc Jacobs because that’d make me a snob and point out that...