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PvtVoid writes The Wall Street Journal reports (paywalled) that NASA is poised to award a key contract for manned transport to the International Space Station to Boeing over rival SpaceX: "Recent signals from the Obama administration, according to the officials, indicate that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's leadership has concluded on a preliminary basis that Boeing's proposed capsule offers the least risky option, as well as the one most likely to be ready to transport U.S. crews to the international space station within three years. The officials cautioned that a last-minute shift by NASA chief Charles Bolden, who must vet the decision, could change the result of the closely watched competition." Here is a non-paywalled link to an article at CNET.
An anonymous reader writes: The net neutrality debate has been pretty binary: ISPs want the ability to create so-called "fast lanes," and consumers want all traffic to be treated equally. Now, AT&T is proposing an alternative: fast lanes under consumer control. Their idea would "allow individual consumers to ask that some applications, such as Netflix, receive priority treatment over other services, such as e-mail or online video games. That's different from the FCC's current proposal, which tacitly allows Internet providers to charge content companies for priority access to consumers but doesn't give the consumers a choice in the matter."
AT&T said, "Such an approach would preserve the ability of Internet service providers to engage in individualized negotiations with [content companies] for a host of services, while prohibiting the precise practice that has raised 'fast lane' concerns." It's not perfect, but it's probably the first earnest attempt at a compromise we've seen from either side, and it suggests the discussion can move forward without completely rejecting one group's wishes.
Bismillah writes Wikileaks' latest release of documents shows that the Australian New South Wales police force has spent millions on licenses for the FinFisher set of law enforcement spy- and malware tools — and still has active licenses. What it uses FinFisher, which has been deployed against dissidents by oppressive regimes, for is yet to be revealed. NSW Police spokesperson John Thompson said it would not be appropriate to comment "given this technology relates to operational capability".
An anonymous reader writes: If you're a creative engineer looking to build a product, you're probably going to end up starting your own business or joining an established one. That's where ideas get funding, and that's where products make a difference (not to mention money). Unfortunately, it also siphons a lot of the tech-related talent away from government (and by extension, everybody else), who could really benefit from this creative brilliance. That's why investor Ron Bouganim just started a $23 million fund for investment in tech companies that develop ideas for the U.S. government. Not only is he hoping to transfer some of the $74 billion spent annually by the government on technology to more efficient targets, but also to change the perception that the best tech comes from giant, entrenched government contractors.
curtwoodward writes: Many states have laws that prevent car manufacturers from operating their own dealerships, a throwback to the days when Detroit tried to undercut its franchise dealers by opening company-owned shops. But dealers have taken those laws to the extreme as they battle new competition from Tesla, which is selling its cars direct to the public. In some states, dealers have succeeded in limiting Tesla's direct-sales model. But not in Massachusetts (PDF): the state's Supreme Court says the dealers don't have any right to sue Tesla for unfair competition, since they're not Tesla dealers. No harm, no foul.
ericgoldman writes Even though "googling" and "Google it" are now common phrases, a federal court ruled that the "Google" trademark is still a valid trademark instead of a generic term (unlike former trademarks such as escalator, aspirin or yo-yo). The court distinguished between consumers using Google as a verb (such as "google it"), which didn't automatically make the term generic, and consumers using Google to describe one player in the market, which 90%+ of consumers still do.
blottsie writes After months of heated debate, viral campaigns, deliberate "slowdowns" and record-breaking public responses, the Federal Communications Commission is finally set to decide how "net neutrality"—the principle that all data must be treated equally by Internet service providers (ISPs)—should look in the U.S., or if it should exist at all. Today, Sept. 15, the FCC officially closes its public comment period on its latest net neutrality proposal. The plan enables ISPs to discriminate against certain types of data, in certain circumstances, by charging extra for broadband "fast lanes" between content providers—like Netflix or YouTube—and users.
Lasrick writes Despite the UN's 1995 Protocol on Blinding Laser Weapons, the world is moving closer to laser weapons in both military and law enforcement situations that can cause temporary and even permanent blindness. Military-funded research in this area continues to be conducted by the Optical Radiation Bioeffects and Safety program, and already "dazzlers" have been in use in Afghanistan. Domestic versions of these weapons are intended for use by law enforcement agencies and in theory cause motion-sickness type illness but not blindness. "But something bright enough to dazzle at 300 meters can cause permanent eye damage at 50 meters, and these devices can be set to deliver a narrow (and more intense) beam."
An anonymous reader writes Comcast agents have reportedly contacted customers who use Tor and said their service can get terminated if they don't stop using Tor. According to Deep.Dot.Web, one of those calls included a Comcast customer service agent who allegedly called Tor an "illegal service." The Comcast agent told the customer that such activity is against usage policies. The Comcast agent then allegedly told the customer: "Users who try to use anonymity, or cover themselves up on the internet, are usually doing things that aren't so-to-speak legal. We have the right to terminate, fine, or suspend your account at anytime due to you violating the rules. Do you have any other questions? Thank you for contacting Comcast, have a great day." Update: 09/15 18:38 GMT by S : Comcast has responded, saying they have no policy against Tor and don't care if people use it.
An anonymous reader points out this Vice story with new information about the NSA's search of Edward Snowden's emails. Last year, the National Security Agency (NSA) reviewed all of Edward Snowden's available emails in addition to interviewing NSA employees and contractors in order to determine if he had ever raised concerns internally about the agency's vast surveillance programs. According to court documents the government filed in federal court September 12, NSA officials were unable to find any evidence Snowden ever had.
In a sworn declaration, David Sherman, the NSA's associate director for policy and records, said the agency launched a "comprehensive" investigation after journalists began to write about top-secret NSA spy programs upon obtaining documents Snowden leaked to them. The investigation included searches of any records where emails Snowden sent raising concerns about NSA programs "would be expected to be found within the agency." Sherman, who has worked for the NSA since 1985, is a "original classification authority," which means he can classify documents as "top-secret" and process, review, and redact records the agency releases in response to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests.
In his declaration, Sherman detailed steps he said agency officials took to track down any emails Snowden wrote that contained evidence he'd raised concerns inside the agency. Sherman said the NSA searched sent, received, deleted emails from Snowden's account and emails "obtained by restoring back-up tapes." He noted that NSA officials reviewed written reports and notes from interviews with "NSA affiliates" with whom the agency spoke during its investigation.
wabrandsma) writes with the latest accusations about NSA spying activity in Germany.
According to top-secret documents from the NSA and the British agency GCHQ, the intelligence agencies are seeking to map the entire Internet.
Furthermore, every single end device that is connected to the Internet somewhere in the world — every smartphone, tablet and computer — is to be made visible. Such a map doesn't just reveal one treasure. There are millions of them. The breathtaking mission is described in a Treasure Map presentation from the documents of the former intelligence service employee Edward Snowden which SPIEGEL has seen. It instructs analysts to "map the entire Internet — Any device, anywhere, all the time." Treasure Map allows for the creation of an "interactive map of the global Internet" in "near real-time," the document notes. Employees of the so-called "FiveEyes" intelligence agencies from Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, which cooperate closely with the American agency NSA, can install and use the program on their own computers. One can imagine it as a kind of Google Earth for global data traffic, a bird's eye view of the planet's digital arteries.
An anonymous reader writes In a 2-1 decision, the 9th Circuit Court ruled that Navy investigators regularly run illegally broad online surveillance operations that cross the line of military enforcement and civilian law. The findings overturned the conviction of Michael Dreyer for distributing child pornography. The illegal material was found by NCIS agent Steve Logan searching for "any computers located in Washington state sharing known child pornography on the Gnutella file-sharing network." The ruling reads in part: "Agent Logan's search did not meet the required limitation. He surveyed the entire state of Washington for computers sharing child pornography. His initial search was not limited to United States military or government computers, and, as the government acknowledged, Agent Logan had no idea whether the computers searched belonged to someone with any "affiliation with the military at all." Instead, it was his "standard practice to monitor all computers in a geographic area," here, every computer in the state of Washington. The record here demonstrates that Agent Logan and other NCIS agents routinely carry out broad surveillance activities that violate the restrictions on military enforcement of civilian law. Agent Logan testified that it was his standard practice to "monitor any computer IP address within a specific geographic location," not just those "specific to US military only, or US government computers." He did not try to isolate military service members within a geographic area. He appeared to believe that these overly broad investigations were permissible, because he was a "U.S. federal agent" and so could investigate violations of either the Uniform Code of Military Justice or federal law."
schwit1 sends word that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the NSA's ability to collect bulk metadata about U.S. citizens' phone calls. In April, the House of Representatives passed a bill to limit the NSA's collection of metadata, but the Senate has been working on their version of the bill since then without yet voting on it. Because of this, and the alleged importance of continuing intelligence operations, the government sought a 90-day reauthorization of the current program. The court agreed. Senator Patrick Leahy said this clearly demonstrates the need to get this legislation passed. "We cannot wait any longer, and we cannot defer action on this important issue until the next Congress. This announcement underscores, once again, that it is time for Congress to enact meaningful reforms to protect individual privacy.
McGruber writes: A month after Slashdot discussed "Every Day Is Goof-Off-At-Work Day At the US Patent and Trademark Office," the USPTO issued a statement that it is "committed to taking any measures necessary" to stop employees who review patents from lying about their hours and getting overtime pay and bonuses for work they didn't do.
USPTO officials also told congressional investigators that they are seeking an outside consulting firm to advise them on how managers can improve their monitoring of more than 8,000 patent examiners. The Patent Examiners union responded to the original Washington Post report with a statement that includes this line: "If 'thousands' of USPTO employees were not doing their work, it would be impossible for this agency to be producing the best performance in recent memory and, perhaps, in its entire 224 year history."
In related news, USPTO Commissioner Deborah Cohn has announced plans to resign just months after a watchdog agency revealed that she had pressured staffers to hire the live-in boyfriend of an immediate family member over other, better-qualified applicants. When he finished 75th out of 76 applicants in the final round of screening, Cohn "intervened and created an additional position specifically for the applicant," wrote Inspector General Todd Zinser in a statement on the matter.
An anonymous reader writes: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor spoke on Thursday to faculty and students at the University of Oklahoma City about the privacy perils brought on by modern technology. She warned that the march of technological progress comes with a need to enact privacy protections if we want to avoid living in an "Orwellian world" of constant surveillance. She said, "There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy and how far we want to protect it and from whom. Because people think that it should be protected just against government intrusion, but I don't like the fact that someone I don't know can pick up, if they're a private citizen, one of these drones and fly it over my property."
An anonymous reader writes: Speech recognition has gotten pretty good over the past several years. it's reliable enough to be ubiquitous in our mobile devices. But now we have an interesting, related dilemma: should we develop algorithms that can lip read? It's a more challenging problem, to be sure. Sounds can be translated directly into words, but deriving meaning out of the movement of a person's face is much more complex. "During speech, the mouth forms between 10 and 14 different shapes, known as visemes. By contrast, speech contains around 50 individual sounds known as phonemes. So a single viseme can represent several different phonemes. And therein lies the problem. A sequence of visemes cannot usually be associated with a unique word or sequence of words. Instead, a sequence of visemes can have several different solutions." Beyond the computational aspect, we also need to decide, as a society, if this is a technology that should exist. The privacy implications extend beyond that of simple voice recognition.
An anonymous reader writes: As small drones become affordable, and as clever people come up with ideas on how to use them, we've been hearing about more and more plans for drone-based business. In the U.S., the Federal Aviation Administration was quick to shut down such ideas in order to give themselves time to regulate the nascent industry. Not so, in Canada. Thanks to a simple permit system, anyone wanting to use a drone for commercial purposes can do so in Canada by simply applying and waiting a few weeks. Around 1,500 of these permits have been granted already, and Canada's private drone industry is flourishing as a result. Drones have been used for agriculture analysis, TV production, real estate photography, law enforcement, and many other tasks.
An anonymous reader writes: Ride-share companies like Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar got letters from the California Public Utilities Commission this week telling them that carpool features for their services are illegal. "Basically, the CPUC says that under California law it's illegal for these ride-sharing services to charge passengers an individual fare when carrying multiple people in one vehicle. If the companies would like to add a carpool feature, they first have to request an adjustment to their existing permits with the CPUC or petition the state legislature to modify the law. Uber, Lyft and Sidecar all unveiled carpool features last month. The three companies say the feature lets strangers in multiple locations, but heading the same direction, share rides and split fares — saving passengers up to 50 percent per ride." This news arrives just as Uber gave in to the demands of striking drivers who claim the company is undermining their ability to earn a livable wage.
jrepin writes: The municipality of Turin in Italy hopes to save 6 million Euro over five years by switching from Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux in all of its offices. The move will mean installing the open source operating system on 8,300 PCs, which will generate an immediate saving of roughly €300 per machine (almost €2.5m altogether, made up from the cost of Windows and Office licences) — a sum that will grow over the years as the need for the renewal of proprietary software licences vanishes, and the employees get used to the new machines.
Jason Koebler writes: Earlier this week, the House Science Committee examined the American Space Technology for Exploring Resource Opportunities in Deep Space (ASTEROIDS) Act, a bill that would ensure that "any resources obtained in outer space from an asteroid are the property of the entity that obtained such resources."
The problem is, that idea doesn't really mesh at all with the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, a document that suggests space is a shared resource: "Unlike some other global commons, no agreement has been reached at to whether title to extracted space resources passes to the extracting entity," Joanne Gabrynowicz, a space law expert at the University of Mississippi said (PDF). "There is no legal clarity regarding the ownership status of the extracted resources. It is foreseeable that the entity's actions will be challenged at law and in politics."
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I watch him mumble, lines of treble notes
Bones flinging on park so emerald clean
The old man droops, his shape a curving moat
Weary the shirt that covers marks unseen
Throwing bread crumbs to hide a balmy scene.
My eyes attack this figure's shade, rumpled
On dusky night when glows of moon cancel
Lost frolic, changing beam into a smirk
Raised temper glares at how his body leers,
Craning dry neck, I question stranger's quirk.
For while he pined, cold hands in light remain
Through fallen wind and chill that rip them down
Stammering, pale voice rasps if his dog has lain
Upon the range to scout for food around
Eyelashes blink, my tears fall to the ground.
Blind is he searching for pet in depth of moans
I lift his arms, with gentle nudges intoned
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He glides a smile, taming my heart's error.
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Chapter 310 Reviews
Romy and Kerri talk. Gerard makes his choice.
At around 11PM on Saturday night the doorbell rang. Dad was at work, Ray was sleeping so I was the brave one who had to go downstairs and open the door.
It was Gerard. I greeted him with a smile but he didn't return the favour "Something wrong?" I asked him, frowning.
He shrugged "We really need to talk."
So I let him in. Although it was eleven at night and I was exhausted. I was just trying to be a good girlfriend. At the time, I thought it was a family issue or something that he wanted to talk to me about. I don't know why I thought that, I guess I just thought he just trusted me.
I should've realised that a guy starting a conversation with 'We need to talk…' was not going to end happily. For the one receiving the 'we need to talk…'
We stood awkwardly in the hall for a moment before I asked "Do you want to go into the living room or into my room…?"
"The living room please."
I led him into our living room and sat down on the sofa. He stood there for a moment, trying to decide whether to sit on the sofa next to the one I was sitting on or whether to sit next to me. In the end he chose to sit next to me.
He sighed "Tatiana… Things haven't been going well for us recently, have they?"
"What do you mean?"
"All we've done lately is argue!"
"The last argument we had was like ages ago!"
"Okay fine Tatiana, make me say it." Gerard took a deep breath before admitting "It's Charlie. It's always been Charlie. When she was going out with your brother I thought she was over me. But she isn't… And I haven't been able to get her out of my head. I don't know why, I've never been attracted to her until she told me she liked me. I thought it was you Tatiana, I-"
"You're breaking up with me for a stupid user?" I asked him "You're leaving me for the girl that crushed my brother's heart like a… Like a…"
"Why a peanut?"
"Peanuts are pretty easy to crush."
"Whatever, it doesn't matter. He broke his heart, what makes you think she won't do that to you?"
"I know her better than you do," Gerard protested "I know her better than anybody! She's my best friend and I want to be with her. I'm really sorry, I never meant to break your heart."
"But you are!" I told him, starting to cry "Gerard I really like you!"
"And I really like you too!" He lied "But as friends. This relationship, it's not really working out."
"I was happy." I told him bitterly "Weren't you?"
"Of course I was and I still am!" He told me "I love hanging round with you. We should still do it! But I just… I just want to be with Charlie. I'm really sorry; it's just the way it is."
"Get out." I hissed at him "Get out of my house! And when I tell Ray he's going to be so pissed off…"
Gerard laughed "You see? This is one of the reasons we couldn't work out! I'm so much older than me and you still run to your older brother when you get upset. You moaned that he was getting too involved in your relationship when we started going out and now suddenly you want him to stick his nose in? You can't keep doing that Tati. When things are going well you insist that you're mature but when things go wrong, you decide that you can't handle being mature."
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"If you go running to Ray about this, he won't think you're mature enough to handle any relationship. This break up is between us, not Ray. This was our relationship; Ray was never a part of it."
I blinked at him before sighing heavily and saying "You're right. I do choose my times to be grown up and when I want to be treated like a kid. I never really thought about it to be honest. I thought I was mature Gerard… But you've made me see that I'm not."
He pushed a piece of hair out of my eyes "Maybe your next relationship should be with someone your age. Ray would probably be more likely to approve of someone your age. Someone that won't lie to you-"
"When did you lie to me?"
"Remember? I told you that Romy fancied Ray when she really didn't?"
"Oh yeah…"
Gerard got up off the sofa "I'm going to go now Tatiana. I'm really sorry things didn't work out between us but you'll find someone."
I stood up too and smiled at him "Thanks. And I really hope things work out between you and Charlie. And I'm not just saying that, I mean it."
I showed him back to the door. Before he left, we shared an awkward hug. He whispered to me "I hope things work out for you."
And then he left. Surprisingly, I felt a lot better. It kind of hurt that Gerard had broken up with me but the words he'd said made me realise. He was a lot older than me, it just wasn't right. I needed to start dating someone nearer my own age. And that whole mature thing. I really needed to hear that and I'm glad it was Gerard who'd told me. Right then, I felt superior. Like I could take on anything. That night, I slept with a smile on my face.
Romy's POV…
"How did you get into my bedroom?" Kerri yelled at me "What the fuck are you doing?"
"I climbed up the uhh thing outside your house!" I told her "That plant like stuff crawling up the side of your house? Yeah, I climbed up that."
"Well get out!"
"Not until we've talked about this!" I said "I feel really bad about what I've done."
"Romy, we've already tried talking about this." Kerri sighed "All that happened was that we got mad at each other."
I sat on her bed "No. You got mad at me and you had every right to get mad at me. I just wanted to talk to you about something. Before you yell at me to get out please just sit down and listen to me."
Kerri sighed but sat on her bed opposite me "What is it?"
"I completely humiliated you," I started "You can't walk down the corridor without people laughing at you. You're scared your boyfriend will break up with you."
"Where's this going?" Kerri asked angrily.
I sighed before moving on "But the only reason people are laughing and saying mean things is because it's the latest thing. You get what I mean? If something even more embarrassing happened to someone else… Then they'd leave you alone, right?"
Kerri thought about this "That actually makes a lot of sense."
"I've been doing a lot of thinking. I feel terrible about what happened because it was obviously all my fault." I took a deep breath "So I'll be willing to do the even more embarrassing thing to take the attention away from you and Mikey. I'll do something so humiliating that it'll be all people will talk about for ages."
Kerri gaped at me for a while before asking "You'd do that for me? Or are you doing it for Mikey?"
"I'm doing it for you!" I cried "Mikey's having a hard time processing this I know but he's not suffering as much as you. It must be so hard for you. You have home pressures what with your Mom and everything and you can't even escape it at school. Because people are doing nothing but torment you. It's not fair and I know it's my fault. I need to mend it Kerri so please let me."
Kerri actually smiled at me for a second before saying "I was wrong about you Romy. What you did to me was terrible… But you really are sorry. And you're doing everything to make it up to me. You're a lot nicer than I really thought you were. When I first met you I thought you were a little bitchy. But I can admit I was wrong."
"I was wrong about you too," I told her "I thought all you cared about was looks and popularity. But there's a lot more to you than that."
"Oh my god that's what I thought about you!"
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Profits are dangerously elevated by all reasonable measures. The rise in income inequality is a direct consequence of a spectacular reallocation of income to capital and away from labor.
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Classic glidepaths built in target-date strategies are flawed: they neither deliver more end-point wealth nor provide greater certainty for retirement income than alternative strategies.
What would a Deserted Island investment portfolio look like, managed without the distractions of cable news and short-term benchmark comparisons?
Economic growth of the past 60 years enjoyed a demographic tail wind. Now, as the proportion of seniors in the population soars, developed market economies face a "demographic tax."
The Fed has deferred tapering, but when retrenching starts, some risky assets may be more attractive than others. Jason Hsu explores how tapering will affect financial markets.
Why do retail shoppers love a sale while capital markets flee from falling prices? Investors should consider starting to fill their shopping carts while inflation hedges are cheap.
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Demographics provided a tailwind to economic growth during the past 60 years. But those winds are shifting direction.
Boomers will pay the price of government housing policies: a poorer quality of life in retirement, according to Research Affiliates' 2013 Advisory Panel.
Hedge funds use fancy lures to attract investors but often a simpler approach results in improved returns. A more diversified roster of liquid asset classes that are carefully selected and, ideally, tactically managed will do more for portfolios than the illusion of hedge fund alpha.
The first decade of the 21st century was the worst ever for U.S. equity investors—worse even than the Depression-era 1930s. In this "Lost Decade," stocks returned -1% per year, losing 3.5 percentage points against inflation and contradicting the conventional view that stocks always beat bonds over the long run.
A few voices had challenged this equity-centric view. More than a decade ago, Yale University professor Robert Shiller in Irrational Exuberance warned that low dividend yields tend to be followed by price declines. In a prescient 2002 Financial Analysts Journal article, Rob Arnott and Peter Bernstein observed that the forward-looking equity risk premium might be zero or even negative.
If investors had eschewed the equity-centric 60% stock / 40% bond portfolio, they could have done better. A portfolio of 16 equally weighted asset classes including emerging market stocks and bonds, TIPS, high-yield bonds, REITs, and commodities would have generated a 6.8% annualized return, beating a 60/40 portfolio by 4.5 percentage points (and inflation by more than 4 percentage points) for the decade ending December 31, 2009. By substituting the S&P 500 with the FTSE RAFI US 1000, the broadly diversified portfolio of 16 equally weighted asset classes would have boosted the return to 8.5%.
How can investors avoid repeating the mistakes of the Lost Decade? For starters, they should adopt realistic return expectations. Too many investment plans use long-term historical averages in setting return targets, assuming 7-8% a year for a classic 60/40 portfolio. But those returns are unlikely to repeat themselves, especially if the economy enters a reflationary environment that typically punishes valuation multiples. The "3-D Hurricane" of soaring deficits, escalating debts, and changing demographics means inflation is all too likely to occur in the years ahead.
Instead, a "building blocks" approach offers a simple and superior method of projecting future returns. For equities, we sum the current dividend yield, real earnings growth, an inflation estimate, and expected price-to-earnings multiple expansion. With dividends less than half their historic average of 4.5%, real earnings growth around 1.5%, and near-term inflation between 2 to 3%, a realistic return expectation is around 6%—just over half the level of the past 30 years. For bonds, the current yield to maturity reliably predicts future returns, or roughly 2.2-2.6%. A 60/40 portfolio would generate a return between 4.2-4.6%—not a very encouraging outcome. So what next?
If a more diversified, less equity-centric approach would have generated a 4.5% return over the 60/40 stock/bond portfolio during the Naughts, what about the future? Yesterday's asset allocation will not work for tomorrow-- past is not prologue. Risk premiums fluctuate, sometimes wildly. Yet many investors maintain a relatively constant risk tolerance, similar to their 60/40 policy portfolio.
The first part of the answer is to consider other asset classes; unconventional assets sometimes are priced to offer better returns. Investors should examine an array of non-traditional asset classes, such as emerging market stocks and bonds, high-yield bonds, bank loans, and long TIPS. In addition, non-price weighted indices and well-crafted low-risk equity strategies should be considered.
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November 04, 2008
Washington, DC – The following is a statement from Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum, a non-partisan pro-immigrant advocacy group in Washington, DC.
The excitement that has pushed Americans to register to vote in record numbers has also flourished within the immigrant community. Immigrant bashing and the failure of the broken immigration system have fueled immigrants' desire to attain citizenship and make their voices heard. As a result, this election will witness massive voter turnout across immigrant communities. This newly awakened, and in many cases newly naturalized, voting force is powerful and focused.
Immigrants are not the only part of the electorate for whom the immigration debate has spurred participation in this election. Latinos—who often perceived the debate as anti-Latino—are predicted to turn out in record numbers. Experts predict that turnout could be 9.2 million, including 2.6 million who will be voting for their first time. First-time voters like Silvia Gonzales, a 20-year-old college student in New York who emigrated from Peru who said, "As an immigrant voter, this election is very important to me. It's important to be able to have a say, because I know those who would want to vote, but cannot. I will be voting for the candidates who are best able to address immigrant concerns."
The immigrant voter shares the same concerns as all American voters: the unraveling economy, the war on Iraq and access to healthcare. However, because of their personal connection with the immigrant experience, this group—who along with their children born in the U.S. since 1965 are considered "new American voters"—also views immigration as a threshold issue. That is, they will evaluate a candidate in part based on whether he or she treats immigrants with respect. According to a recent Pew Hispanic Center survey , 75% of Latino registered voters view the immigration issue as "important." As these new American voters step into the voting booth on November 4, they will deliver a hard response to the hard liners who demonized immigrant communities for their own political gain.
Like the rest of first-time voters, new citizens are excited about exercising the power of their first ballot, including Maria Costelloe, a recently naturalized immigrant from Ireland who said, "Voting gives me the power to participate in the democratic process. This is my way of stating to my adopted country that I feel welcomed here and am grateful for the opportunities my new adopted country has given me."
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Before & After: A Mini, Multi-Purpose Chill Room With Solid Shelves
Recently moved into, this home had a small room right by the entryway with great windows but no immediate plans for use. After spending time sitting on the floor talking or looking out the windows, the homeowners decided to move its remodel up on the list and transform it with bold paint and sturdy shelves into a cozy functioning room for chatting, reading or playing music.
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It took us every weekend (and a few weeknights) for a month to make our vision come to life. We ran electrical for the sconces, built a wall header to house them and painted the room a sophisticated green. For the shelves, we used douglas fir and a walnut gel stain (after a lot of experimenting with different types of stain—fir is a bugger!). Each shelf is mounted into 3 studs on the back wall, using 2 3/4" brackets and 2 additional brackets on the side.
We are so pleased with how the room transformed aesthetically and also functionally. You can almost always catch one of us in there reading, strumming a guitar, playing the djembe or just chatting together.
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Looks bigger after. Nice use of space. I like that you didn't cram it with stuff.
Just WOW! With such a large window, the dark paint isn't oppressive. Now I'm thinking of using it in my study, which has a similar window. Bravo, Chris and Julia!
Wow! (But why leave that piddling bit of white on the baseboards?)
Great job. I love the wood against that wall color.
Ooh, I love it! What a beautiful use of that wall!
What a transformation! About the baseboards, I really didn't notice at first. But a similar crown molding would tie it all together.
Interesting how the shelves and the wall header make the room seem wider--despite the dark wall color.
I like the use of the header, and I'm sure it was a lot of extra work to do it that way. It's so much better than just putting lights in the ceiling and it really adds something to the shelving. And I like the baseboard in white. It's like a little contrasting highlight. I love it!
That is absolutely amazing! I'm loving the green wall color! And the shelves look fantastic! Those brackets have to be strong to hold that up, though!
This is so perfect, and I'm loving that green!
Love the colors of the walls! Good job!
this looks awesome- great job! i like the white baseboards as they provide a bit of separation & match the window trim. i hate when ppl match the trim to the wall color & i have to spend countless hours & coats of primer & paint to get them back to white...
The baseboards are perfect the way they are. The white makes everything look that much sharper and tidier. If the trim matched the wall it would make the carpet look muddy.
Wonderful! I literally gasped! I love that green color! The header was an interesting choice to me, but between the shelves that look inset and the dark color, the room really has DEPTH now. I also like the white baseboards, they look crisp and clean, and match the window trim. You've done a truly expert job with the shelf arrangement and couch, too.
Do you think you will do anything with the window? It looks so perfect, I would be afraid to mess with it, but I'm sure you will figure it out! Thank you for sharing!!
Looks like built-in shelving. Marvelous look!
What a transformation! I especially love the bump out at the ceiling, which makes the shelving look almost recessed. Like it was meant to be there :) Very nice! And such a perfect shade of green.
One word...WOW!
Interesting. They custom ordered 10' boards of douglas fir for only $33 a piece. Somehow I don't think that's happening here in Atlanta. Wonder what I could get at a similar cost?
Looks great as it is...bless you for NOT adding crown molding!
Wonderful! It looks like a completely different space and somewhere I'd like to be ;-)
Great use of color!!
I like how the long, unbroken, horizontal shelves widen out the room. Like the chunkiness of the shelves, their grain and color, and the green wall color with it. Agree crown molding is not needed - indeed would look silly in a house of modern design, which this one clearly is. And I also like the baseboard white.
I can see how the header makes the shelves look recessed, and like they belong, but wouldn't they have looked just as cool, and like they belonged there with another shelf above and no header? I'm guessing they wanted the lighting up top - what exactly do these sconces light? Is it the stuff on the shelves, the room generally, or the part of the room just in front of the shelves? I'm not bring snarky, I really am just curious, as I often think of lining a wall with shelves, and like how they have done the shelves here, but have never considered what lights up top would bring to the installation. Someone enlighten me, please.
Beautiful! Also glad the shelves, room isn't crammed with stuff.
I love this! The shelves and lighting are wonderfully done, and the decor and colors are the perfect mix of sophisticated and modern while still being really cozy and welcoming.
This looks fantastic. I really like the colors and I like the white trim. Great job.
Extremely nice job!
One of the nicest before and afters.
Textiles: The sconces are instant light that doesn't come from the center of the ceiling.
"Mini, multi-purpose chill room" ... AKA a "den". This just cracked me up. But it looks very nice. Good job.
Impressive. Well done :-)
its gorgeous. one of the best before and afters yet.
This is very very nice. I love that wall color and the shelves are beautiful. The lights look great too, I wouldn't change a thing, it's awesome!
Looks great!
Love the wood shelving set against that gorgeous wall color! Nice work!
It's a parlor! It looks fabulous! It totally demystifies a type of room that has become this strange waste of space in a lot of homes these days--once upon a time, people sat around talking to each other and reading and had a space for it, and here it is! I grew up with a formal sitting room that no one went in, and this less fancy yet way nicer.
What a complete transformation of the "vibe" of this room. The first pic feels so sterile and cookie-cutter. The second pic is so rich and inspiring. Really well done. Just goes to show that a few tweeks can make a huge difference!
can you tell us what sort of brackets you used? i love how they sort of disappear...
Wow. Building that header (is that what we call it now that "soffit" is a dirty word?) made all the difference to how the shelves look so perfect. Even without the lighting, it would be a great idea. But with the sconces -- extra double wow. Also love the color. A rich color in a small room is so cozy.
great choice of paint color and overall styling. :)
Amazing! Well done! :)
lovely- a modern take on the parlor
Gorgeous! I'd add a patterned squishy rug, and live there with my records.
We just used simple 2-inch galvanized corner braces:
Extremely sturdy, but only work for shelves like this if you also mount them on the side walls (which we did). They're about 1/8 inch thick, but we routed out little areas on the bottom of the shelf so the brackets wouldn't show.
No eliz, it's definitely a soffit. People just rarely know construction terms, which is understandable. In my opinion, this is where AT should step in and edit.
Regardless, it's a beautiful room! I love the green, and I love the thickness of the shelves. Who knew such an architecturally boring room could end up looking so great!
One word...PERFECT!
Looks great!
Love, love, love!
What was the cost of the wood for the shelves, if you don't mind sharing? I would love to do something like this at my house, but I fear the cost of wood would scare me off.
Oh! Also, would you be able to tell us how long the shelves are? I'm really curious if I could make this work in my own house.


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It was a week later and today was the day that Jane was coming. Everyone was nervous like crazy. Alice had a vision as to where she would be waiting, so we all decided to go the clearing in the middle of to woods to await her arrival and find out what she wanted and why Aro send her here. I knew something was up, and so did Bella. Even the Cullen's suspected something was not right. I mean why would Aro kick Jane out and then send her to us? Something was deeply wrong and I wanted to know what it was.
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"What would be up?" she said trying to play dumb with us.
"We know Aro kicked you out and now he sends you here. Bit odd isn't it?" Bella said as she shot her a glare. Her shield was up protecting us all, apart from Jane.
Jane frowned and a glare came onto her face and she just glared at us. She balled her hands into fists and she began to tremble slightly. I raised my eyebrow and read her mind seeing what Aro told her;
Don't let them find out, do what I told you to do Jane.
Who did Aro want dead? Bella? Me? The Rest of the Cullens? "Who does Aro want dead!" I demanded looking at Jane.
"Who...what?" She said trying to be dumb.
"Don't play dumb with me Jane, I read your mind, I know Aro wants someone dead!" I yelled at her and snarled. I was feeling very mad right now and I could just about punch her lights out.
Jane laughed and then she tried to ran at us but the shield send her flying back into a tree and as soon as she did Bella put the shield down and the wolfs leaped on Jane a fight broke out.
Then all of a sudden Demetri, Felix and Alec emerged from the woods as well. I growled and jumped on Alec and knocked him out with a single punch.
Felix leaped on Bella and he grabbed her and he shoved her to the floor and they wrestled on the floor as Bella tried to get from his rather strong grip, so she bit into his arm making him yelp and let go off her then she kicked him into a tree as she jumped back onto her own two feet.
The fight carried on for two hours straight and we left Alec and Felix injured so much they just ran off like wimps and we killed off Demetri along with the wolves and as we killed Jane she knocked Bella straight out. I caught Bella who blacked out in my arms and she seemed a bit stiff.
Emmett pulled out the lighter and threw it on top of Jane and Demetri who were dead on the floor, to kill them completely while I picked Bella up and we got back to the house and I layed her down "Is she gonna be okay?" I asked worried
Carlisle nodded "Yeah, she'll come around no worries" he said and at that Bella was beginning to move
"Bella? can you hear me"? I asked softly
"Ben" she whimpered a bit, in pain as her eyes snapped open
I hugged her to me "Oh thank god, you're okay"
wow, this is so awesome!!! why did bella black out ?? :) please post more soon!!
If you read the chapter carefully Jane knocked Bella out as she got killed.
oh yes :) thank you!
no prb and welcome :)
So it was a set up all along...clever Aro...and he sent back ups. No wonder he can't be trusted even with his facade of every being so happy all the time
Ben's mind reading just set Jane off and came at great advantage right before the fight.
I wonder how Aro will take the news that his tracker and 'precious Jane' are dead :)
Yeah That was one of my trick having it set up, and making you think that they might have let Jane stay but no no.
Yeah Aro is a very sneaky Vampire getting it set up like that :)
Mhh you will have to find out
Intense chapter!
I know :) Haha thanks to Ben and his mind reading skills and that Bella felt something was not right. You will have to find out.
I have a few more stories you can check out :)
Aww thank you :) that's so sweet. should I give you the links?
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My wife and I have been watching some classic Disney movies and it got me thinking about the short-lived gigantic final forms some of the villains take. Maleficent, Jafar and Ursula in particular spend seconds as massively destructive titans. It got me thinking about what would happen if they were able to spend days, even weeks as apocalyptic monsters. Then I started to wonder what would happen if you had to deal with all three at once. You'd probably want to limp away and wait until they finished one another off.'


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"In this series, photographed during a nine-month road trip, living in a van with her 6-year-old son, Justine Kurland focuses on nomadic subcultures: train-hoppers, hitchhikers, wilderness squatters, wayfarers, and drifters. Her work draws upon the nineteenth-century landscape tradition of depicting a perfect place. The photographs are narratives gleaned from America's dream of itself: a collective identity based on firm faith in the inalienable right to freedom. These images are portals into the not quite real yet not quite fictional realm of the American frontier."
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Proofs that Jennifer Lopez has a fling with her backup dancer Casper Smart have finally emerged online. The "On the Floor" hitmaker has been caught on camera flaunting her affection toward the 24-year-old as the two enjoyed a vacation in Hawaii during the Thanksgiving weekend.
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House Tour: Alex's Granny Chic
Washington, DC
Name: Alex
Occupation: owner of dog-walking company Loyal Company
Location: U Street Corridor, Washington DC
Size: 1,200 square feet
Lived in: rented for 4 years
Other Occupants: Louis, a 4-year old Italian greyhound
Each room of Alex's shotgun apartment has its own decor theme: the Diane Vreeland-inspired red living room; the green room; the calm bedroom; and the "bruised" hallway. The long, shotgun apartment layout lends itself well to different decor in each room. Almost every item in Alex's apartment is vintage or was found, including the oil paintings and sofas. Nothing cost him more than $300...
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Alex uses bold colors and prints to make his home a cozy and welcoming but visually exciting place. He's not afraid to pair IKEA sconces with high-end Baker shades. He daringly pairs traditional furniture pieces with trendy pillows and rugs.
My Style: traditional, granny chic
Inspiration: so many things! I'm inspired by Tony Duquette, Kelly Wearstler, Jonathan Adler, and a bit of a lodge feel.
Favorite Element: the way the apartment flows on one level, almost like a shotgun-style house. It's bigger than it looks from the outside.
Biggest Challenge: I feel like I'm decorating for the old woman who lived here for 20 years.
What Friends Say: it feels cozy and welcoming.
Biggest Embarrassment: the kitchen and floors.
Proudest DIY: the ode to Diana Vreeland room - red on red on red. Also putting up the shelves, trim, cornices, and curtains.
Biggest Indulgence: I didn't pay more than $300 for anything here. So I guess the two West Elm desks, which I brought brand new.
Best Advice: always go with classic pieces for big items. You can use trendy accents and accessories.
Paint Colors: Caroline Pines from Dutch Boy in the green room; Sangria from Benjamin Moore in the red room; the "bruised" hallway was inspired by Domino Magazine's purple rooms
Bedroom: trunk was my grandfather's; the bed is a French antique given to me by friends; West Elm desks and chairs; Martha Sturdy lamps from Craigslist; two dressers from thrift stores
Green Room: crewel sofa and hickory chair were found; bench from the Georgia Avenue thrift shop; marble top console table from Craigslist; dressers from West Virginia antique store; two Captain's chairs from Century and Craigslist; Z Gallery mirror table; two Asian benches from Miss Pixie's; console from the back alley trash; outdoor table and artist's stool from thrift stores
Bathroom: vintage chair and trash can
Hall table from a flea market
Red Room: red sofa from Ruff 'n Ready; cabinet from Salvation Army (cost $100); two slipper chairs from the Salvation Army; lucite coffee table boxes were a store's Christmas decorations found rescued from the trash; cabinet from Goodwill; corner table from a yard sale
Lighting: lamps from yard sales, ebay, thrift stores; the sconces are from Ikea with Baker shades; kitchen chandelier from Craigslist
Rugs: West Elm; the dining room rug from ebay
Accessories: the mirrors are all vintage except the sun mirror from Marshall's; Homegoods; shower curtain from West Elm; the shells in the Red Room cabinet are a new collection and inspired by the home of Goodwood owners shown in Apartment Therapy House Tour Anna & Dan's White House Laundry Loft; needlepoint pillows are vintage finds; dishes in the kitchen are a wedding set bed in a thrift set; kitchen mirror from Ruff 'n Ready
Windows: mostly Matchstick Blinds
Art: all vintage finds
Thanks, Alex!
(Images: Rachael Grad)
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Marry me!
Great place, i love your wall color choices.
Is your little friend an Iggy or a whippet?
Alex, you give granny chic a good name! From the first photo, the colors, the objects are of a piece, Louis being, of course, the best acoutrement of all.
How much do dog walkers get paid in DC?! Are you hiring?
I'm so tired today and that bed looks really cozy...as does the entire place. I'll definitely be using some of your ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Please come to Boston and finish decorating my place. Better yet: Ship it all to me. Wonderful!
You call that red room "granny chic"? I guess your granny was Diana Vreeland. Awesome.
Must know the name and brand of that deep blue-green paint color, now! It's lovely.
Never mind, you gave the names of the paint colors. Thanks!
Very nice artwork and art pieces. Isn't it all in the details? Thank you for inspiring me!
i really like that green room! I have been trying to pick a color for my dining room forever and i want to swatch the Caroline Pines color that's listed as the paint. But Dutch Boy doesn't seem to make any color with that name that i can find.
This really is one of my favorite house tours. Cute pup, too.
Utter perfection.
What is the name of the color in the living room? LOVE IT!
hatching new ideas for a warm, attainable modern home every day.
I'm in love with your duvet cover, where did you find it?
The bedroom makes me want to curl up and take a nap. Great solution using desks as night stands.
this is to die for. alex, if i still lived in dc, i'd for sure hire you to walk my great dane--and decorate my apartment.
Great space Alex - I love it!
I have the exact same white ceramic artichoke lamp base - actually a pair. Can I suggest swapping out that ivory shade for a slightly smaller black drum shade lined w/ gold foil, and adding a brass finial? It will make your lamp look like a million bucks!
Fab!! You've got great style, a good eye, & a super cute dog.
Impressive. This looks like the home of someone who has collected these special items over a very long period of time. It's not contrived or over designed at all. It is warm and welcoming and very chic. Great job!
Love this. AND you have the same colors in your bedroom and living room that I used :)
Very nice!
Fantastic! And special thank you for saving the red room for last in the filmstrip. I was clicking along and thought the tour was over when we got outside. Then "oooooooooh!!!"
It really shows how much attention you paid to the mood of every room-they all match their function so well. I love this place!
Caroline Pines is a dreamy color. Lovely place!
It is lovely. It has the feel of 'home'.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
FANTASTIC! I love all your artwork, and the way you've used so made so many patterns work together fluidly. Thanks for opening your home to us!
Wow! My granny was never this chic! Very nice!
Nice home, very inviting, cozy, nice natural light and colors.
I don't know why because I do like the living room very much but I really love the bathroom.
I'm so proud that there has been another great DC house tour, and glad to see another "neighbor" featured as well. Your apartment is amazing. I was going to offer my apt up for house tour, but now I see I have to up my game!
alex is a friend of mine, and i must confess that his place is so cozy. my doggie also loves staying over when we go out of town. and his home always smells warm and amazing to match the feel...i don't know how he does it. love ya al!
Your red room is thisclose to restoring my faith in red walls. The only problem? It's so hard to do right. Bravo.
I love dog people.
And your home is nice too.
If anyone wants his sofa he features in the red room, he's giving it away.
See AT this is why I should do the scavenger finds.
Love love love it. Granny chicat its finest! You should be very proud, Alex! All your pieces are perfect and lovely.
stunning! you must be proud.
This is the kind of place that i read apartment therapy for. Not trendy at all. The kind of place where someone with balls went out and bought what they wanted and made it work. Thanks for posting this apartment. I loved it.
I love all the artwork of people - especially when I saw that they were all vintage finds. It feels like you have a bunch of "old friends" hanging out on your walls. Beautiful place.
Fantastic space!!! I love the colors and the use of space is outstanding. (And the dog is cute, too!)
I love it!!
Stylish and understated, my two favourite words for interiors, exteriors, fashion and art.
fabulous. what a terrific eye you have.
Amazing! Finally a post that I love in AT DC. Gives me hope, it just might be possible to have an beautifullt decorated rental in DC after all!
Oh, and I love the vintage suitcases
Love it, love it, love it. Your place is full of personal stuff (unlike some of the colder spaces we see here from time to time) but it doesn't look cluttered. LOVE the use of color!
this is one of my favorites i've seen on this site. you have a style ALL your own. very original and unique. keep it awesome.
I'm totally bookmarking this. Your place is original without being contrived, full of interest but not cluttered, and I feel like I get a sense of who you are (rather than just where you like to shop) from the decor. My grandma had rooms devoted to particular colors, too; even though I suspect you were getting at something else by calling your style granny chic, you struck a chord with me on that one. Lovely job.
Fabulous...you should be proud!
Absolutely gorgeous. Congratulations, Alex
i love your dog. i love your home. i want to meet your granny.
Great house! I, too, love the real-ness of it. It doesn't look like a cookie-clutter place from a magazine at all. Love the colors, the paintings, the odds and ends. And I LOVE the bargain pricing -- really important to show that you can create a beautiful space without spending a fortune.
Stunning. I now need captain's chairs. Thank you.
Inspiring. Trash picking with style.
Love you lucite boxes with the chandelier just sitting on them.
I've got a broken chandelier just sitting in the closet right now. What a fool I've been.
I love to see the darker spaces that are popping up in the design world...much more fun than the bright, airy spaces!
Let me add to the accolades--your place is really great! You should seriously consider adding designer to your career because you have the eye for it.
Lovely and inspirational. This was so much better than some of the contrived rooms in this month's House Beautiful... kudos. And I'm so impressed that you managed to do all of this without spending lots of money on pieces. Wow.
This is beautiful! I especially love the crewel sofa and the zig-zaggy rug and the barrel (captain?) chairs and the floral chair in the redroom... it's all incredible. At risk of sounding silly, I think the interactions between the different pieces are great. Each room is a cohesive vignette, something that's easy to do when all your furniture comes from the same place at the same time but I think harder when you put together lots of pieces from different places at different times in your life.
Of course Louis is the perfect accessory. You both look very happy there.
Love, love, love, love this house tour!! I've always wanted to do an homage to Diana Vreeland in my place, but I'm stuck with rental white walls. I'm drooling over your lr.
Must. Pet. Cute. Dog.
Seriously, very nice eclectic mix of furnishings. It looks warm and inviting. Great job.
Lovely! Just awesomely lovely!
this has to be one of my favorite house tours and i love that you did it on such a budget and it looks better than a million dollars.
stunning. Loved all of it.. character, charm, a fab mixture of styles, a classic example of "if you love it all it will work". Kudos.
I don't know how much dog walkers make, but your place looks like a million bucks!
I love your home! It's totally insiring me to keep trucking on mine, especially that delicious bedroom of yours.
Quick Question: are those IKEA filing cabinets in the bedroom? If so, how do you like them?
Also, I love the photos of you and your darling puppy, you both are so cute!
Thanks for sharing!
Your place is a perfect balance of chic, classic, fun, and comfortable. And you make it look effortless. You should really consider becoming a decorator, you are SO talented and have such a strong eye! More than you even know.
a great tour!....loved the write up especially the way each roo and its contents are described. Shws all the love it went into putting things together...loved those ar chairs...envying you rite now...for the chair in particular!
I just fell in love...twice...with the Dog and with the house.
tres bien!!! just wonderful!!! i too have been "furniture collecting" over the years and the look is now just coming together. my "most costly" piece is $300 as well!!! thank you for sharing and for the inspiration!
serious props for pulling off a red room.
I Love Louie - or does he prefer the formal, Louis? Either way, he's a great pooch!
Love your pad, too.
that red room makes me die.
love it.
Such a fun place, obvious great use of color, but still really refined. And I really think an Italian Greyhound is such a great accessory too..ha
Love the way you've combined so many different styles. And really love your bold color choices. All that bright "airy" stuff is over rated--give me the bruised hallway and black bathroom walls any day... Great job!
Love this place! If only all grannies were so chic! This is the kind of look I like best, one that says you have creativity and know how to thrift. It looks amazing and doesn't cost a fortune. I'm way more impressed when someone can pull this off, it's easy (well, if you've got the money) to just go out and buy stuff and arrange it.
The gray living room looks straight out of the "Mad Men" tv set. So cool!
I can't get over the awesomeness and oddness of the chandelier on the lucite boxes. Does the chandelier work? If so, how does that look? I think it would make some crazy shadows and stuff with the lucite boxes and all.
I love your home. I love your home. I love your home.
That is all.
Alex, head over to your fellow DCer's apartments... they need help.
love it- thanks for the inspiration! xoxo, cyn of http://onesownsweetway.blogspot.com/
why are the floors embarrassing??? love them!
Fantastic place, Alex — I love so many things about each photo! Very inspiring.


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Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell is steaming mad over a recent TMZ article that, while revealing the rocker recently filed for divorce from Julie , his wife of 25 years, also reported that he was seeking to deny spousal support to his ex. In a Facebook post , Campbell admits that he is indeed filing for divorce, while insisting that the allegations regarding spousal support "couldn't be further from the truth."
The guitar whiz writes, "It amazes me what people take for truth. If something is in print, does that automatically make it true?" He continues, "Those who know me will attest that I'm going out of my way to be as generous and accommodating as possible to my ex. However, the damage is done; my character and name are sullied because TMZ chose to publish without checking the facts."
Campbell finishes off with a dig at the tabloid news website, saying, "Personally, I wouldn't drink water from the gutter. Nor would I get my 'news' from the gutter press."
The same TMZ piece also reports that Vivian cited "irreconcilable differences" s the reason he's asking for a divorce, and that he's seeking joint custody of the couple's two daughters, who are 13 and 11 years old.
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