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Hello friends,
When I worked in the fragrance industry I used to create moodboards regularly to describe scents that the perfumers were creating for our clients. Those moodboards were the best way to show clearly what the fragrance smelt like, and to show why the perfumer wanted to express. I would put together a medley of pictures of people, ingredients or landscapes in order to capture a moment that would best describe the perfume; there would also be colors, textures (if I made it on paper) and keywords.
I loved creating these inspiration boards and I still do. In my office I have a wall where I stick pictures from magazines that inspire me, words that motivate me and remind me of my goals, quotes from people I admire, and also some ribbons and pieces of liberty fabric. I regular change the photos and new ones find their place amongst the old ones.
Lately, I have ben playing with the idea of changing my blog. So far it is only about things I make myself, but I have the feeling there is so much more for me to share with you.
I want to talk about places I go to in Hong Kong, cities (and countries) I travel to, food and healthy lifestyle, photography and art, and off course my craft and inspirational DIY for you. This is still in the making but in the coming months you'll see more from it.
For now I have created a moodboard for my Atelier Divalys blog in order to have a better idea of what I want.
What do you think?


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Milk - 1 liter
Vermicelli - 1/4 cup
Sugar - 1/4 cup
Corn starch - 1/2 tsp
Basil seeds - 1 tbsp
Chia seeds - 1 tbsp
Strawberry syrup - 1/4 cup
Cashews - 1 tbsp
Walnuts - 1 tbsp
Banana, strawberries, cherries for topping
Strawberry Ice-cream
* Warm the milk on the stove.
* Once warm, take one glass milk aside. Mix in strawberry syrup to half of that milk . Add it to the pot.
* In a separate cup, dissolve the corn starch in the other half of the milk.
* Add this to the pot with vermicelli, sugar & cashew pieces and boil it for 10-15 mins until the milk thickens slightly and the vermicelli is cooked.
* Once slightly thick, turn off the flame.
* Add in the chia seeds. Stir well and keep it aside to cool down.
* Once cooled, place it in the refrigerator atleast 3-4 hours to get cold.
* Take a tall glass. Add 1 chopped banana & 2 chopped strawberries. Now pour the milk mixture until 3/4 full. Now add in a scoop of Ice-cream.
* Top it with walnut pieces, drizzle strawberry syrup and place a cherry on top.

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Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This was my first book by Sherrilyn Kenyon. I've read (and liked) some of the books she wrote under the name Kinley MacGregor, but I didn't know if I could use them as a reference because authors who change their pen names usually do it to establish different writing styles.
Well... I liked this book but didn't love it. I had some laughs - which weren't always from laughing with the story, but from laughing at some of its "silliness" - and one heartbreaking moment when Julian told Grace about his past and all the events that caused him to be cursed. Julian was a wonderful hero, a true "fantasy lover" - sorry, I couldn't resist saying it :) -, but his "perfectness" annoyed me. All those allegedly mature women drooling all over him and acting like horny teenagers... Please! *rolls eyeballs* Even Grace didn't act like a 29-year-old woman sometimes. And don't get me started on her being a "born-again virgin" who worked as a sex therapist, LOL.
Anyway, it wasn't all bad and I even had some "awww" moments, like when Julian "restored" Grace's personal library. But those moments were too far in between and there was little else truly engaging to keep me hooked to this book.
If this book is a good sample of what I should expect from the Dark-Hunter series, I can't see what the fuss is all about and I'm not jumping to get the next books. We shall see...
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New tax changes could leave more than a million buy-to-let property owners facing a loss on their investments, according to a new study.
From April, landlords must pay a higher stamp duty when buying property, and from next year they will get a reduced tax allowance.
The intermediary mortgage lending association IMLA suggest tax increases aimed at investors won't reverse growth in PRS / buy-to let , though slowing of growth in buy to let sector will be felt .
Though ,Further evidence is emerging of the pressures that are building on buy-to-let landlords as a result of the Government's tax increases.
Even a modest rise in interest rates would force losses on property investors in 70pc of locations, new figures show, while more landlords have come forward to say they will sell their properties or raise rents in response to the abolition of tax relief on mortgage interest and the new stamp duty penalty.
The research found that today's average profits for landlords of about £3,400 a year would turn to a loss of more than £300 if mortgage rates rose by 2.5 percentage points by the end of the decade
How new taxes and interest rate rises would decimate profits
Buy-to-let could become unprofitable in seven out of 10 towns and cities by 2020 if interest rates were to rise by 2.5 percentage points, according to data.
Using current house price, rent and mortgage data, the figures showed that landlords with 40pc equity in their property and a mortgage currently fixed at 3pc for three years would be making an average annual loss of £325 by 2020.
The data, provided by Property Partner, a "crowdfunding" website and also known as alternative investment , covers more than 100 of Britain's largest towns and cities. At present, landlords' average net profit is calculated at £3,419, falling to £2,555 by 2020 even if mortgage rates remained at 3pc, thanks to the phasing out of mortgage interest tax relief. A 2.5 percentage point rise in mortgage rates would be enough to produce the £325 loss.
Investors in some towns face bigger losses. In Salisbury, landlords currently make an average annual profit of £2,200, the data shows.
By 2020, with both a cut in mortgage tax relief and a 2.5 percentage point rate rise, they would make a loss of £2,984 a year – a swing in fortune of £5,184.
In Cambridge and Winchester the reversal in fortunes would be even greater. In Cambridge the average profit today is £4,257 but would swing into the red with a £2,418 annual loss in 2020.
In Winchester an annual profit today of £5,835 would be wiped out and landlords would face an annual deficit of £2,169. Fewer than one in five towns and cities will offer a net rental profit of more than £100 a month by 2020, according to the data.
Mortgage tax relief blow
At present landlords can claim for interest on buy-to-let mortgage payments when they complete their tax return, allowing them to offset mortgage interest against rental income. Changes are being made to this system gradually from April 6 2017, with full implementation by 2020.
In effect, landlords will be taxed on their turnover rather than profit.
Chris Norris, head of policy at the National Landlords Association, said: "These changes are going to drastically increase tax bills and running costs for landlords. "If landlords want to stay in the market, they won't have any choice but to increase rents, although this could be very difficult. We also expect a considerable number to exit the market over the next five years."
Will mortgage rates rise?
Interest rates will remain at their record lows until 2019, according to recent forecasts.
Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, said this month that an "unforgiving" global environment was likely to keep rates at a record low of 0.5pc for longer than previously expected.
The prediction had been for a rise in Bank Rate in December this year or January 2017, following the first rate rise in the US for nine years in December last year.
However, following fresh economic gloom earlier this year the money markets now imply that the first increase will come in August 2019. In recent months fixed and variable buy-to-let mortgage rates have reached new lows, because lenders have cut their rates before April's tax changes take effect.
There has also been a rise in the number of buy-to-let loans on the market, from 823 in February 2015 to 1,288 this month.
Rachel Springall of Moneyfacts.co.uk, which collates rate data, said that while rates were low at the moment they were expected to rise eventually. "The buy-to-let market has been thriving not only from low interest rates but also from an abundance of options for prospective or existing landlords. Lenders have been locked in a price war to win over borrowers, meaning rates on buy-to-let deals have fallen to record lows.
"But any prospective landlords need to consider future costs such as interest rates rising – as they will eventually."
Further Reading
Chinese authorities shut down microblogging accounts belonging to a real estate mogul
FT first 'Rightmove maintains grip in battle of property portals @onthemarketblog
Foxtons high street estate agent facing landmark claim for £2million from group of 55 landlords
Kettering high street letting agent jailed for ripping off tenants and landlords
Estate agent Sterling Estates fined for illegal display board on Common Lane, Kings
Langley by Dacorum City Council
Class War protest outside Kennington Road London High Street Estate Agents Reed and Rains
Antonio Banderas's £2.4million Huf Haus Surrey
Britain's most energy efficient smart homes and , UKs newest & tallest sky scraper building
Countrywide PLC, CWD revenue drops, pressure from Online Estate agents Alison Platt CEO under pressure
Melanie Griffiths promotes the property for sale
Spectre of facing Spanish fraud trial: Sean Connery's wife accused of 5.5 million pound property tax swindle
A MILLIONAIRE Cyber-stalked a property developer who he thought was seeing his girlfriend
GeoPhy Exodus from EU may spark correction in the rental market
Brexit ,purplebricks.com investor, impacts on the property market overall and on aggregate consumption in the economy will be limited.
Emoov.co.uk what Brexit means UK House prices
Spanish house prices 2015 see rise highest rise 2007 crash , stabilisation of housing market, idealista.com
Robert Durst Real Estate develeoper , Indicted on Weapon and Drug Charges in Louisiana
Drug Lord Escobar's Miami Home Demolished , mansion property of the devil dissapearing
How BlockChain may solve fraud in Real Estate property industry #CRE
Private palaces: Russia moves to hide property data
Iconic Building Lincoln House [Former Maharajah Palace and US embassy ] sold to business tycoon $113m
Wales hotel that was the scene of a quadruple murder has sold for £150,000


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Dr. Sheldon Gellar
Sheldon Gellar is a political scientist and Africanist scholar who has worked in a dozen African countries as an international development consultant with USAID, the UNDP, Club du Sahel and other donors over the past forty years. He has applied his skills as political scientist, institutional analyst, and development specialist to conduct assessments in a wide range of areas, — democratic governance, corruption, civil society, decentralization, natural resource management, agricultural policy implementation and participatory development strategies.
After completing a B.A. in literature at Rutgers University, he studied two years in France where he received the Diplome (M.A) of the Institutd'Etudes Politiques(Paris) and a Certificatd'AptitudeenDéveloppement at the Institut de Rechcrche et de FormationenVue du DéveloppementHarmonisé run by Father Louis Lebret, founder of the Economics and Humanism movement and advisor to Pope John XXIII and Paul VI on development issues . He also has a Ph. D. in Comparative Government from Columbia University.
He is the author of Senegal: An African Nation between Islam and the West and Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa and co-editor with Aurelian Craiutu of Conversations with Tocwquerville: The Global Democratic Revolution in the Twenty-First Century and written extensively on religion, politics, development, and natural resource management and Environmental issues..
He has taught at Indiana University, Michigan State University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv University and has been a research associate at Indiana University's Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Princeton University, and the Truman Institute in Jerusalem.
As an international consultant, he has worked primarily in predominantly Muslim Sahelian countries—e.g. Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Chad, and Guinea and served as Democracy advisor to the USAID/Senegal mission (1998-1999).
Over the past decade, he has been focusing on relations between religion, politics and violent extremism/terrorism in Sahelian African countries and refugee issues. Since 2013, he has participated in evaluations of USAID Peace through development programs designed to counter violent extremism, analyses of drivers of violence and the risk of violent extremism in Niger and other Sahelian countries, mentoring African researchers working on these issues, and recommending a more holistic and transnational approach to dealing with these issues than currently practiced by USAID and other international aid organizations.


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On the plain black circles under her eyes;
Mirror the quiet hallways,
Pavements left ill-natured,
Home of brilliant debacles- Full of unwanted souls.
It's more of a cemetery living in it.
The tenderness of sorrow and grief; she resists.
Unknowingly, it succeed,
Euphoria turned into ashes.
Thoughts began to rust.
She looked all the same,
but wanted to burst her heart out
She wanted
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She wanted to feel alive.


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I would like to hire a Ghostwriter -- 2
Budget $30-250 USD
I want to write a Novel. But English is not my native language, so I want a political thriller novel. The story is like as follow: In 2021, the Taiwanese government surrendered and was force to be unified by China after the threatening of war. China gives Taiwan as autonomic Republic but in charged with diplomacy and Military defense. 3 years later, the American journalist visited Taiwan for making more money to cure her daughter. But the tension took place, and he decides to investigate what really happens there by himself.


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Every week of the 2009 PGA Tour season, the editorial staff of the SI Golf Group will conduct an e-mail roundtable. Check in on Mondays for the unfiltered opinions of our writers and editors.
\nGary Van Sickle, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: Let's start in Shanghai. Pretty exciting stuff, on the final three holes especially. At 16, Phil Mickelson whiffed a flop shot, chunked the next one and holed an 18-footer to save par. Tiger Woods fluffed a flop on the same hole, dumping his into a bunker, then clanged his bunker shot off the flagstick to save par. Ernie Els shot a closing 63 but put his second shot in the lake on the reachable par-5 finishing hole. That bogey cost him a chance at winning.
\n \nShould we read anything into this? Is Mickelson going to have a monster 2010?
\n \nCameron Morfit, senior writer, Golf Magazine: It's interesting the way Phil and Tiger's long, multi-faceted relationship is trending. Tiger used to own Phil like Hideki Matsui owns Pedro. Not anymore. At this moment in time, Phil is clearly the best player in the world. The question is, can he sustain it into 2010 and someday overtake Tiger in the ranking? The way Phil is putting, anything is possible. He seems reborn.
\n \nJim Herre, managing editor, SI Golf Group: More clutch putting from Phil has to be a good sign for him in 2010.
\n \nDamon Hack, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: Seems to me Phil has become a lot more comfortable seeing the red shirt on Sundays. Deutsche Bank a couple of years ago, the Masters in April and now Shanghai. Phil has always been Tiger's biggest threat, and now he's starting to cash in some chips.
\n \nVan Sickle: Making putts again will rejuvenate anyone. See Payne Stewart and Vijay Singh (briefly) for details. I believe Phil is poised for a big 2010, a strong late-career run and maybe, finally, even a U.S. Open.
\n \nAlan Shipnuck, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: Phil's best golf has always been good enough to scare Tiger. The big difference is that Tiger plays at a high level every time he tees it up, while Phil usually only shows up for three or four weeks a year. I'll believe Phil is the best player in the world when he can sustain this level of play for a full season. (And pick off a couple more majors.)
\n \nDavid Dusek, deputy editor, Golf.com: It's so much better for golf to have a real challenger for Tiger in the No. 2 spot. Mickelson wins at East Lake, has a great Presidents Cup and now wins in China with a star-studded leaderboard. Can we just play the Masters next week, after Disney?
\nMorfit: The most amazing part of the week was not something I saw but something I read, that Phil said mid-round Saturday, "Someone's got his putter back!" I can't believe he said that out loud. Everyone knows not to taunt the Golf Gods like that. And yet he still won. He clearly feels bulletproof.
\n \nDick Friedman, senior editor, Sports Illustrated: I loved the action at the HSBC and loved the names in the mix (Big Easy! Young Rory!), but I also loved that it was Saturday Night Live the end of prime time here in the east. The LPGA especially, with its large Asian contingent and prospective schedule, should take note for Golf Channel purposes.\n
\nShipnuck: I thought it was one of the best rounds of golf of the year, or maybe millennium, with wild momentum swings among an all-star crew. If this is golf in China, sign me up!\n
\nRyan Reiterman, producer, Golf.com: Not sure if Tiger feels the same way. He didn't look happy to be there all week, and the cameras never stopped clicking in his backswing. It was shocking how fast he was out of the tournament on Sunday.
\nVan Sickle: I have to give a little credit to rust for the miscues. Doubt if Phil and Tiger honed their games to get ready for China. Probably didn't touch a club until they had to after the Prez Cup.\n
\nShipnuck: Tiger is always fully prepared to play whenever he shows up at a tournament. No way rust is an excuse. For sure he got nailed by a bunch of itchy trigger-fingers among the camera-wielding hordes, but so did all the players, and Woods has many years of practice dealing with jumpy galleries. He just didn't get it done, plain and simple.\n
\nHack: Tiger showing up means Tiger's ready to win. No rust talk, please.\n
\nJohn Garrity, contributing writer, Sports Illustrated: I'll accept that Tiger might hit one bad shot because of a shutter click, but one of the TV guys kept pushing "the distractions of the big crowd are hurting Tiger." Huh? Woods faces those distractions every time he plays, and besides, he's the guy who was trained to block everything out. I don't buy it.
\nDusek: The same broadcasters compared Tiger's meltdown on the ninth hole of the fourth round to Greg Norman's at Augusta. Let's keep things in perspective, shall we?
\nHerre: Right, David. I know there's a tendency in the States to fawn over the Euro tour broadcast crew, but I'll take Johnny any day. I also don't buy the idea that Tiger was distracted by the fans, but the crowds were immense, and as usual everyone wanted to get a glimpse of Tiger.
\nGarrity: They did, indeed. But it was Mickelson, with his smiles and eye contact, who won over the Chinese fans. Phil's win has to make Finchem and all the other tour execs happy.
\nDusek: Any Phil win should make everyone in the golf world happy. When Mickelson is winning, or at least playing well, there is more than one thoroughbred in the race.\n
\nJim Gorant, senior editor, Sports Illustrated Golf Plus: I always thought that was true too, but it's amazing how many golf fans just want to see Tiger win. Over and over again, by as many shots as possible.\n
Shipnuck: Tiger will deservedly be player of the year in '09, but his shocking stumble out of the gate in Shanghai ball in the water, flubbed chips, 4 over on the first 7 holes is of a piece with his Sunday meltdown at the PGA, the missed putt on the last hole at Liberty National and the Sunday beatdown Phil administered at the Tour Championship. When it comes to Tiger, Phil has never felt this emboldened, and I'm guessing he's not alone.\n
\n \n Morfit: I wonder whether Tiger will get fed up and follow Phil's lead by shaking up his support team.\n
\nShipnuck: That's a good question, Cam. Tiger was definitely looking at this year as a chance to recover from knee surgery, and in that regard it was a smashing success. Next year will tell the tale. If he keeps getting beat by Phil and giving away majors, anything is possible.
\nVan Sickle: There should be cause for concern in Camp Tiger. Not panic, just concern. Tiger is too smart not to address his issues before 2010.\n \n
\nGorant: I don't think he wants to admit that his support team has that much influence. Maybe he goes without a support team just Stevie and his rabbit's foot.\n
\nFarrell Evans, writer-reporter, Sports Illustrated: Tiger's fine. He doesn't need to shake up his entourage. One year without a major and a bad ending in China are not the end of the world for him. \n
\nMorfit: You have to admit Tiger hasn't looked like Tiger lately. No majors in 2009 is not a huge deal, but the way Yang reeled him in at the PGA, the way he failed to make the big putt at Liberty, the way he backed into the FedEx Cup title, the way he took himself out of contention on the front nine at HSBC uh, excuse me, my regular Tiger Woods has been replaced by Folgers crystals.
\nMichael Bamberger, senior writer, Sports Illustrated: The players are still in shock over the PGA, more in shock that Tiger didn't make that putt Sunday on 18 at the Barclays, and now this? It's a brand new day.
\nFriedman: He did enough to win a batch of tournaments and the FedEx Cup. He hit some amazing shots in the Prez Cup. Maybe it's simply that "you can't win 'em all" finally applies to Tiger as well.\n
\nMorfit: You have to re-read that last sentence, though, to appreciate how odd it is. We're saying Tiger is, in some golfing way, like "everyone else." If you made that assertion most anytime in the last 12 years, anyone within earshot would have said, "Um, no, he is not."\n
\nBamberger: He's not like everyone else. He's like nobody else. He won a half-dozen times this year and contended in another four or five. Nobody's even close.\n
\nShipnuck: Yes, faithful Confidential readers know we hold Tiger to a ridiculously high standard. (Imagine what we'd be writing if Rory McIlroy had won six Tour events this year!) But Tiger holds himself to even higher standards than we do, so it's all good.
\nDusek: So aside from hitting more fairways with his driver, what exactly would we want Tiger to work on? Making more clutch putts? Honing his short game? Improving his ability to shape shots? It comes down to executing the right shot at the right time, and in 2009 he wasn't able to do that as often as he has in the past.\n
\nVan Sickle: It's all about Tiger hitting fairways with the driver (and not using the 3-wood or 5-wood as a crutch off the tee), getting his swagger back and unleashing the long-ball, which used to be his biggest weapon. Sheathing the driver has taken away his distance edge and worn the sheen off his invincible aura. See the Connell Barrett Q&A with Brandel Chamblee in Flyers I thought Brandel was right on the money.\n
\n Gorant: I hate to hate on Ernie, but the final hole meltdown makes it feel like he's back in all the wrong ways.\n
Garrity: All Ernie has to do is avoid golf courses with water on the 18th hole.\n
Van Sickle: He'd better sign up for Riviera then.
\nShipnuck: Vintage Ernie. That ball on the 72nd hole didn't just trickle into the water, it was 40 or 50 yards short of the hole. \n
Morfit: Seems like Ernie is having to relearn how to be in contention. The question with him has always been his putting, not his ability to close. I just think he's like most every other golfer who's gone through a slump he has to feel comfortable in the heat again.\n
\nShipnuck: Ernie's been doing this for five years now. I wouldn't call it a slump. This is just who he is.
\nHack: Agreed. Dubai a couple of times and now Shanghai for the Big Easy. Tough to find fault in a 63, but you can't drown your ball on the 72nd.\n
\nVan Sickle: It was somewhat familiar for Phil, too. He decided to play smart on 18 and lay up with 3-wood, promptly blocking into the left rough. Then he tried to lay up and pushed that into the rough, too. Then he manned up, hit the green and lagged it close for the win. It's never easy being Phil.\n
\nGarrity: I love that Phil "played it smart" and wound up in grass so deep and lush that you couldn't see the ball. It's the answer to the criticism that he should have hit 3-wood on the final hole at Winged Foot. Under final-hole pressure, the shorter club doesn't necessarily find the fairway and if you miss, the trouble is often worse than if you'd hit the driver.\n
\nShipnuck: That's such a good point, John. But, the problem at Winged Foot wasn't the drive, it was the second shot. I was standing right next to Phil and it wasn't that tough a play; he just got too aggressive and sliced it into a tree. This time he played a much safer second shot. I guess that's progress.
\nGarrity: You're right about Winged Foot, but Phil WAS criticized for hitting driver on the final hole. Johnny Miller all but called him an idiot before Phil reached that judgment on his own.\n
\nRick Lipsey, writer-reporter, Sports Illustrated: It's kind of amazing to see Tiger and Phil battling in China, and Billy Payne just flew there to give out a 2010 Masters invitation at the Asian Amateur. Who'd of thunk it?\n
\n Shipnuck: I don't think any of us expect golf to change the Chinese government. It was a great show, nothing more. Kinda like the Olympics...
\nFriedman: I do like the way "In the hole" can be heard resounding throughout the People's Republic the same way it does at Bethpage Black.
\nDusek: One thing that will be interesting to see shake out: there are not nearly enough qualified golf instructors in China, India and all the other places where the game is supposedly going to grow in the next decade. Who's going to teach all the new golfers?\n \n
\nGarrity: They'll be taught by all the American assistant pros who have no future here because the head pro jobs are no longer expanding.\n
\nVan Sickle: Next to be rendered obsolete by the great recession: club pros. I hope I'm wrong, but I could see smaller clubs deciding to get by with just a club manager and some assistants to run the golf shop and handle tee times. They could cut the club pro's salary and wouldn't have to give up his cut of shop/cart sales.\n
\nHerre: Wow! That would be a shock to country club culture.\n
\nDusek: Some clubs are looking into hiring pros as straight employees and making lessons part of the membership. Pros get a flat salary, club gets a sellable perk to dangle in front of prospective members.\n
\nVan Sickle: We've already suffered the biggest shocks to the membership rolls. Country club dues not being a tax deduction, and fewer companies are offering such perks. I think we'll see more private clubs going semi-private or public to pay the bills in a tough economy.\n
\nBamberger: If they don't shorten the courses, widen the fairways and make the game faster, golf could go the way of bridge. People do not have time for the all-day country-club golf experience anymore, not before retirement, anyway.\n
\n Van Sickle: For a couple of guys who complained that the PGA Tour season should end a lot earlier, Phil and Tiger are suddenly playing a lot of golf in November. I guess that's the magic of money. Tiger is getting $3 million for this week's Australian Masters. That could be what really kills the PGA Tour's fading Fall Series: appearance money overseas, great fields and the lure of staging more WGC or PGA Tour events in foreign lands. That's where the money and sponsors are.
\nIt's hard for golf to be truly compelling, no matter what the stakes are, without those familiar players. That's why the race for the top 125 this week, no matter what's at stake, is a tough sell.\n
\n Friedman: Well, this year the race for the top 125 includes David Duval, who's right at 125.\n
Shipnuck: And Rich Beem is 124. Definitely worth paying attention to. \n
Van Sickle: Duval has about a $10,000 edge. I think he's still enough of a name that he can get 20 sponsors' exemptions if he asks. I'm sure he'd like to stay in the top 125 so he doesn't have to ask, though. Other names on the outside looking in are Chris Riley, Jeff Maggert, Tim Herron, Todd Hamilton, Stuart Appleby, Joe Ogilvie, Chris DiMarco and America's sweetheart, Rocco Mediate. Of all those players, Appleby is the most shocking. He's a guy with all the tools, physically, who's never really achieved what he could have.\n
\n Bamberger: Appleby could be another Mark O'Meara, win his majors late in life. I watch him every chance I get, on the range and the course. No extra moving parts, solid everything, looks like he should contend ever week.\n
Van Sickle: Appleby is taking a pass on Disney to play in Australia, so he definitely won't finish in the top 125.\n
\nHerre: Appleby's swing is a thing of beauty, no doubt. But if you look at his stats he's crooked off the tee, doesn't hit greens and has a short game that's mediocre at best. As they said in M*A*S*H "Looks good, general, but can he fight?" \n
\n \nVan Sickle: Moving on to drugs and the PGA Tour. Bamberger wrote a thoughtful piece on the topic and Doug Barron. AP reported that Barron has struggled with 'severe panic disorder' and that he admitted in 2003 that he took beta blockers. We don't know what he got caught for this time, but is this one-year suspension too stiff a punishment for the crime?\n
\nMorfit: I'm wondering if there's a chance he'll be reinstated. If he was on beta-blockers or something else for his anxiety attacks, it seems he has a good case for it. He's definitely on radio silence. A guy I know who used to caddie for him can't even get him to return messages.\n
\nHerre: Hard to say without knowing all the facts, but it sounds like Barron has had issues for a while now.\n
\nDusek: He's a professional golfer and athlete. His livelihood depends on his body.
\nIf he genuinely needed to take a doctor-prescribed medication that is on the banned substances list, why didn't he tell the PGA Tour right away? One year is NOT too much. Golf, like any other sport, should not tolerate failed drug tests.\n
\n \nHack: The penalty is the toughest in sports besides track. Baseball suspends players for 50 games (out of 162) and football for four games (out of 16). But golf holds itself to a higher standard.\n \n
\nVan Sickle: It's hard to have an opinion on Barron until we get all the facts, whatever they are. But Manny Ramirez got the 50-game suspension for his first-time violation. The Tour's punishment seems harsh.\n
Bamberger: The Tour is really doing the public and the golfers a disservice by having a policy in which they do not identify the drug. I can't figure out why they think that's better.\n
Herre: It will be interesting to see how the Tour's drug policy dovetails with the IOC's, and when pro golf transitions into Olympic-style testing. I'll think we'll see more transparency from the tours when that happens.\n
\n \nVan Sickle: I find it hard to believe that no player has been caught for marijuana, cocaine, etc.
\nBamberger: Those drugs are just handled in a different way. PEDs get special public treatment. It's spelled out in the players' manual.\n
\nShipnuck: Recreational drugs don't get an automatic suspension. \n \n
\nBamberger: You smoke pot in your hotel room, that's between you and hotel security and the housekeeper. You take something to improve your performance on the course, and it's like lifting Benjamins out of 163 wallets.\n
\n Van Sickle: Which drug is proven to improve golf performance? It's a gray area, at best.
\nBamberger: Oh no, Gary, it's easy. Anything that let's you do more work in the gym is a PED. If you believe the gym makes you a better golfer, and most guys do these days, there are lots of motivations to take steroids, etc.\n
\nShipnuck: Or something that helps your body recover from the wear and tear of hitting 500 balls a day.
\nBamberger: Exactly, so you can go hit 600 the next day. PEDs are for fanatics only.\n


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- France, Germany and Russia huddle to avert 'total war'
- Dems block funding for DHS. Where are the mainstream media?
- Is there a link between vaccinations and autism? Autism rate by state
- The Dalai Lama and the Dalai Bama
- Rand Paul comes out swinging against Lynch nomination
- Columbia U requiring students to take sex respect course
- Amy Pascal stepping down as Sony CEO
- Sen. Alexander floats blueprint to increase nuclear power production
- Is it a cure? Scientists find way to 'jam' genetic code of cold virus
- Pope: Parents can smack their kids for bad behavior
- Plurality of Americans are happy with current job
- Man with 'Joker' mouth robs Walmart
- Woman finds tongue-eating creature in can of tuna
- Bloomberg Business fails to disclose environmental writer's ties to Greenpeace
- Anonymous diner apologizes 13 years after paying for pizza with bad check
- US Copyright office endorses performance royalty for radio
- Man chops off nose to look like Marvel Comic villain
- Gary Glitter convicted of child molestation, likely to die in prison
- Elvis' granddaughter weds
- More happy tweets come from South and West
- NY Times urges Harper Lee not to publish second 'Mockingbird' book
- Phil's movie, An Inconsistent Truth, coming to cable and satellite tomorrow!
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The Over/Under-Qualified Conundrum
Two members of our group, with roughly 15 years difference in marketing experience, recently applied for and were both selected to interview for the same position at the same company. Neither got the job.
The more experienced applicant assumed that she was over-qualified, receiving word from the hiring company that they worried she'd leave once the economy turned around. You'd be "bored." This, despite the fact that she would sincerely be content in a position where she could easily perform the expected tasks. In addition, it would lead to more work/life balance in a company she truly targeted.
The less-experienced applicant assumed he was under-qualified and that the job went to someone with far more marketing acumen. Why not, with today's extreme supply and little demand (several hundred people had applied for this one position), would a company not want to grab someone with more experience?
This leads us back to the psychology of interviewing. Does the over-qualified candidate lay their cards on the table and explain how the additional years of experience can greatly benefit the company, regardless of whether or not it's long- or short-term? And that despite the years behind the 'perfect' candidate, there is no guarantee that this specific person would stay any longer than anyone else once the job market starts to recover.
How does the under-qualified person express their eagerness and the "low cost value" that they can bring? "No boredom here! I'm just excited at the opportunity to get my foot in the door!"
So…who got the job?? Maybe the company, with all the applicants, happened upon someone with just the right amount of experience – and was just the right fit.


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Siemens has recently opened a production facility for metal 3D printed components in Finspång. The investment of approx. SEK 200M is the first step in the company's plans for the mass manufacture and repair of metal parts with additive manufacturing. This is a long-term investment to build up the skills and experience to lead to new ideas and developments in the field.
The facility features Direct Metal Laser Sintering machines from German AM leader, EOS, which cost around USD 850,000 each. Electro Optical Systems believe metal 3D printing has the biggest potential, particularly in aerospace and medical, and consequently, are focused on the development of their metal 3D printing portfolio. EOS machines are already being used for the mass production of medical implants and flight critical parts in aerospace, including by GE Aviation. IDTechEx research for their report 3D Printing of Metals 2015-2025 predicts around 1000 of these types of 3D printers will be sold in 2016, with a total market value of USD 540m.
Siemens are looking to develop new and improved components for the industrial gas turbine SGT-800 significantly faster, and shorten repair times. 3D printing can be used to shorten design and technology validation, reduce manufacturing and repair time, integrate the design and manufacturing process.


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Without figures like Jeremy Hammond, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning, Julian Assange, Barrett Brown, there is no free press. Jeremy Hammond broke into the private security firm known as Stratfor, which does work for a variety of intelligence agencies–for the Marine Corps and the Defense Department, the Pentagon, but also for corporations, including Raytheon, Dow Chemical, and others. And he turned over 3 million emails, email exchanges within the company to Rolling Stone, WikiLeaks, and other publications. Now, this was quite a significant dump, because it illustrated two or three very chilling things about the security and surveillance state, first of all that there was no division between corporate spying and government spying. It was seamless, including the same people going back and forth. It was from that dump that we realized the extent to which the Occupy movement was being spied upon and infiltrated and monitored and followed. And we also found from those email exchanges that there was a concerted attempt on the part of security officials, both inside the government and within the private security contracting agency, to link, falsely, nonviolent dissident groups with terrorist groups so that they could apply terrorism laws against these groups.
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Friday, August 24, 2007
NHTSA Establishes Gag Rule
Employees of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration may no longer be directly quoted in the press. This new policy was enacted by NHTSA's head, and Bush appointee, Nicole R. Nason. Now only Nason can issue official statements ... something she has yet to do.
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Venus is about the size of Earth and totates in the opposite direction ti the movment of the Earth.
Many culturas believed that their god was Mars, also I learned that theres no oxigeno un Mars.
Jupiter has 5 own asteroids and such is great fit nearly 3,000 planets the size of Earth.
Rings are form by frozen rocks.
In Neptune every season last 4 years.
Astronomers said that Pluto is a dwarf planet and also discovered Cedna another dwarf planet.
Another thing I learn in the planetarium was that comets are icy bodies that are converted from solid to gas.
Also I learned that Elepausa is the cocoon where the sun rotates.
Humans launched several waves to better understand the Solar System.
We also showed that the sea is the inventor and the protector of the Earth and Panjea was the name of the land.
What I like is that a scientist said: The Earth is our cradle but do not spend much time in it.
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[BORN TO BE WILD opens in Cleveland Friday April 8th exclusively at the Great Lakes Science Center.]
Review by Ben Lybarger
why the animals are special, rather than a feeling of helpless indignation over their heart-wrenching plight.
BORN TO BE WILD bounces back and forth between Borneo and Kenya, following primatologist Dr. Biruté Mary Galdikas, the world's foremost authority on orangutans, and Dame Daphne Sheldrick, who is equal in her expertise about African Elephants. Mentored by famed anthropologist Louis Leakey, Dr. Galdikas has spent the last 40 years of her life in Borneo living with and studying orangutans, while Sheldrick was born in Kenya and has lived inside Nairobi National Park amongst elephants and other wildlife since 1977. An integral part of each remarkable woman's conservation work is the rescue, rearing, and eventual release of orphaned animals into the wild. We see every stage of the process, from the nail-biting acquisition of an elephant baby whose mother had been killed by poachers, to a successfully re-introduced orangutan dropping into camp for a social visit. In between, it is the rare viewer that can watch the animal keepers bottle-feed, bathe, sleep, play, and otherwise bond with their adopted animals without feeling a tinge of jealousy.
At one point, Dr. Galdikas confesses her feeling that the shrinking rainforest where the orangutans live is much like the Garden of Eden that humans left long ago, and suggests that our subsequent fall from innocence has isolated us from something beautiful and profoundly important. Decidedly not dour or too cerebral, BORN TO BE WILD makes its case with positive emotional resonance rather than through overbearing lectures. It invites us to share the experience and feel why conservation is important. Adults can easily gripe and grumble about wanting more information about the animals and the complicated issues surrounding conservation efforts, but in the end the film likely achieves what it sets out to achieve: making the young, unhardened viewer feel a connection to something wondrous in the natural world. Even better, it can potentially make all but the most jaded grown-up feel that same empathy and awe. 3 1/2 out of 4 stars.


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Long Island Food News: La Gioconda in Great Neck is Closed
La Gioconda, an italian restaurant located just across from the Great Neck Plaza LIRR station has closed it doors in 2014 and it comes as quite a surprise (to us). A quaint, dimly lit and intimate restaurant and catering operation, we were surprised to hear the news of their demise as we have dined there numerous times over the past 7 or so years and each time that we had visited the restaurant was pretty busy.
Our photos of the food were always sub-par as a result of the lack of lighting, but if any of our readers are interested in seeing what the interior of the restaurant and the food we captured looked like, you can click here. We'll keep our readers posted once we have a better idea on what the future holds for this space and if it is food related, we'll be there with cameras in hand.
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Everybody likes something good.
Snaps from our location in Brooklyn last week. Alex's really a great host, the place is really comfy and luminous, i'm thankfull for Judith's kindness even if we couldn't catch each other this time. Definitly will be back! And don't hesitate to contact me if you need a perfect location on Bedford Av, Brooklyn, I'll give you the contact, 'cause everybody likes something good as this place.(leicaM6)
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#eventswednesdays – Our second new venture
As well as #opportunitymondays, we are adding another element to our schedule each week – #eventswednesdays. We often hear people wish they had been able to attend an ideas / creative / design / startup / business events had they known about them, so we're compiling a list each week of some of the exciting things happening in and around Northern Ireland. Hope you can attend some of the events and support all the wonderful local creatives and projects happening here!
+ The Design Salon: A Creative Gathering
11.05.17, 7pm, The Sunflower Bar, FREE
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+ Movement Exhibition
13.05.17, 7pm, Framewerk, FREE
+ Invent 2017 – Semi Final
18.05.17, 5.30pm, Waterfront Hall Belfast, FREE
+ The 4th Industrial Revolution Challenge: Artificial Intelligence – Priceless or Perilous
25.05.17, 5.30pm, The Playhouse (Derry-Londonderry), FREE
+ Fourth X Four – Fashion Installation
26.05.17, 7.30pm, 4th Floor Studios, FREE
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On a miserable day for baseball - cloudy, windy, rainy - Mesa Ridge defeated The Classical Academy 6-3 in a game that was called in the top of the fifth due to weather.
The game will stand as a Grizzlies win, TCA athletic director Gary Geiger confirmed.
The rainout was not an outcome either team wanted, though it proves extremely beneficial for the Grizzlies (5-8, 4-0 4A Colorado Springs Metro League), who remain undefeated in league play.
"We did not want to end the game that way," Mesa Ridge coach John Bishop said. "It's a huge game in conference. ... We pitched through it, they pitched through it. Then the weather just got crazy."
The Grizzlies took a 2-0 lead in the second inning on two unearned runs when TCA infielders committed errors on two infield grounders that would have gotten the Titans (5-9, 3-2) out of the inning unscathed.
Several errors in the top of the fourth helped put the Grizzlies up 6-1, boosted by a bases-clearing single from Jaeden Hegmann.
"I was proud of our guys, they battled through it, didn't complain," Bishop said.
The Titans answered in the bottom of the inning, as John Bull drove in two runs on a single, cutting the gap to 6-3.
Mesa Ridge reliever Marley Machin stepped in and induced a fielder's choice three pitches later to end the inning.
Mesa Ridge sent two batters to the plate in the top of the fifth before umpires called the game, as rain, which had fallen lightly off and on throughout, turned to a downpour.
TCA interim coach Bart Jennings liked the way the Titans were trying to rally and had hoped the game could be continued at a later date.
"This could be a game, if we go to Canon City and win that one, that could determine who the (league) champion is," Jennings said. "That would send us to the playoffs. I don't want to bypass that. ... It hurts if that's the way we're going to leave this."


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NEW DELHI: The government on Monday told the Supreme Court that it will come out with a law to regulate marriage and divorce among Muslims if triple talaq is held invalid and unconstitutional by the court.
Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi told a five-judge constitution bench headed by Chief Justice JS Khehar "If the practice of instant divorce (triple talaq) is struck down by the court, then Centre will bring a law to regulate marriage and divorce among the Muslim community."
Rohatgi's submission came when the court asked him what are the remedies for a Muslim man to come out of a marriage if such practices are struck down.
Earlier in the day, the apex court bench also comprising Justices Kurian Joseph, R F Nariman, U U Lalit and Abdul Nazeer, said it was keeping open the issues of practice of polygamy and 'nikah halala' among Muslims for adjudication in future, as the Centre insisted on judicial deliberations on these aspects as well.
"It may not be possible to deal with all the three issues in the limited time we have. We will keep them pending for future," the bench said.
The significant observation was made when Rohatgi, appearing for the Centre, said the issues of polygamy and 'nikah halala' were also part of the order of a two-judge bench, which had referred to the Constitution bench the three issues including the practice of triple talaq among Muslims.
"The scope of referring had all the three issues that was divorce, nikah halala, polygamy. All these three issues are before this court by virtue of the reference order of the two- judge bench," Rohatgi said.
When the AG asked the bench to make it clear that the issues of polygamy and 'nikah halala' are still open and would be dealt by other bench in future, the court clarified "it will be dealt in future."
Monday was the third day of the hearing on a clutch of petitions challenging triple talaq, polygamy and 'nikah halala' which is going on before a bench comprising members of different religious communities including Sikh, Christian, Parsee, Hindu and Muslim.
During the last hearing, the apex court had observed that triple talaq is the "worst" and "not a desirable" form of dissolution of marriage among the Muslims, even though there were schools of thought which called it "legal".
The apex court has fixed a six-day schedule for hearing, in which three days are available for those challenging triple talaq and three days for those defending it.
Also read: NITI Aayog Council To Discuss Implementation Of Key Policies: PM Modi
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This is me in a sweatshirt that was my daddy's when he was little. It says: "Eric the Great"
I know that Daddy's name is Eric. Sometimes I call him, "Daddy-Eric" so I have it covered and he'll respond to me. Don't I look cute in his sweatshirt?
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Oh my goodness! Its so beautiful here! We could get up to eight inches of snow tonight, and its gorgeous outside! The girls and I drove home from church VERY carefully, and as soon as we got home, changed into our snowpants and headed out for a few minutes. Merry insisted that Mommy make "Christmas Angels" in the snow. I came in quite wet and cold, but I had a very happy little girl because I actually laid down to make snow angels!
The girls look so cute in their pink and purple snow pants and jackets...they are so excited about winter!
If we ever DO move to Traverse City, they are going to LOVE the winter weather!
Well, the bedtime "bell" is about to ring, so I better wrap it up and get the girlys to bed.
Goodnight, All!
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!
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I'm glad you took the girls out to play at night. We used to do that on occassion with you and Katie, remember?
It is always so "light" out that you don't think it's bedtime, so why not play awhile!
I enjoyed looking at all the pics. I agree with Lauren. . .keep them coming.
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010
M Family
The "M" family portraits on Anna Maria Island at sunset.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Max - Newborn Pics
1 month old Max!
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Will's First Birthday!
Fun was had by all at Will's First Birthday Party at Sprouts!
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Sometimes I rattle the cage and beat my head uselessly against its bars, but sometimes, I can shake one loose and use it as a dildo.
How can we miss you and regret our bad acts if you don't leave?
Hello fellow disco-fagsfreaks (how do you guys greet each other?),you perhaps read the title of this thread and think who is this guy and why is he bothering us? Well let me explain: It all started a week ago I was reading the Illuminatus Triology and decided to buy Principia Discordia. When it got delivered (together with The Book of the Subgenius and another book which I won't reveal) I got really excited and started reading it immediately. Then my third nostril sniffed something wrong about the text. When I was half way through I started looking online and found this site.I checked the online version of the book and to my surprise the book is supposed to have pictures. Suddenly everything became clear and I understood why the text was so badly formatted. I got scammed I warn everybody not to buy the version published by Pacific Publishing StudioThis is the cover:Well atleast it caused me some confusion but mostly sadness. Are you guys aware of this version? Is this part of OM? Is Pacific Publishing Studio trying to undermine Eris and perhaps part of the Illuminati?
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Monday, June 28, 2010
New Sale Tees for Summer
Looking for some cute new tops for the Summer? Me too.
I found this GF by Geren Ford top on sale at Revolve -
This Project E drape back tank would also be a great addition for the hotter weather -
And every Summer requires new Splendid tees, they are so light and airy they are perfect for hot days -
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Friday, June 25, 2010
$25 off at CoutureCandy this Weekend (Check out the swim selection!)
CoutureCandy is giving $25 off any order over $100 through Sunday. Use code SUN when you order any of their numerous adorable options, like this Free People skirt which is inexpensive enough to require adding a cute top to the order to qualify for the discount!
It's also the perfect opportunity to pick up a new bikini for the upcoming long weekend, you can even go for a red, white and blue number -
They have a HUGE selection of swimsuits in all colors and styles, also a fair number on sale. I highly recommend checking it out!
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Free Shipping from Yoox, Pea in the Pod, and sale at Lucy
I woke up to a lot of sale/free shipping emails today, starting with Yoox -
First - sale that ends today -
And a free shipping offer that goes for a few more days -
Free Shipping on all orders with code SH@YOOX on yoox.com!
A Pea in the Pod is offering free shipping for a few days, take advantage of this because it doesn't happen that often!
Lucy, which always has this great deal on workout pants, is also offering 20% off all full priced merchandise at the moment. Use code 0610ELSE to get the discount. -
FREE Returns and Exchanges on all pants in lengths styles.
You'll find the perfect fit. Guaranteed.
Short, tall and regular sizes available.
You'll find the perfect fit. Guaranteed.
Short, tall and regular sizes available.
Akiko Tops and Dresses...
I was poking around the Revolve's site (as always, ok) and saw this line I wasn't really familiar with before, Akiko - and promptly fell in love with every single thing! I think you will too when you see the fabulous dresses and tops,
I love the color of this dress -
And my absolute favorite dress -
Sadly it appears to be sold out at the moment, but you can request that they re-order it and they will let you know the status. I am thinking of doing that myself...
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Jet Patchwork Jeans
These jeans are not my normal style, but for some reason I cannot get them out of my head, and well, happy birthday to me! They are Jet by John Eshaya's Patchwork jeans -
I love the light wash, it's the perfect light blue for summer - it isn't acid washed, instead the perfect light wash.
On their own they don't look like much -
but on someone they look amazing!
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Monday, June 21, 2010
Shorts for the First Day of Summer
I'm back from my hiatus, and have lot's to blog about. I'm going to start with shorts though, since it is the first official day of Summer (and the day before my birthday!)
I found these on CoutureCandy and fell in love with them -
I like the pleats, the wide waist band and the overall look of them. They are short but not too short, also a major plus here, I just can't believe how short shorts are...
A great way to kick off the Summer!
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Some of the most important and hardest things I've had to do. And quite ironically this comes at a point in time when I'm finally letting it go.
Letting go of questions, of the urge to have answers.
Letting go off some of the baggage I've carried for a while now
Letting go off some of the hopes I held on to
Letting go off some people I've hung on to
Letting go off some dreams and wishes
Letting go off myself after holding back for quite a while now.
Convincing and allowing myself to lose control of events to life itself than to own every single thing I do and be responsible for it.
Just letting go life like I once was able to so comfortably. The art I forgot totally in living life coated with the delusion of emotion, affection, love and companions, that which appeared forever.
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A few days ago someone from a bank who's name begins with 'S' (not the person, the bank) which has red livery and whose boss is one of Forbes' most powerful women in the world, contacted me and told me that my eSaver account interest had dropped to almost zero, as the account had been open for 12 months, as that is what happens to eSaver accounts after a year That was nice of them to tell me, I thought.
So, did I want to make an appointment to go and discuss options for the account? Yes, even though I don't have much in the account.
So, yesterday I went into town to keep the appointment. I met the assistant, who said "Well, Mr MacLeod, we don't seem to have much detail here about you. Why did you want an appointment?"
"I didn't" I replied, "You invited me to make an apppointment."
"Oh, did I? Do you know what it was about?" he asked.
"Yes, the interest on my eSaver account, which has been running for just over a year, has dropped to almost zero, and you suggested discussing what to do about it." I responded.
"How do you use the account?"
"Every month or so I withdraw some money from it."
"Oh!" he continued "Well, the best account you could have in those circumstances is an eSaver account."
"It's already an eSaver account" I pointed out.
"Yes, but it's an eSaver account which has been open for a year, and therefore the interest has dropped to about zero."
"I know." I said, "You told me that when you phoned me, and I've just told you that."
"Quite. So what you need to do is open a new eSaver account. Then the interest will once again be 2.9%"
"A new eSaver account?"
"Yes. Open a new eSaver account, transfer the funds from your old eSaver account into the new one, and then you'll earn 2.9% for a year." He answered.
"Seems a bit of a bother in terms of paperwork" I continued "but OK then, can I open a new eSaver account, then?"
"Not here, I'm afraid. You'll have to do that online, from home. It's an Internet only account."
"OK. So…you phoned me to invite me here to discuss what to do with my eSaver account, and now you tell me that the best thing would be for me to go home and open a new eSaer account, transfer funds from my old eSaver account to the new one, then you'll send me a new card to replace the one I have just now, and then I can close the old eSaver account, and I'll be back to exactly where I was before?"
"Erm…more or less. Sorry about that."
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August 19, 2010
ABDUL WAKIL AMIRI, PLAINTIFF,v.GELMAN MANAGEMENT COMPANY, ET AL., DEFENDANTS.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: John D. Bates United States District Judge
This matter is before the Court on defendants' motion to dismiss or, alternatively, for summary judgment.*fn1 For the reasons discussed below, defendants' motion to dismiss will be granted.
Plaintiff, a tenant in an apartment building in Washington, D.C. managed by Gelman Management Company ("Gelman"), brings this action against Gelman and Nicholas Pitsch, a Gelman employee. Generally, plaintiff alleges that defendants have (1) increased his rent in amounts and at intervals which violate the Rental Housing Act of 1985, see D.C. Code § 42-3501.01, et seq., (2) refused to address numerous violations of the District of Columbia Housing Code, (3) harassed him by repeatedly initiating eviction actions in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Landlord and Tenant Branch, (4) otherwise retaliated against him for complaining to city officials about these matters, and (5) discriminated against him on the basis of his national origin and race. See generally Am. Compl. at 1-9. Plaintiff demands compensatory and punitive damages. Id.
Gelman moves to dismiss on the ground that the Court lacks subject matter jurisdiction. See Mem. in Supp. of Defs.' Mot. to Dismiss for Lack of Subject Matter Jurisdiction ("Defs.' Mem.") at 1-8. According to Gelman, plaintiff establishes neither federal question jurisdiction nor diversity jurisdiction. See id. at 3.
"A motion to dismiss filed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(1) presents a threshold challenge to the court's subject matter jurisdiction." Sledge v. United States, No. RWT 06cv742, 2010 WL 2745788, at *3 (D.D.C. July 13, 2010); see Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. 678, 682 (1946). A complaint is subject to dismissal on jurisdictional grounds "when it 'is patently insubstantial,' presenting no federal question suitable for decision." Tooley v. Napolitano, 586 F.3d 1006, 1009 (D.C. Cir. 2009) (quoting Best v. Kelly, 39 F.3d 328, 330 (D.C. Cir. 1994)); see Lydonville Sav. Bank & Trust Co. v. Lussier, 211 F.3d 697, 701 (2d Cir. 2000) (quoting Bell, 327 U.S. at 682-83) ("Federal question jurisdiction exists whenever the complaint states a cause of action under federal law that is neither 'clearly . . . immaterial and made solely for the purpose of obtaining jurisdiction' nor 'wholly insubstantial and frivolous.'").
Federal district courts are courts of limited jurisdiction and "possess only that power conferred by Constitution and statute." Kokkonen v. Guardian Life Ins. Co., 511 U.S. 375, 377 (1994). "The basic statutory grants of federal-court subject-matter jurisdiction are contained in 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331 and 1332." Arbaugh v. Y&H Corp., 546 U.S. 500, 513 (2006). Federal district courts have jurisdiction in civil actions arising under the Constitution, laws or treaties of the United States, see 28 U.S.C. § 1331, and may have jurisdiction over state common law disputes that arise between citizens of different states where the amount in controversy exceeds $75,000, see 28 U.S.C. § 1332(a).
In assessing whether a complaint sufficiently alleges subject matter jurisdiction, the Court accepts as true the allegations of the complaint, see Ashcroft v. Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. 1937, 1249 (2009), and liberally construes the pleadings such that the plaintiff benefits from all inferences derived from the facts alleged, Barr v. Clinton, 370 F.3d 1196, 1199 (D.C. Cir. 2004). However, "[a] pleading that offers labels and conclusions or a formulaic recitation of the elements of a cause of action will not do. Nor does a complaint suffice if it tenders naked assertions devoid of further factual enhancement." Iqbal, 129 S.Ct. at 1249 (internal citations, quotation marks and brackets omitted); see Dichter-Mad Family Partners, LLP v. United States, No. CV 09-9061, 2010 WL 1632628, at *8 & n.10 (C.D. Cal. Apr. 20, 2010) (applying pleading standards set forth in Iqbal and Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly, 550 U.S. 544 (2007), to address sufficiency of plaintiff's allegations with respect to court's subject matter jurisdiction); Sanchez v. United States, No. 09-1260, 2010 WL 1626118, at *7 (D.P.R. Mar. 31, 2010) (same).
1. Plaintiff Does Not Establish Federal Question Jurisdiction
By alleging Gelman's violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, see Am. Compl. at 9, plaintiff presumably attempts to establish federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331. But plaintiff presents neither factual allegations nor any explanation of the basis for his claim, and it is unclear which provision of the Civil Rights Act, if any, might apply to his case. He does not allege that Gelman has denied him access to a place of public accommodation in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2000a, or excluded him from participation in or denied him the benefits of a federally assisted program in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 2000d, or otherwise denied him his civil rights.
If, for example, plaintiff intends to bring a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, which guarantees to all persons within the United States "the same right in every State and Territory . . . to the full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of persons and property as is enjoyed by white citizens[,]" 42 U.S.C. § 1981(a), his claim fails because he has not alleged that Gelman purposefully discriminated against him because of his race. Here, plaintiff "merely invoke[s] his race in the course of a claim's narrative," but this does not "automatically . . . entitle[] [him] to pursue relief" under § 1981. Bray v. RHT, Inc., 748 F. Supp. 3, 5 (D.D.C. 1990); see Jaffree v. Barber, 689 F.2d 640, 643 (7th Cir. 1982) (per curiam) (affirming dismissal of § 1981 claim which alleged in conclusory fashion that plaintiff's charges had not been investigated by the FBI because of his race); Middlebrooks v. Godwin Corp., No. 09-02048, 2010 WL 2553612, at *4 (D.D.C. June 25, 2010) (dismissing § 1981 claim where "[t]he only suggestion that plaintiff's race or color played any role in her interactions with [defendants] are [her] conclusory statements that she was 'terminated . . . based on [her] race' and 'color'"); McKnight v. Middleton, No. 08-CV-3896, 2010 WL 1221431, at *18 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 29, 2010) (dismissing claims under §§ 1981 and 1982 where plaintiff "failed to plead any non-speculative facts supporting an inference of racial animus, let alone intentional discrimination").
If plaintiff intends to bring this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, he fares no better. "To state a claim under [§ ] 1983, a plaintiff must allege both (1) that he was deprived of a right secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States, and (2) that the defendant acted 'under color of' the law of a state, territory or the District of Columbia." Hoai v. Vo, 935 F.2d 308, 312 (D.C. Cir. 1991) (citing Adickes v. S.H. Kress & Co., 398 U.S. 144, 150 (1970)); see Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U.S. 273, 279 (2002) (noting "that § 1983 actions may be brought against state actors to enforce rights created by federal statutes as well as by the Constitution"). Nothing in the complaint suggests that Gelman is a state actor or acted in concert with the District of Columbia. Plaintiff, then, fails to state a claim under § 1983 upon which relief can be granted. See Amiri v. Kelting, 356 Fed. Appx. 423 (D.C. Cir. 2009) (affirming dismissal of complaint where plaintiff Amiri "alleged no conduct by a state actor within the purview of 42 U.S.C. § 1983"); Md. Minority Contractors Ass'n v. Lunch, 203 F.3d 821 (4th Cir. 2000) (table) (affirming dismissal of § 1983 claim against a private company where the complaint did not allege that the company was extensively regulated by the state or that the company otherwise was a state actor).
Plaintiff's bare assertions of discrimination are not sufficient to state a civil rights claim of any kind, and a single passing reference to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 cannot establish this Court's jurisdiction. See, e.g., Morrow v. United States, No. 09-555, 2010 WL 2724279, at *8 (D.D.C. July 12, 2010) (dismissing one count of complaint containing "the sort of 'formulaic recitation of elements of a cause of action' proscribed by the Supreme Court in Twombly"). This is simply not a federal civil rights action. What is left, instead, is a landlord and tenant dispute falling squarely within the jurisdiction of the District of Columbia courts. See, e.g., Johnson v. Robinson, 576 F.3d 522 (D.C. Cir. 2009) (per curiam) (affirming dismissal of complaint for lack of subject matter ...
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ORANGE WALK, BELIZE: Today the kids here at the YOUTH MEDIA programme finished up their PSA's (public service announcement). The groups were assigned some of the fundamental and universal rights of children. This group was assigned the concept of NUTRITION. The kids came up with the concept, wrote the PSA, shot it and assisted in the editing process.
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THE ALMOST FEARLESS HAMILTON SQUIDLEGGER by Timothy Basil Ering. Candlewick Press, 2014.
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Carbon Dioxide, a trace gas in the atmosphere does not warm the planet. The entire Global Warming by CO2 is an epic fail and the American people are starting to catch on they've been lied to by the Jewish controlled media. The weather has nothing to do with a few molecules of airborne carbon, the planet's weather is controlled by the sun, which is now entering a minimum output phase.
Solar Cycle 24 is rapidly closing out, there are more and more spotless days. Sunspots are associated with solar output, an active sun.
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Cycle 24 has been much less active than most of the experts expected. The count using the new numbering system for Cycle 24 peak Sunspots at the Solar Maximum is 117. On the other hand, Leif Svalgaard and his partners estimated about 70 (new system ca. 117) which turns out to be as good as it gets. Estimating what Solar Cycle 25 will look like is already underway with many expecting Cycle 25 to be less active that has been the case with Cycle 24.
Because Svalgaard had forecast that Cycle 24 would be much less active and the forecast came reasonably close to the actual number count, it makes me curious about how he did it and what is he is predicting about Cycle 25 now. Well, I have already given that away in my 22 March 2016 blog titled "Dr Svalgaard makes a preliminary prediction of Cycle 25 size." He thinks it will be close to the size of Cycle 24 and prehaps a little bit bigger. Once again he seems to be the contrarian.
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"Predictions for our next Solar Cycle #25 (starting in 2020, peaking in 2025) and why it is expected to be even smaller than our current cycle (2013 peak), which is the smallest since 1906. Cycle #26 (2030-2040) is predicted to be negligible.
The current transition from Solar Maxima into Solar Minima, propelling us into a period of Global Cooling, which is expected to produce a Mini Ice Age."
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Clear, day bright, cherry red with slight brown rim, medium concentration and medium plus viscosity, no gas or sediment.
Clean, medium plus intensity, oaky, dusty cedary oak, cassis, ripe red fruits, earthy core, perhaps a combination of French and American oak.
Dry with some residual sugar, medium plus acidity, high alcohol, medium plus tannin, new spicy flavors of black pepper, cinnamon and cloves, fresh, more Syrah than Shiraz, good elegance and well made, for now until 2017


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A stop-video exercise: Sen Corker (Charlie Montgomery in the simulation)
A Blast from the Past: the Dreyer Memo
Seating Chart for the White House Briefing Room:
The new environment (Malecha, 26):
Words uttered on talk radio and cable TV, once considered almost entirely disposable, are now etched onto servers around the world. They can end up on sites such as YouTube where they are viewed time and again by people well beyond the target audience. They can be redirected to potential critics via e-mail, as happened in this case. In other words, they live on and can come back to haunt the people responsible for them.Opportunity for pushback
Newt talks about the new Washington of the 1980s.
Lobbying (data in the link do not account for outside lobbying)