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Oh banks!
I had to laugh out loud yesterday when reading the paper and seeing that Wells Fargo was going to have to pay $3.4 million to customers to settle a regulator’s claims that brokers recommended certain investment products they did not fully understand. Really? $3.4 Million, that’s all? OK, I’m going to get on my soapbox here so
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- Oh banks!
- AirBnB not applicable in China
- Strategy is important — but so is following your gut, says Chris Blackwell, the co-founder of Island Records who helped introduce the world to Bob Marley. “Get yourself in the right place at the right time,” he says. “How do you do that? Work it out for yourself.”“How do you know that something is good? Well, you either know, or you don’t. It’s a feeling. It’s a kind of trust in something. There is no secret, no plan. The strategy is often that there is no strategy, only energy.” Chris Blackwell – founder Island Records, Discoverer and booster of Bob Marley
- LOCK-ROPE™ HOTELS, VILLAS, RESORTS AND CAR RENTALS – April First 2017 Launch
- At night you can’t see so much. A quick word on Tom Ford’s “Nocturnal Animals”
- Post-Brexit coffee taste changed
- A post-Brexit coffee tastes different
- On April first 2016 we launch S.trip hotels
- The lull of the leap year, the lure of the moment given
- Sad diminution of delights – a wish, a moan, a pet peeve
Featured Articles
Post-Brexit coffee taste changed
It’s not because of the referendum, but the coffee blend prepared at this specialist cafe in Bath, Post-Brexit UK, by experts who strive for perfection, changes weekly and there are three blends to choose from. The blend I’m enjoying is from Panama and I think we still trade with Panama! In any case Panama
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Today, in the future you may wonder when this was written and I will tell you, is the 29th day of February 2016. Unless we change things, the calendar we have adopted for the main part, there will be more leap years. And a tradition that is likely to continue for a little while is
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Spectre: what happened to the Bond genre?
I was suspicious when I heard the title. Perhaps when you name the villain in the title, you lose the will to, die another day….well, the energy of the story. You have already popped a hole in the balloon. There was not much left after that. Music (sub-par, generic suspense-thump plus chase-clashing and, almost entirely
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The Shapes of Things – a story taster
“Something is wrong with the way people live. You can tell by the way they walk” said Doherty. Rivers were flowing as usual. Streets, filled with shoppers and of course cars. The cars edged forward at a slower pace than the pavement browsers achieved – more cars than road space. All were predictably “there”. A
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Fun stuff
LOCK-ROPE™ HOTELS, VILLAS, RESORTS AND CAR RENTALS – April First 2017 Launch LOCK-ROPE™ HOTELS, VILLAS, RESORTS AND CAR RENTALS Hotels are changing into… something else. Many have become hyper-wealthy from our strategy of inventing next-generation thinking and technology when they participated in the launch of our revolutionary new Hotel products. We introduced 5 Star Raft Hotels ™, Weightless Hotels and Resorts™, X-hotels™, Infinity Hotels’ NanoHotelsExperience™ and the
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Books
“The God delusion”, by Richard Dawkins Why read this book? These excerpts speak for the book: [Referring to Julia Sweeny ] My first call from my mother was more of a scream. ‘Atheist? ATHEIST?!?!’ […] I think that my parents had been mildly disappointed when I’d said I didn’t believe in God any more, but being an atheist was another thing
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Culture
Historic photo of the month – Roger shows paintings in the high desert of Arizona From the 90’s !
Business/Entrepreneurship
Getting excited about free trade This is the thrilling thing about “Apps” on Mobile phones. Apps and Web services are playing their part in opening up everybody-wins opportunities. Dramatic and sometimes world-saving developments in areas such as water purification, medicine, transport, education and learning offer great promise – to mention a small sample from a long
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Politics
Greece and Hope Greece: Do we, Greeks, have any hope? [Question and answer originally published on Quora.com – September 14, 2013 ] Absolutely you do. Just not as soon as we’d all like for you. With one of the best known collections of topographic and scenic beauty, wonderful history that’s still visible, one of
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