I'm not promoting a Northlake CID explicitly. Questions abound, but if we should have one, one aspect is worth discussing here: What size does it need to be to work – from recruitment to payoff.
The subject of a possible community improvement district (CID) came up at last week's Northlake Overlay meeting (reported by Patch's Ben Schnider, June 8). It has been assumed from the get-go that a CID if formed would be centered on Northlake Mall and would have essentially the same boundaries as the Overlay District. We appear hell-bent on affirming that the "Northlake" name must only be associated with the small area that converges on Lavista Road near the mall and I-285. That's not a community, it's a choke point.
A CID is an organization of commercial/institutional property owners that taxes each member to get things done collectively. No room for detail here, but if you've been to the area around Perimeter Mall, that's a CID. The CID paid for the sidewalks, streetscape and lamps but also paid for feasibility studies, planning and reporting that keeps more work in the pipeline. You can multiply the amount of streetscape in Northlake by 20 and that's just a start of what about 350 owners of high-end property can pay for. The Perimeter CID is up to about $5 million in collections per year, and it claims that every dollar can get matched 25:1 by local, state and federal government. The proof can be seen in the $50 million "fly-over" bridge that was just built over I-285. Do you see the painted highway guard rails near the manicured highway interchange at Ashford-Dunwoody? CID-paid. Need a powerful lobbyist for your area? A CID does that.
Perimeter CID is actually run as two CIDs – one DeKalb, one Fulton. However, their data is kept jointly. The district is about 40 percent larger than the Northlake Overlay (projected Northlake CID area). However, their property is worth at least 10 times that of the Northlake business area. My back-of-the-napkin calculations three years ago showed our overlay zone would generate about $750,000 a year contrasted with the Perimeter CID's $4 million plus at the time.
Northlake's lesser $0.75 million should beg reevaluation of our assumed CID area. The amount is enough to clean and secure the place and pay for some studies but a long way from what is needed to get help for roads and bridges. As envisioned, it's not wrong; it can be the basis of a larger conversation. If you can call it Phase 1 of a more "complete" CID, the whole conversation changes. Of course, there are also many pros and cons to CIDs in general, so all stakeholders, businesses, residents and other partners could raise questions about CIDs in such a conversation too.
The Northlake Community Alliance website (www.nlake.org) says they are working with the fellow who started three CIDs in Gwinnett: Emory Morsberger. However, Morsberger told me he's been dissuaded by a lack of interest from some major players, most notably Simon Properties. Simon has ignored the CID idea here since at least 2004 when the mall manager at the time peppered them with requests. That hurt because Simon did get involved in Buckhead's and Town Center's CIDs.
A developer and visionary, Morsberger is also the guy behind the Brain Train commuter rail plan (http://www.georgiabraintrain.com/) that would come through Northlake and Tucker (more on that another time). Morsberger understands how to shape and size CIDs. He formed them each on different concepts: one, a corridor along US-78; the next, Gwinnett Village (GVCID), which has business centers over a 15 square mile area; and lastly Gwinnett Place, a mall center like the Perimeter CID. In each case, he found a few leaders that paid for a full campaign to recruit the requisite members (51 percent of inventoried property owners). One, Vulcan Materials, a large quarry operation started GVCID. All of these have something which has power that can be overlooked in its influence – a specific jurisdiction that defines the community it serves.
In my view, a CID of this type–or partially of this type–could be the answer to Northlake's limited revenue base and lack of institutional leadership.
A Northlake CID could include both sides of the railway where only the mall side is included in the overlay – important because of the value of rail for growth. It could extend further south on Northlake Parkway and Montreal Road to Lawrenceville Highway and include the entire medical center and whatever revitalization will be stimulated by the expanded I-285 interchange. (Coincidentally, Georgia Power's DeKalb economic development office is or was located in the industrial park across the tracks from the overlay boundary.) The CID could potentially move toward Shallowford Road and merge with the proposed I-85 CID coming up from North Druid Hills Road, Clairmont and Buford Highway.
Conversely, Northlake's business center(s) could be added (piggy-backed) to other envisioned CIDs, given the lack of commercial property interest in the overlay district. Above all, looking at CID boundaries afresh can surface new corporate and institutional leadership. New enthusiasm from a different business community may pay for property inventories and tax digest studies under the rubric of throwing out old assumptions.
One thing is for sure: By expanding the base, you'll have to rely less on Simon Properties' Northlake Mall for leadership. I think all forms of our local stakeholders would find progress faster if we didn't focus so much attention on the mall and its owners.
Looks like we need another overlay meeting, DeKalb.
The DeKalb County (Ga.) School Board will ask voters in that county to approve a five-year penny sales tax to cover a $475 million list of schools' improvements and building, according to the Dunwoody Reporter. Voters go to the polls in November.
Projects the district hopes to tackle include replacing up to seven schools, the newspaper reported.
If approved, the new SPLOST would run from 2012 until 2017. Shoppers would pay the increase in Decatur, portions of DeKalb that fall within Atlanta, and throughout DeKalb County.
The school board approved a draft plan in May to keep the county's school millage the same: $22.98 dollars on every $1,000 of value on DeKalb residences. The board is required to adopt a millage by July, the newspaper reported.
Metro Atlanta will have fewer public transit options for seniors in the coming years than any other metropolitan area in the country with 3 million or more residents, according to a new survey from Transportation for America, a national coalition of public officials, and transportation and real estate groups. According to the study, by 2015 approximately 90 percent of metro Atlanta adults ages 65 to 79 will not have access to public transit.
In the study called "Aging in Place, Stuck without Options," Atlanta was followed in its population category by Riverside-San Bernandino, Calif., Houston, Detroit and Dallas.
New York City was separated into a category by itself due to the area's large population.
For metropolitan areas with 1 million to 3 million people, Kansas City is ranked worst for senior transit options, followed by Oklahoma City, Fort Worth, Nashville, and Raleigh-Durham.
Construction of a new Health Sciences Research Building on the Emory University campus will kick off with an official groundbreaking on June 15.
More than half of the new facility on Haygood Drive will focus on pediatric research through the Emory-Children's Pediatric Research Center, a partnership between Emory and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, who will work closely with key affiliates including Georgia Tech and Morehouse School of Medicine.
The new building will encompass 200,000 gross square feet, with four stories above ground and one floor below grade. In addition to a number of pediatric focus areas, the new research building will include investigations in adult cancer, immunology and drug discovery.
A two-story working bridge will connect the new building to the Emory-Children's Center building, adjacent to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and the home of Emory's Department of Pediatrics. In addition to research space, the Emory-Children's Center also houses a pediatric outpatient center, the largest pediatric specialty group practice in Georgia.
"The bridge that links the new research building to the Emory-Children's Center is an architectural highlight and gateway to the Emory campus. But more importantly, the bridge is a symbolic link between Emory and Children's and reflects our shared commitment to child health," says Barbara J. Stoll, MD, George W. Brumley Jr. Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Senior Vice President and Chief Academic Officer, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
The building's open design, accommodating 65 lead researchers and their teams, will feature natural light in laboratories and corridors. The building will include a 175-seat auditorium and a café dining area with outside seating.
Designed by architecture firm ZGF (Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP), the building is expected to be LEED-silver certified, with completion expected in April 2013.
With a cost of approximately $90 million, the building will be funded primarily through philanthropic contributions, including a grant from the Joseph B. Whitehead Foundation, the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation Inc., the O. Wayne Rollins Foundation, the Zeist Foundation Inc., Dr. Raymond Schinazi funds, the Georgia Research Alliance and two anonymous foundations.
For decades, the third rail for transit in Georgia has been money.
The state's gasl tax is constitutionally limited to funding roads and bridges — giving the state a convenient excuse for not investing in public transit or alternative transportation modes, such as sidewalks, bicycle and multi-purpose paths.
As a result, almost all of the state's transit systems have been financed by county governments, or in the case of the Atlanta, Fulton and DeKalb — the one-penny MARTA sales tax.
But now metro Atlanta has an opportunity to pass a one-penny transportation sales tax for the 10-county region in a 2012 referendum.
And those could be the most "precious" transportation dollars we've ever had because we finally have a mechanism to pay for the development of transit, sidewalks and bikeways.
On June 1, the Georgia Department of Transportation issued the "unconstrained" list of transportation projects in the Atlanta region — a $22.9 billion wish list, including $14 billion for 66 transit projects. The list also includes $8.6 billion for roads, $27 million for aviation and $204 million for bicycle and pedestrian projects.
Now the Atlanta Regional Transportation Roundtable has the unenviable task of trimming down the list of projects to match what the tax could possibly raise over its 10-year lifespan, if the sales tax is approved.
Currently, it is estimated the tax will raise between $6 billion and $8 billion over 10 years (Georgia State University will be releasing new estimates in the coming week).
So the executive committee of the Roundtable met on June 9th to try to figure how to decide which projects should be included in the list presented to voters next year.
Among the issues that could narrow the list include whether projects significantly reduce congestion, whether they can be completed within the 10-year time frame, whether the projects fit into a regional vision, whether the projects promote sustainable development patterns, whether the projects are geographically balanced and equitable, or whether the projects make economic sense.
Decatur Mayor Bill Floyd said another factor should be considered. "I'm looking at projects that don't have other avenues of funding," Floyd said.
If state dollars from the motor fuel tax are available for interchange improvements, why should we use these "precious" sales tax dollars on projects that can be financed through other means?
Of course, the ultimate goal should be to get the state to become a true investor in public transportation, be it commuter rail, light rail, streetcars, and bus systems. So far, the only real consistent state funding for transit has been for part of the costs of running the XPress bus system operated by the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA).
Remember, MARTA is the largest transit system in the country that receives virtually no funding from its state government.
That point really hit home on June 8th during the Metro Atlanta Northern Crescent Transit Summit held at the Cobb Galleria.
Pat McCrory, the former Republican mayor of top Atlanta competitor — Charlotte, N.C., had made the development of light rail a centerpiece of his administration.
On this issue, McCrory encouraged leaders in the Atlanta region to embrace new transit development — just like he did in Charlotte.
So then McCrory shared his wisdom.
"Everything you do must be integrated with what your vision is, not just a transportation vision but a development vision," McCrory said.
As a way to make his point, McCrory showed a picture of a commercial strip with loads of concrete, ugly billboards and little signs of urban vitality.
Then McCrory showed how such corridors were transformed once light rail was added.
In Charlotte, McCrory's message was to create "the best of Mayberry in Metropolis" as a way of telling voters they could have the best of both worlds — big city, small town.
McCrory said the backers of light rail were able to communicate their passion about improving Charlotte's quality of life, sustainability, not just for today but for generations to come.
But McCrory also was able to communicate that passion to the state of North Carolina. Funding for Charlotte's light rail system was: 50 percent from the federal government, 25 percent from a local sales tax AND 25 percent in state funding.
So how did McCrory convince state leaders to invest in Charlotte's transit system?
First, McCrory convinced state leaders that transit would improve Charlotte's economic development potential, and he got the governor on board.
Plus, McCrory's argument was that Charlotte contributed greatly to the North Carolina's tax revenues. And as the state's economic engine, Charlotte deserved its share of state's revenues. (Now substitute Atlanta and Georgia in that same argument).
After McCrory's comments, Norcross Mayor Bucky Johnson, one of the most influential leaders in the region, made a ground-breaking statement.
If Georgia were a true partner in strengthening metro Atlanta's economic vitality, the state would invest in transit in the same way that North Carolina has invested in Charlotte's light rail system.
Imagine how much further our regional transportation sales tax dollars would go if the state were to match the local contributions in transit, and if the state were to invest in rail projects that cross over several metro regions, ie: helping pay for commuter trains between Atlanta and Macon.
But the Georgia Department of Transportation recently pressured Erik Steavens, its director of intermodal programs and senior rail transportation expert, into resigning from his position — resurfacing questions about the state's commitment to rail and alternative modes of transportation.
And then there's that question of funding.
Now here is a dirty little secret. Georgia DOT has been able to invest in transit, sidewalks and bikeways all along.
Every time someone buys a gallon of gas, 7.5 cents is the gas tax. But a driver also pays a 4-cent state sales tax on that purchase. Of that, 3 cents goes into GDOT's pockets and 1 cent goes into the state's general fund.
That state sales tax has no constitutional restrictions meaning there is NO reason for the state to sit on the sidelines when it comes to developing a transit system for the Atlanta region.
Bottom line. Some way, some how, we must find a way to invest in transit once and for all — be it through a "precious" regional sales tax or through direct state funding or preferably both.


We all love the music video of K/DA produced by the French studio Forticshe and the amazing artists at Riot, right? Here's something cool from Remy Terreaux for you to learn more about the animation behind the project.
"Black and white shots are for continuity only.
Basically, the animation here is pretty tense as the team had to turn a beautiful choreography into some CG moves. Well, even if you don't play LoL, you have to love Riot's CG videos. The company often shares story trailers, which we share in our Show and Tell group.
for those of you unfamiliar with the whole story, the video was done for the fictional K-Pop band K/DA and their debut single called Pop/Stars. The video was assembled by the amazing professional from the French studio Fortiche.
You can learn more about the video in our original article here.


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Trump's veiled anti-Semitism comes home to roost in Pittsburgh
By Edo Konrad October 28, 2018 | Edit
Trump is well aware of how white supremacists and others interpret his remarks. What makes it so sinister is that he keeps doing it anyway.
President of the United States Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a Make America Great Again campaign rally at International Air Response Hangar at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport in Mesa, Arizona. (Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0)
Six-hundred and forty-four days after President Donald Trump was sworn into office, the anti-Semitism his candidacy and presidency have unleashed has come home to roost.
Details will continue to emerge about Robert Bowers, the far-right white nationalist who on Saturday morning walked into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, armed with an AR-15 assault rifle and three handguns, and opened fire, killing 11 and wounding six others. The oldest victim was 97 years old.
We already know Bowers made his intentions clear: he blamed the entire Jewish community for the work of HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, an organization founded in the late 1800s to assist Jewish emigres from Russia and now focuses on refugee resettlement in the U.S. and around the world. HIAS, he wrote, is "bring[ing] invaders in that kill our people."
Bowers is not Donald Trump, neither in style nor substance. He never hid genocidal intent against the Jewish community. On social media, Bowers wrote that there is "no #MAGA as long as there is a kike infestation," and referred to the "Jew problem" in his posts. As he unloaded rounds into the worshippers at Tree of Life, he was heard shouting "all Jews must die."
Trump, unlike Bowers, does not traffic in the kind of overt anti-Semitism we have seen surface among the extreme right in the United States in recent years. His unbridled support for Israel's policies, his Jewish daughter, in-laws, and the appointment of Jews to senior positions in his administration give him plausible deniability. Unlike Mexicans and Muslims, who have been openly targeted by the Trump administration (HIAS has been active in supporting both Muslim refugees and immigrants fleeing violence in central and South America), American Jews have for the most part been spared as direct targets of Trump's brand of xenophobia.
But the president need not resort to Nazi anti-Semitism to inspire the bloodlust of Bowers and his ilk. After all, Jews do not categorically bother Trump. It is a particular kind of Jew — cosmopolitan, progressive, anti-racist — that Trump has adopted as a scapegoat for America's problems. His repeated attacks on George Soros, a Jewish billionaire who has historically funded liberal causes, is exemplary of the way right-wing leaders such as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hungarian President Viktor Orban are now deploying anti-Semitism: by using coded language to paint left-wing Jews as the source of a global conspiracy working to undermine everything their nationalist worldview represents.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban seen at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site on the last day of his two-day official state visit to Israel, Jerusalem, July 20, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Trump does not need to mention Soros' Jewish identity at all; the implication of mentioning Soros in the first place is totally clear. That's the beauty of dog-whistling — the president doesn't have to talk about "the Jewish agenda" to make clear to his followers who or what he is referring to.
And while Trump may actually only be talking about Soros — who holds significant political and economic power — his most radical followers make no distinction between Soros as a person and Soros as codeword for "Jews." Robert Bowers may have despised HIAS and its support for refugees and immigrants, but his attack on a Jewish place of worship is proof that Trump's brand of veiled anti-Semitism is no less dangerous than the kind one finds on the front page of the Daily Stormer.
That is what precisely makes it so sinister: the president knows exactly what he is doing. He is well aware of what kind of violence his remarks can inspire and fuel, yet he continues to make them anyway.
Correction: This article originally stated that the oldest victim of the Tree of Life massacre was a Holocaust survivor. That statement was based on erroneous media reports and has been subsequently removed from the article.
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Edo Konrad is the editor-in-chief of +972 Magazine.

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NEW DELHI: National Investigation Agency (NIA) has submitted a detailed investigation report seeking extradition of Zakir Naik, a Mumbai based popular televangelist and Islamic preacher over the alleged terror activities to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in New Delhi.
The agency has sought prosecution sanction from the ministry against Naik under the stringent Section 18 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act which relates to terror conspiracy, Sections 10 and 13 of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act which deals with being member of an unlawful outfit and Section 153 of Indian Penal Code which deals with inciting communal hatred.
Naik, who was on a world tour in July 2016 never returned back to India. Earlier, it was rumored that he has been granted Saudi citizenship, but there has been no official confirmation of this found. Naik has been given permanent resident status by Malaysia.
As per the photographs uploaded and shared widely on social media, Naik was last seen on Sept 29 participating in Friday prayers at the Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque in Putrajaya.
Problems arose for the preacher after the Holey Artisan Bakery attack in May 2016, later Bangladeshi authorities said that one of the gunmen responsible for an attack in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, which left 22 people dead, had been inspired by him.
As soon as MHA gives prosecution sanction, NIA will file its charge-sheet against Naik, his associates and IRF, which will be used to send a formal extradition request to Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, where he is said to be living and travelling frequently.
Recently, Islamic preacher Maulana Anzar Shah Qasmi was discharged from all terror charges by Patiala House Court in Delhi.


So this beautiful girl (Melinda) was walking around IMATS handing out cards for Besasme Cosmetics. I have to admit, I was not thrilled to see her. My girlfriend was going on and on about the brand, and I wasn't interested. I wanted to be, but nothing about the aesthetic spoke to me. I like modern and clean. Geometric and harsh lines. Bessame? Very vintage, old fashion looking, gold packaging. I hate gold. I just wasn't EXCITED about the brand, and because my girlfriend was SOOOOO excited about the brand, it made me feel like I was somehow missing something. So I just kind of hoped to "miss" the booth.
Thank goodness I didn't! You couldnt miss this 12 year old girl walking through IMATS. And so that brought us to the booth. By the way, I dont know if you can tell from the picture, but she seriously has the most AMAZING eyelashes I have ever seen. I almost thought they were false lashes at first (and that was with her NOT wearing ANYTHING on them). So jealousy aside.... back to the point.
These lipsticks as you can see above have a gold bullet with the brand scrolled down the side. The cap is gold with a red pattern printed on them. They also each come in a velvet pouch as if it were a precious piece of jewelry. There is NOTHING wrong with the packaging. They pay attention to EVERY little detail. So much so you can't help but be impressed. I just personally don't like it. Just not my taste. But the execution is gorgeous.
The gift set below (a lipstick, liner and brush) retails for the same price as the above lipsticks. And as you can see, the packaging is different. I just picture a Japanese Geisha when I look at this packaging. I may be nuts, but its what comes to mind.
Another limited edition set, this time with a scarf. To bad the shade is a bright red. NOT a Shayna shade.
So as you can see, the detailing and packaging are gorgeous. And I really really dislike them. I wish I didn't. But you like what you like. Then I started testing. And it was love at first swipe. It doesn't matter that its not my aesthetic. I am so thankful Melinda was working the floor (and then the booth) and that L wanted to check them out and was so in love. I should know to just shut up and trust L. I really do. Which is why I went to the booth. But yes, these lipsticks are just so luxe feeling.
And this is what I bought. Only three, but the line is very heavy on the red shades, and I just am not such a red fan. But I got three gorgeous lipsticks. And at a price of $22 each, I must say they are worth the cost.
First up is the limited edition set in Champagne. The brush is teeny and I haven't tried it yet but it FEELS lovely. The lipstick comes in a velvet pouch just like the others do, though this one is black and lacks the elasticized top.
And this is the packaging. I must say, while I dont like it, I like it better than the gold and red packaging.
Now I must confess. I can NOT apply lip liner. I have a shaky hand, cant get one smooth looking line, and it always looks horrendous. So when I tried this out, I EXPECTED a big fat mess. And oh my goodness. It looked GOOD on my lips. It applied easier and smoother than any other liner I have ever tried. So much so that I actually WORE it out in public. I really only own the GOSH ones and two NYX ones at this point and while they are amazing formula wise, I just fail at the application. Not so with this one. What makes it different? I have NO FRICKEN CLUE! Maybe its just the perfect point? The GOSH ones dont drag, but they just dont apply like this. I wish I KNEW why this applied so much easier for me so I could explain it, but I can't. But if you are like me and are lip liner application challenged, this is the liner for you.
And here it is filled in with the lipstick. On the lips its a fantastic match. Not as much on the hand. Not sure why. But it looks great together on the lip.
And just the swatch below. As you can see, its an orange brown shade and its not my usual colour but its oh so flattering on. And a point worth mentioning, they also make a single lipstick called Champagne. Totally different colour. I don't know why they would do that, but its confusing. So be careful when choosing shades!
Dusty Rose was the one that jumped out at me the most and the one I HAD to have. Not my USUAL shade as its a bit darker and redder than I lean towards, but it may be my new favourite lipstick. A mid toned rose shade that looks almost like a berry. Its gorgeous.
And here is the swatch. Super pigmented, and creamy and smooth. I also must say, while I know it wont last long, the SHAPE of the lipstick itself is fantastic for application. I wish I could magically keep it this exact same shape through use!
Debutante Pink is frostier than I recall when purchasing. Its a purple leaning frosty pink..... almost a lavender? But still pink. I don't dislike this shade, but its my least favourite of the three.
Its also a little bit of a more......... not moisturizing, because they all are. But...... wetter consistency? Or thinner? Its hard to descirbe. It just feels a bit more..... this is going to sound crazy but it feels like it melts more into the lips?
And here are both pinks together.
One BIG thing to note is the scent. Its STRONG. And by strong, I mean hit you over the head with a two by four strong. Its a super sweet sugary vanilla. I don't dislike the scent, but it can get to be a bit much. And you definitely can't NOT notice it.
Now the bottom line here is if this type of packaging and look appeals to you, stop drop and run to the site to order a lipstick. The pigment and quality and details are amazing. And if you are like me and HATE the packaging, I still say run and pick up a colour to try. They are THAT great. Just know they have a super strong smell!
In Toronto back in November I kind of ignored the Velour Lashes booth. I will admit it. I have worn fake lashes a total of four times in my life, and each time was for a fashion show. Each time I also had the eyelashes put on by a makeup artist and NOT by me.
So as you can guess, I am not at all a lash expert. I noticed these lashes mainly because a friend Margo was wearing them at a dinner the night after day one of IMATS and I was floored. They looked AMAZING on her. That got me talking to the girls at Velour lashes. I can honestly say I wasn't ignoring them anymore!
These are the naughty me style. They are 100% mink and they don't work like typical lashes. Typical lashes you apply, then put on mascara and such. These you dont. These you apply AFTER the mascara as a final step. And these can be worn about 20 times before replacing. These retail for 64.99 according to the website, but are currently on for $34.99.
So, since we have established my lack of expertise or experience wearing fake lashes, I was at a loss for how to properly review them. So instead called in the expert. My gorgeous cousin, we will call her M. M has been dancing since she was..... I dont think she has ever NOT danced, she pretty much was born dancing. She wears lashes on stage for every show and recital and since she dances competitively, well, I call her the expert for a reason.
Now according to her these are "lightweight and easy to apply". The only drawback she notes is that the band the lashes lay on is black so you have to put eyeliner over top of the base of the lashes. With that in mind, I asked her if she prefers these or traditional lashes. And her response was a very fast one. These are better!
What I like best about these personally is how natural they look on her. I mean, yes, she is wearing fake lashes. But they don't SCREAM fake like many of them do.
At $34.99 thats less than $1.75 per application making these luxury lashes far less than the traditional "cheap" ones.
What do you guys think? Would you give these a try? I know M is getting another pair or two! And maybe I can have M give me a lesson or two on application so I can start rocking these! I think for the price, if you wear them occasionally these are the PERFECT ones to have sitting in your stash or kit!
So as you all know, I am not the biggest MAC fan. I think their products are merely OK, and the polishes can be downright horrid. I think its a combination of the 13,459 collections that come out each year along with the inconsistent quality. All you have to do is go to a website such as Temptalia's to note that the grades each products get can range from A+ through D quite regularly. I wish they would come out with fewer products and instead worry more about quality and consistency. That being said, I do get sucked in every once in awhile.
And having realized how far I have gone away from the roots of this blog being in nail poilsh, I am going to try to more consistently post the new polish releases from all brands across the board.
How about this for a maven sneak peek? Take a look at the MAY maven box! Assuming enough people sign up for it in the next 30 days! This to me looks like a kickstarter campaign, just not on kickstarter.
So what the hell is it/how does it work?
So, if you do want to reserve one, here are your options. But please all, I beg of you, don't all run out to buy the $10,000 option all at once! We dont want to crash the system!
From what I can gather its just a piece of metal like the magnetic spice container holders. In fact, I bet thats exactly what it is.
So, if you want to reserve yours, just click on the link here!
So as mentioned, I am trying to post the backlog of photos I have taken and swatched in the process of changing over computers. The formula on all of these was nice, as the usual for Julep its on the thicker side, but not goopy. All are with two coats though many of these you could get away with one coat.


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The Four Rs of Investing in Retail
Ranging from food to electronics, from luxury specialists to discounters, the retail sector is a diverse and dynamic one—and extremely susceptible to changing consumer tastes, as well. Yet the industry seems to grow every year, regardless of economic cycles or capital costs. Investors can find a lot to like (and dislike) in retail stocks. In doing their due diligence on companies, they should focus on performance in four particular areas.
Investors looking to own retail stocks should focus on the four Rs.
These include return on revenues, return on invested capital, return on total assets, and return on capital employed.
Retailers face a number of key issues, which include poor economic conditions, increased regulation and competition, and channel disruption.
Retail stocks tend to be more volatile than the broader market.
The Four Rs
No matter what a store is selling, successfully managing performance, return on investment (ROI), and other financial indicators are the key to a healthy retail business. Expansion is an important part of retail growth but only when generating positive cash flow from capital expenditures. Without a positive ROI, retailers are throwing good money after bad.
It's critical for retail managers to quantify as much as possible the metrics of their business so that they may better understand the profitability and financial health. When combined with other financial metrics like same-store sales, the four Rs of retail should paint a financial picture that's vibrant and constantly get stronger.
1. Return on Revenues (ROR)
Return on revenues (ROR) is the first R and the cornerstone of any retail operation. Also called net profit margin, it tells you how much net income is made from those top-line revenues. Nearly as important is gross margin return on investment, which is the gross margin profit on the cost of your inventory.
The more you make per unit sold, the easier it is to produce bottom-line net profits. ROR has two basic building blocks.
First is the balance sheet. Every retail store maintains inventory. Considered an asset on the balance sheet, when combined with the P&L statement, it can tell you a lot about how the product is selling.
Dividing inventory into the trailing-12-months' revenue, you arrive at the number of inventory turns (called inventory turnover) in those 12 months (the higher the number the better). Grocery stores traditionally have lower margins, and thus need to turn inventory many more times than luxury retailers who make far more per transaction but far less in overall unit sales. Ultimately, the two retailers may deliver the same net income, but from many different volumes.
Did you know it's possible to be profitable and yet generate negative cash flow? Well, it's true and the converse happens as well. This is when a business losing money generates positive cash flow. Often it can be as simple as the payment terms you have with your suppliers.
For instance, the profitable retailer might get 30 days to pay its bills while the money-loser gets 60. Although this catches up with the money-losing retailer eventually, it can carry on for some time. Look for companies that make money and generate positive cash flow. Even better are those that generate free cash flow, which is the cash from operations after taking into account capital expenditures.
2. Return on Invested Capital (ROIC)
Moving from the big picture to a frontline individual store's operations for a moment, the second R comes into play. Return on invested capital (ROIC) – sometimes referred to as "four-wall cash contribution" – is the amount of profit generated per store. The speed at which each store can return the invested capital required to open it, the faster the retailer can grow its overall profits.
For example, if a new store in a home improvement chain averages $2 million in annual sales in the first year open and its four-wall contribution is $200,000, a $300,000 investment to build and open the store is repaid in 18 months. Its return on invested capital is 67%. Successful retailers look for store revenues and four-wall contribution to grow in years two and three. If not, there's a problem.
3. Return on Total Assets (ROA)
Going back to the big picture: the return on total assets (ROA) indicates how much operating profit is made from its assets. Here again, bigger is better. In the retail industry, this number will vary depending on the business.
Specialty retailers require less retail space, fixtures, inventory and so on. Home improvement stores, on the other hand, operate in much larger retail footprints and thus require greater assets. Having to use more doesn't necessarily make these stores inferior. It's simply the cost of doing business in that particular industry.
What's important is how a retailer's return on total assets compares with the competition. If it's generating a return on total assets of 10% and its competitor across the street does 20%, it's an indication that the competitor is operating more efficiently.
4. Return on Capital Employed (ROCE)
This tells us how efficiently retailers use their capital. It is defined as earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) divided by capital employed, which generally is represented by total assets less current liabilities. However, a more appropriate definition of capital employed would be shareholders' equity plus net debt. After all, ROCE is a pretax look at its return on debt and equity, which is different from ROIC, which is an after-tax (dividends paid) look at its profitability.
While ROCE is a more telling number than the return on equity, it too has its limits. For instance, if a retailer in the auto parts business repurchased $1 billion of its own stock in a given year and as a result, its book value turned negative, both the ROE and ROCE are adversely affected, despite the fact it made close to $1 billion in net profit. Financial metrics can only take you so far.
Risks of Retail Investing
Retail investing can be affected by many systematic and idiosyncratic risks.
If there is a recession and many companies lay off workers, cut their budgets and implement a salary freeze, consumer spending tends to slow down or even decrease, which has an immediate negative effect on the retail industry. Individual retailers and specific sub-sectors can really struggle during an economic downturn; home improvement stores saw sales tank after the collapse of the housing bubble in 2007-2008, for example.
But the retail sector as a whole is largely insulated from the effects of business cycles. Consumers still shop during hard times. Obviously, they continue to need staples such as food and clothing. However, the recessions of 2000-2001 and 2007-2008 demonstrated that Americans will still spend money on discretionary items like used cars, travel, and even dining out but at reduced levels.
Another insulating factor: Retailers are not limited to their local areas nowadays. In fact, they tend to be among the first companies to share in the growth of emerging economies. The low labor costs and lack of existing competition make it feasible for retailers to increase margins by shipping cheap goods to the developed world. And the internet has made it easier for low-capital, low-cost companies to service even poor nations. Goods produced in Malaysia, South Korea or India can be marketed and sold all around the world without a brick-and-mortar presence. However, retail is a notoriously seasonal business. First-quarter performance is typically dominated by fourth-quarter numbers.
Federal and state regulations pose another significant risk to the retail sector. As many retailers rely on labor that earns hourly salaries close to the minimum wage rate, any increases in the minimum wage can adversely affect profitability in the retail sector.
Competition and Consolidation
High competition and consolidation in the retail sector is another big risk that investors should consider. Because of the proliferation of e-commerce, a person does not necessarily need a brick-and-mortar store to start a retail business. As some retailers have been slow in embracing e-commerce, their sales and profitability have suffered as a result of consumers shifting away towards competitors that offer goods through the internet that can be shipped anywhere. Also, as the retail sector consolidates, there are more concentrated companies with very large resources and increased competitive advantages.
Channel Disruption
Disruption or failure of the supply channel represents another important risk in the retail sector. For example, the labor strikes of 2014-2015 at the U.S. West Coast ports disrupted the supply of inventory for many retailers, negatively affecting their sales.
Investing in Retail
Retail may not be the best bet for the value investor. If there is one area where the Berkshire Hathaway boys—Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger—have struggled, it is in retail. The Omaha, Nebraska-based duo famously avoided the trappings of the internet bubble in the late 1990s, but their aversion to technical disruption has also kept them from accurately assessing retail successes. When it comes to retailers, Buffett specifically identifies a lack of "economic moats" (competitive advantages that keep other businesses at bay and protects margins).
On the other hand, retail is an attractive sector for a growth investor due to its propensity for turning in bigger-than-average gains when the market is rising. Retail securities typically fall into one of seven segments: automotive, building supply, distributors, grocery and food, online, general, and special line or specialty retailers. All of them tend to track the market as a whole, but with a degree of greater volatility, which means stronger gains during bull runs, but larger losses when the bears roar.
More specifically, six of retail's seven sectors carry betas that range from 1.10, indicating 1% greater volatility than the market, to 1.52, a whopping 52% more volatile than the market as a whole. That means when a bull market is on, a retail investor can expect gains that beat the market by anywhere from 1% to 52%, depending on how he divides his investment dollars between the sector's various segments.The potential for such aggressive gains makes retail a sector that is closely monitored by growth investors.
Utilizing the Price-to-Book (P/B) Ratio
Before selecting which retail sub-sector or company to invest in, one important calculation used to understand a sector's or company's value is the price-to-book (P/B) ratio. According to data published by the NYU Leonard N. Stern School of Business, as of January 2018, the average P/B ratio of the retail sector is 22.15. The average is calculated using an arithmetic mean of all the retail segments' P/B ratios. By sub-sector, it breaks down like this:
Retail (Automotive) 7.06
Retail (Building Supply) 116.15
Retail (Distributors) 4.23
Retail (General) 5.89
Retail (Grocery and Food) 3.35
Retail (Online) 12.90
Retail (Special Lines) 5.45
Companies with P/B ratios greater than 1 are typically thought to be overvalued, while companies with P/B ratios less than 1 are thought to be undervalued. This is why value-investment gurus like Buffett tend to shy away from the sector.
Factors that Affect Stock Prices
Retail companies have to match their products with their consumer demographics and tastes. If you are looking at a multinational retailer, for example, check its exposure and direct investment in emerging markets, such as Mexico, Indonesia, Brazil, India, and China. This is where the most aggressive growth is likely to take place.
Online retail is the fastest-growing segment in the industry, but it also has the lowest profit margins of any sub-sector, retail or otherwise. Internet companies aren't necessarily valued more highly, but businesses that ignore the internet do so at their own risk.
Many retailers offer credit for purchases. One dramatic example is the retail car market. Most American and Japanese car manufacturers, like GM and Toyota, make a lot of their money through financing and not from making cars. Accounts receivable can be extra important for these companies.
Inventory is often the largest investment for retailers, so look at inventory efficiency as a key differentiation among similar companies.
Retail Investing Strategies
Growth investors who are especially savvy employ a strategy called sector rotation. This technique enables them to make the most of retail gains while mitigating its risks. Sector rotation requires an investor to monitor the economic cycle closely. The investor puts his money in retail and other volatile sectors during the expansionary phase. When he projects a transition to a period of contraction, he shifts out of retail and into more stable sectors, such as utilities, that are known for holding their value during bear markets.
Other retail investors employ options strategies that take advantage of the sector's volatility by rewarding big market moves, regardless of direction. Two popular ones are the long straddle and long strangle.
Although customer service is an important component of successful retail, it's just one of the many things that must be executed flawlessly in order to continue growing. At the top of the list should be financial discipline. If a retail business doesn't possess this trait, it likely won't be around very long. The strongest retailers understand that every store should be profitable. Otherwise, there is no justification for tying up the capital required to open them. The faster a store is able to recover the initial investment, the faster it's able to please the four Rs of retail.
The retail sector is divided into seven segments, all of which confer greater risk than the broader market. Retail securities tend to track the market as a whole but with a greater degree of volatility, resulting in stronger gains during bull markets but larger losses during bear markets. For this reason, savvy investors hedge exposure to the retail sector by investing in noncyclical or countercyclical sectors that outperform the broader market during periods of decline.
This article was originally published by Investopedia.com. Read the original article here.
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Calypso Star Charters has decided to sacrifice its carbon neutral status in order to fund local environmental projects. Keen to make more of an impact locally, the company has decided to use the $12,000 it once spent on credits to offset its emissions to set up a local environment fund. The company was a carbon neutral company from July 2016 to June 2019, offsetting 100 per cent of its carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits. Calypso Star Charters general manger Andrew Wright said the company was purchasing carbon credits to offset its environmental impact from fuel and oil use, travel and electricity. The money used to purchase the credits goes towards funding projects such as installation of renewable energy or reforestation. Mr Wright said Calypso began reflecting on what it meant for it to be carbon neutral when the company doing its audits to identify where its emissions were coming from decided to move away from auditing and into creating credits through re-vegetation. He said while carbon credits were ultimately beneficial in the financial support they provided to tree planting and renewable energy, the spending had no direct impact on the local economy or environment. "We wanted to do better and be more active in our local community," he said. Mr Wright said the money would be spread out across the financial year and he hoped it would support environmentally focused ideas from a wide range of community groups, sporting clubs and schools. He said the company wanted to support projects that would have a measurable benefit and it had already been approached by some groups. "I think it will be exciting to see what people come up with," Mr Wright said. "We're looking forward to working with and supporting the community in an environmentally conscious way." Through the support of Eco Tourism Australia, Calypso Star Charters continues to satisfy the requirements of their Climate Action Leader certification it achieved in 2017. Visit the Calypso Star Charters website www.sharkcagediving.com.au/local-environment-fund for more information.
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FUND: Calypso Star Charters has started a fund to support local environmental projects and offset the company's carbon emissions. Pictured is general manager Andrew Wright.
Calypso Star Charters has decided to sacrifice its carbon neutral status in order to fund local environmental projects.
Keen to make more of an impact locally, the company has decided to use the $12,000 it once spent on credits to offset its emissions to set up a local environment fund.
The company was a carbon neutral company from July 2016 to June 2019, offsetting 100 per cent of its carbon emissions by purchasing carbon credits.
Calypso Star Charters general manger Andrew Wright said the company was purchasing carbon credits to offset its environmental impact from fuel and oil use, travel and electricity.
The money used to purchase the credits goes towards funding projects such as installation of renewable energy or reforestation.
Mr Wright said Calypso began reflecting on what it meant for it to be carbon neutral when the company doing its audits to identify where its emissions were coming from decided to move away from auditing and into creating credits through re-vegetation.
He said while carbon credits were ultimately beneficial in the financial support they provided to tree planting and renewable energy, the spending had no direct impact on the local economy or environment.
"We wanted to do better and be more active in our local community," he said.
Mr Wright said the money would be spread out across the financial year and he hoped it would support environmentally focused ideas from a wide range of community groups, sporting clubs and schools.
He said the company wanted to support projects that would have a measurable benefit and it had already been approached by some groups.
"I think it will be exciting to see what people come up with," Mr Wright said.
"We're looking forward to working with and supporting the community in an environmentally conscious way."
Through the support of Eco Tourism Australia, Calypso Star Charters continues to satisfy the requirements of their Climate Action Leader certification it achieved in 2017.
Visit the Calypso Star Charters website www.sharkcagediving.com.au/local-environment-fund for more information.


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Updated: New York PSC approves 50% clean energy standard, nuclear subsidies
New York regulators on Monday approved a Clean Energy Standard that mandates the state get half its power from renewable sources by 2030 and guarantees income for three struggling upstate nuclear power plants to keep them from shuttering.
The unanimous decision will direct $965 million in additional revenue to the Fitzpatrick, Ginna and Nine Mile plants over the first two years of the program, Bloomberg reports, with adjustments every two years until 2029.
The state has set a aggressive implementation schedule, requiring utilities and energy service companies to begin serving up 26.31% renewable power starting next year, and will grow to 30.54% by 2021.
The New York Public Service Commission voted today on a 50% renewable standard that officials say will reduce greenhouse gas emissions 40% by 2030, ensure the state's power mix is diverse, and attract billions in clean energy investment.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo called the decision a "bold action" that positions New York as a national leader in the clean energy economy.
"This Clean Energy Standard shows you can generate the power necessary for supporting the modern economy while combatting climate change," Cuomo said in a statement announcing the decision. "Make no mistake, this is a very real threat that continues to grow by the day and I urge all other states to join us in this fight for our very future."
The new standard includes "concrete, cost-effective steps today to safeguard this state's environment for decades to come," Cuomo said. New York will enforce the standard by requiring utilities and other energy suppliers to obtain a targeted number of Renewable Energy Credits each year, which will be paid to renewable developers.
A key component of the CES is a subsidy plan to support the state's struggling nuclear power plants, which have been losing out in the marketplace largely due to cheap natural gas. The standard would direct about $965 million to the plants over the first two years, using a formula based on expected power costs and the social price on carbon federal government agencies use in rulemaking.
The vote could have an immediate impact on utility plans in the state. Last year, Entergy Corp. announced plans to shut down its James A. FitzPatrick plant. But in July, the company revealed it was in talks with Exelon to possibly sell the facility rather than closing up shop. Exelon agreed to purchase the plant if the nuclear subsidies were approved, throwing a lifeline to 838 MW of carbon-free generation.
The PSC's original clean energy standard called for $7 billion in income supports over 12 years, and it is unclear how the changes to the program will affect the sale. The CES also includes subsidies for wind and solar, which reportedly would have cost between $22/MWh and $35/MWh in recent years. The nuclear subsidy will start at $17.48/MWh.
The nuclear subsidy also could face legal challenges, as the auction mechanism delves into new territory. This spring, U.S. Supreme Court struck down a plan in Maryland that would have incentivized new in-state power generation by setting a price floor and having ratepayers make up the difference if the plants were unprofitable in wholesale auctions.
Opponents of power subsidies in Ohio have considered Hughes v. Talen Energy Marketing as a route to block ratepayer support in that state, and a similar challenge could come into play in New York. Last week at a utility regulatory conference, executives for gas generator Calpine told Utility Dive they considered the draft clean energy standard proposal to be in conflict with the Supreme Court ruling, and expected a legal challenge if it was approved.
"We feel like it's tied to the wholesale market," Sarah Novosel, Calpine senior vice president for government affairs and managing counsel, said of the draft proposal. "The Court said in Hughes that as long as an action is untethered to the wholesale market it might permissible. We think it it tethered to the wholesale market."
In its final order, the PSC acknowledged the risks of the Hughes case, but said that critics of the draft proposal had failed to propose other mechanisms to keep the nuclear generation online while remaining "untethered" from the wholesale market.
"Those opposed to [the Zero Emission Credit] do not offer a method of setting ZEC prices by alternatively valuing the damage caused by carbon emissions," regulators wrote. "Instead, [the City of New York] and others propose different methodologies that fail to recognize the need to keep the ZEC pricing methodology untethered to a generator's wholesale market participation."
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Ungar is part of the NSF-sponsored international group studying the Arctic
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Peter Ungar, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas, and several Arctic-focused colleagues have received a $ 3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study the effect of climate change, globalization, and infrastructure. development in the increasingly precarious region.
One of NSF's 10 Big Ideas, "Navigating the New Arctic," will address the interactions between social systems, the natural environment, and the built environment in the Arctic bioclimatic subzones of Yamal, a region in northern Russia, which it serves as a manageable and research model for the Arctic as a whole.
The goal of the project is to understand how the natural, social, and built environments within the region respond to stresses caused by climate change, globalization, and infrastructure development. Specific projects will examine the impact of tall vegetation on animals and reindeer herders; change the influence of snow cover on food webs and animal population dynamics; the effect of the built environment on the reindeer herding system, including interactions between industrial workers and indigenous peoples; and reindeer management, including how social institutions and markets for reindeer products affect community resilience, indigenous traditions and practices, and landscape structure.
With $ 634,000 of the total $ 3 million grant, Ungar will lead the biotic / ecosystem team within the larger project. His fieldwork in ecology will focus on arctic foxes, rodents, reindeer, and plant phenology.
Valeriy Ivanov, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Michigan, is the principal investigator on the project and will lead the abiotic team. John Ziker, chair of the department and professor of anthropology at Boise State University, will lead the anthropological efforts. Aleksandr Sokolov, director of the Arctic Research Station at Yamal, is the main Russian partner.
Earlier this year, Ungar and several colleagues published findings in Polar Biology and Mammalian Biology that indicate that the diet of Arctic foxes and the habitats of various species of rodents, as Determined by the condition of their teeth, they show how different climatic conditions and environments in the Arctic affect the animals that live there. The researchers compared the condition of Arctic fox and rodent teeth over space and time and found differences in tooth wear patterns related to variation in preferred foods and habitat types.
Studying the effect of different climatic conditions within this region helps scientists understand the impact of climate change on vulnerable animals and could explain future responses and adaptations, given the warming and thawing trend in Arctic areas.
Seasonal changes, melting permafrost, and extreme climatic conditions in the Arctic have had a strong impact on the natural and human world. Plants and animals are changing seasonal and distribution patterns. These changes put increased pressure on the livelihoods of Arctic people.
Other factors, such as globalization and the growing presence of industrial and urban centers, also affect the Arctic tundra and the livelihoods of indigenous peoples. By considering the impacts of multiple climatic and socioeconomic factors on the functioning of an increasingly industrialized region, this project will illuminate the processes that pose potential threats to the well-being of Arctic communities.
This project includes awards to the University of Michigan; Kansas State University; Boise State University; The Ohio State University; Georgia Technology Research Corporation; the University of Colorado Colorado Springs; Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota; University of Tromso in Norway; University of Lapland in Finland; University of Colorado Boulder; Oxford University in England, Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural Branch; and non-governmental organizations in France and the United Kingdom.
Ungar is director of the Environmental Dynamics program at the University of Arkansas.
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im there too it gave me pause to say "wait....Wha?"
Methinks future will prove past.
It is soooo rich: the apparatus 'they' created for total surveillance will be the tool of their demise.
If the person(s) at both Las Vegas and Borderline were invited by teacher orgs this could be YUGE.
this weekend, followed by intense storm next week.
Q's drop about Posse Comitatus and Martial Law is a big indication of necessity if it comes down to it.
hunker down, stay safe everyone.
Omg! I needed a laugh!!
Was this the "Watch CA"?
In the interview today he stressed the extended magazine, he pushed for anti gun laws, fake news immeadily picked that up (even shills here did).
"I WILL NO LONGER BY SHERRIF AFTER TOMORROW MIDNIGHT…"
>Ventura County Sheriff Geoff Dean announced Wednesday that he will not seek re-election for a third term and has decided to step down as head of the largest law enforcement agency in the county.
survivors of the LAS VEGAS SHOOTING.
>I actively manage 3 jails, a forensics laboratory, air operations, a dispatch center, court security, civil litigation processes, and policing services for 5 incorporated cities.
>Served as Governor's appointee to the Board of State and Community Corrections until August, 2018.
>I ensure we have ongoing engagement with school district threat assessment programs including Active Shooter response protocol.
>I served as Incident Commander for 2 major mudslides and the crash of Alaska Airlines flight 261 off the Ventura County coast. I also managed the official Opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
Dig on symbolism in images and videos!
A little late, but here are a couple pics from the rally in Ft Wayne.
Too fun! Everyone was so happy, polite, respectful. Great experience.
and green coming your way ..
BRAVE NEW MILLLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST JESUS which is ready to go.. just awaiting the proper timing.
I read that long ago.. but the brave new world coming is the BRAVE that will continue to manifest in the GOD KNOWING HUMAN BEING.
I can conceive of trusting Jeff Sessions.
Chris Christie is a horse of another color. He is corruption incarnate with a messianic complex to boot. If he gets named AG, we have been duped.
For your official information here. Q+ is NOT Trump... Q+ is the returned MIchael of Nebadon.
I AM right.. God Knowing is a huge part of the HUMAN EVOLUTION and the Ascension which cannot occur of GAIA until enough Humans manifest this. IT IS COMING. The dark shits are leaving at the appointed time of 3 days of Darkness... so the REAL can grow here free of their influence.
You can search your city to see where to avoid this afternoon.
These are great, Sloonie! And your hair is fabulous! Thanks for sharing. I can only imagine how exciting it must have been.
Sessions is part of Q-team...if we can't trust him, we can't trust Q...not gonna happen without hard evidence.
You are glowing. So beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
This^^^^^!!!!! Was going to post that.
SCOTUS will be too obvious?