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Q. and A.: Zhang Lifan on the New Chinese Nationalism - NYTimes.com
"Zhou Xiaoping doesn’t have his own viewpoint. He is not a person with his own independent thinking. He focuses on figuring out what the leadership wants and delivers just that. He has figured out that the leadership wants the people to blame foreign countries for various conflicts in society and has been promoting nationalism and anti-foreign sentiment ever since."
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Sign in using App Passwords - Accounts Help
YOU MUST HAVE TWO STEP VERIFICATION ON ALL YOUR VALUABLE ACCOUNTS (esp. if you live in China)
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Berkshire Hath Hld B
Wells Fargo & Company
Wal-Mart Stores
Procter & Gamble Company
Novartis Ag
Visa Inc
Coca-Cola Company
Anheuser-Busch Inbev Sa
Walt Disney Company
Pepsico Inc
Home Depot
Amgen Inc
Abbvie Inc. Common Stock
CVS Corp
Mastercard Inc
United Parcel Service
Unitedhealth Group Inc
Celgene Corp
Nike Inc
21St Century Fox Class A
Honeywell International Inc
Medtronic Inc
Allergan Inc
UBS Ag Ordinary Shares When Iss
Costco Wholesale Corp
Prudential Public Limited Company
Express Scripts
Blackrock
Danaher Corp
Accenture Plc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc
Fedex Corp
Mckesson Corp
General Dynamics Corp
Target Corp
Covidien Plc.
Tjx Companies
Kimberly-Clark Corp
American Tower Corp
Automatic Data Processing
Ace Limited
Liberty Global
Delta Air Lines Inc
Liberty Global
Stryker Corp
Reynolds American Inc
The Travelers Companies Inc
Raytheon Company
Cognizant Technology Solutions
Public Storage
V.F. Corp
PPG Industries
Kroger Company
Northrop Grumman Corp
Allstate Corp
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc
Cardinal Health
AON Plc
Southwest Airlines Company
Becton Dickinson and Company
Hilton Worldwide Holdings Inc.
Equity Residential
The McGraw-Hill Companies Inc
Ameriprise Financial Services
Chubb Corp
L Brands Inc
Avago Technologies
Sherwin-Williams Company
Macy's Inc
Zoetis Inc. Class A Common Stoc
Marriot International
Seagate Technology.
Delphi Automotive Plc
Mylan Inc
United Continental Holdings
Avalonbay Communities
Brown Forman Inc B
Edison International
Amerisourcebergen Corp
Brown Forman Inc A
Reed Elsevier Plc
Omnicom Group Inc
Zimmer Holdings
Ross Stores
Autozone
Monster Beverage Corp
Charter Communications
Constellation Brands Inc
O'Reilly Automotive
Nxp Semiconductors N.V.
Fiserv Inc
Fidelity National Information Services
Reed Elsevier Nv
Xcel Energy Inc
Amphenol Corp
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd
Genuine Parts Company
SBA Communications Corp
Nordstrom
Whirlpool Corp
Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc
Dollar Tree
Edwards Lifesciences Corp
Netease Inc
Citizens Financial Group Inc/Ri
Clorox Company
Lam Research Corp
C.R. Bard
Carmax Inc
Burger King Worldwide
Carefusion Corp
Henry Schein
Rockwell Collins
Hanesbrands Inc
Tim Hortons Inc
Stericycle Inc
Transdigm Group Inc
Wyndham Worldwide Corp
Church & Dwight Company
Intercontinental Hotels Group
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd
Palo Alto Networks Inc
J.B. Hunt Transport Services
Quest Diagnostics Inc
Varian Medical Systems
Medivation Inc
Navient Corporation
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings
Sealed Air Corp
Scana Corp
Everest Re Group
Dentsply International Inc
Alaska Air Group
Hasbro Inc
Coty Inc
Pinnacle West Capital Corp
Extra Space Storage Inc
Aramark Holdings Corp.
Old Dominion Freight Line
Synopsys Inc
Sei Investments Company
W.R. Berkley Corp
Jones Lang Lasalle Inc
Mednax Inc
Spirit Aerosystems Holdings
CDW Corp
Ingredion Inc
Global Payments Inc
Leggett & Platt Inc
Partnerre Ltd
Spirit Airlines Inc
Keysight Technologies Inc. Comm
Hain Celestial Group
Live Nation Entertainment
American Financial Group
Axalta Coating Systems Ltd.
Hcc Insurance Holdings
Domino's Pizza Inc
Axis Capital Holdings
NVR Inc
Ryder System
Teleflex Inc
Kar Auction Services Inc
Echostar Corp
Michaels Companies Inc.
Spectrum Brands Holdings
Tfs Financial Corp
Brunswick Corp
Rlj Lodging Trust
SS&C Technologies Holdings
Erie Indemnity Company
Teledyne Technologies Inc
Swift Transportation Company
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp
Cepheid
HSN Inc
Retail Properties of America
West Pharmaceutical Services
Verint Systems Inc
Paramount Group Inc.
Validus Holdings
Brinker International
Landstar System
Catalent Inc.
First American Corp
Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc
Receptos Inc
Vwr Corporation
Cst Brands Inc. Common Stock
Berry Plastics Group Inc
Burlington Stores Inc
Buffalo Wild Wings
Post Properties
Columbia Sportswear Company
Euronet Worldwide
Cavium Inc
Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
Bright Horizons Family Solutions Inc
Sovran Self Storage
Big Lots
La Quinta Holdings Inc.
Sun Communities
Primerica Inc
J2 Global Communications Inc
Knight Transportation
Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd
Marriot Vacations Worldwide Cor
Epam Systems Inc
Allegiant Travel Company
Science Applications Internatio
Impax Laboratories
Asbury Automotive Group Inc
Texas Roadhouse
Group 1 Automotive
Dupont Fabros Technology
Caci International
Acadia Realty Trust
Heartland Payment Systems
J & J Snack Foods
American Realty Capital Healthc
Chemed Inc
Dineequity Inc
Platinum Underwriters Holdings Ltd
Chesapeake Lodging Trust
Cantel Medical
American Assets Trust
Examworks Group
Retail Opportunity Investments
Ambarella Inc
Comscore Inc
Matson Inc
Sonic Corp
Anacor Pharmaceuticals
Paycom Software Inc.
Liberty Broadband Corporation
The Spectranetics Corp
Healthequity Inc.
Abaxis Inc
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen Inc.
Inc Research Holdings Inc.
Mimedx Group Inc
Natus Medical Inc
Smart
Hawaiian Holdings
Rentrak Corp
Cato Corp
Avalanche Biotechnologies Inc.
Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
Enanta Pharmaceuticals Inc
Fcb Financial Holdings Inc.
Coresite Realty Corp
Radius Health Inc.
Omeros Corp
Tetraphase Pharmaceuticals Inc
K2M Group Holdings Inc.
Nextera Energy Partners LP
Echo Global Logistics
Eros International Plc
Square 1 Financial Inc
Myr Group
IGI Laboratories
Zafgen Inc.
Ardelyx Inc.
Covenant Transportation Group
Re/Max Holdings Inc
Vitae Pharmaceuticals Inc
Vectrus Inc. Common Stock
Affimed Therapeutics B.V.
Willdan Group
Scynexis Inc
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Oil & Gas Stocks at All Time Lows 2014 11 28
Cenovus Energy Inc
Enable Midstream Partners LP
Ep Energy Corp
Now Inc. Common Stock When Issu
Linn Co Llc
Laredo Petroleum Holdings Inc
Penn West Petroleum Ltd
Antero Resources Midstream Llc
Pengrowth Energy Corp
Eclipse Resources Corp
Sandridge Energy Inc
Ocean Rig Udw Inc
Parsley Energy
Seadrill Partners Llc
Pacific Drilling S.A.
Memorial Production Partners LP
Sanchez Energy Corp
North Atlantic Drilling Ltd. Co
Transocean Partners Llc
Bill Barrett Corp
Jones Energy Inc
Seventy Seven Energy Inc.
Mid-Con Energy Partners LP
Chc Group Ltd.
Paragon Offshore Plc Ordinary S
Lrr Energy L.P.
Chesapeake Granite Wash Trust
JP Energy Partners LP
Swift Energy Company
Enduro Royalty Trust
New Source Energy Partners L.P
Whiting USA Trust II
Voc Energy Trust
Glori Energy Inc.
Eca Marcellus Trust I
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I THINK MINE ARE ALL COPYRIGHTED?
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Commuting time in Beijing averages 97 minutes- China.org.cn
THIS IS ANOTHER REASON WHY PROPERTY PRICES WITHIN 4TH RING SO HIGH ... MY COMMUTE IS 15 MINS BY SCOOTER
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US government to its people: Stay away from these countries | GlobalPost
Depart Immediately
GENERALLY GOOD ADVICE
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Supported Browsers — Help and Customer Care - Squarespace
"Most modern web browsers are supported when visiting or editing a site designed in Squarespace 7.
Editing your site on Squarespace 7 requires advanced browser technology typically provided in the most recent versions. Our system is designed to take advantage of the new features these programs provide, as we intend to deliver the best editing experience."
ANY BROWSER MORE THAN TEN DAYS OLD AND YOU'RE PHUCKED
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BBC Two - The Fall, Series 1, Trail: BBC Two - The Fall Series 2
Available since: Thu 17 Jul 2014
THIS HAS BEEN OUT THAT LONG?? NO, BUT IT IS OUT NOW, STARTING TWO WEEKS AGO
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China bans wordplay in attempt at pun control gu.com/p/43yyc/stw
PUN CONTROL ... THE CHINESE LANGUAGE MADE FOR PUNS
Movies Watched -- Casino
My Twitter buddy @FinanceTrends recommended this one. Although clocking in at nearly three hours long, I watched all of it without fast forwarding. I'd give it a yellow rating (not green, not red). I appreciate all movie and TV recommendations!
The Fall S02 E02
Typical face of a serial killer, on TV ... the real ones don't look anything like this low body fat lad.
The Fall S02 E01
Gillian looking like the horse-faced women in my family, although as my wife is quick to add, "better looking."
Veep S03 E01 to E10
Enjoy it but it probably doesn't fly in flyover country ... too snide, too cynical, too smart.
Click on image to view all screenshots from the season.
Veep S02 E01 to E10
Started slowly but then got up to speed ... loved the Zuckerberg parody ... oops, Zuckerberg was season three, that's what I get for binge-watching both season two and three in a row.
Click on the image to scroll through all the screenshots.
Dragonvale -- Lodestone Dragon
Ash + Magnetic
ETF Trading Portfolio Update -- December 1, 2014
Brutal one-week whipsaws in DUG and ERY ... interestingly, SCO has never even come close to reversing.
Links for 2014 11 28
HONG KONG BANKS CUT YUAN DEPOSIT RATES AS STOCK CONNECT DISAPPOINTS
China's Industrial and Commercial Bank (ICBC) signed a pact with the Los Angeles city government to promote
cross-border yuan trade and set up an offshore renminbi centre in California, the bank said on Saturday.
China Merchants Bank Hong Kong branch completed its sale of a 2 billion yuan dim sum bond, which was priced at
3.95 percent for the 3-year tranche and 4.05 percent for the 5-year tranche.
The Hong Kong Futures Exchange, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, will launch
three metal mini-futures denominated in the yuan on Dec 1. The contract size for aluminium, zinc and copper futures
will be 5 tonnes.
BNP Paribas (China) announced on Wednesday that it had further expanded its presence in the Shanghai Free Trade
Zone with the opening of a new branch.
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CHOPPY VIDEO? "pretty confrontng moment" ... IS THAT AN AUSTRALIANISM?
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Beijing Restos To Visit (Again) -- not reviewed
brick & wood
okra
jing ya tang
yotsuba
mercante
huang ting (peninsula set lunch)
starfish
the rug
vin vi
mare
chef too
cru steakhouse (marriott)
the pho laboratory
phonominal
man fu lou
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The Olympic Impact: The Reform Fantasy
By James Mann
979 words
5 August 2008
The Wall Street Journal Asia
For decades, as the Chinese economy has advanced, Western presidents and prime ministers have been putting forward one ve...
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The rich scent of freedom | The Economist
"An unsettling possibility for America is that China could grow richer and yet remain authoritarian. In his book, “The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China”, James Mann, an American journalist, argues that his countrymen like to believe they are changing China and that the Chinese are becoming Americanised. “These assumptions have never been borne out in the past,” he writes. American political debate tends to concentrate on two scenarios: the gradual liberalisation of China and, occasionally, the possibility of political upheaval there. A third, highly plausible scenario—that there will be no real political change—is also worth considering, says Mr Mann. American officials have often said that their country’s trade and engagement with China would help to change it politically, but they may have been mistaken.
Unchanged, and yet changing
Mr Mann may have understated the extent of recent changes in China. Its political institutions and its treatment of organised opposition to the party remain unaltered. But property rights, which hardly existed in China until the 1990s, have widely taken hold. Citizens protest against forced evictions from their homes to make way for development. A new army of private lawyers take on the state in court (and usually lose, but at least they try). The middle class, armed with the internet (users of which remain a step ahead of censors), demands, and sometimes gets, redress for abuses of power by local governments."
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"Yet one needs to be cautious not to overestimate China's ability to fulfill its potential. Anyone who believes otherwise would benefit from reading James Mann's "The China Fantasy" and Minxin Pei's "China's Trapped Transition." They might be wrong in their predictions, but I find them convincing."
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"The sceptics, anchored by polemics such as James Mann's The China Fantasy, look at Singapore and Russia. They see cosy ties between business and government and a bought-off bourgeoisie whose memories of hunger and fear of both chaos and the government keep them in line. No liberalisation is on the horizon. Life is better than ever, so why rock the boat?"
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China won't bow down - Los Angeles Times
In "The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression," James Mann also scorns the Washington think tanks (one of which he works for).
But he hints that free trade advocates who pushed for China's admission to the World Trade Organization in 2000 misled the public.
"Across the United States, factories have closed and millions of Americans have been put out of work as the result of our decision to keep our markets open to Chinese goods. Meanwhile, the American people have been informed repeatedly that the reasons for our policy were not merely economic -- helping American companies that do business with or in China -- but political. Free trade was going to lead to political liberalization," he writes.
A former columnist and Beijing correspondent for The Times, Mann says it's too late to undo what was done.
"We need to stop assuming that we are going to integrate China into an American-led community," says Mann. But that doesn't mean that the United States has to quietly accept China's system of government.
"The United States ought to take a strong and forthright stand on human rights," says Mann.
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The Media Kowtow | The Weekly Standard
"James Mann, the Los Angeles Times’s former Beijing bureau chief, was so bothered by this state of affairs that a few years ago he wrote The China Fantasy: How Our Leaders Explain Away Chinese Repression. The book is a taxonomy of all the transparently misleading buzz words, tropes, and justifications that brought us to the point where we “assume repression as a baseline,” says Mann. The argument is skillfully presented and damning, which perhaps explains its lack of impact. The book has, however, made navigating the sidewalks of Washington, D.C., a little easier for Mann. “There are now people that cross the street when they see me,” he says."
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Search Engine ART PINE Art Pine 833 words 8 February 2010
For years, U.S. policymakers have generally left human rights issues on the back burner in dealing with China. The rationale has been that Beijing's autocrats eventually would become more democratic o...
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A special report on China: Rising power, anxious state | The Economist
China is likely to disappoint those who believed that the country’s embrace of globalisation would usher in greater political freedoms over the next few years. James Mann, an American journalist, gave warning of this in a 2007 book, "The China Fantasy: Why Capitalism Will Not Bring Democracy to China", suggesting that a quarter of a century from now China’s "current system of modernised, business-supported repression could well be vastly more established and entrenched". A lot can happen in 25 years, but the line-up for next year’s change of leadership does not give cause for optimism.
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U.S.-CHINA ECONOMIC AND SECURITY REVIEW COMMISSION FORMUM ENTITLED "CHINA'S INTERNAL DILEMMAS," ROUNDTABLE
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
SPEAKERS: ELIZABETH ECONOMY, C.V. STARR SENIOR FELLOW AND DIRECTOR FO...
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The day's keynote speaker is Ambassador Richard Solomon, president of the United States Institute of Peace and former assistant secretary of state for East Asia. He will be interviewed by James Mann, author of "Rise of the Vulcans" and "The China Fantasy."
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Candidates Debate Rise of China; China Debates Reform
Bill Bishop
By BILL BISHOP
863 words
22 October 2012
NYT Blogs
"In his 2007 book"The China Fantasy" (Viking), James Mann criticized the argument that trade and engagement would bring l...
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In China, Weighing Economic and Political Freedoms
"In 2007, James Mann wrote “The China Fantasy,” a short book arguing that Western elites had misrepresented the benefits of engagement with China, and that prosperity and capitalism would not necessarily bring democracy to the country. Mr. Mann asked:
“What if China manages to continue on its current economic path, yet its political system does not change in any fundamental way? What if, twenty-five or thirty years from now, a wealthier, more powerful China continues to be run by a one-party regime that still represses organized political dissent much as it does today, while at the same time China is also open to the outside world and, indeed, is deeply intertwined with the rest of the world through trade, investment and other economic ties? Everyone assumes that the Chinese political system is going to open up — but what if it doesn’t? What if, in other words, China becomes fully integrated into the world’s economy, yet it remains also entirely undemocratic?”
That is the question many may now be focused on. As much as we in the West would like to assume that more prosperity will make China “more like us,” is there actually solid evidence to support that belief?
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China's 'political status quo' to continue despite economic rise: U.S. expert - Yahoo News India
"Over the last six years, I have been impressed by Chinese middle class concerns in three areas. The first is pollution and air quality, which is really bad. The second is food quality, or product quality. Even basic milk is tainted in China, and people are importing milk from Hong Kong and overseas because they cannot trust anything they buy. The third is internet censorship, which is viewed as a daily annoyance and insult for middle class people," Prof. Mann opined.
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“The main, single, ferocious idea of the party is that there is not going to be a Chinese Gorbachev,” said James Mann, author of “The China Fantasy,” a book that aims to explode the assumption that economic progress inexorably leads to democracy.
“They are committed to a collective leadership, where nobody can get too far out in front of the others,” he said. “They are not open to restraints on the power of the party.” There was no reason to think Xi wanted to relax the party’s hold on power, Mann added. “And if he did, he wouldn’t be allowed to.”
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China’s road to democracy blocked by rulers | Boston Herald
LOCKED UP ... QUOTES MANN
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Communist China: Facing up to modern Mao - The Globe and Mail
“Countries generally seem to feel that they can't just say this is a big, tough, nasty government, but we have to deal with it," said James Mann, the author of The China Fantasy, which respected China watcher Bill Bishop has called “the most important and prescient American book on China of the 21st century."
RESPECTED CHINA WATCHER, EH?
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Capitalism Is Making China Richer, But Not Democratic : Parallels : NPR
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Capitalism Is Making China Richer, But Not Democratic : Parallels : NPR
MANN GETTING SOME LOVE
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Amazon.com: MindWare KEVA Contraptions: Toys & Games
"And an 18 page idea book with project photos and quick start instructions"
ALREADY HAVE LOTS OF KEVA PLANKS ... JUST NEED THE IDEA BOOK ;-)
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Amazon.com: Tenzi Game dice color may vary .: Toys & Games
"I saw these hanging around a toy store full of overpriced "education" and "creative" toys."
WHY HAVEN'T I HEARD OF THIS BEFORE?
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ARDBEG FOR BLOG POST
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Ernie Button » Vanishing Spirits – The Dried Remains of Single Malt Scotch
BUT IS IT CAPITAL A.R.T. ART?
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Mother Of 4 Wakes Up Early To Make Creative Breakfasts For Her Kids | Bored Panda
JAPANESE MOM OF COURSE ... BORED AND FRUSTRATED AT HOME BUT NOT WATCHING THE SOAPS
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Can you steal the best pricing techniques from restaurants?
"Take Off That Dollar Sign from Your Prices"
"Add An Expensive Steak To Your Proposal"
"Do Not Underestimate Your Customers" i.e., NEVER ROUND YOUR PRICES
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HOW MANY HAS HE DONE?
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Animalium (Welcome to the Museum): Jenny Broom, Katie Scott: 9780763675080: Amazon.com: Books
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NICE IDEAS
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Forgotify | Discover a previously unheard Spotify track
"4 million songs on Spotify have never been played.
Not even once. Let’s change that."
SURPRISED IT'S NOT 40 MILLION
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New Works by Brock Davis | iGNANT.de
LOVE IT BUT IS IT CAPITAL A.R.T. ART?