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Rotterdam Not Novo Mantra

9 January 2015

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I have heard, “Rotterdam Not Novo” so many times now, my ears are ringing! It has become a mantra. CI dip and pay in Rotterdam not Novo. Buyers, brokers, agents, all seem to have enough offers from Novo and don’t trust the port, tank farms, authorities, and seller offers as much as they do Rotterdam. […]

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New Mexico Road Trip

2 January 2015

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I took this photo near Los Alamos in New Mexico. I did a fun road trip through some cities in New Mexico like, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Taos, and several small towns in between. I stopped at a number of Native American pueblos. More on this soon…

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I Belong To The Land

1 January 2015

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This land does not belong to me, I belong to the land.

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Does the word ‘mandate’ have any worth?

31 December 2014

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I think the word ‘mandate’ is thrown around so much, it has lost its value. I keep hearing, “I am a mandate, she is a mandate, I know a mandate, I am direct to a mandate, I only work with mandates…” etc! Have you ever asked a ‘mandate’ to provide a mandate letter? I did […]

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Many Rivers, One Sea

9 November 2014

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One day as I returned from lunch through our lobby, a spacious area bathed in Silicon Valley sunlight, three men wearing the blue lab smocks of engineers jumped up from their seats and tackled me with a chorus of questions. Erfan, a Syrian with a trimmed, graying beard, said, “Mariam, we were just arguing about […]

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Chocolate m&m’s

24 July 2012

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I can’t understand why they had to go and make chocolate m&m’s come alive and look like real characters with voices, arms, legs, lips, eyes, and all. Now I don’t feel like eating them! Who would want to eat something alive and animated? Not me. I wonder if this ad campaign has been successful and sales […]

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