Nga's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 04 May 2020 22:28:15 -0700 60 Nga's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Never Binge Again: Reprogram Yourself to Think Like a Permanently Thin Person]]> 27067402 If you struggle with binge eating, emotional eating, stress eating, or if you repeatedly manage to lose weight only to gain it all back, you may be approaching things with the wrong mindset.

Most contemporary thought on overeating and bingeing focuses on healing and self-love. But people who've overcome food addiction and weight issues often report it was more like capturing and caging a rabid dog than learning to love their inner child...

Open the cage even an inch—or show that dog an ounce of fear—and it'll quickly burst out to shred your healthy eating plans, undoing all your progress in a heartbeat.

From his perspective as a formerly food-obsessed psychologist—and previous consultant to major food manufacturers—Dr. Livingston shares specific techniques for isolating and permanently dis-empowering your “fat thinking self.”� He reveals much of his own personal journey in the process.

If despite your best intentions you find yourself in one or more of the following situations then this book is for you...

You've tried diet after diet with no permanent success... You constantly think about food and/or your weight... You feel driven to eat when you're not hungry (emotional overeating)... You sometimes feel you can't stop eating even though you're full... You sometimes feel guilty or ashamed of what you've eaten... You behave differently with food in private than you do when you're with other people... You feel the need to fast and/or severely restrict your food to “make up� for serious bouts of overeating... Never Binge Again can help you: Dramatically improve your ability to stick to ANY healthy food plan so you can achieve your weight loss and/or fitness goals... Quickly recover from mistakes without self judgement or unnecessary guilt... Free yourself from the prison of food obsession so you can enjoy a satisfying, delicious, and healthy diet for the rest of your life!

 "What the Hades is this?  It can't be this simple.  But I'm closer to my goal weight than I've been in decades!"  - Peter Borromeo

"A powerful, thought provoking, and very un-ladylike approach to the problem of bingeing!" � Stephanie King

"A unique and brilliant way to leverage will power; passionate, convincing, defiant and inspiring - all at the same time" � Richard Guy

"Never Binge Again squelched that awful voice in the back of my mind which says ‘you'll backslide eventually, no matter what.'  Thanks to this book failure is no longer an option!" � Warren Start

"I'm still reeling with the revelation I have the ability to Never Binge Again, just like my ability to never rob a bank, never push and old lady into traffic, or never jump off of a perfectly good cliff! [...] This book is THE TOOL I need to conquer ever attempting to satisfy emotional feelings with carbo-laden calories again!" � Traci Rickards

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]]> <![CDATA[My First Sewing Book: 35 easy and fun projects for children aged 7 years old +]]> 23422305 328 Susan Akass 1782490183 Nga 0 currently-reading 3.92 2011 My First Sewing Book: 35 easy and fun projects for children aged 7 years old +
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]]> <![CDATA[The French Laundry Cookbook (The Thomas Keller Library)]]> 32075360 IACP Award Winner 2019 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the acclaimed French Laundry restaurant in the Napa Valley—“the most exciting place to eat in the United States� (The New York Times). The most transformative cookbook of the century celebrates this milestone by showcasing the genius of chef/proprietor Thomas Keller himself. Keller is a wizard, a purist, a man obsessed with getting it right. And this, his first cookbook, is every bit as satisfying as a French Laundry meal a series of small, impeccable, highly refined, intensely focused courses. Most dazzling is how simple Keller's methods squeegeeing the moisture from the skin on fish so it sautées beautifully; poaching eggs in a deep pot of water for perfect shape; the initial steeping in the shell that makes cooking raw lobster out of the shell a cinch; using vinegar as a flavor enhancer; the repeated washing of bones for stock for the cleanest, clearest tastes. From innovative soup techniques, to the proper way to cook green vegetables, to secrets of great fish cookery, to the creation of breathtaking desserts; from beurre monté to foie gras au torchon, to a wild and thoroughly unexpected take on coffee and doughnuts, The French Laundry Cookbook captures, through recipes, essays, profiles, and extraordinary photography, one of America's great restaurants, its great chef, and the food that makes both unique. One hundred and fifty superlative recipes are exact recipes from the French Laundry kitchen—no shortcuts have been taken, no critical steps ignored, all have been thoroughly tested in home kitchens. If you can't get to the French Laundry, you can now re-create at home the very experience Wine Spectator described as “as close to dining perfection as it gets.”]]> 737 Thomas Keller 1579657567 Nga 0 4.32 1999 The French Laundry Cookbook (The Thomas Keller Library)
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]]> Asian Slim Secrets 20455176
Praise for Asian Slim Secrets

“I lost 9.6 lbs from Dec 12 to Jan 10. People couldn’t believe it.
They said “Nobody loses that kind of weight over the Christmas and New Year Holidays.”Yes you do if you follow Linda Yo’s weight loss method. I enjoyed food, stay full and yet I lost weight.�

~ Ken Blanchard, best-selling author One Minute Manager

“Because of the way that you have taught me to eat, I am now no
longer a slave to food. I can eat without guilt and enjoy what I eat knowing full well that I am now in control and not my appetite.

Because of you I look great and others have noticed my SLIM
SELF. Again thank you for your SECRET.�

~ Sandy Wallace, Las Vegas, Nevada

“I love the Asian Slim plan. It hits the mark for me in key areas.
First, I don't have to be hungry and miserable. I feel full and
satisfied between meals. Second, I really prefer eating warm food to the cold food offered on most other food plans. Third,
the portions are large even though the calories are low. Fourth,
I'm not suffering cravings because there is a big variety of foods
to choose from. Fifth, my husband can eat the same foods and
he's happy too. Sixth, I'm consistantly losing weight, week after
week and starting to exercise. Seventh, it's very interesting to
learn to prepare Asian foods. I thought Asian cooking was too
complicated to even try, but it is much easier and faster than
I imagined.�

~ F. Barken, wife & assistant to Dr. Barken, San Diego

“If you are ready to become slim, trim, energized & healthier using the ancient wisdom of Asia, read this book and use it now.�

~ Mark Victor Hansen, co-author of # 1 NY Times Bestseller Chicken Soup for the Soul]]> 177 Linda Yo Nga 0 currently-reading 3.38 2006 Asian Slim Secrets
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]]> <![CDATA[The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America]]> 32191706 de facto segregation—that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, The Color of Law incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation—the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments—that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.

Through extraordinary revelations and extensive research that Ta-Nehisi Coates has lauded as "brilliant" (The Atlantic), Rothstein comes to chronicle nothing less than an untold story that begins in the 1920s, showing how this process of de jure segregation began with explicit racial zoning, as millions of African Americans moved in a great historical migration from the south to the north.

As Jane Jacobs established in her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, it was the deeply flawed urban planning of the 1950s that created many of the impoverished neighborhoods we know. Now, Rothstein expands our understanding of this history, showing how government policies led to the creation of officially segregated public housing and the demolition of previously integrated neighborhoods. While urban areas rapidly deteriorated, the great American suburbanization of the post–World War II years was spurred on by federal subsidies for builders on the condition that no homes be sold to African Americans. Finally, Rothstein shows how police and prosecutors brutally upheld these standards by supporting violent resistance to black families in white neighborhoods.

The Fair Housing Act of 1968 prohibited future discrimination but did nothing to reverse residential patterns that had become deeply embedded. Yet recent outbursts of violence in cities like Baltimore, Ferguson, and Minneapolis show us precisely how the legacy of these earlier eras contributes to persistent racial unrest. “The American landscape will never look the same to readers of this important book� (Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund), as Rothstein’s invaluable examination shows that only by relearning this history can we finally pave the way for the nation to remedy its unconstitutional past.]]> 368 Richard Rothstein 1631492853 Nga 0 currently-reading 4.44 2017 The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
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]]> <![CDATA[Federalism: Historic Supreme Court Decisions (Litigator Series)]]> 19266262 1993 LandMark Publications Nga 0 to-read 0.0 2012 Federalism: Historic Supreme Court Decisions (Litigator Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Inverse Condemnation (Litigator Series)]]> 38729153
The Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause, applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment, Chicago, B. & Q.R. Co. v. Chicago, 166 U.S. 226, 239 (1897), provides, "[N]or shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation," U.S. Const. amend. V. This clause "implicitly recognizes a governmental power" to take property for public use "while placing limits upon that power" by requiring that the government pay just compensation for any private property that it takes. Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Fla. Dep't of Envtl. Prot., 130 S. Ct. 2592, 2614 (2010) (Kennedy, J., concurring in part and concurring in the judgment). Sansotta v. Town of Nags Head, (4th Cir. 2013)

For a takings claim against a state or its political subdivisions to be ripe in federal court, the plaintiff must first have sought compensation "through the procedures the State has provided for doing so." Williamson Cnty. Reg'l Planning Comm'n, 473 U.S. at 194. Because the Takings Clause simply requires the payment of just compensation, not necessarily payment before or simultaneous with the taking, a plaintiff must first seek compensation from the state via the procedures that the state has established before suing the state in federal court. Id. at 195; see also Holliday Amusement Co. of Charleston, Inc. v. South Carolina, 493 F.3d 404, 407 (4th Cir. 2007). Based on this requirement, a plaintiff cannot simultaneously bring a claim for compensation under state law and a claim under the Takings Clause in federal court; rather, the plaintiff must first pursue his state-law claim for compensation. See Holliday Amusement Co. of Charleston, Inc., 493 F.3d at 407. Sansotta v. Town of Nags Head, supra]]> 1914 LandMark Publications Nga 0 to-read 0.0 Inverse Condemnation (Litigator Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[False Claims Act (Litigator Series)]]> 25819799
The FCA is designed to prevent fraud and reflects Congress' broad goal "to protect the funds and property of the government." U.S. ex rel. Owens v. First Kuwaiti Gen. Trading & Contracting Co., 612 F.3d 724, 728 (4th Cir.2010) (citation and quotation marks omitted). Under 31 U.S.C. § 3729(a)(1), a person is liable to the United States government if he "knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, a false or fraudulent claim for payment or approval." To plead an FCA claim, a relator must plausibly allege four distinct elements: "(1) [] there was a false statement or fraudulent course of conduct; (2) made or carried out with the requisite scienter [knowledge]; (3) that was material; and (4) that caused the government to pay out money or to forfeit moneys due (i.e., that involved a 'claim')." Harrison v. Westinghouse Savannah River Co., 176 F.3d 776, 788 (4th Cir.1999). US ex rel. Rostholder v. Omnicare, Inc., 745 F. 3d 694 (4th Cir. 2014).

The FCA makes liable any person who presents the Government with false or fraudulent claims for payment or approval. 31 U.S.C. § 3729. Section 3730(a) provides that the "Attorney General may bring a civil action under this section against the person" who violates § 3729. Section 3730(b), the qui tam provision, provides that a "person may bring a civil action for a violation of section 3729 for the person and for the United States Government." § 3730(b). "Notwithstanding subsection (b), the Government may elect to pursue its claim through any alternate remedy available to the Government, including any administrative proceeding to determine a civil money penalty." § 3730(c)(5). Further, "[i]f any such alternate remedy is pursued in another proceeding, the person initiating the action shall have the same rights in such proceeding as such person would have had if the action had continued under this section." Id. US ex rel. Babalola v. Sharma, 746 F. 3d 157 (5th Cir. 2014).

Under the first-to-file bar, "[w]hen a person brings an action under [the FCA], no person other than the Government may intervene or bring a related action based on the facts underlying the pending action." 31 U.S.C. § 3730(b)(5). A second action is "related" if it incorporates "the same material elements of fraud" as the earlier-filed action. U.S. ex rel. Hampton v. Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp., 318 F.3d 214, 217 (D.C.Cir. 2003). "[T]wo complaints need not allege identical facts for the first-filed complaint to bar the later-filed complaint." Batiste, 659 F.3d at 1208. Instead, later actions are barred where the first would have "suffice[d] to equip the government to investigate" the fraud alleged in the later action. Id. at 1209. US, ex rel. Shea v. Cellco Partnership, 748 F. 3d 338 (DC Cir. 2014).
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]]> Fair Housing Act 34995822
The Fair Housing Act declares that "it is the policy of the United States to provide, within constitutional limitations, for fair housing throughout the United States." 42 U.S.C. § 3601. To achieve this goal, the FHA renders it unlawful to, among other things, "make unavailable or deny, a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, sex, familial status, or national origin." 42 U.S.C. § 3604(a). As relevant to this case, it provides several tools to do so. Avenue 6E Investments, LLC v. City of Yuma, Ariz., 818 F. 3d 493 (9th Cir. 2016).

[T]he Act proscribes discrimination in housing and housing-related matters based on a person's disability. See id. § 3604(f). Under the Act, a cognizable disability is "(1) a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of [a] person's major life activities, (2) a record of having such an impairment, or (3) being regarded as having such an impairment." Id. § 3602(h). Castillo Condo. v. US Dept. of Housing, 821 F. 3d 92 (1st Cir. 2016).

[T]he Act outlaws discrimination in connection with the terms, conditions, or privileges of housing. See id. § 3604(f)(2). Discrimination includes, among other things, the "refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices, or services, when such accommodations may be necessary to afford such person equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling." Id. § 3604(f)(3)(B). Castillo Condo. v. US Dept. of Housing, ibid. Avenue 6E Investments, LLC v. City of Yuma, Ariz., ibid.]]> 542 LandMark Publications Nga 0 currently-reading 0.0 Fair Housing Act
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]]> <![CDATA[Equality under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment]]> 39093420 390 Judith A. Baer 1501722751 Nga 0 currently-reading 3.50 1983 Equality under the Constitution: Reclaiming the Fourteenth Amendment
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]]> <![CDATA[Land Use Planning and Development Regulation Law (Hornbook)]]> 2139862 645 Julian Conrad Juergensmeyer 0314257802 Nga 4 law-books 4.00 2003 Land Use Planning and Development Regulation Law (Hornbook)
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