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What could the Fen Phen jury be arguing about? A theory you may not have heard of could provide an explanation.
(This speculative article is posted at 1:43 p.m. on June 27, 2008 before the jury verdict has been announced.)
It is risky writing a speculative theory about a jury verdict, minutes (??) (days??) before it is issued. But we take risks, and sometime get it right.
You may have heard a lot about how much money the Fen Phen lawyers got. There may be a bit of deception there. This deception has been created by the claims of the victims attorney, Angela Ford. She argued in court that the attorneys were not entitled to be credited with court costs and attorney fees.
Cases in which disgorgement of attorney fees have been ordered have almost universally held that only the ill gotten portion of an attorney's gains is subject to disgorgement. That means that they were entitled to $60 million in attorney fees and only the excess over $60 million can be seized under the disgorgement theory.
The theory the jury may be arguing about and which has caused them to go into the 4th. day of deliberations may be an analysis of where the money actually went.
The settlement was for $200,000,000. About $70 million was distributed to the clients.
$200 million – minus $74 million leaves $126 million
The attorneys had two different fee contracts but we will round those off to being 30% contingent fee contract. That means that if you take the attorney fees off the top, then the attorneys were entitled to receive $60 million in attorney fees.
Subtract the $60 million of the contingent fee contracts from $130 million and that leaves $66 million,
Of the $66 million there is $20 million in the Charitable Trust which the civil court has seized,
Subtract the charitable trust funds on hand and that leaves $46 million to be explained.
The Angela Ford theory holds that her clients don't have to pay for any court costs incurred in the original settlement.
The following charges can be argued to be credited as court costs and paid by the victims.
One expert was paid $20 million, another $5 million, a consultant $2 million and then there was the master who evaluated each claimants case, and we believe he was paid $1 to $2 million. The work of the consultants got the original best offer from around $50 million ( we seem to have read that somewhere) and their efforts got the settlement raised to $200 million. So it is not as if they didn't add value to the claim. They added between $100 million and $150 million to the value of the final settlement.
So take $46 million and deduct the "costs" paid to others ($29 million), and that leaves $17 million.
The civil trial pleadings allege that Attorney Gallion paid his law firm $12 million to settle his firms claim for fees.
This is hard to justify as that $12 million would appear to have to come from his 30% contingent fee
So it is possible that a jury is trying to make sense of why Cunningham and Mills are being prosecuted largely on the basis of the $12 million Gallion paid his law partners. Neither Cunningham or Mills benefited from that payment.
So out of the remaining $17 million we deduct Gallion's payment to his firm of $12 million and that leaves only $5 million remaining to be explained.
It is possible that in a $200 million dollar case that out of pocket expenses travel, printing, etc. could have totaled $5 million.
This explains how this case could possible be viewed by the jurors. It is possible to argue that this criminal case is only about the $12 million dollar payment to Gallion's firm. That would raise a strong defense argument for Mills and Cunningham.
If that is the case, then it may explain why the jury is taking so long to use that flip chart and calculator that they asked the judge to let them take to the jury room.
You and the jury have heard claims that the attorneys overpaid themselves $90 million, or $60 million, or whatever, but there are pleadings filed by Angela Ford which suggest that the attorneys were only paid a 30% contingent fee (except for the $12 million payment to Gallion's law firm partners). The rest of the money can be argued to have gone to costs.
We don't defend this expenditure of money, but we can imagine that if a jury started out believing the attorneys had paid themselves excess fees of $90 million and then the facts presented bring that down to only $12 million paid to one of the three….then this might provide some explanation as to why the jury in now deliberating into the fourth day on a case that the media and Angela Ford has lead the public to believe is an open and shut case.
In any event, we may all hear the jury verdict soon, …but then there is a real possibility that this could be a hung jury.

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After felony charges were leveled following the suicide of 12-year-old Rebecca Ann Sedwick, "On Point with Tom Ashbrook" devoted a powerful hour of radio to the issue of cyberbullying, examining why and how it continues to happen, and how easily and quickly bullying and harassing can escalate into terrorizing and stalking. Guests question the wisdom of using criminalization as a long-term strategy for deterrence. Others bring up the empathy gap in developing teens (there are biological issues at play) and charge media with turning cruelty and pain into entertainment. (Even extraordinarily moronic shows like "Jersey Shore" and "Wipeout" glorify people being mean to each other and deaden viewers from considering just how painful some of the stunts must be.) All of this reinforces the importance of parents not just knowing what their kids are up to online, but continuing to help their children become moral human beings who have the ability, and willingness, to see another perspective, to put themselves in someone else's shoes. The episode (you can listen to it here) could be a great parent/child conversation starter.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
"What happens when a father, alarmed by his 13-year-old daughter's nightly workload, tries to do her homework for a week?"
Karl Taro Greenfeld's provocative article in The Atlantic recently really hammers home the problem in this country of overcompensation in many school districts. As education in the US tries to keep up with global competition, the trend toward more homework seems to be heading us in the wrong direction. Greenfeld notes:
It turns out that there is no correlation between homework and achievement. According to a 2005 study by the Penn State professors Gerald K. LeTendre and David P. Baker, some of the countries that score higher than the U.S. on testing in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study—Japan and Denmark, for example—give less homework, while some of those scoring lower, including Thailand and Greece, assign more. Why pile on the homework if it doesn't make even a testable difference, and in fact may be harmful?
The irony is that some countries where the school systems are held up as models for our schools have been going in the opposite direction of the U.S., giving less homework and implementing narrower curricula built to encourage deeper understanding rather than broader coverage.
Certainly food for thought as well as ammunition for parents who want to advocate for children who are losing a large part of their precious childhoods to busywork every night. Check out the full article.
Friday, September 6, 2013
McAfee, the online security company, just came out with a study from April examining parents' "digital fatigue" in trying to monitor and stay on top of their children's use of digital technology, from video games to smart phones to social media. In "Exploring the Online Disconnect between Parents & Pre-teens, Teens and Young Adults," parents express being overwhelmed, less informed, and less tech savvy than their children, while kids frankly admit to deceiving their parents about their technology habits, from amount of usage to content. It's an intriguing, sobering study, and The Boston Globe's Beth Teitell hits some of the high spots in a recent article entitled "In a Digital World, Kids Gain the Upper Hand." The message from both study and article seems to be a simple reminder -- know what your kids are up to and step up to the plate to provide guidelines and limits.
Monday, September 2, 2013
In an interview with the Boston Globe, actress Keira Knightly talked about being drawn to imperfect faces, remembering that her mum always said "Blessed imperfections." I love that concept, especially when it comes to validating the uniqueness of children pressed by society and their peers to "fit in." I've always tried to encourage my kids to step to their own beat, accepting that the attributes that make them different are what also make them special. (This is especially helpful when you have offbeat, quirky kids, like I do.) It is tricky, helping children value qualities that set them apart, especially those that can be somewhat off-putting to kids their own age. But some of those "blessed imperfections" that are so challenging to parent (stubbornness, conviction, fierce loyalty…) are character traits that can, if properly tempered by balance and perspective, serve them brilliantly into adulthood. So I've tried to treasure them even as I've had to develop strategies to survive them…
With the beginning of each school year, kids have the opportunity to reinvent themselves
Monday, August 26, 2013
Remember all those self-righteous pronouncements "we" were prone to make about parenthood and the things we would never do when we had kids -- until we actually had the squirts running underfoot and knew better? My sister just sent me a link to Amy Morrison's hilarious blog entry with a list of her best "aha" hypocrisy moments. Even though my sister and I are both empty nesters now, this little gem really hit home.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
After Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon, my high school senior has been anxious about venturing out too far from home. Even though she hasn't been pouring over newspaper accounts and video footage, she's really taken this to heart with it having hit so close to home. It's not just empathy for the victims and anger toward the cowards who perpetrated such violence, emotions we all surely share. For teens especially, who are too old not to be touched but too young to fully process, an event like this is especially confounding and troubling. This kind of terrorism reflects a unique combination of targeted malice and randomness. While one ponders the nature of evil and hate, there's also the realization, "That could have been me."
My own response is to carry on – refuse to be cowed, "living well is the best revenge." But for kids who might need some thoughtful parental intervention, "Psychology Today" offers some excellent thoughts.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
But then it rewinds and asks "Who Are You" in this picture? As it examines the various bystander roles in the scenario – friend, roommate, bartender, stranger – it urges us to think about the assault in a different way. It doesn't focus on why it happened, but on how it could have been prevented at several points along the way. Instead of castigating the predatory man or the young woman who gets carried away and has way too much to drink, it asks us to put ourselves in the shoes of any of several people who could have stepped in and stopped what was happening, becoming someone who helped instead of someone who just stood by. Show this to your teens….
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Just the description in a Joanna Weiss's Globe editorial today brought tears to my eyes. It's a heartwarming 25-second video called "A Needed Response" by University of Oregon sophomore Samantha Stendahl that beautifully counteracts the "rape culture" of the Steubenville, Ohio tragedy, responding to the assumption that a young girl's victimization was simply the unfortunate by-product of underage drinking and partying, as much the victim's fault as the perpetrators. Stendahl's video, now up to almost a million and a half views, shows a girl sprawled on a couch and a boy with a mischievous grin saying, "Hey, bros, check who passed out on the couch. Guess what I'm going to do to her?" He then puts a pillow under her head, covers her with a blanket, places a cup of tea next to her, and gently pulls her hair out of her face before turning back to the camera to say, "Real men treat women with respect." This brief vignette with its pithy little tag line encapsulated what I've been telling my two daughters since early childhood – treat people with respect, and expect to be treated in kind. It seems so simple, so commonsensical that we instill in our children the basic values of human dignity and kindness. How has that gotten so lost along the way?
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This binder was my life line last year for homeschooling and life. I called it headquarters because I kept everything in it. Instructor's guides, student activity sheet, blog list, 2 week meal plans, grocery lists, to do list, well you get the idea.
As you can see there wasn't much hope in reusing this pretty binder again for the 2011/2012 school year. It had been stuffed with too many papers and items one too many times. So I decided it was time for a change.
I found a blank white binder on sale a walmart and thought it would do nicely. But white is just to bland. So I went home and dug through my scrapbooking stuff. Here is what I have come up with so far. I started pulling papers I liked and found some matching stickers in my stash. So hopefully by tomorrow I will have a cute binder ready to go for the upcoming school year.
I have big plans for my binder but probably not as big as last year. More on that in my next post. I have moved into the modern ages and have realized how many useful things you can do with a laptop and an iPhone! I'll still need my binder everyday but for school and nothing else! I'll post pics tomorrow when my binder is complete and talk about how my organization has changed for the up coming year.


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Philly (via Atlanta) rapper S.T.S., or Sugar Tongue Slim, used a recently-released beat from acclaimed producer Just Blaze to create a hip hop track laced with hyper verses and a notable accompaniment by Jordan Brown.
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Get ready to tackle some major revisions in accounting standards. After years of consideration, the Financial Accounting Standards Board is finalizing its approaches on three major issues: revenue recognition, leases and financial instruments. Each of these accounting areas affects virtually all companies in the United States no matter what their size or whether they are public or nonpublic. And that means virtually all CPA firms are affected too. via blog.aicpa.org


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Google announced in December it would be expanding its self driving project into its own independent company called Waymo. Its mission? "To make it safe for people and things to get around." A week later and Honda Motor Co Ltd has revealed it is now in talks with the company to supply vehicles to test Waymo's self-driving technology, Reuters reported.
Alphabet Inc, the parent company of Google, partnered up with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV in May after the automobile company agreed to fit 100 Pacifica Hybrid minivans with the Waymo technology. The vehicles have now been delivered. Honda could now become the tech firm's second automotive industry partner.
According to Reuters, these moves "illustrate how carmakers, faced with the high cost of developing autonomous driving tech in-house, are separating into those going it alone, such as General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co, and those teaming up to spread the costs."
Honda itself has been developing automated driving functions and cars with intelligent features but has in the past emphasised that cars always need drivers. Now, the company has said it is interested in the approach of Google's self-driving car project to develop fully autonomous, driverless cars, Reuters said.
"There's only so much technology a company can develop while focusing on one specific approach," Honda spokesman Teruhiko Tatebe told Reuters. "By approaching it from multiple angles it's possible to come up with new innovations quicker."
"You've got Google, which is engaging with another automaker to apply its technology into different vehicles and different platforms," said senior analyst Jeremy Carlson at researcher IHS Automotive. "From Honda's perspective, you get a close-up look at some of the most capable technology in the industry today."
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said on Friday he is optimistic that the U.S. Congress will pass a sweeping bill to authorize funding for road and transit by August.
LaHood told reporters his optimism stemmed from meetings with Congressional leaders influential in crafting the legislation. The last authorization expired two years ago and consideration of a new bill was put aside during the campaigns for the 2010 mid-term elections.
Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House transportation committee, is holding meetings across the country on what should be included in the authorization and has said he will likely unveil priorities included in the bill this spring.
LaHood said his recent meetings with Mica and with Senate Democrats Barbara Boxer and Jay Rockefeller prompted his confidence that Congress wants to complete a bill as soon as possible.
"I am optimistic it is possible to have a bill on the President's desk by the August recess," LaHood said on a conference call about President Barack Obama's infrastructure priorities.
He did not discuss what Obama would like to see in the bill and did not give any indication about what members of Congress are considering.
Recently, Obama has renewed his push for building up the country's infrastructure, in the hopes of spurring job creation and helping the country's nascent economic recovery.
The President will address infrastructure issues in a speech on the economy to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce next week, White House officials said.
States are eager to see what Obama will include for capital works in the budget he is set to propose later this month, with many governors pressing for help to repair roads and employ construction workers displaced by the end of the housing boom.
Both parties historically had embraced the transportation authorization because it enabled lawmakers to bring money home to their districts, but in recent years potential costs of the authorization have become a partisan point of dispute.
The expired authorization had a total price tag that was less than $300 billion for road and bridge upgrades and transit services. A proposal that did not get off the ground in the previous Congress exceeded $450 billion and the next bill will likely have a cost between the two amounts.
Since the previous authorization expired, Congress has had to pass patch legislation to keep money flowing to states for maintaining their highways. Also, in the $814 billion economic stimulus plan, Congress sent money to states for short-term projects, such as road repaving.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
On Thrift: Musings and Motivations
Normally I wouldn't post such a decidedly unthrifted outfit, buuuut I was wearing those newly thrifted boots, so here you go:
I realized that it's been well over a year now that I've been thrifting/buying second hand all of my clothes (excluding underwear, socks, and tights, though I have had some luck with thrifting new tights). There are still enough stragglers though, like this Forever 21 sweater and cardi and my trusty GAP skinny jeans, left over from my days of mall shopping, that I will still occasionally find myself in a completely non-thrifted outfit.
I started thrifting as a kid. We didn't have much money growing up and at the end of each summer my sisters and I would get a small amount that we could spend on new clothes for school. Then my mom would take us to the thrift stores.
At the time, I probably would have rather been going hog wild at the ESPRIT or Benneton stores, ah the 80's, but I think this is when I first began trying to recreate designer or whatever looks using thrifted finds, I've always enjoyed that challenge. With so many vintage-inspired designs out there these days too, it only seems to be getting easier!
Into junior high and highschool, I became interested in various "alternative" styles… punk, hippie, grunge, what have you, and thrift stores became less of a necessity and more of a choice.
As for the present, I never consciously decided to do a retail shopping ban, it was something that just sort of happened naturally for me. I don't have any rules set for myself that I can't go and buy something new if I choose, though I have become more conscious of the ramifications of feeding into the "mass market machine" and I'm all for re-use as a consumption alternative.
I will admit though that my motives have been mostly selfish: I like shopping for clothes and the cheaper the clothes, the more of them I can afford to shop for (with me at home and the majority of our extra cash going toward home improvement these days this is important), I love vintage and find the unique types of pieces that can't be found in the mall more aesthetically pleasing and interesting to work with, and perhaps most importantly I thrive on the thrill of the hunt and the high one gets from a really excellent find…
… like these for example : )
More fun with Rollip for the braid wednesday flickr group.
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26 comments:
- anne said...
i love the socks with the boots. what an awesome find!
i have been thrifting since high school and always enjoyed the uniquness of buying used/vintage clothes. there's nothing like it. and the thrill of an awesome deal...well, you know how exciting that is.
p.s.-did you ever post pics of the kill bill costume? i can totally see you in that, i know you must have looked so rad!
- October 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM
- Eyeliah said...
Oh yes thrifting! I was introduced around 13 I suppose. I would buy all the 70s polo shirts (sometimes with the alligator) and mens beige and brown trousers, old mens striped sweaters sometimes too - yup thats how I dressed?. I don't mall shop anymore either, the only new would be the same as you - maybe one pair and jeans and a couple pair of shoes also a year. 2nd hand and clothing swaps are the way to go!
- October 29, 2009 at 4:17 PM
- muchlove said...
I love your boots!
I guess my love for thrifting has only been in the past 3-4 years. Not that I had anything against it before, I just didn't KNOW it then. First of all, growing up in a southeast asian country, secondhand shops are virtually unheard of. Then once I moved to Australia, I started to explore the local thrift shops, and now I'm hooked! The thrill of finding cheap, vintage wonders is fantastic. Plus having done work related to environment issues recently, I'm also motivated to choose thrift shopping because of the eco-friendly reason.
wow, sorry about the long ramble!
- October 29, 2009 at 4:50 PM
- Pretty Pirate said...
those boots are a epic find! Yea!!! Your whole outfit looks so fun and cozy!
- October 29, 2009 at 6:37 PM
- B.K. said...
First of all, I...love...those...boots.
They look warm. Also, I love leg warmers.
When I was really young and didn't experience peer pressure, I enjoyed thrift shopping, probably because I was more likely to get something there, then at a regular store.
But that initial innocence passed and I decided that it would be better to stay away from those stores for 'poor people' lest I be seen by an acquaintance.
Then about 5 years ago, in my mid teens, I started working at a store at the mall, which lasted a little under 8 months. I don't know exactly what happened to me there, but a few month after quitting I had this idea of challenging myself to only buy second hand clothes for a whole year.
Well, about 4 years ago, and I just can't seem to go back.
Okay, I'll stop typing now.
- October 29, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Ashlee said...
i have been a pretty avid thrifter since age 15.
i just love the whole experience, it's like a treasure hunt.and i also like that it is an environmentally friendly practice.
it's just all around amazing really.
- October 29, 2009 at 10:50 PM
- Andrea said...
Interesting to read about this. I love vintage too. Partly it's an aesthetic thing, beautiful styles and fabrics which is my self-serving reason I guess! The other reason is of course, remake, remodel, recycle. When it comes to new stuff I try and support local designers as I love what they are doing and the clothes last for years. Buy less and wear more is kind of a motto - but actually I have far too many clothes!
- October 30, 2009 at 12:31 AM
- Oranges And Apples said...
I grew up with a lot of second hand clothes and hand me downs, and have always visisted the charity shops every now and then. But my proper obsession with charity shops started maybe 5 years ago. I love the element of surprise and the feeling of saying 'its from a charity shop' when someone really likes my clothes.
I kind of find myself going off it just a little recently. I found that the constant thrifting meant my wardrobe was full to bursting with lots and lots of stuff - thrifting does encourage reckless buying because all the money is for a good cause. Which was why I put myself on a four month shopping ban which goes on until christmas. I am allowing myself three trips to the charity shops for the months of October, November and December, but I actually haven't used my October one yet. Once I got over the urge to go out every weekend, I don't miss thrifting (or shopping generally) too much. At the moment I'm focussing more on crafting and researching long term investment clothes that are *just right*. Which may be thrifted or bought new, if I can find the right thing in either the charity shops or from shops/websites.
- October 30, 2009 at 4:17 AM
- Hubbub said...
I agree with you it's so nice to find clothes and when they fit perfectly it just seems that it was made for us!I also like to mix and match old and new. Just like you I really enjoy thrifting because it's so cheap and I can get more clothes but then I need a huge closet!nice blog and outfits!
- October 30, 2009 at 6:03 AM
- Karen/Small Earth Vintage said...
This was beautifully put! I love your reasoning; it makes perfect sense. I grew up wearing lots of hand-me-downs from older cousins, and my mother also made a lot of my clothing. I also wore new, store-bought clothing, but both of my parents were brought up in families (one middle class, one poor) that believed strongly in thrift and making the most with the least--whether that was out of necessity or just a general philosophy. As a teenager in the 1980s I was totally into punk rock, and that pretty much changed my sense of style and way of looking at the world. That's when I really started to get into thrifting my clothing.
I do still buy new now and then. I like the idea of spending more on something very well-made and less on cheap disposable clothing whenever possible--but admit to occasionally falling prey to a cheap thrill at Target! But I try not to.
Those boots are an *excellent* find. I've been enjoying your blog for many months now, but this is my first comment. :)
- October 30, 2009 at 6:37 AM
- Sal said...
Thanks for sharing your thrifting evolution with us, lady!
- October 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM
- Manja said...
That's so neat! I wish I had been introduced to 'thrifting' that long ago. Where I live in germany, there are just not that many option to buy secondhand as in the United States. There are really only a couple of stores and you are lucky if you find something there, other than that you pretty much have to rely on flea markets which are only in the summer time :(
Anyway, here in the Netherlands is different - there are lots of thrift stores and even thought they are not as cheap as the salvation army, you can still get good deals there. It is rather hard to thrift nice shoes here and so I most of the time have no choice but to buy new ones. I don't spend that much money on new shoes though. I'm a pretty frugal person :)
- October 30, 2009 at 8:25 AM
- polaris said...
There's those boots and they are fab!
I grew up with my mom sewing & knitting my clothes. It wasn't until I neared my teenage years that I got much store-bought clothes. It was around then that I discovered thrift stores, mainly for making costumes. But I soon saw lots of clothes I could wear to school and that started my thrift shopping in earnest. That was well over 30 years ago. I never told my friends where I got the items as I felt a stigma at that age to be wearing "someone else's discards", and today I tell only a few friends where I get them as I don't want to increase the competition for the goodies! LOL. But when I go to a friend's house for dinner or a party they always ask me how much of my outfit was thrifted. And usually it's 95-100%! I buy maybe one thing new a year: this summer a couple pairs of wool socks, Aug. '08 a bra, and prior to that was a pair of shoes in fall of '06.
- October 30, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- Alexa said...
I loved hearing how you came to thrift. There are so many reasons to! Being able to afford more, the environment...but I really find that vintage clothes have more of a soul, you know?
- October 30, 2009 at 12:29 PM
- elena-lu said...
still have yet to find my awesome thrifted (first) shoe purchase but i always do look (i never thought id buy used shoes before) but the money issue of thrifting is whats really keeping me at it right now i must admit!it wasnt like that before actually it was just cause i didnt like what was inthe mall and found that thrifting had so manu more options!
- October 30, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- A Thought Is The Blossom said...
i love those boots and your braid!
i think i kinda went through the same process as you. i never really made the decision to quit mall shopping, it just kind of happened. i was finding such unique and affordable things at thrift store and started getting really good at it. i think shopping is more about the impulse of buying something, so the cheaper that something is the better. not only that, but i started to develop an interest or a hobby in the hunt! i will occasionally go to the mall and pick something up, i just don't do it like i used to. i feel more creative when i don't!
- October 30, 2009 at 3:09 PM
- Mars said...
yeah, thrifting is like addicting or something haha. i tend to get bored with things pretty quickly and like to sell/donate and replace with new (well, old) stuff - i'm a recycle rat or something haha :D
and i agree, it's all about the hunt! in fact those boots you found are goooorgeous and the outfit you're wearing them with is adorable, too :)!
- October 30, 2009 at 9:36 PM
- Diana said...
Thanks for the link on the Frankie Magazine!
I love your braid! mine would look like a big dread lock, haha
yours looks so soft and pretty!
- October 30, 2009 at 11:05 PM
- The Queen of Fifty Cents said...
Once you start buying clothes for next to nothing, I don't see how you could go back to buying in retail stores. Who wouldn't rather have several high quality, interesting items for the same price as one discount store thingie? But for the me best reason of all to thrift is...it's fun!
Love those boots, btw. I want some too!
- October 31, 2009 at 5:21 AM
- Milla said...
Truer words were never spoken. While I was in Vancouver I ambled through a couple of chain stores and was surprised to find myself completely bored with them. They seem so pricey and tacky now and the cute things you find look so much less cute when you know that anybody could just pick one up.
I do also think that the human and environmental price of also a concern. Once you consider the issue, it feels so wrong to buy a T-shirt that you know used up 50 gallons of water in the making and was sown together by a woman (or possibly even a child) on the other side of the world for pittance.
- October 31, 2009 at 8:41 AM
- Mamushka Marie said...
who would ever want to go to a big box store when you can find boots like those thrifting!? great post, i concur 100%.
- October 31, 2009 at 4:50 PM
- leah said...
i can't even remember now how i fell upon your blog last week. no matter, i suppose. i am just pleased as punch that i did. love these thoughts....and i love your thoughts on vintage shopping, i think my last 'mall purchase' was over 2 years ago.
- November 1, 2009 at 6:30 PM
- ...love Maegan said...
You look adorable! ...I have that sweater tunic ;) ...the rose/brown one as well. love it.
- November 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM
- Thrifted Treasure said...
LOVE your boots! I really enjoyed reading how the whole thrifting bug started for you. My weakness is definitely thrifting vintage decor, I find the ornaments, glassware etc in chain stores so same-ish and boring!! I don't get as many chances to thrift clothes as I'd like cos I usually have my little men with me and bringing them into the changing room is not an option!!! My Mum is a charity shop addict and brought us along when we were kids and it's stayed with me since! As a college student I always used to pick up the coolest clothes in second-hand shops, suede jackets, leather jackets, velvet blazers! Where are they now I wonder?
- November 2, 2009 at 1:36 AM
- Sam said...
Thrifting - or op shopping as we call it down here - is so much more fun than retail shopping! You find real treasures - rather than more of the same. While I'm not a 100% thrifter anymore (I used to be) I still can't walk past an op shop without having a look see! Your boots are fab! I remember them from a previous post!
- November 4, 2009 at 2:05 AM
- Peldyn said...
I didn't do a lot of thrift shopping as a child. My entire wardrobe was handmade by my mother and grandmother who were expert seamstresses. I didn't realise then how lucky I was! I have a few pieces still that are from those times. I started thrifting when my husband was out of work many years ago. It helped to dress my children when I couldn't afford to buy at the stores and trying to sew complete wardrobes for three girls is very hard! Now I thrift because it is fun and I love the clothes I find.
- November 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM


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Even better than making a chicken and pasta dish with a smooth creamy sauce, is making it without a single drop of cream!!
While not quite a one-pot production, you won't regret using that extra saucepan to put this dish together.
To create that creamy, silky sauce, l mix through and pour over the top of my Chicken Pasta dish pureed white cauliflower deliciousness.
Combined with butter and a handful of parmesan cheese, the pureed cauliflower brings together the chicken and pasta for a super satisfying, healthy, complete meal.
To cut down on the preparation time, l usually have the pasta and cauliflower cooking away in separate saucepans simultaneously, while the onions and chicken are sautéing in a frypan.
That may sound like a lot of washing up, but you are only using the saucepans for boiling. No scrubbing of pots required, just a quick rinse and wipe!
You can use just one saucepan for everything (except baking), but it will increase the preparation time. Don't forget that this is an all-in-one meal. You have your protein, carbohydrates and vegetable.
Once you have tasted this dish, l know you won't mind having had an extra pot or two to wash up. It's definitely worth it!!
Preparation Time: 40 minutes Cooking Time: 20 minutes Serves: 4 – 5
- 3 skinless chicken thigh fillets (Note 1)
- 200 g (7 oz) penne pasta
- 500 g (17 oz) cauliflower (Note 2)
- 1 medium onion, roughly chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 40 g butter
- 1 – 1 1/4 cups warm milk
- 2 big handfuls of grated parmesan cheese
- 1 tbsp parsley, chopped (optional)
- salt and pepper (Note 3)
- Preheat the oven to 180 C (350 F). Steps 1 – 5 can be done simultaneously.
- Bring a medium saucepan with salted water to a full rolling boil. Add the pasta and cook until just tender (roughly 8 – 10 minutes). Strain and tip into a baking dish. (Note 4)
- Place the cauliflower in a small – medium pot. Fill it half way with cold water. Place the lid on and cook over medium – high heat until the cauliflower is soft (roughly 8 – 10 minutes). Strain and set aside.
- Heat the olive oil in a medium frypan over low – moderate heat. Add the onions and sauté until soft and transparent.
- Push the chopped onion to the edge of the saucepan and add the sliced chicken thighs. Sauté over moderate – high heat until you can no longer see any raw bits. Tip into baking dish containing the cooked pasta. Gently mix.
- Place the cooked cauliflower into a blender. Add the butter, milk, cheese. Blend until smooth and silky. Add 1/2 salt and pepper. Blitz again and check the seasoning.
- Pour 1 cup of pureed cauliflower over the chicken and pasta mixture. Add the chopped parsley. Mix together.
- Pour the remainder of the sauce over the mixture. Sprinkle with another big handful of parmesan cheese.
- Place on the top rack of your oven and bake for 20 minutes or until a golden crust forms on the surface.
- Serve while still fairly hot.
- Slice the fillets as shown in the photograph; roughly 1 cm (1/2 inch) thick. Then chop them into smaller pieces. I like mine to be a bit on the chunky side; that's just my preference.
- When you remove the stem of the cauliflower, it will naturally fall apart into large florets (flowering stems). Break these down into smaller florets with you hands or a knife. Essentially, you want them small enough to fit comfortably in a small pot as well as a blender.
- Make sure you season well to bring out the full flavour of the ingredients. You may decide that you need a little more salt and/or pepper.
- Salt the water you boil the pasta and cauliflower in; this will give them a flavour boost. I use 2 – 3 tsp or enough for the water to taste quite salty.


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A Ceann Comhairle, I watch Leaders' Questions with interest on RTE.
As a proud Toastmaster from the Tralee Club in Kerry, I appreciate how difficult the Ceann Comhairle's role is in chairing the proceedings. With 166 members of Dail Eireann fighting to get their point across at any one time, marshalling them and keeping them in order and on time is a difficult task.
Toastmasters prides itself on positive evaluation and always offers a suggestion or two as to how future performance might be improved. With that in mind, I offer you the following constructive recommendations:
Ceann Comhairle, Leaders Question is for many the centrepiece of the Irish political week and when we tune in we hope to hear a passionate questions and answers session.
The electric rhythm of proceedings can be somewhat disrupted by the use of "Deputy, could I have a question, please" or "Deputy, your supplementary question, please", which I counted for example, on eleven occasions on Wednesday, 15th June. It's important to keep to time and you do that well, but your role works best when your good work is unseen, like a top referree in a football game.
Also Ceann Comhairle, all of our meetings at Toastmasters start on time, every time. If Leaders' Questions followed this example to the letter, there might be a little more time available for the ebb and flow of political discourse. I'm sure you can recall instances of political dynamite emerging over the years in the last ten seconds of an answer? These moments would have been lost forever had we stuck rigidly to the time, so perhaps you could gain a few minutes by starting a little earlier?
Finally Ceann Comhairle, I believe the sea air in Kerry might agree with you and I recommend you come down for a week or two for your Summer holidays. You appeared less than happy with your lot on a number of occasions when I saw you in the chair and you would of course be warmly welcomed should you take the opportunity to pop in to see us at one of the many Toastmaster clubs that are thriving in the county they call the Kingdom.


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Hi, my name is Amy-Lee Evans. I am 10 years old and live in Queensland Australia. I was diagnosed with diabetes in November 1999. I test myself several times a day sometimes with sometimes not the greatest of control. I have mixed insulin twice a day and sometimes a top up of another one if necessary.
The morning I was diagnosed was awful Mum was crying everybody was confused.I had a drip in my arm but I didn"t care because it was making me feel better I spent a week in hospital learning all about diabetes and eating right. The symptoms had been there but we never realized until the doctors visit. My thirst because it was very hot, my loss of weight because I had also grown 3cm, my going to the toilet because of all the extra water I was drinking, then I a got a bell ache Mum thought at first it was just a virus, then decided to take me to the doctor he seemed to know straight away and off we went to hospital.
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Butter London is introducing a trio of jelly nail polishes that will be available in February but you can pre-order them now! These are the three new shades:
- Chuffed: cool cantaloupe that becomes more of an iced tangerine with each coat.
- Stroppy: pale grape Jelly that becomes darker and more seductive with each coat.
- Twee: sheer raspberry Jelly that becomes a brighter magenta with each coat.
Oooh… doesn't a tangerine jelly polish sound fun? Actually they all sound like fun. I'm definitely going to be picking some of these up. Will you? Let's hope the coupon code fairy pays us a visit soon.


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United Nations
For centuries people around the world dreamed of an organization that could settle differences between nations peacefully, without armies declaring war. In modern times, as the world became more interconnected, that goal started to seem more believable.
In the 20th century, two attempts were made to establish such an organization. The first was the League of Nations, set up at the end of World War I in 1919. It was not a success and failed to stop several wars from breaking out, including World War II. At the end of that conflict, the world's great powers decided to try again, and learn from past mistakes. The result was the United Nations (UN for short), which is still very much part of the world today.
The UN is an international organization that aims to promote peace and understanding between nations. It tries to fight poverty and disease around the world and encourages respect for human rights. The UN sends peacekeeping forces to trouble spots around the world and provides food, clothes and other emergency supplies for people affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes and floods.
It also runs various other agencies with particular aims. For example, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) aims to help children around the world, particularly those in poor countries and those who suffer as a result of natural disasters or wars. UNICEF has worked to wipe out diseases that particularly affect children, such as whooping cough; provided food supplies when disasters strike; built schools and trained teachers and nurses.
The UN was set up at the end of World War II by the countries that won the war. Its principles were worked out by the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union. Detailed plans were then drawn up at the Dumbarton Oaks Conference, held in the US capital Washington, D.C. in 1944. The UN Charter was drawn up at another conference in San Francisco in April 1945. The Charter document sets out the principles on which the UN is based. The UN was officially born on October 24, 1945.
The UN Charter says that any peace-loving nation can apply to join. If a new nation is to qualify, two-thirds of existing members have to approve its membership. When the UN was first set up in 1945 it had 51 members. Now it links 192 countries, large and small, from all parts of the world.
The UN has five main branches: the General Assembly, the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the International Court of Justice and the Secretariat. All member nations have a vote in the General Assembly, which meets regularly and can pass resolutions, but does not have powers to see that they are carried out.
The Security Council is the most important body for making major policy decisions, including questions of war and peace. It has 15 members. Five of these—the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia and China—have permanent seats. The other 10 seats are held for two years at a time by countries appointed by the General Assembly. Five new members are elected every year, replacing five who stand down.
Nine of the 15 council members have to agree to any proposed course of action before it is carried out. Any of the five permanent members can veto (turn down) a proposal.
The Economic and Social Council oversees the work of various specialist UN agencies, such as the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization and UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
The International Court of Justice is a law court based in The Hague, capital of the Netherlands. It settles disputes between member nations and makes judgments on issues that stretch across national frontiers.
The Secretariat's job is to oversee the day-to-day running of the UN and to check that its policies are carried out. It is headed by the UN Secretary-General, currently Ban Ki-moon from South Korea.
Throughout the UN's history, there have been disagreements between leading members, which have made it difficult for the organization to succeed in its main task of stopping wars. Yet it has continued to do valuable work in many different fields. It has already lasted more than twice as long as the League of Nations and is still the only place where almost all the world's nations, including the smallest, can come together to discuss and take joint action on important issues.


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Valerie Jarrett 1977 Stanford year book...CAPTION
God Help us!!VALERIE JARRETT. 1977 Stanford yearbookHere is the lead fox in the house. This one gets to whisper in the kings ear many times a day.I'd like to draw your attention to the small print next to Valerie's name....while attending Stanford University.Ponder and re-ponder what she boldly stated way back in 1977 ".......using freedom of religion in America against itself."AND guess what....that is exactly what she and her Muslim czars have...and are doing....as we sleep.VALERIE JARRETT - The Top Muslim in the Top Power Seat - Obama's TOP ADVISORYes ladies and gentlemen, THIS is Obama's top advisor. This is what's running our Country!!!!!!!!Seems as if his promise to fundamentally change America is in full swing. Wonder why he can't utter the words "Muslim terrorists?Had enough yet?


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Seaside Church is a group of people that God is calling together for the building of a missional community in Kauai, with Communities starting to meet all over the island of Kauai in 2013.
We believe in the one true God who gives us life through His son Jesus Christ, and that our values of Truth, Family, God, Community, and Training are helping to shape us into something beautiful, something new, and in truth, taking us back to our origins. Because we are being made into the image of Christ, we have our identity in Him, and this hope drives us to declare to the world around us the glory of this God who wrought an unbelievable sacrifice on our behalf in order to bring us home. This is the Gospel - and if you would like to know what all that means in more detail, go over here.
We realize that this is not easy, and that we must be a people who live in a way that He can work powerfully and actively through us, changing our hearts and lives in order to see other's lives and hearts changed. Hebrews says that the Builder of all things is God, and much as we have seen Him work in the building of this Community, we are seeking that He would do the same through us to the Community around us, being worshippers of God who are bringing others to worship Him, to the glory of God.
The world teaches each person can have their own "truth," and that my truth doesn't have to be your truth, which means...is anything really true? At Seaside Church, we believe the writings in the Bible to be the authoritative words of the one true God from whom has come the real meaning of this thing we call life.
Most simply put, He is God and we are not. Graciously though, He desires for us to know Him, who He has made us to be in Him, and for us to seek His ways for how we should live in response to that, which is our act of worship to Him. He makes Himself known throughout all of His creation, through His written word, through His son Jesus, and through the men and women He's redeemed.
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To celebrate the day, the rescue of Europe by the French, here's a very Europan Coca Cola by Andy Fogwill (Landia), Buenos Aires.
No idea what Andy is trying to tell us, it doesn't matter anyway, what does matter ist the cheesy Italien song and… maintaining Europe.
europäische Cola Werbung