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Thomas Paine said, "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." But he obviously wasn't talking about ethics conflicts and navigating through the California Rules of Professional Conduct, where hard conflicts create anxiety, lost business opportunities-and sometimes professional liability. Lawyers have to make tough calls about whether the law permits them to concurrently represent what appear to be only indirectly adverse interests, and about when preserving relations with existing clients warrants forgoing retention even if no actual conflict exists within the meaning of the rules on ethics. Little glory there.
Rule 3-310 of the California Rules of Professional Conduct (Avoiding the Representation of Adverse Interests) provides that a lawyer may not "represent a client in a matter and at the same time in a separate matter accept as a client a person or entity whose interest in the first matter is adverse to the client in the first matter."
But the meaning of "adverse" is far from clear in this context. Obviously, when a lawyer or firm represents opposing parties in a single action, it violates Rule 3-310 and the duty of loyalty. (See Flatt v. Superior Court, 9 Cal. 4th 275, 287 (1994).)
The Comments to Rule 3-310 make clear, however, that not every "divergence" of interests will create an impermissible conflict. For example, the Comments state that the rule is not intended to prohibit a lawyer "from representing parties having antagonistic positions on the same legal question that has arisen in different cases, unless representation of either client would be adversely affected." In other words, "issues" conflicts generally don't count unless, for example, you are inclined to weaken the zealous advocacy of client A's position on an issue to enhance client B's chances of success on that issue. But if you vigorously pursue conflicting legal positions—such as the meaning of a particular statute—in different actions for different clients, the chips will presumably fall where they may when the issues are decided, and both clients will have been properly represented.
Gray areas lie between the direct conflict of representing opposing parties in a single case and the very indirect conflict of having clients on opposite sides of a purely legal issue. For example, to what extent must a lawyer take into account the indirect interests of parent or subsidiary corporations or other entities affiliated with a represented party, or the indirect interests of an insurer in the outcome of an action to which the insurer is not a party?
Representing One Entity, Opposing Another
In California, corporations and other entities organize in all sorts of complicated ways to take advantage of rules that may limit liability, offer tax advantages, or create other benefits resulting from having separate structures and identities. If established correctly, the corporate form of such entities will be respected. (See Laird v. Capital Cities/ABC, Inc., 68 Cal. App. 4th 727, 737 (1998) and Berclain America Latina v. Baan Co., 74 Cal. App. 4th 401, 407 (1999).)
But in the area of professional ethics, an entity or group of affiliated entities may choose to look past the structure purposefully created, in hopes of limiting, for tactical reasons, the activities of a lawyer for one of the related enterprises. California law is not clear on the extent to which a lawyer's representation of one corporate client creates sufficiently direct adversity—and thus a potentially disqualifying conflict—when he or she represents a party in a different case who is opposing an affiliate of the first client.
In Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration Partners v. Superior Court (60 Cal. App. 4th 248 (1997)), a court of appeal reversed a disqualification order, holding that an attorney may represent a defendant in one action brought by a corporate plaintiff and, in unrelated litigation, may simultaneously represent the interests of a corporation that is a subsidiary of the plaintiff in the first action.
The court held that unless the plaintiff corporation in the first action and the subsidiary corporation in the second are alter egos, the attorney cannot automatically be deemed to be representing interests adverse to a current client. It reasoned that only "direct adverse consequences to an existing client" are barred under the ethics rules prescribed by both the California Rules of Professional Conduct and the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct. (60 Cal. App. 4th at 256; see also, Responsible Citizens v. Superior Court, 16 Cal. App. 4th 1717 (1993).)
In setting out its rationale, the court first noted that it would be difficult to distinguish among levels of indirect adverse impacts when there are varying degrees of corporate affiliation.
Second, the court observed that it would be difficult to screen for conflicts if an attorney must look beyond the named parties to litigation to find affiliated entities that may be related to a current client of the attorney. That is especially true in this time of corporate mergers and takeovers. It would be a daunting task to keep a firm's conflicts database current, noting every entity that may be affiliated to one degree or another with a prospective client or opposing party.
In reaching its result, the appellate court in Brooklyn Navy Yard disapproved the trial court's use of a "unity of interest" standard in deciding whether affiliated entities could be deemed to have directly related interests giving rise to disqualification under the circumstances in that case.
Two years later, however, a different appellate panel approved some form of a "unity of interest" test. In Morrison Knudsen Corp. v. Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft (69 Cal. App. 4th 223 (1999)), the court explained in great detail why a "unity of interest" test might be right for determining conflicts from representation of affiliated corporations. The problem is, no court has adequately defined the "unity of interest" test.
In Morrison Knudsen, a corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary sought to disqualify a law firm from representing a water district in a dispute with the subsidiary concerning a road construction project. The firm had never actually represented the subsidiary, but it had represented the interests of the parent corporation and its insurers, which retained the firm to monitor other attorneys representing the corporation on errors and omissions claims.
The trial court granted disqualification, and the court of appeal affirmed. Although there was no "direct" conflict of interest, the firm had monitored some cases for the parent corporation and so was privy to information about the parent corporation's financial condition that could be useful to an adversary. Moreover, given the overlap of functions and personnel between parent and subsidiary, especially in legal affairs, the trial court found they were closely enough related to be treated as one entity in determining the firm's conflict of interest.
Morrison Knudsen could have been resolved based on Rule 3-310(d)'s mandate that a lawyer shall not, without a client or former client's informed written consent, accept employment adverse to it when, "by reason of the representation of the client or former client" he or she "has obtained confidential information material to the employment." Cases have explained that this rule—based on the duty of confidentiality, independent of the duty of loyalty—precludes a lawyer's involvement on behalf of a party adverse to a current or former client in a matter "substantially related" to representation of the current or former client. (See Flatt v. Superior Court, 9 Cal. 4th at 28384).)
Because the firm in Morrison Knudsen arguably had access to client confidences that might assist its new client, the water district disqualification might have been appropriate on that basis alone. But the court seemed to base its decision at least partially on the independent duty of loyalty embodied in subdivision (c) of Rule 3-310, and in that respect it parted company with Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Ironically, a corporation attempting to disqualify counsel under Brooklyn Navy Yard or Morrison Knudsen will essentially be attempting to pierce its own corporate veil, to blur the distinction between different entities that was presumably set up with care to be preserved in other contexts.
Only one published opinion to date discusses Brooklyn Navy Yard and Morrison Knudsen, and that opinion—California West Nurseries v. Superior Court (129 Cal. App. 4th 1170 (2005))—distinguishes both in a way that does nothing to resolve the conflict between the earlier two decisions.
In that case, the same court that decided Brooklyn Navy Yard reviewed a disqualification order in which a firm represented a nursery as a defendant in one action and later was associated into an action to defend another corporation that filed an indemnity cross-complaint against the nursery. The firm attempted to remain as counsel for both clients by limiting its representation to matters that would not implicate the cross-claims between the parties. In doing so, the firm relied on both Brooklyn Navy Yard and Morrison Knudsen as authority for the proposition that any adversity between its two clients was merely indirect.
That argument was unsuccessful. The court concluded instead that, because the firm's two clients—opponents in the same action—were directly adverse with respect to their cross-complaints, "it is plain that the issue of direct versus indirect opposition does not bear on the facts of this case." (129 Cal. App. 4th at 117677; see also, ABA Opinion 95-390 (1995) [a majority of committee members concluded a parent/subsidiary relationship should not automatically disqualify a lawyer from a representation adverse to an affiliated entity, but a minority would adopt a contrary bright-line rule].)
In sum, it appears that representing one entity won't necessarily preclude an attorney from representing adverse interests of a parent, subsidiary, or other affiliated entity. However, before undertaking such representation, you should ascertain whether the entities have maintained separate structures so that representing one, with the concomitant duty of loyalty, does not translate into an attorney/client relationship with the other. You should also assess whether representing one client would inferentially give you access to "corporate family" confidences that might be useful in the adverse representation
Insurers and Insureds
After State Farm
The same year that Morrison Knudsen was decided by the First District Court of Appeal, the Fifth District decided State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. v. Federal Ins. Co. (72 Cal. App. 4th 1422 (1999)). It held that an attorney must be disqualified from simultaneously defending an insurance company's insured in one action-in which the lawyer owes duties to both the carrier and the insured in a "tripartite" relationship-while prosecuting another action directly against the company.
The court focused on the fact that the attorney had an attorney/client relationship with the carrier by virtue of having been retained to represent the insured. It held that the attorney's lawsuit against the carrier was adverse to an existing client.
In response to concern that the State Farm opinion might be expanded beyond the facts of that case, a Comment to Rule 3-310 was inserted to explain that the rule "is not intended to apply with respect to the relationship between an insurer and a [lawyer] when, in each matter, the insurer's interest is only as an indemnity provider and not as a direct party to the action." This comment is consistent with the Brooklyn Navy Yard rule that only "direct" conflicts create a concurrent representation problem.
Accepting representation of interests adverse to a client carrier's insured in one action while representing a different insured of that carrier in another action is not undertaking representation "directly" adverse to the carrier. As outlined in Brooklyn Navy Yard with respect to parent/subsidiary relationships, there are varying degrees to which an insurer may be exposed to paying for an insured's potential liability. If, for example, the carrier has a strong defense against the insured's claim for coverage, it is only remotely likely that the attorney's success against the insured will negatively affect the insured's carrier.
Similar to the difficulty posed in identifying all affiliated entities when accepting retention adverse to a corporate entity, it would be arduous for an attorney, especially at the outset of litigation, to identify all of the possible insurers who may owe coverage to an adverse party. Indeed, the parties themselves may not initially know which insurance applies. The attorney who agrees to represent one party therefore could not reliably determine whether another party in the matter will turn out to have coverage from a carrier that is a current client of the attorney. The practical problems identified in Brooklyn Navy Yard thus support a rule limiting disqualification as a result of representing interests indirectly adverse to an insurer that the lawyer represents in unrelated litigation.
Thus far, however, no published opinion governs circumstances that fall neither squarely within the State Farm v. Federal fact pattern (where a lawyer is prohibited from representing a plaintiff in an action against an insurer defendant who is the lawyer's client as a party in another matter) nor within the safe harbor described in the comment to Rule 3-310 (permitting a lawyer to represent an insurer's interests in one matter while representing a party whose interests are indirectly adverse to the insurer in another matter when the insurer is not a party in either action).
Future cases will indicate whether State Farm v. Federal will require disqualification of an attorney who represents a carrier as the party in one case while also representing interests adverse to the carrier's in an unrelated action. If so, such a ruling may exacerbate the problem of tactical disqualification motions filed by a client who has no real concern that its lawyer will have an impaired duty of loyalty that interferes with zealous advocacy of the client's interest. Such a client may nonetheless seek to deprive an opposing party of competent counsel, or at least to cause the opposing party to go through the hassle and expense of finding new counsel.
Trial courts facing this question should be mindful of the supreme court's admonition in People ex rel. Dept. of Corporations v. SpeeDee Oil Change Sys., Inc. (20 Cal. 4th 1135 (1999)) that disqualification motions may involve considerations including a client's right to chosen counsel, an attorney's interest in representing a client, the financial burden on a client to replace disqualified counsel, and the possibility that tactical abuse underlies the disqualification motion. As a consequence, "judges must examine these motions carefully to ensure that literalism does not deny the parties substantial justice." (20 Cal. 4th at 1144.)
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'Yorkshire fettle, radicchio, grapefruit and fennel salad now on,' chef Elliott Lidstone had tweeted. And what a treat: a salad that, as salads seldom do, seemed much more than the sum of its parts with grilled radicchio, pink grapefruit, wafer-thin fennel, plus tiny capers and parsley, and the more subtle British version of feta. Crisp slivers of pig's ear with apple sauce was a world-beating bar snack to match the local beers on a terrific drinks list. Half a hollowed-out bone filled with snails, bone marrow, caramelised onions and pork was magnificent. Gorgeous guinea fowl on puy lentils with salsa verde, and trout with watercress, slivers of apple, celeriac and an English mustard sauce both packed in sensational combinations of tangy, salty, sharp, sweet, earthy, peppery flavours. Everything about this gloriously updated former corner pub is bang on, with proper linen napkins, only 50p per person for unlimited house bottled water and local bread, and meat supplied by the Ginger Pig across the road. Check out the Frugal Feasts and BYOB nights in collaboration with the neighbouring Bottle Apostle wine shop. No wonder the comfy red leather banquettes and squishy sofas are full of happy families, hipsters and anyone who appreciates what the eager and talented team have achieved. Very impressive.
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A warm welcome, a brilliant changing menu and the best espresso martini I've ever had. This is our local favourite for a treat.
Discovered this place after moving to the area. It's now one of the reasons we can't leave.
Great food - great service - in fact I'd go so far as to say the best service I've ever had! Truly amazing food - fresh, seasonal vegetables well seasoned (didn't try the meat as I'm vegetarian). If I could afford it, I'd eat here at least a couple of times a week. I feel fortunate to have such a very special restaurant on my doorstep.
How can T.O give this less stars than the nearby Britannia? Food and service here both excellent - as your review suggests but not your rating. You need to revisit them both.
Excellent Sunday lunch after walking in Vicky Park. I had roast pork belly and partner had roast beef - both first class. Chocolate mousse and home made (?) banana ice cream to follow. Very personable service. Liked
Having travelled up from Sussex to dine at The Empress last Friday it certainly lived up to expectations! The staff were friendly, welcoming and efficient, there was a real buzz about the place and, most of all, the food was varied, experimental and extremely tasty. We would highly recommend the mackeral with new potatoes, horseradish and beetroot! fab + the aubergine with tomato and fenel - perfect for veggies. The lamb was "melt in the mouth" . Several dishes were available in both starter and main sizes - to more chance to try different things! We will definitely be there again soon. Thanks to Elliott and the team for a true "dining" experience.
Eaten here a few times in the last couple of weeks and the food has been fantastic each time. In my opinion it is rare to find a place with such consistently good food that you feel comfortable exploring dishes you might not otherwise try. Highly recommended.
Massive improvement since the change of management last year. Loved the pigs ears and rillettes, and the snails and bone marrow were to die for. All rounded off with the best panna cotta I've tasted outside of Italy. Not super cheap, but still very reasonably priced, and our American waitress was attentive, friendly and knowledgeable. They also have Camden Pale Ale on tap! What more could you ask for? Thoroughly recommend The Empress, and intend to make it a regular haunt from now on.
Very few places this smart allow dogs - but they do here and made a fuss of them too. Started meal with great bread and rilltettes and finished withdamn near perfect apple pie. Everything in between was also damn good Very good all round
Went here last Friday and was amazed. Really outstanding food at affordable prices. The cecina especially was exceptional, but really everything was excellent. Venetian lambs liver was soft and the onions with it caramelised to perfection. Gorgonzola and radicchio salad far better than most in Italy. And delicious desert wine and affogato to finish. Will be going back often.
I've had a mixed relationship with the Empress, being a Victoria Park local and wanting to love it but always struggling slightly with the food (I often found it greasy and overpriced). I was sad to visit it last weekend - my first visit since its rebirth - and find the interior stripped of all character and turned into a minimal gastropub. The decor and bar there before were unusual, but had lots of character. Now everything is grey and cream, the bar has been stripped right back and the menu completely renewed. I missed the excellent cocktails that the Empress used to have, but the new Spanish-style menu is interesting and I would happily try everything on it. I ordered lamb, and my vegetarian friend had crispy polenta with mushrooms and parmesan (there was only one veggie 'big plate' and a couple of smaller plates, so I'd recommend the Empress to the more carnivorous only). My lamb was delicious - perfectly cooked - and came with roast potatoes and kale. The potatoes were tasty but extremely hard (I was slightly worried that in the attempt to cut into them I was going to send them flying off onto another customer's lap!) and the kale was, well, kale. I was disappointed that for £12/14 all I got was kale (and not one or two more veg) but I can't fault the taste and texture of everything. Service was fine, but there were no condiments on the table and none were offered at any point throughout the meal. We were also served still water and bread as soon as we sat down - without being asked if we wanted it, so assuming this was complimentary - and then discovered that we'd been charged £1 for the privilege when we came to pay the bill. Not an astronomical charge by any means, but I do think water at least should be free, if not the bread too. The food was very well cooked and presented, and fairly priced, but it's not somewhere I'd rush back to. It's like the new management has brought in what the old management lacked - good food - but sacrificed the great cocktails and the character of the place. A shame, but somewhere I'll give another chance.
4 for dinner on Saturday night. New management seem to be making a good job of it. Food very much on a Spanish tip but done well. Tbone steak from Ginger Pig butcher according to the waitress and tasted like it! Little bored by the whole little plate thing but worked well as shared starters here. Good night out.
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In March of this year I posted a short piece with photos of my newly painted Bengal Native Infantry.
The figures, originally SYW Austrian Grenzers, have an identical cut of uniform to fit the style worn by Native Sepoy regiments pre-dating the Mutiny of 1857. These would work well as native troops for the Sind, Burma and Afghan wars, but the problem was to find suitable European figures to create an army.
For the past month, I had gleaned nearly every available source that could help with uniform descriptions, regulations, dress and campaign differences in the period 1830 to 1845. British uniform regulations were in a state of flux and this not only affected the infantry, but cavalry and artillery as well.
Suitable figures: I knew Black Hat launched a Sikh War series in April, but I wanted figures that would be compatible with OG15s. Reading reviews of Blue Moon product, I knew these would be of similar height and looked to their available line.
Through an exchange of emails, Andy at Old Glory UK was helpful with suggestions and I placed my first order to fill out the European ranks for India.
The British infantry will come from the Mexican infantry and New Orleans Greys of the Texas Independence list as well as the artillerymen and cavalry. Guns were selected from the British Napoleonic list.
Shako and soft cap fit the uniform of the period as well as the cut-away coat. The accouterments are perfect and all figures wear trousers. Only the cavalry require some conversion. With the exception of the Governor-General's bodyguard all will need a different headdress, a shako or cap with neck cloth.
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Whenever I talk about Temi Dollface, I tend to go a little bit mad. The last time I did, I dressed up like what my father would call an orphan, and jumped around the garden like a March hare. These are things that I will no longer do. I am no longer in that magical place between 18 and 25. I now acknowledge that all my bad internet decisions will come back to haunt me.
If my memory serves me correctly, a thing it almost never does, this is Temi Dollface's second music video. At this point I would be at fault if I didn't write a disclaimer in the name of objectivity.
I know Temi Dollface and I quite like her. She's a friend of mine. I'm literally incapable of having a truly terrible thought about her. However, I have separated my rather public love from the task at hand. I was born to be many things (a son, a deeply unfashionable individual, a hobbit) but I wasn't put on God's increasingly brown and smog-filled Earth to be one of the many press release echo chambers on the internet.
A press release is what the PR people send you, and an echo chamber is what you get when everybody seems to be talking about the same thing, and nobody bothers to tell you anything different.
The music video grew on me. I had the thing that happens when you see someone that you know in a movie. I cringed like a madman. I imagine that this is what Rihanna's mother does whenever she leaves the house. She's bound to be thinking something along the lines of, "Why didn't anyone tell me that I would never stop seeing my daughter naked." Or something like that.
By my third watch, I could watch it without spasms, and by my fourth, I was positively enchanted by it. It is cute, and weird and then it is cute again. It also has a certain unrehearsed quality about it that lends itself to the afore mentioned cuteness.
As I stepped off the London Underground this evening, I thought, "She'll never be a Pop Princess will she?"
It's her second music video, and I still have no idea what she looks like in a bikini. I don't know if that's progress or regression, but I like it.
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Dorkwave's story, like so many other well pedigreed scenesters, DJs, promoters, writers and artists, grew bored with premeditated set lists and technically sound yet unadventurous mixes. So, like other musically minded omnivores, they created their own party, focusing on the right songs for the right moment instead of developing flawlessness as their sole technique. While this model for success is most visible in famed parties Motherfucker in NYC or Optimo in Scotland, these six Detroit lads have created their own identity and momentum. From X to OMD, Carl Craig and the Cars, it's all par for the course when this tag-team outfit makes their Smart Bar debut. (Duke Shin)
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Jamaica is a beautiful island in the Caribbean Sea south of Cuba with around 2,9 million inhabitants. It is a member state of the Commonwealth with Queen Elizabeth II as head of state, her representative is the Governor-General of Jamaica. Over one million tourists per year visit Jamaica to enjoy the sunshine, the clean fresh air, the crystal clear water, the outstanding natural beauty of the island and the upright treatment. Jamaica is exporter of bauxite, alumina, sugar, bananas, coffee, rum, yams and other products as well. Many talented sportsmen and -women, especially in track & field, are of Jamaican origin.
Jamaicans have created the Sound system, different styles of music like Ska, Rock Steady, Reggae Dub, Dancehall and Ragga. In Jamaica the charismatic third world leader Hon. Michael Manley was born, further the Hon. Marcus Mosiah Garvey who became an inspirational personality for civil rights activists, the Hon. Robert Nesta Marley who has made Reggae music be known in the world, the Hon."Nanny", Queen of the Maroons and folk hero of Jamaica and many more to mention.
The other side of the coin is that every 5th Jamaican lives below poverty line.Because of poverty the island is a breeding ground for violent crime.


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May Day in Victoria
by Carlos FloresApril 30, 2017
Celebrating International Workers Day in Victoria by showing our support for the 4.000 hospital support service workers who are being hyper exploited by multinationals corporations owning the contracts for cleaning and dietary services in our hospitals.
Monday, May 1 at 4pm,
corner of Richmond and Fort
VIHA plays an important and pivotal role in this exploitation, taking full advantage of it and hiding behind the multinationals.
Please wear "orange" so symbolize workers getting "squeezed"
like oranges by multinationals in our city.
Carlos Flores
British Columbia, Canada
Inspired by events held around the world in celebration of International Workers' Day, MayWorks is a festival organized by a coalition of organizations. We will be co-hosting a series of fun, diverse events to celebrate social justice and workers' rights. All events are free or low cost, and no one will be turned away for lack of funds. The festival is organized on the territories of the Lkwungen, W̱SÁNEĆ, and T'Sou-ke peoples. (Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/MayworksVictoria/events/?ref=page_internal)


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Lawyers have control and power which is way beyond many voters' knowledge and control. Indeed they've a political independence from politicians too.
The division of power is a good idea if the judiciary, lawyers, etc. form a broad spectrum. However, what if they're all Left-Liberals who're intent on thwarting democracy and thereby establishing a liberal/leftist society and state?
Lawyers almost constitute a state which is parallel to a government (in Trump's case). Put simply, no one votes for lawyers. They gain their jobs primarily because professional expertise and, more often than not, because of their strong political biases.
Take Sally Yates.
She's the just-sacked US Attorney General. She's said that female lawyers are becoming "the new heroes" in the Leftist war against Donald Trump's travel ban. Yet over 61 million people voted for this ban and policies like it. Thus Leftist middle-class lawyers are rubbing the faces of voters in the dirt.
Trump's order placed a 90-day travel ban on people from seven countries, preventing citizens from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen from being accepted for visas to enter the US.
Lawyers are vain creatures.
Leftist lawyers also bathe in their unelected political power. Lisa Bloom, for example, said that "lawyers are the new heroes, particularly female lawyers". Who the hell is Lisa Bloom? Good question. She's not a politician, which means that not a soul has ever voted for her. Instead, she runs The Bloom Firm in Los Angeles. Lisa Bloom is explicit about her political intentions. She said:
"We take on very powerful people who violate the civil rights of ordinary Americans. We do sex discrimination cases, race discrimination cases and police misconduct cases every day."
Ms Bloom, as a Liberal/Leftist lawyer, is keen on political activism, especially political activism which thwarts the will of the people. And that's why she, along with other lawyers, travelled to Los Angeles International Airport. Why did she do that? To offer services to possible terrorists and those being detained as a result of Trump's travel ban.
Lisa Bloom also managed to add a feminist angle to her political activism, which I'm sure Muslim immigrants and pretend refugees will much appreciate. She said:
"There were a lot of lawyers there, which is wonderful. We stand ready and able and willing to help in any way that we can.
Then she mentioned the Women's March, which I'm sure gladdened the hearts of the feminist Muslim Brotherhood and those Syrians who simply adore feminism. She said:
"The women's march which I attended in Washington DC was such a powerful march. I think women are rising up."
Here she explicitly articulated the power of Leftist lawfare. Yes, she believes that the travel ban is "unlikely to hold". Then she gave her Marxist interpretation of the travel ban by saying that it's "a violation of all of the laws that we have against racial and religious discrimination".
The White House, which is now fully aware of the power of the ideology of international socialism amongst lawyers, made the following statement about the decision to remove Ms Yates from her position:
"The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.
"Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.
"It is time to get serious about protecting our country. Calling for tougher vetting for individuals travelling from seven dangerous places is not extreme. It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country.
Is such Leftism a minority sport?
It seemed otherwise when one saw the recent demonstrations. But Leftists have always been into demos and other kinds of "direct action".
Take the UK's Trotskyist Stop the War Coalition, which managed to get over a million people to demonstrate against the Iraq War in 2003. I say that the Stop the War Coalition is Trotskyist, which isn't also to say that all supporters and demonstrators are Trotskyists. What matters is who controls, runs and organises these demos, not the personal details of every demonstrator.
The Left will always take to the streets. Will always use violence against opponents. And will also believe in closing down free speech. Don't be swayed by the many automatons who go on these demos. For every one of these middle-class Leftists on a demo there are hundreds of patriots at home or at work trying to live their lives.


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Names. They hold a power all their own. That's why we put as much effort into naming our agency as most parents do for their first born.
That's also why we're serious about protecting it.
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You may cite our company name as shown here:
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The electoral commission has published the list of candidates for the legislative elections, which are scheduled to be held on Nov. 28, along with the presidential election. The legislative election is particularly important in the Congo, as the prime minister is named by the largest coalition in parliament, and then forms a cabinet to deal with the day-to-day business of governing. (That's the theory, at least – in this government, the presidency has wielded far greater power.)
There are 19,000 candidates for the 500 seats in the national assembly. This means the legislative battle will be more competitive than in 2006, when there were considerably fewer candidates. In some districts, like Tshangu in Kinshasa, there are a hundred candidates for every seat.
I have done a very superficial analysis of five of the major parties contending elections: MLC, PPRD, UFC, UNC and UDPS. I admit that other parties are also extremely important – MSR and PALU, for example – but I will leave those for another day. If I did not miscount, here is a list of how many candidates each party registered for the 500 seats:
- MLC (Bemba): 237
- PPRD (Kabila): 545
- UDPS (Tshisekedi): 377
- UFC (Kengo): 334
- UNC (Kamerhe): 450
I should emphasize that these numbers don't mean much – if a party is unpopular, then even by multiplying the number of candidates they won't get more seats. Nonetheless, there are several observations we can make.
First, the PPRD has the largest pool of candidates. This is probably a sign of their deep pockets, but they are also the only party of these five (other than the MLC, which has been weakened by infighting) that contended the last elections and has been present in the field since then, if only by virtue of the fact that the are in power. However, in some areas they have submitted over double the number of candidates as there seats in the district – this could be a sign of poor organization, as the party will be wasting resources by overloading candidates.
Secondly, it is very probable that we will see a change in the lead opposition party. Even if Kabila's coalition wins again, the MLC appears to have been deeply weakened by Bemba's absence and the splintering of the party over the past several years. They were only able to table one candidate for every two seats, an indication of a lack of funds and organization – one of their officials told me that they had even had trouble raising the funds necessary for registering their legislative candidates (I think something like $60,000).
The new opposition parties have been mobilizing very effectively. In particular, the UNC, which was launched less than a year ago, has been able to put forward candidates for over 85 percent of the seats in the national assembly, an impressive feat that also indicates that they have been able to raise significant funds. The UDPS is strong, but lacks candidates in many areas in the East. Again, none of this is an indication of how many seats they will win, and some of suggested that the UNC has expanded too fast, allowing to many opportunists into the party, while the UDPS has been more selective in its candidates.
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If n(A×B)=75 and n(A) =15, find n(B).
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n(A x B) when distributed would be n(A)* n(B).
And n(A x B) is 75.
We also know n(A) = 15.
So if n(A)* n(B) is equivalent to n(A x B), then n(A)* n(B) = 75.
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01 September 2010
Allspice is a Spice and Nectarine-Plum Pie
In order to keep one's sanity when getting married, it is entirely necessary to put away your camera and (lesson I learned a bit too late) get someone else to answer your phone for you. As a result, I don't have any photos of the rehearsal dinner - though I can say I made a kick-ass pasta salad with my friend Tony - nor of the food at the wedding - though I was VERY pleased with the caterer, who was a real foodie and made a delicious buffet, most of which I couldn't eat because I was too emotional. Luckily someone DID get photos of the delicious cupcakes and you can hear all about them here (thanks Camille!): The Great Cupcake Extravaganza.
On our honeymoon in Belize, I likewise told myself I wasn't going to be taking culinary photos or thinking about my blog. But, of course, I didn't stop thinking about FOOD (heaven forefend)! As we were traipsing through subtropical rain forest in the mountains, our guide crushed a leaf and handed it to me. "What do you think?" he said. "Um, smells like cloves," I said. "Smells like allspice," said someone else. And here I learned something important: Allspice is a spice!
I know that SOUNDS like stating the obviously, but I seriously thought it was a combination of spices, like the French version quatres épices (a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, clove, and ginger). But no, it's a plant! You probably all knew that already, but just pretend you think it's cool because I'm excited. The spice we buy in the US is made from the berries (sort of like peppercorns). The leaves apparently lose their fragrance when dried. So you have to live in a place where it grows to use them.
Also on our honeymoon, D. bought me a beautiful hardwood rolling pin. I argued that a rolling pin was not a very practical souvenir, being long and heavy, hard to fit in a suitcase and probably not legal as a carry on. BUT D. was having visions of pies and I'm already learning to say "yes dear".
Now that I'm back in Paris, I have to remember to always make time to do my wifely duties. Now, now get your minds out of the gutter. I mean making pies. Like this seasonal pie with allspice. Look for the recipe here: Nectarine - Greengage Pie with a Gingerbread Crust. Next time, for a real Central American twist, I think I'll simmer the fruit in One Barrel Rum first. Seriously, best rum in the world. When we finish the bottle, I might cry. More about that and other Belizean ingredients soon...
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- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Congrats! That trip to Belize must have been wonderful.
A great pie!
- 01 September, 2010 10:42
- Julie said...
Congratulations! Would love to see a wedding picture. Belize must have been amazing.
- 01 September, 2010 12:52
- Psychgrad said...
Welcome back! I'm with Julie -- more pictures! I've never really thought about it before -- but I guess I too would assume that allspice is a combination of spices.
The pie filling looks delicious.
- 01 September, 2010 14:40
- giz said...
Married you say!!!!! Big hug and congratulations to you both. I'm just not sure how you managed this without your blogging family :)
- 02 September, 2010 00:31
I'm so glad to be back in Paris in time to catch the last of the reine claudes! And there was someone who took pictures of the cupcakes... ;)
I also have pictures of all the adorable passed hors d'oeuvres (my favorite was the mini lobster roll in the mini paper boat), and I'd be happy to send them to you if you want.
Felicitations encore!
- 02 September, 2010 08:21
- Jessalyn Pinneo said...
Pies, pies, pies! I also was not aware that allspice is a spice, so it is exciting! I love the idea of simmering fruit in rum, I'm going to have to try that one...
- 02 September, 2010 20:55
Is a greengage like a plum? I honestly haven't heard of them. Congratulations on your marriage and a great trip.
- 06 September, 2010 08:46
- kitchenmorph said...
sigh...and you could leave out the wedding pic!
- 06 September, 2010 11:30
- kitchenmorph said...
oh and you sure haven't had biriyani then (it uses all spice dried leaves; the fragrance is defo there but not as good as the fresh leaves).
- 06 September, 2010 11:34
- Sam said...
I think congratulations are in order. Oh and that pie pie looks fantastic!
- 07 September, 2010 23:36
- Hopie said...
Rosa - Indeed, it was amazing! Cheers!
Julie - Thank you! I don't like to put up pictures of myself on the blog, but there will be more Belize pictures soon!
Psychgrad - The pie filling was amazing and I'm only sad that my CSA seems to have started on apples already and we'll be getting those for the rest of the winter... I know allspice sounds like a combination, but no!
Giz - I know, I'm not sure how I managed either. I should've called you all in to make food ;-)
Camille - I know, yay reine claudes! (Arg, are YOU getting apples already in the CSA too?) Yes, more foodie pictures please! The cupcakes pics are great.
Jessalyn - Yes, rum and fruit, can't go wrong with that. I'm dying to get a chance to make another pie and try it out. First I have to make D. a birthday cake for the party Sat - and that has to be chocolate of course.
Agrigirl - Yep, greengage is a type of plum. They're green when they're ripe, small and delicious.
Kitchenmorph - I guess I haven't had byriani with allspice leaves in it - or else I didn't know what they were.
Sam - Thank you! When do we get more yummy recipes from the cycling cook??
- 09 September, 2010 11:18
- Ivy said...
Congratulation Hopie. Sorry I haven't visited for a long time but I wasn't visiting others as well. That was great news and wish you all the happiness.
P.S. I also though that allspice was a combination of spices :)
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Francesco Possenti was born on March 1, 1838 the eleventh of thirteen children. He led a relatively normal life, becoming popular for his warm and outgoing personality. His interested included dancing, hunting and the theater. Twice he fell seriously ill as a child, and promised his life to God if he became well, and twice was healed. Both times he put off his promise.
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Saint Gabriel quickly took the soldier's revolver from his belt and ordered him to let the woman go. Gabriel also grabbed the revolver of another soldier who walked by, and the man let the woman free. The other soldiers started to gather at that point, with the intent of stopping Saint Gabriel. At that moment a small lizard happened to run across the road between Saint Gabriel and the band of soldiers. When the lizard briefly paused, the Saint took careful aim and killed the lizard with one shot. Turning his two handguns on the approaching soldiers, He then commanded them to drop their weapons. After seeing his marksmanship with a pistol, the soldiers complied. Saint Gabriel then ordered them to put out the fires they had set, and otherwise clean up the mess they had caused, and upon finishing, marched the whole lot out of town, ordering them never to return. The grateful townspeople thereafter referred to him as "the Savior of Isola".
Gabriel died of tuberculosis in 1860.
Pope Benedict XV canonized Gabriel in 1920 and declared him a patron saint of Catholic youth. In 1959, Pope John XXIII named him the patron of the Abruzzi region, where he spent the last two years of his earthly life. His patronage is also invoked by the Church for students, seminarians, novices and clerics. Saint Gemma Galgani held that it was St. Gabriel who had cured her of a disease and led her to a Passionist vocation. Millions of pilgrims visit St. Gabriel's shrine each year in Teramo, Abruzzi to see the burial place of the Saint and the monastic house in which he lived out his final years. The cult of St. Gabriel is especially popular amongst Italian youth. Every March, thousands of high school students from Abruzzo and the Marche reions of Italy visit his tomb 100 days before their expected graduation.


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Darrell Driver
Darrell is proud to say that he is a self-taught artist. He creates through very late nights determined to fulfill his passion for art.
"I try to draw/paint, everyday... when I begin I have no post production in mind, i like to begin creating with a solid foundation of color and basic shapes then build upon that, I'm inspired by all the different things i notice everyday, my 3 children are a huge inspiration, I paint to get an excited reaction from them. My sweet wife Amber is highly influential on my work because she has a hard eye to please....
My Artistic goal is to have the observer excited to see my pieces and put them in a happy mood
2010 is the first year i have decided to show my work, I'm a rather fast painter and have 5-10 works in progress at any given time, it allows my mind to stay fresh on a new canvas, and time for the paint to dry... I enjoy painting on both small and large scales, I have painted larger than life Murals as well as a 4"x6" canvas"
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A move by QantasLink to streamline connections between regional, domestic and international flights could boost travel to the north coast.
From tomorrow, Thursday August 15th 2013 QantasLink flights will go from Sydney Domestic Terminal 3, instead of Terminal 2.
It will make connections to regional, domestic and international services easier.
Lisa McPherson from the Port Macquarie Chamber of Commerce said it could boost business travel through the Port, Coffs and Ballina airports.
"QantasLink is a big supporter of trying to provide better opportunities for regional Australia," she said.
"Getting around these days is really important when we are looking at more global relationships and partnerships."
Ms McPherson said the changes of terminal could boost business travel at Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour and Ballina.
"I think any measures which can improve transport opportunities for business and residents alike from regional Australia is a positive," she said.
"It's a global world these days and certainly being able to free up and make more efficient transport available is going to be a positive."
Source: ABC News


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In a previous post I referred to "a line I put down in our driveway to keep the kids from going into the street". My kid's reactions demonstrated their response to authority over all. You can read about that experience here if you want to. I finally had a chance to upload the pictures from that day, and thought I would share them. Here they are.
Here's Preston, my first born. 5 years old. He always stopped himself before he got even remotely close to my line, and threatened anyone who attempted at disobeying my orders in regards to the line.
Here's Keely, middle child. 3 years old. She joyfully lifted her feet high in the air and let herself go as far as she could. She would have loved if the car would have "accidentally" taken her past that line.
Then, there's Kipton. The baby of the family. 1-1/2 years old. He played on the line for quite a while, while looking up at me occasionally to make sure he still had to stay on that side of the line.
Cute as a button.
If you are wondering where all the recipes have gone, we have good news. We'll be posting more soon. As for myself, I have a ton of great recipes to share along with the Weight Watchers Points Plus values tacked on to them. I even have the pictures taken already. I just need to get around to posting them is all. They'll be coming soon.


text: INTO AMERICA will have its first screening at an Ethnographic Film Festival: "One With A Movie Camera – Marburg International Ethnographic Film Festival". We are excited that INTO AMERICA also receives attention from anthropological side since Angelo Baca and Nadine Zacharias were educated in Ethnographic Filmmaking and Visual Anthropology in the first place. I will be present at the screening on Saturday, November 30th, and happy to answer the crowd's questions. See you soon.


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MIAMI (CBS4) – "I walked in and I tripped on something and I realized he was on the floor. He did not look like Ben. Ben would not be on the floor. Something was not right."
In eight hours of never before seen video obtained by CBS4 News, Narcy Novack discussed the moment she literally stumbled over her husband's bloody corpse.
Ben Novack, Jr. was the son of Miami Beach royalty. His father owned the famed Fontainebleau Hotel. His mother was a famous New York model.
Ben grew up surrounded by presidents and kings who visited the Miami Beach icon, but by the time he turned 21, the Novack reign over the Fontainebleau had already ended with the family selling the landmark to the Hilton hotel chain.
And in the three decades that followed, Ben would develop his own multi-million dollar business, he never escaped the long shadow of his father's famous hotel.
"He was like my child in a lot of ways, because he was naive in a lot of ways," Narcy told detectives. "He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He didn't have friends to play with because he was raised in a hotel – he was born in a hotel."
Before meeting Ben Novack in the Eighties, Ecuadorian-born Narcisa "Narcy" Veliz was a Hialeah stripper who danced at the now defunct Follies International. By all accounts, their 18-year marriage was a strange and violent affair.
"He used handcuffs," Narcy told detectives. "And he liked rough stuff."
Click Here To Read The Narcy Novack Tapes, Part 2
And so in July 2009 when Narcy claimed to have discovered Ben's body in Room 453 of the Hilton Hotel in Rye Brook New York – investigators had their share of questions.
"Somebody did a serious number on him," Westchester County Police Detective Alison Carpenter tells Novack. Somebody hurt him bad.
Hands and legs bound with duct tape, the 53-year-old Novack – known as Benjie to his friends – was bludgeoned to death with dumbbells. His eyes were slit with a knife. Crime scene photos capture the bloody mess. While the video reveals Narcy's hazy memory.
"I don't remember any blood," Narcy says. "Blood is red. You can see it. I don't remember anything."
It would be another year before Narcy Novack would be charged in her husband's death. But her interview with detectives provides an early insight into what investigators were thinking in the hours after Ben's murder.
Narcy Novack met with detectives the day after the murder. The interview started just before 6 pm and would last until nearly 2 a.m.
The video provides a fascinating glimpse into police interview techniques. Five different detectives and investigators take turns questioning Narcy inside a small conference room at a Westchester County police station. Novack doesn't know the conversations are being recorded – and several times detectives in the room tell her that what she tells them will go no further and that no one will know what she says.
Novack spoke to the detectives without an attorney. On numerous occasions she said she knew she was free to leave and that she even might be considered a suspect.
She said she was talking because she wanted to help police find her husband's killer.
"I'm really fragile right now," Narcy tells Edward Murphy, an investigator with the Westchester County District Attorney's Office.
"I understand," Murphy says reassuringly.
"I don't know who to trust," Narcy adds.
At various points in the night Narcy grows tired and places her head down on the table. But just as quickly she could become irate with detectives for asking so many prying questions.
"I don't need you or anybody else to yell at me, to put pressure on me," she shouts at one detective who accuses her of having a selective memory. "I can not take it. If everything falls on me, just take me to the electrical chair because I can not take it anymore."
The marathon interview not only offers new details in Ben Novack's death, it also provides an uncomfortable view into his life.
And while investigators may not have accepted many of Narcy's statements, she did say one thing they all would agree upon.
"Only a monster can do this kind of evil thing," she said.
The last day of Ben Novack's life, according to his wife, began with a kiss.
"I was leaving and he realized I was leaving without giving him a kiss. And we don't do that," Narcy explained.
Ben Novack had created a successful event planning company that was managing an Amway convention inside the Westchester County hotel. Narcy said she was heading downstairs to see if the 1,900 direct mail aficionados were being served breakfast on time.
"He said come on and give me a besitos," she recalled. "So I kissed him and left."
She said she was gone no more than 30 or 40 minutes. Hotel surveillance video shows Narcy just before she returned to the room and found Ben's corpse.
"I just wanted to kill myself," she declared. She even described a moment when she tried to grab a police officer's gun so she could shoot herself. Luckily, she said, the officer stopped her.
Narcy initially had her own theory about who might have killed her husband. She wondered if it was a comic book collector who knew Ben often carried large sums of money to purchase comic books himself. She made her disdain plain for comic book fanatics.
"I happen not to like those types of individuals," she said. "They always give me the creeps."
She could have just as easily been talking about her husband. A fanatical collector of Batman memorabilia, including his very own Bat-mobile, Ben Novack had filled their Fort Lauderdale home with Caped Crusader collectibles. She said she was embarrassed by her husband's obsession – and could no longer invite people over to their home.
Detectives seemed skeptical Novack's murder was related to the Dark Knight. They were more struck by Narcy's demeanor.
"I'm amazed your not mad," Detective Carpentier.
Two hours into the interview, detectives asked Narcy about a 2002 report from Florida regarding a home invasion in which Ben Novack was handcuffed to a chair, assaulted and robbed. At the time, Narcy was suspected of engineering the crime, but Ben refused to press charges.
"I took my stuff, I have the right to leave the house," Narcy said defiantly. "I'm not his prisoner. I'm not his sex slave. I was fed up."
She admitted to handcuffing him to the chair in 2002. "He used to like to be tied up," she said.
She said she left him in 2002 because he cheated on her and had begun to develop dark sexual habits. At times Narcy seemed reluctant to talk about her husband's sexual proclivities. But the detectives prodded her along.
"This is my husband we're talking about and I don't want you to look at him as a pervert," Narcy says.
"No, no, we don't," detective Carpentier says. "We're not looking at him as a pervert."
"I'm not looking at him as a pervert," Murphy agrees. "We're not taking any of this personally. Everybody has their own lives."
"But I shouldn't be saying this, this is a betrayal," Narcy counters.
"It's not a betrayal," Carpentier assures her, "because we need to find out what happened in that room and we need to know everything about him."
The detectives wonder if maybe Narcy and Ben were playing their old sex games – and Narcy tied Ben up and somehow something went terribly wrong.
"He dies in a position he finds sexually arousing, that's why we are asking about the sex part of it," Carpentier says.
Ultimately, though, the detectives would move away from sex and begin honing in on Narcy's version of events that fateful morning.
Narcy grows frustrated and by the suggestions being made by detectives and challenges one of them to just ask the question that is on her mind.
"You want me to ask you straight out?" Carpentier asks. "Did you have any involvement in your husband's death?"
"No," Narcy said flatly.
In one telling moment, Murphy, an investigator with the District Attorney's Office, tells Narcy they have a witness that claims to have seen two men go into the hotel room and a woman leave the room a few minutes later.
"That woman has to be you," Murphy tells her.
"Beats me," Narcy says with a shrug.


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So, k-12 educational system is the answer for our low system of education. By implementing the k-12 educational system here in the philippines,
- it can enhance the quality of basic education in the philippines.
- the 10-year quality of education is reflected in the inadequate preparation of high school graduates for the world of work or entrepreneurship or higher education. If ten years were adequate, how come employers do not hire fresh high school graduates?
- if we will add another 2 years educations, that 2 years can use as the "preparatory years".
- the current system also reinforces the misperception that basic education is just a preparatory step for higher education. and we should prioritize the minority of h.s graduates that go to college?
- the short duration of the basic education program also puts the millions of overseas filipino workers especially the professionals and those who intend to study abroad, at a disadvantage. our doctor graduates working their as janitor, lower than their profession.
- the short basic education program affects the human development of the filipino children.


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Je suis sauvage
Bienvenue, welcome to my home
In this neck of the woods we are known as the unknown
I am worked down to the bone.
I am existing here alone.
I'm an undiscovered hillbilly
Excuse me for my appearance je suis sauvage can't you see.
For the rest of my life I roam aimlessly.
But I've gotta a grip on it, yo da low yo da lee…
Winding roads, falling leaves and burning treats
We'll I got my own trip out here and Life is but a breeze.
I am a piece of your family.
I am a fragment in the debris…
(Chorus + Solo)
Good riddance, time for me to flee
I've a train to catch the catastrophe before it leaves the scene.
I am a piece of the stone.
I am adapting to the unknown…
Written & composed by Ronnie LeBlanc 1990 - 2016 © All Rights Reserved


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"To have a friend and be a friend is what makes life worthwhile." ~Unknown
...This is the story of 13 girls picked to live in a house. Find out what happens when people stop being polite and start being real.
That was what I wrote on one of the first instagram posts I took in Palm Springs. 13 girls in a home?! You would have thunk I went mad, but I think deep down I knew what I was doing because that was one of the most beautiful, touching, lovely, fun and epic weekends of my life.
I write none of that lightly. We arrived at this amazing, HUGE home with fabulous energy and it was like instant love with everyone. I saw lots of girls connect and make new sister connections. Everyone was so hilarious and kind and they really, REALLY spoiled me with love. I was overwhelmed with how happy I was. Even now my heart could explode. I just don't know how I got so lucky.
As I sat reflecting with some of the girls I learned that everyone was so amazed that everyone was so kind, intelligent and fun. Many said that it was one of the best bachelorette parties they had ever been to and I think it's because of the company that was there. I truly do! E and Jenn went out of their way to make that weekend special. I'm talking great gift bags for all the girls...cocktails...pools...facials...games.
It will forever be etched on my soul. E was brilliant and found time to secretly tape a message from Mark: A message for all the girls and me...and in that message he mentioned why he loves me and that he's in awe of the friendships I have...how I am with my friends and how phenomenal they are. We all teared up! Jenn says the integrity and beauty that all the women displayed was a testament to my heart and I LOST.IT.
My friendships have always been important to me. I've written time and time again about how good a true friend is for the soul. I cherish the people and what they bring to my life and these thirteen women...I am thankful for them. I am in awe of them and I am in love with 'em!
Thank you ladies for giving me something I can recall and draw upon years and years down the road.
Luv and Kiwi,
This served as heaven for the weekend.
This decor was indicative of the energy swirling around that piece! Zennnnnned OUT.
Yes, this is what a bride who will be getting married on the beach looks like.
Some of the first girls to arrive...
Thoughtful things to make the weekend extra fun.
Channeling Ariel from Little Mermaid.
...Yeah I got down. Vegas pools ain't got nothin on our pool. (Well maybe Syphilis but that's about it.)


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The fault in our stars
Finally spring is almost here and I get back my gone vim. Waking up because of the sun caressing lights is much better than being awaken by an alarm while it's still dark and cold outside.
So here we are. The key piece of my latest outfit is this vintage shirt which is so lovely and I'm so glad that I found it in a secondhand shop.
Paired simply with a leather skirt, black hat and my bro's fancy shoes which I started to like recently.
The title of this post refers to book which you might know. John Green- The fault in our stars. It is a really..well, thoughtful book but I haven't finished yet so don't be a spoiler. Have your ever read it?
What do you think?
skirt: New yorker/ hat: H&M/ shirt: Vintage/bag:H&M
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