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The lawyer for a group of Nigerian villagers seeking to sue a multinational corporation for alleged human rights violations received a chilly reception at the US Supreme Court Tuesday.
Paul Hoffman, a California appellate lawyer, endured a relentless barrage of blunt questions from the bench about whether a similar lawsuit could be filed in any other country in the world. "I don't know if this precise case could be brought," Mr. Hoffman finally conceded.
"If there is no other country where this suit could have been brought ... isn't it a legitimate concern that allowing the suit itself contravenes international law," Chief Justice John Roberts asked. The exchange came during an hour-long oral argument in a potential landmark case that could set the contours of corporate liability under an unusual 223-year-old American law.
The so-called Alien Tort Statute allows non-US citizens to file lawsuits in American courts for alleged violations of international law. Rather than filing their case in Nigeria, lawyers for the villagers decided to bring their fight to the US courts under the Alien Tort Statute. There is just one problem. It is not clear that the enigmatic statute permits lawsuits against corporations.
A federal judge in New York allowed a portion of the suit to move forward, but a federal appeals court threw the entire case out. The Supreme Court agreed to take up the appeal.At issue in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum (10-1491) is whether international corporations may be held responsible in an American courtroom for allegedly aiding and abetting human rights abuses that take place in a foreign country.
Lawyers for Royal Dutch Petroleum maintain that the statute only permits lawsuits against individuals who personally perpetrate human rights violations, rather than the corporation that employs them. The appeal stems from a 2002 civil lawsuit filed on behalf of 12 residents of the oil-rich Ogoni region of the Niger River delta.
The residents charge that from 1992 to 1995 Royal Dutch Petroleum and its subsidiaries aided and abetted the Nigerian military in conducting a campaign of terror and intimidation through the use of extrajudicial killings, torture, and other tactics to protect the oil company's operations from the grassroots opposition of the Ogoni people. The company has denied involvement in atrocities. Normally, such a suit would be filed in Nigeria, where the events took place, or in the Netherlands or the United Kingdom where the corporate subsidiaries are based.
But lawyers for the villagers decided to base their suit on the Alien Tort Statute which permits non-US citizen "aliens" to sue other foreign residents for egregious violations of international law such as genocide, extra-judicial killing, torture, and slavery. The Alien Tort Statute was adopted by the first Congress in 1789. It was largely ignored for nearly two centuries, but since 1980, lawyers have been trying to establish it as a vehicle to fight human rights abuses around the world.
At first, foreign plaintiffs went after individual foreign torturers and abusive officials. But since the late 1990s, the trend has been to target deep pocket corporations doing business in countries ruled by oppressive governments. According to one analyst, 120 lawsuits have been filed in US courts against 59 corporations for alleged violations in 60 foreign countries.
Although four members of the high court's conservative wing expressed significant skepticism about the tactic of charging corporations under the ATS, not all justices were openly opposed to the concept. Justice Stephen Breyer hypothesized about a group of incorporated criminals operating as Pirates, Inc. Would they be immune from a civil lawsuit under ATS, he wondered.
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"Yes, the corporation would not be liable," Appellate lawyer Kathleen Sullivan replied. She said the lawsuit could seek to seize the ship the pirates had used to carry out their illicit piracy, but the ATS would not permit a litigant to seize the corporate assets of Pirates, Inc. Justice Elena Kagan asked what would happen in an ATS lawsuit if the French ambassador to the US was assaulted by a corporate agent. "Would we say that the corporation there cannot be sued under the Alien Tort Statute," she asked.
There is no internationally-accepted norm concerning corporate assaults on ambassadors that would govern the case, Sullivan said. But she added that the ambassador would not be without recourse. He could use the ATS to sue the individual who carried out the assault, she said.
Sullivan said ATS lawsuits must be based on violations of the law of nations. "There is no country in the world that provides a civil cause of action against a corporation under their domestic law for a violation of the law of nations," she said. Sullivan's point is counterintuitive to many Americans who understand that corporations have long been subject to liability under US law. But the ATS operates under international law, not US domestic law, she said.
Violations of international law are crimes that are so egregious and universally condemned that a perpetrator could rightly be classified as an enemy of mankind. The Obama administration is arguing the case on the side of the Nigerian villagers and against the coporations. Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler told the justices that the ATS should be viewed as a reflection of US domestic law which permits lawsuits against corporations.
Corporations were subject to civil suit in 1789 and they still are under domestic US law, he said. Some analysts have suggested the case represents something of a reprise of the Citizens United case in which the court's conservatives ruled 5-4 that the First Amendment protects a corporation's right to engage in political speech.
But Citizens United was not discussed during the oral argument. During a second hour of argument, the high court heard a similar case, Mohamad v. Palestinian Authority (11-88), examining whether the Torture Victim Protection Act could be enforced against an organization in addition to an individual who allegedly carried out acts of torture or extra-judicial killing of a US citizen.
The issue arises in the case of Azzam Rahim, a US citizen of Palestinian heritage who died while being questioned by security officials on the West Bank. Mr. Rahim, a successful businessman in Dallas, was picked up by Palestinian security officials while on a visit to his boyhood village on the West Bank. Two days later his body was delivered to his family. It was bruised and included cigarette burns and broken bones, suggesting he had been tortured prior to his death.
Rahim's son, Asid Mohamad, filed a lawsuit in federal court in the US against three Palestinian officials, the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization. He charged that his father had been subjected to torture and extrajudicial killing in violation of the 1993 Torture Victim Protection Act. A federal judge and a federal appeals court panel dismissed all charges against the Palestinian Authority and the PLO. The judge said the TVPA was only enforceable against individuals personally responsible for Mr. Rahim's torture and death. At issue before the Supreme Court is whether the lower courts were correct that only individuals may be sued under the TVRA, or whether organizations may also be held liable.
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The following are frequently asked questions about Meep.
What is Meep?
Meep is our free software for finite-difference time-domain simulation. For the meaning of the name "Meep", see Meep acronym expansions.
Where can I install Meep?
Meep should run on any Unix-like system, from individual machines to clusters to large parallel supercomputers. We do most of our development on GNU/Linux systems, and precompiled packages are available for Debian and Ubuntu. It should also be possible to install Meep on Windows using the free Cygwin Unix-compatibility environment. Installing Meep from source code requires some understanding of Unix, however, especially to install the various prerequisites, and we recommend consulting a local Unix guru at your institution if you run into trouble.
Guile is installed, but configure complains that it can't find guile
With most GNU/Linux distributions (and Cygwin), packages like Guile are split into two pieces: a
guile package that just contains the libraries and executables, and a
guile-dev or
guile-devel package that contains the header files and other things needed to compile programs using Guile. Usually, the former is installed by default, by the latter is not. You need to install both, which means that you probably need to install
guile-dev. (Similarly for any other library packages needed by Meep.)
How does the current amplitude relate to the resulting field amplitude?
There is no simple formula relating the input current amplitude (J in Maxwell's equations) to the resulting fields (E) etcetera, even at the same point as the current. The exact same current will produce a different field (and radiate a different total power) depending upon the surrounding materials/geometry, and depending on the frequency. (This is a physical consequence of the geometry's effect on the local density of states; it can also be thought of as feedback from reflections on the source. As a simple example, if you put a current source inside a perfect electric conductor, the resulting field will be zero. As another example, the frequency-dependence of the radiated power in vacuum is part of the reason why the sky is blue.)
See also our online book chapter on Wave source conditions.
If you are worried about this, then you are probably setting up your calculation in the wrong way. Especially in linear materials, the absolute magnitude of the field is useless; the only meaningful quantities are dimensionless ratios like the fractional transmission (the transmitted power relative to the transmitted power in some reference calculation). Almost always, you want to perform two calculations, one of which is a reference, and compute the ratio of a result in one calculation to the result in the reference. For nonlinear calculations, see Units and nonlinearity in Meep.
How do I set the imaginary part of ε?
If you only care about the imaginary part of ε in a narrow bandwidth around some frequency ω, you should set it by using the electric conductivity as described in Conductivity in Meep. If you care about the imaginary part of ε over a broad bandwidth, then for any physical material the imaginary part will be frequency-dependent and you will have to fit it to Meep's dispersive-ε support (see Material dispersion in Meep).
Meep doesn't implement a frequency-independent complex ε. Not only is this not physical, but it also leads to both exponentially decaying and exponentially growing solutions in Maxwell's equations from positive- and negative-frequency Fourier components, respectively, so it cannot be simulated in the time domain.
Why does my simulation diverge if ε < 0?
Maxwell's equations have exponentially growing solutions for a frequency-independent negative ε. For any physical medium with negative ε, there must be dispersion, and you must likewise use dispersive materials in Meep to have negative ε at some desired frequency. (The requirement of dispersion to obtain negative ε follows from the Kramers–Kronig relations, and also follows from thermodynamic considerations that the energy in the electric field must be positive; see, for example, Electrodynamics of Continuous Media by Landau, Pitaevskii, and Lifshitz. At an even more fundamental level, it can be derived from passivity constraints.)
If you solve Maxwell's equations in a homogenous-epsilon material at some real wavevector k, you get a dispersion relation . If ε is positive, there are two real solutions , giving oscillating solutions. If ε is negative, there are two imaginary solutions ω, corresponding to exponentially decaying and exponentially growing solutions from any current source (which can always be spatially decomposed into a superposition of real-k values via a spatial Fourier transform).
If you do a simulation of any kind in the time domain (not just FDTD), you pretty much can't avoid exciting both the decaying and the growing solutions. This is not a numerical instability, it is a real solution of the underlying equations (for an unphysical material).
See Materials in Meep for how to include dispersive materials (which can have negative ε and loss) in Meep.
(If you have both negative ε and negative μ everywhere, the famous case of a negative-index material, then the simulation is fine. However at the boundary between negative- and positive-index materials, you will encounter instabilities: because of the way Maxwell's equations are discretized in FDTD, the ε and μ are discretized on different spatial grids, so you will get a half-pixel or so of εμ < 0 at the boundary between negative and positive indices, which will cause the simulation to diverge. But of course, any physical negative-index metamaterial also involves dispersion.)
Note also that, as a consequence of the above analysis, ε must go to a positive value in the limits to get non-diverging solutions of Maxwell's equations. So the in your dispersion model must be positive.
Why doesn't turning off subpixel averaging work?
By default, when Meep assigns a dielectric constant ε (or μ) to each "pixel", it uses a carefully designed average of the ε values within that pixel. This subpixel averaging generally improves the accuracy of the simulation—perhaps counter-intuitively, for geometries with discontinous ε it is more accurate (i.e. closer to the exact Maxwell result for the discontinuous case) to do the simulation with the subpixel-averaged (smoothed) ε, as long as the averaging is done properly. (See our papers for more information.)
Still, there are times when, for whatever reason, you might not want this feature. (For example, if your accuracy is limited by other issues, or if you want to skip the wait at the beginning of the simulation for it do to the averaging.) In this case, you can disable the subpixel averaging by doing
(set! eps-averaging? false) in your control file (see the Meep Reference).
Even if you disable the subpixel averaging, however, when you output the dielectric function to a file and plot it, you may notice that there are some pixels with intermediate ε values, right at the boundary between two materials. This has a completely different source. Internally, Meep's simulation is performed on a Yee grid, in which every field component is stored on a slightly different grid (offset from one another by half-pixels), and the ε values are also stored on this Yee grid. For output purposes, however, it is more user-friendly to output all fields etcetera on the same grid (the center of each pixel), so all quantities are interpolated onto this grid for output. Therefore, even though the internal ε values are indeed discontinuous when you disable subpixel averaging, the output file will still contain some "averaged" values at interfaces due to the interpolation from the Yee grid to the center-pixel grid.

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I've blogged about building native mobile device applications using a Web technology-based framework such as PhoneGap from Nitobi in the past. When I first wrote about the open source PhoneGap project in March 2009, I concluded: "If I worked at RIM, I'd take a trip out to Vancouver to talk to the Nitobi dudes. This framework is exactly what RIM needs to counter the trend of developers targeting the iPhone/iPod as the premier environment for mobile device applications."
Fast-forward seven months and RIM announces a beta of the BlackBerry Widget SDK that:
allows web developers to package up their web assets into BlackBerry Widgets (small, discrete, standalone web applications that use HTML, CSS and JavaScript). A BlackBerry Widget looks, behaves and has the same security mechanisms as a native BlackBerry application. BlackBerry Widgets can be installed on a BlackBerry smartphone like any native application and can be extended to use device-specific information and data using the BlackBerry Widget APIs.
[ In InfoWorld's Test Center, Peter Wayner discusses PhoneGap and other iPhone development tools and details his rejection at the hands of the iPhone App Store. ]
Wow, sounds like an enhanced PhoneGap tuned for BlackBerry applications. With fingers crossed, I pinged Andre and Dave to ask if RIM was using PhoneGap for this SDK. I'd scoured the BlackBerry Widget SDK website and knew the answer before Dave and Andre replied "nope."
RIM should be utilizing R&D investments more effectively by leveraging existing open source projects. RIM could have built this SDK for a lower investment by starting with PhoneGap or an equivalent open source framework. Of course there might have been a feature gap between what PhoneGap offers and what RIM wants to deliver in version 1.0. However, assigning RIM developers to the PhoneGap project to add these features while leveraging all the other APIs in PhoneGap would have saved RIM the work of reinventing the wheel for those other APIs.
This was absolutely a missed opportunity for RIM to compete versus Apple, Palm, and others using open source. No, I'm not going to suggest that RIM open source the BlackBerry Enterprise Server; that would be silly. Rather, I believe RIM could have saved R&D costs, increased the value of its BlackBerry platform, and influenced developers building for the iPhone if RIM had built the Widget SDK on top of the open source project like PhoneGap.
RIM would have also benefited from new features added by the PhoneGap community. A PhoneGap community member who loves his BlackBerry and wants to "scratch an itch" could contribute a PhoneGap feature that other BlackBerry developers would find extremely useful.
Finally, RIM would be contributing to a framework that developers are already using to develop iPhone applications. RIM needs to figure out a way to entice developers to build BlackBerry applications before iPhone applications. However, RIM should also be working to get developers to port their iPhone apps to the BlackBerry platform. As a PhoneGap contributor, RIM could offer a simple and painless porting option for existing and new PhoneGap-based iPhone applications.
I could come up with additional benefits for RIM, but these three are big enough for RIM to reconsider its strategy for delivering the Widget SDK. RIM could yet contribute all or part of its Widget SDK to an established mobile framework open source community and build its Widget SDK product from the resulting open source community code.
I suggest this strategy because I've witnessed IBM using it with great success. In the WebSphere division, we contribute to countless open source projects, including the Apache HTTPD, Dojo Toolkit, and Eclipse Equinox projects. We then utilize code from these projects with IBM enhancements inside of WebSphere Application Server. This strategy allows us to do more with less.
I hope friends at RIM can learn a lesson from IBM's use of open source for competitive differentiation. With Dion and Ben at Palm, you can bet that Palm is thinking about using open source more effectively within its strategy.
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p.s.: I should state: "The postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies, or opinions."
This story, "RIM needs more open source," was originally published at InfoWorld.com. Follow the latest mobile developments at InfoWorld.com.


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The Associated Collegiate Press honored two members of the staff of the weekly Hope College student newspaper "The Anchor" during the "Best of the Midwest College Newspaper Convention" held in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday-Sunday, Feb. 15-17.
Ashley DeVecht, who is features editor and a junior from Byron Center, received seventh place in the Single Page Design category for her features spread "World Travelers," which she developed with "The Anchor's" production manager, senior Nicholas Engel of Grand Blanc. Senior Evelyn Daniel of Dearborn, who with senior Emily Papple of Holly serves as editor-in-chief, received 10th place in the Editorial/Commentary category for her column "Voice of Dissent."
"World Travelers" was the center-spread of the Wednesday, Feb. 7, issue of "The Anchor." Additional contributors to the spread included junior Amanda Anderson of Grandville (writer); sophomore Meghan Fore of St. Charles, Ill. (writer); freshman Gina Holder of Midland (graphics); and senior Dylana Pinter of Mundelein, Ill. (graphics). The spread examined off-campus study and featured question-and-answer interviews with four students: senior Theresa Fernandez of Grand Rapids, who had studied in Philadelphia, Pa.; junior Ryan Gary of Ada, who had studied in Wollongong, Australia; junior Erin Richards of Clarkston, who had studied in Salamanca, Spain; and junior Leah Wyatt of Colts Neck, N.J., who had studied in Queretaro, Mexico.
"Voice of Dissent" was published in "The Anchor" on Wednesday, Oct. 24. In the column, Daniel called for her readers to be open to hearing dissenting views and also to dare to voice them even when in the minority.
Founded in 1921, the Associated Collegiate Press is the largest and oldest national membership association for college student media in the United States, with more than 20,000 student journalists working on the staff of ACP-member publications. Nearly 300 delegates representing publications from colleges and universities from throughout the Midwest attended the Feb. 15-17 regional convention, which included not only the awards event but keynote addresses and workshops on topics related to college journalism.


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During the past 17 years of being in this practice of working with several thousand clients and helping them in their careers navigating through various encounters of employment matters I have kept a list of items that appear most frequently in our sessions. Although I am not a lawyer and not qualified to render advice on legal aspects of employment matters I am writing this blog to disabuse some commonly encountered issues that clients get concerned about or make the wrong call in how they decide what they must do to move forward, take action, or wonder about the implications of their actions in employment matters.
So, after reading this list of myths that I have compiled from my own experience, feel free to see an employment lawyer if you are still not sure about the choices you want to make:
- Two weeks notice: This is one of those myths that people get tangled in when quitting their job. In some cases I have encountered the abuse my clients encountered was so egregious that turning in your resignation and walking out immediately afterwards was the only way to show your employer the treatment they accorded you.
In one such case my client was so stressed by how his boss was treating him that he had a heart attack at work and was hauled out on a gurney by emergency medical team, right in front of all his co-workers and his boss to see, to the ICU of a nearby hospital. My client was stabilized within hours and he bravely returned to work the next day. Upon his return the only comment his boss made to him was: I know you left yesterday without telling anyone, so make sure that you do not charge this time to this company.
When this client and his wife came to see me that evening I told him to quit his job and walk out. He wanted to give them two weeks notice! Remember, most employments (in the US) are at will, which means either party can terminate the arrangement and end the relationship instantly!
- Bonus refund: Companies routinely offer sign-on bonuses. In some agreements employees are asked to return the entire sign-on bonus if they quit the job before the stipulated date. This is not always automatic, despite what the agreement may say. You may get to keep the sign-on bonus depending on how the agreement is written. Try using the default option of keeping the bonus and seeing what they do. In the case of one client, who left after being at a company for nine months (stipulation was 12) we decided to just keep the bonus and the company did not take any action. Consult a lawyer if you need to.
- Timely promotions: This is yet another misconception many have of automatically getting promoted after being at a job for a certain period of time. There is no rule that requires an employer to promote you merely based on the length of your service. Some union contracts and government agencies have these tenure-based promotions, but even there, performance is what typically drives promotional considerations.
- Annual raises: This, too, is a myth. Many believe that their employer must give them Cost of Living Allowance (COLA) and automatically give them a raise to accommodate economic conditions. Raises are given based on your and your companys performance and other considerations.
- Reneging: Sometimes, after accepting a job offer and agreeing to a start date a better offer can come from another employer. You may decide that you made the wrong (or bad) choice after further investigation about the job, etc. In such cases it is acceptable to call the employer and withdraw your acceptance of you offer. Remember, employment at will condition applies from the time you accept your employment until you leave that employer, even before starting your employment.
- Internal promotion: Sometimes your boss stops you from leaving your workgroup if you find a better opportunity in another workgroup. In many companies this is prohibited by the policies in place. So, if you see your boss interfering with your desire to transfer out make sure you know the rules of the companys policies. Consult your HR representative.
- Demotion: This, too, is normal. There is nothing that prevents a company from re-assigning you to a role that it considers more appropriate. This also falls under at-will employment.
- Change of benefits: Employers can change their benefit offerings without justification. Benefits are not an entitlement in an employment agreement. But, once they are offered the employer must honor them until they are revoked.
- Salary disparities: It is not uncommon for a person with more seniority to be making less than someone who is not. How a company decides to place value on the skills of a particular employee and how to properly compensate for that skill is within the rights of how a company can do this. It can create a problem when two or more equal employees are paid differently and discrimination can be proved.
- Termination pay: Most companies have policies that govern the termination pay given to employees who are discharged or laid-off. As long as the company sticks to those policies and does not discriminate there is no cause for action if you are not paid what you think is fair for all the work and time you put into your employment at that company.
These are just few of the most commonly encountered employment issues I deal with when clients call me about their treatment by their employer. Once again, my advice is not based on any legal precedents or statutes; it is merely what I have experienced in my coaching practice throughout these 17 years. Also, every geography has its own local laws on employment, so before you take any legal action consult a trained professional to ensure that you are getting the right and best legal advice to protect you and your career.
Good luck!
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After getting his B.Tech. (Honors) from IIT-Bombay and Master's in electrical engineering(MSEE) from Stanford University, Dilip worked at various organizations, starting as an individual contributor and then progressing to head an engineering organization of a division of a high-tech company, with $2B in sales, in California's Silicon Valley. His current interest in coaching resulted from his career experiences spanning nearly four decades, at four very diverse organizations–and industries, including a major conglomerate in India, and from what it takes to re-invent oneself time and again, especially after a lay-off and with constraints that are beyond your control.
During the 45-plus years since his graduation, Dilip has reinvented himself time and again to explore new career horizons. When he left the corporate world, as head of engineering of a technology company, he started his own technology consulting business, helping high-tech and biotech companies streamline their product development processes. Dilip's third career was working as a marketing consultant helping Fortune-500 companies dramatically improve their sales, based on a novel concept. It is during this work that Dilip realized that the greatest challenge most corporations face is available leadership resources and effectiveness; too many followers looking up to rudderless leadership.
Dilip then decided to work with corporations helping them understand the leadership process and how to increase leadership effectiveness at every level. Soon afterwards, when the job-market tanked in Silicon Valley in 2001, Dilip changed his career track yet again and decided to work initially with many high-tech refugees, who wanted expert guidance in their reinvention and reemployment. Quickly, Dilip expanded his practice to help professionals from all walks of life.
Now in his fifth career, Dilip works with professionals in the Silicon Valley and around the world helping with reinvention to get their dream jobs or vocations. As a career counselor and life coach, Dilip's focus has been career transitions for professionals at all levels and engaging them in a purposeful pursuit. Working with them, he has developed many groundbreaking approaches to career transition that are now published in five books, his weekly blogs, and hundreds of articles. He has worked with those looking for a change in their careers–re-invention–and jobs at levels ranging from CEOs to hospital orderlies. He has developed numerous seminars and workshops to complement his individual coaching for helping others with making career and life transitions.
Dilip's central theme in his practice is to help clients discover their latent genius and then build a value proposition around it to articulate a strong verbal brand.
Throughout this journey, Dilip has come up with many groundbreaking practices such as an Inductive Résumé and the Genius Extraction Tool. Dilip owns two patents, has two publications in the Harvard Business Review and has led a CEO roundtable for Chief Executive on Customer Loyalty. Both Amazon and B&N list numerous reviews on his five books. Dilip is also listed in Who's Who, has appeared several times on CNN Headline News/Comcast Local Edition, as well as in the San Francisco Chronicle in its career columns. Dilip is a contributing writer to several publications. Dilip is a sought-after speaker at public and private forums on jobs, careers, leadership challenges, and how to be an effective leader.
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colorful shopping trip
Our latest trip to the market looked like this. You can see the cheese puffs bag had been opened in the car, someone could not wait until he got home. I didn't realize how color coordinated I was until I got home. Yellows & oranges, purple & greens and blue and whites. The mini cream puff was too pretty not to have its own little plate.
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I find that I am more likely to eat lots of vegetables if they're colorful, the cauliflower for example.
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such a great post! at first glance, all of the vibrant colors made everything seem so unreal. i bet it was a good market day :)ReplyDelete
would you mind, me coming over for dinner? this looks so inviting!ReplyDelete
This is awesome. Pretty sure *i* wouldn't want to cook all of that because it looks so pretty :)ReplyDelete
I'm not even sure I recognize all your fruits and veggies, but it makes a beautiful photo and perhaps some interesting eatsReplyDelete
Beautifull pretty vegetables!ReplyDelete
Love the purple cauliflower! My father is a couliflower farmer, we have them also in orange when the dutchteam is doing well in a big soccertournament ;-)
(although purple and orange are not doing it as well as the good old white one..(selling))Replies
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2012
I have a random but honest qestion.... I was actually wondering if your, at all, selling your sons clothes. I have a six month old son who is growing rapidly. Or locate me to your choice of clothing sites :) Where I live in Arizona, you don't find much cute/modern clothing. Thanks for your help.ReplyDelete
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Oh my goodness i must know your plans for these!ReplyDeleteReplies
I've been using them up individually. I roasted the cauliflower tonight with some garlic, olive oil, lemon juice & parmesan cheese.Delete
I cut up the Chimoya & put it in a big bowl of fruit & ate them all raw.
The little chocolate chips & put over the yogurt with agave nectar.
That's all I've done so far though!
wow. this is so pretty!!ReplyDelete
Looks delicious! Happy cooking!ReplyDelete
Oh my goodness...those colors! I love that purple cauliflower (?) It's so pretty!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 22, 2012
Are those purple brussels sprouts?ReplyDelete
i love this.. produce has such interesting textures/lines. also i'm laughing 'cuz i love that you set them all out so nicely, gotta love the photographer's eye!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.ReplyDelete
Pretty yummieh! What are you making? Do you show us the result as well? Please?!ReplyDelete
I love all the colours will make meal times much prettier :)ReplyDelete
I love all the colours and can imagine some gorgeous looking dishes with them. Is the weather as lovely there as it is here? With those colourful vegetables, the sun and a glass of wine I can envision a lovely meal outside :)ReplyDelete
Nice and very healthy shopping!ReplyDelete
Such vibrant colors! Where do you get all your veggies? Boise Co-op?ReplyDeleteReplies
We seem to have so many different fruit and vegetables, I even can't recognize some of them! They look really tasty however!ReplyDelete
Yum, love all those pretty veggies! :)ReplyDelete
I am addicted to those Enjoy Life chocolate chips. I use them in muffins, cookies, banana bread. I had to hide them from my daughter though. She keeps eating them out of the bag. Looks like we like the same brands as you. I just posted some similar purchases on my blog at http://womaninreallife.blogspot.ca/2012/03/grocery-list-part-one.htmlReplyDelete
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ANY GOOD business executive knows that the world is full of risks, ignored at a company's peril. Interest rates could spike. China could change its currency policy. Chaos in Iraq could push up gasoline prices. Smart firms account for these possibilities as best they can, adjusting business plans so that they aren't caught flat-footed. The same can be said of wise societies.
In late June , a bipartisan group of economic leaders argued that the United States must take this approach when facing the risks of climate change. It's still not perfectly clear how sensitive the climate will be to a given increase in atmospheric greenhouse-gas emissions. Nor is it perfectly clear how ongoing temperature change will affect complicated Earth systems. But these are not excuses for doing nothing, or too little, to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
To back up its claims, the group — led by, among others, Hank Paulson and Bob Rubin, treasury secretaries for George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, respectively — commissioned an analysis of the risks that climate change poses to the United States. They only attempted to quantify the impact of a few changes that scientists are confident will occur to some degree with unabated warming: sea-level rise, higher storm surges, heat extremes, higher demand for energy and changes in agricultural production. As with a climate assessment the Obama administration published this year, the results should — but probably won't — snap Congress into action.
Scientists already are observing climate changes in the United States. They will grow worse. Higher seas mean higher storm surges and more at-risk property along heavily populated coasts — $66 billion to $106 billion worth will likely be below sea level by mid-century. The annual national storm cleanup tab will balloon. As the country warms, the average American will likely see a month's worth — or more — of days over 95 degrees. The South and Southwest will be much hotter than that. The analysis considered how many cold-related deaths further warming would prevent and concluded that heat-related deaths would outweigh the potential benefit. Similarly, farmers in northern latitudes might see longer growing seasons, but those farther south, in what has been prime farming country, will have to make costly adjustments, changing what they grow and developing crops that can adapt to climate extremes. In the long term, uncontrolled warming could even produce days in the United States in which humans literally could not survive long without air conditioning.
"Hope is not a strategy," Mr. Paulson said to us. But that is the strategy that Congress, in its perpetual inaction, is taking: Hoping that the scientists are dramatically wrong — or at least that the country can deal with the problem later. If Congress were the board of a large company, ignoring such a serious risk would give shareholders ample reason to fire every head-in-the-sand director. Voters might want to contemplate the analogy this November.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Canisius College head men's basketball coach Jim Baron announced today that Lou Dunbar (Seabrook, Texas/Clear Falls) has signed his National Letter of Intent and will be on the Golden Griffins' active roster for the 2013-14 season. Dunbar is the son of "Sweet Lou" Dunbar, the former Harlem Globetrotter who played for the University of Houston from 1972-75.
Dunbar averaged 18.5 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.4 steals per game in his senior season en route to being named the Texas District 24 5A Most Valuable Player. He scored in double figures 29 times in his senior season, highlighted by his pair of 34-point games against Clear Lake High School. In his last two varsity seasons, the 6-foot-2, 170-pound guard made a total of 134 3-point field goals, and he ended his scholastic career by shooting 57 percent from the field, 36 percent from 3-point range and 84 percent from the free-throw stripe.
Dunbar joins six newcomers on the Canisius roster, which returns three starters and five letterwinners from the 2012-13 season. Last year, in Baron's first year as the Griffs' head coach, Canisius went 20-14 overall and 11-7 in MAAC play. The 20-win season was the program's first since 2000-01 and the team ended the year in the quarterfinal round of the CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament, the team's first postseason appearance since 1996.
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ShockOne Drops Drum & Bass "Til Dawn" From Forthcoming Album 'A Dark Machine'
Just weeks after dropping the dystopian bass bomb "Run" featuring The Bloody Beetroots, Australian Bass producer ShockOne returns with "Til Dawn", the next single from his upcoming second studio album 'A Dark Machine'. The theme of the LP is apparent in the heavy-hitting, drum'n'bass-meets-electro sound of "Til Dawn," which begins with a goosebump-inducing buildup complete with unnerving vocal samples that will leave you jumping at every bump in the night. ShockOne masterfully creates a musical depiction of a game of cat-and-mouse in which the listener feels destined to lose, tipping his hat to '80s sci-fi films like "Blade Runner" and "Beyond the Black Rainbow." The new single is out on Monstercat, which will also host the release of the full "A Dark Machine" album on August 1st.
"I couldn't be happier to join the Monstercat roster. It's a brand known for pushing boundaries and a label releasing some of the most forward-thinking releases for my genre of music. It really is the perfect home for A Dark Machine and excited to have them work this record to every corner of the world alongside my long term home label Warner Music." – ShockOneSTREAM/DOWNLOAD
Since his debut in 2009 with "The ShockOne" EP, Karl Thomas has established himself as one of the most exciting bass artists in the scene. He followed up his massively successful debut with 2011's "Crucify Me," a drum & bass/dubstep anthem in which he also showed his versatility and talent as a vocalist; this single served as a preview for his first album "Universus." ShockOne's most significant break came in 2012 when he released the genre-bending, now-iconic work of art that is "Chaos Theory" featuring Corey Burton. "Chaos Theory" experienced astronomical success, peaking at #2 on Beatport, #1 on Trackitdown, and #1 on iTunes Dance in Australia. This led him through a whirlwind of touring, playing festivals such as Creamfields, the Big Day Out, and Stereosonic, and playing sold-out shows throughout Australia. After listening to "Run" and now "Til Dawn," we have no doubt that "A Dark Machine" will introduce us to a ShockOne who is bigger, better, and stronger than ever before.
DØBER Returns To Protocol With Riding Tech/Electro-Influenced "Tear The Roof"
DØBER is back on Protocol with his new single "Tear The Roof", a party-ready track that follows up on his debut "Twisted" EP from earlier this year. The release received a strong welcome, amassing over 130k streams on Spotify since its release on February 14th. The newcomer's propensity for intense club music, that toes the line between electro and tech-house, is once again evident in the form of heavy percussive synths over a driving bassline and distorted, catchy vocals. "Tear The Roof" is uniquely different from previous tracks "Make It Better" and "Losing My Mind," which channeled more groovy and trap influences, respectively, indicating that DØBER has more up his sleeve than meets the eye.
Nicky Romero and the Protocol crew can always be counted on for cutting-edge new music, melding a variety of genres for exciting and unexpected sounds. Their latest additions feel right at home with that mantra, bringing a fusion of tech-house and electro sound with plenty of grooves to the table. DØBER joins a full roster of talented producers such as Thomas Gold, Deniz Koyu, Marc Benjamin, Teamworx, Maximals, and more. The talented newcomer draws his inspiration from artists such as Dogblood, ZHU, and Gesaffelstein, promising plenty of dark, hard-hitting tunes to add to the label's repertoire. Protocol's mixture of veteran heavyweights and fresh new talent makes for some of the most exciting releases in the game, along with the unlimited potential for collaborations. We look forward to more releases from DØBER and the rest of the Protocol team coming soon!
Let Barong Family Transport You To The Crazy Nightlife Of Thailand With This Album!
After a three-part series of mini-releases, Barong Family's highly anticipated 'Hard in Bangkok' LP is finally out in full force! Although travel is limited for many listeners right now, the album will whisk you away to Thailand's capital city, where 14 artists of the Barong crew gathered to hang out, exchange ideas, and as a result of the production camp, made new music. "Hard in Bangkok" brims with its spirit, from the cacophonous and frenzied theme of hardstyle-influenced, hard-hitting tracks like "Tom Yam Disco" from Sihk and Stoltenhoff to the down-and-dirty, booty-shaking vibe of RayRay and Crisis Era's "Naughty." There's even "BKK to LA," which is Rawtek & LNY TNZ's trap answer to vocal bass. Yellow Claw makes appearances on four tracks, opening with "Supernoize," that opened the album's tracklist and announced it as a single release back in January; following up with "Beat Your Mother" featuring Radical Redemption and Lil Texas, "Let There Be Bass" with Dither, as well as "Free Your Mind" with Crisis Era. Barong Family pulled off a label-wide album with flying colors, and we can't wait to see what exotic location inspires their next one!
Jim Taihuttu and Nils Rondhuis are the talented duo behind Yellow Claw, the electronic music artist project that has been changing the game in bass music since 2013. Their heavy, hip-hop-influenced, and club-ready sound began on their early tracks like "DJ Turn It Up" and "In My Room" ft. Ty Dolla $ign & Tyga – which collectively are about to surpass 300M streams on Spotify alone and both have been certified Gold. Yellow Claw's 2015's debut album "Blood For Mercy" hit #1 on Billboard's Heat Seekers Chart, Top Dance/Electronic Albums Chart, and scored an Edison Award – the Dutch equivalent of GRAMMY. They haven't slowed down since, with a packed tour calendar that included last year's epic takeover of the LA's iconic Shrine Auditorium to a crowd of 7K people, and their work with Barong Family label. Stay tuned for more new music from this ready-ready crew coming this year!
Barong Family Drops New EP + Brings The Party To Coronavirus Affected Fans In Asia
The Barong Family's crew just released their new EP 'Barong Family – Hard in Bangkok Pt. 1' a four-track release consisting of new music from the label's prodigy artists Crisis Era, Rawtek, Sihk, Stoltenhoff, Radical Redemption, and Nonsens, in addition to Yellow Claw's last month's release "Supernoize" with Juyen Sebulba featuring RayRay. The EP serves as a prelude to label's full length 20-track "Hard In Bangkok" album dropping on March 27. Yellow Claw and their Barong Family's appeal goes beyond their meticulous production and rage-ready sound. The attention to their fans through gestures like this one is what truly sets them apart from the crowd, and they aren't about to let coronavirus keep their fans from having a great time. Amid the worldwide concern about the virus, many of their fans in Asia are quarantined and unable to leave their homes to attend shows, so the Dutch duo broadcasted a live set from their home studio in Bali on the Chinese social media platform Huya. The almost 2-hour long show attracted 2.2 million viewers who went wild, commenting on the platform that they were hosting viewing parties in their homes while under quarantine.
Jim Taihuttu and Nils Rondhuis are the talented duo behind Yellow Claw, the electronic music artist project that has been changing the game in bass music since 2013. Their heavy, hip-hop-influenced, and club-ready sound began on their early tracks like "DJ Turn It Up" and "In My Room" ft. Ty Dolla $ign & Tyga – which collectively are about to surpass 300M streams on Spotify alone and both have been certified Gold. Yellow Claw's 2015's debut album "Blood For Mercy" hit #1 on Billboard's Heat Seekers Chart, Top Dance/Electronic Albums Chart, and scored an Edison Award – the Dutch equivalent of GRAMMY. They haven't slowed down since, with a packed tour calendar that included last year's epic takeover of the LA's iconic Shrine Auditorium to a crowd of 7K people, and their work with Barong Family label. Stay tuned for more tracks from "Hard in Bangkok" coming soon to see what's next from the Barong Family's crew.
Listen To Valentino Khan's Full 'House Party' Remix EP
Infamous party-starter Valentino Khan just dropped his full 'House Party' remix EP after leaking two tracks this month, Eliminate's remix of "Pony" and Tchami's remix of Valentino Khan & Diplo's "JustYourSoul." As the first two releases demonstrated, the remix EP will satisfy fans of everything from future house to electro and bass. The four new tracks include appearances by rising artists including Drezo, who put a grimy bass spin on Valentino & Chris Lorenzo's "Flip The Switch," Born Dirty's funky "What's Your Name," Schade's minimal bass rendition of "BRB," and Ibranovski's tech-house inspired "Better." Following the theme of his original album, Khan guarantees a dirty good time from every track. Press play on the 'House Party' remix EP and enjoy your favorite anthems in a whole new way.
The world was introduced to LA-based DJ and producer Valentino Khan in 2014, when he burst onto the scene with his debut EP "In Khan We Trust" on Skrillex's OWSLA label. Khan's sound possessed a unique versatility, incorporating elements of trap, bass, hardstyle, house, and more into a driving, often heavy sounds that found homes on labels such as Mad Decent, Spinnin Records, and Ultra. In 2015, Khan's original track "Deep Down Low" became an international sensation, earning the title of "Most Played Track" of the year and topping vSirius XM's #1 Song of 2015 on Electric Area. Since then, he has earned a reputation as a remix master with official renditions of RL Grime's "Pressure," Alison Wonderland's "Good Enough," Calvin Harris's "One Kiss" and more. His original productions include "Pump," which has over 17M streams on Spotify, "Gold" with Sean Paul, as well as production credits for the likes of 2 Chainz, B.O.B., Dizzee Rascal, Iggy Azalea, TI. and more. On the touring front, Khan sold out his show at the iconic Hollywood Palladium this year, featuring a b2b set with Shaquille O'Neal (DJ Diesel) and a surprise appearance by legend Snoop Dogg. 2020 is already shaping up to be the year of Valentino Khan, and we can't wait to see what happens next.
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Huffington Post: Michele Bachmann On Ethics Investigation: 'Everything Is Going To Be Great'
-By Paige Lavender
July 30, 2013- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) isn't worried about an investigation that's partly focused on her 2012 presidential bid.
The 2012 hopeful told reporters at Minnesota's Capitol on Tuesday that "these processes go on for year and years and years" and said she's not worried about an extension of the investigation by the House Ethics Committee.
"I don't think anything is going to come from it," Bachmann said. "I think that ultimately everything is going to be great."
The AP reported earlier that a lawyer for Bachmann had previously acknowledged the probe by the Office of Congressional Ethics, noting that Bachmann was cooperating with the investigation.
Washington Post: House Ethics Committee looking into Michele Bachmann
-By Rachel Weiner
July 26, 2013- The House Ethics Committee has confirmed an ongoing review into Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn), which has just been extended.
Bachmann's lawyer confirmed in March that the Office of Congressional Ethics was looking into the congresswoman's campaign finances. The OCE, a non-partisan, independent entity, can either dismiss a case or recommend a full House Ethics Committee investigation.
"[T]he mere fact of a referral or an extension, and the mandatory disclosure of such an extension and the name of the subject of the matter, does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred, or reflect any judgment on behalf of the Committee," the committee said in a statement.
William McGinley, Bachmann's lawyer, referred to the panel's statement in an e-mail, emphasizing the extension "does not speak to the merits of this matter, and any inference to the contrary is false.
"We are confident the Committee will discover, upon proper review, that the highly politicized allegations made at the OCE level were baseless and without merit," he wrote.
According to the Star Tribune, the OCE focused its questions on Bachmann's 2011 book tour.
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July 26, 2013- The House Ethics Committee is extending an investigation of Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.
The committee announced on Friday it had received a referral from the Office of Congressional Ethics, an independent investigative body, and said in a brief statement that it would extend its formal investigation of the one-time Republican presidential candidate.
A lawyer for Bachmann had previously acknowledged the investigation by the OCE and said that Bachmann was cooperating. That probe is focused in part on her short-lived presidential bid.
Bachmann, a leader in the tea party movement, announced earlier this year she would not seek re-election.
NY Times: Virginia's Attorney General Faces Scrutiny for Ties to Executive
-By Trip Gabriel
July 15, 2013- He first bought the tiny company's stock after bunking down in its chief executive's six-bedroom home.
He added to his holdings soon after the rollout of a new product that the company hinted could be a cure for Alzheimer's disease.
As the stock reached a 52-week high last year, he sold part of his portfolio for a $4,000 profit.
Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, Virginia's attorney general, said that the timing of his ownership of Star Scientific shares reflected nothing more than his own investment analysis.
Star Scientific and its chief executive have been at the center of an exploding political drama in Virginia as state and federal investigators look into lavish gifts that the executive, Jonnie R. Williams Sr., gave Gov. Bob McDonnell.
And now, despite his efforts to distance himself, scrutiny is growing of Mr. Cuccinelli's ties to the executive.
Aides to Mr. Cuccinelli, the Republican candidate for governor this year, insisted he enjoyed nothing like the relationship to Mr. Williams that Mr. McDonnell had. Last week Mr. Cuccinelli indirectly condemned Mr. McDonnell, a fellow Republican, for the first time, lamenting, "What we've all been seeing is very painful for Virginia."
Politcus USA: With the FBI On Her Trail, Michele Bachmann Raises Money For Non-Existent Reelection Bid
-By: Jason Easley
June 11, 2013- An FBI investigation into money laundering, wire fraud, and mail fraud has not stopped Rep. Michele Bachmann from continuing to raise money for a reelection campaign that she isn't running.
According to the University of Minnesota's Smart Politics blog, Nearly two weeks after announcing she would not seek a 5th term from Minnesota's 6th Congressional District, Republican Michele Bachmann's congressional campaign website is still locked and loaded to take in money. The campaign's donation page is still featured and functional." The donation page is still claiming that, "Obama and the Democrats are targeting Michele for speaking out against their extreme liberal agenda. They will do, say and spend whatever it takes to defeat her."


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The Vatican has launched an investigation into the release of internal documents to the press.
In an attempt to restore trust after a series of unauthorized leaks to the Italian media, the Vatican has opened a rare and thorough investigation to find out the identity of those responsible.
The leaks, which appeared in newspaper reports in January and February, have alleged corruption, mismanagement and internal conflicts among senior officials in the Secretariat of State.
Giovanni Maria Vian, editor of the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, made the announcement in the daily's March 17 edition: He summarized an interview with Archbishop Angelo Becciu, the substitute of the Secretariat of State, a job comparable to the White House's chief of staff. The archbishop, who is the third-most senior figure in the Roman Curia after the Holy Father and Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, is responsible for the day-to-day running of the Vatican.
Vian reported that an investigation was "under way at various levels," adding that slander was "at the root" of the unauthorized disclosures that he described as a "deplorable and sad affair."
"The hope is that an atmosphere of trust will be pieced back together," Vian wrote. "The Pope, constantly informed, is saddened; however, [he is] is serene and looking to the future."
The leaks, which began in January, have alleged cronyism and waste in the Vatican procurement process, as well as resistance to bring the Vatican's financial laws into line with international standards. Further, the links disclosed a confidential letter, referred to by an Italian cardinal, which contained a threat to assassinate the Pope. (The story was described as "nonsense" by Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi.) The document's authenticity has not been denied by the Vatican, however.
In his March 17 interview with L'Osservatore Romano, Archbishop Becciu began by issuing a robust defense of Roman Curia officials.
"I had never worked here before, and from the day that I arrived, last May 31, I, over time, found people committed to serving the Holy See, devoted to the Pope, competent, taking pride in their work," he said.
The veteran Vatican diplomat was keen to counter an image of the Curia, fueled by the recent leaks, as a place of careerism and plotting. He said the reality is "far from such stereotypes."
He recalled a speech Pope Paul VI gave in 1963: The Holy Father described the Curia's proper function as "the guardian or echo of divine truth," whose duty is "to listen and to interpret the voice of the Pope." It is not "a gymnasium of hidden ambitions and deaf rivalries, as others accuse," the Pope said.
He also recalled Benedict XVI's appraisal of the Curia, delivered in an address in May 2005. The Pope praised the "skill and professionalism of the work done here" and how the "love for Christ, for the Church and for souls plays a part in our professionalism."
"We do not work — as many say of the work — to defend a power. We do not have a worldly, secular power. We do not work for prestige, nor do we work to expand a business or the like. In reality, we work so that the pathways of the world are opened to Christ. The purpose of all of our work, with all of its ramifications, is actually, ultimately, so that his Gospel — as well as the joy of redemption — may reach the world," Benedict said.
Echoing the Pope's sentiment, Archbishop Becciu said the work that takes place in the Secretariat of State is "objective and good, both among the clergy and the laity." He continued: "In recent years, someone said to me that they were ashamed to admit that they worked in the Vatican. And I replied: 'Raise your head and be proud.' The few who have been unfair shouldn't obscure this positive reality."
The substitute at the Secretariat of State, appointed last year by Cardinal Bertone, used strong words against those responsible for the leaks, calling on them to examine their consciences, as it is "slander" and "cowardice" to profit from a "privileged situation" by publishing documents whose confidentiality they "were expected to respect."
Italian Vatican observers believe the leaks were used to "settle the scores" inside the Vatican and were possibly the work of officials who wish to see changes in the Secretariat of State. In particular, they say, these persons are opposed to the leadership of Cardinal Bertone.
Others, however, have dismissed the episode as a "storm in a teacup." They see the revelations as relatively minor and having no effect on the Church's future.
Still, the Vatican says it has authorized a "thorough" investigation to be carried out on three administrative levels and within "each department of the Holy See."
"The hope is that this pieces our work back together: mutual trust, which of course, presupposes seriousness, loyalty, fairness," Archbishop Becciu said, adding that the Holy Father has offered encouragement for the future.
He said, "His daily witness of serenity and determination is an inspiration to us all."
Edward Pentin writes from Rome.
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Country Singer and 'One Tree Hill' Star Jana Kramer's New York Fashion Week Photo Diary, Part One!
Jana Kramer is known better for country singing skills and her sexy portrayal of Alex on The CW's One Tree Hill, but another love for this star: Fashion! Here, Jana details her experiences at New York Fashion Week in her personal photo diary. This is just part one, stay tuned for part two later this week! Check out all of Jana's fun photos!
8:30 a.m. Alarm clock ringing! I've never been more excited to actually get up! New York bound for my FIRST fashion week ever! I did my normal routine, washed my face, brushed my teeth, put some big and sexy dry shampoo in the hair and put on my clothes that I had laid out the night before! It took me a while to figure out what to wear! Usually I'm just in super casual clothes like my boyfriend jeans or even sweats with flip flops and a ballcap. However, knowing I was going to New York for fashion week I knew I had to up the ante! So I did the one thing I NEVER thought I would do… I put on heels to the airport!
9:35 a.m. Out the door and getting an extremely sad face from my puggle Sophie whom the night before climbed in my suitcase.
10:00 a.m. Arrive at the Nashville airport in my Cynthia Vincent heels, Paige jeans and my BCBG white shirt! I still can't believe I'm in heels at the airport. So not me. But fashion week, here I come!!!!
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3:00 p.m. Arrived at the hotel and had every intention to work out but clothes were being sent to the hotel and I was way too excited!!
4:00 p.m. I have two hours to get ready! I usually only need an hour but I didn't want to rush at all for my very first fashion show!
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7:45 p.m. Show is over and it was such an amazing show! I am fully obsessed with all of their jeans! The coolest part was that I sat next to Kristin Chenoweth. We talked about country music, TV shows and laughed a lot! It was my first time meeting her and she was exactly what people said she was like… insanely sweet!
8:45 p.m. Brian Atwood party, presented by DeLeon Tequila! Great food, yummy wine and an olympian! Ryan Lochte! Very sweet guy. Had a lot of fun talking to him.
9:30 p.m. Now to the Woolite party! And I ran into some of the NYC Housewives which was awesome because, spoiler alert, I am a HUGE reality junkie!
10:45 p.m. Back to the hotel and on a high from the day. I sat outside for about an hour with my manager enjoying Marciano cookies and a glass of wine to chill down and talk about the successful first day!
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10:40 a.m. Show was AMAZING. I'm absolutely obsessed with their new line as I knew I would be!
11:00 a.m. Gifting suite time! So many amazing things like hard rock candy makeup, pilot pens (which will be great for writing songs) and my absolute favorite KISS products! They have an assortment of stick on nails which is perfect for on the run and stage nails!
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The city must pay nearly $900,000 after a failed effort to evict the Boy Scouts of America because of the group's ban on gays, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
The post-trial ruling is just the latest twist in a decade-long legal dispute over the Boy Scout oath, which requires members to be "morally straight."
The two sides have sought a compromise that would let the local Boy Scouts chapter keep its rent-free, city-owned headquarters without violating the national Scout policy.
However, a tentative deal struck since the city lost a court case last year has fallen apart. U.S. District Judge Ronald Buckwalter therefore said the city must pay $877,000 for the Scouts' legal fees.
The order is a setback for the financially strapped city. City Council passed on a proposed deal to resolve the conflict — and avoid paying the legal fees — by selling the Scouts the building for $500,000, Mayor Michael Nutter told the Philadelphia Daily News.
"We do not as a city support that kind of behavior," Nutter said Wednesday. "We've tried to take a number of steps to get the Boy Scouts out of a city-related building."
The city insisted at a June 2010 trial that nonprofits given free use of its property must abide by local anti-discrimination laws, which include equal protection for gays. But the jury found the city's reason violated the local Scout council's First Amendment rights.
"The city defended this suit in a very principled way," Buckwalter said after the verdict.
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In 2003, it enacted its own nondiscrimination policy but was forced to repeal it when the Boy Scouts of America ordered it to conform to national rules. The chapter later enacted a statement that says it doesn't tolerate illegal discrimination.
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