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Two recent rulings show that Dutch courts are willing to take a stance on cartel damage claims. A district court recently confirmed the civil liability of cartel participants and their group entities in the gas-insulated switchgear cartel, while another district court rejected a request for provisional witness hearings in an air freight case.
Following the Streamlining Act, a single body has replaced the competition, consumer and telecommunications regulators: the Authority for Consumers and Markets. The act also introduces a number of changes concerning merger control, appeals against fines and employees' right to remain silent in case of an investigation against their former employer.
The Rotterdam District Court recently ruled that the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) should have granted a leniency applicant full immunity from fines after it confessed to its involvement in a cartel. The ACM argued that the leniency applicant was eligible only for a fine reduction instead of full immunity, because the ACM had launched an investigation into the cartel before the leniency applicant had filed its application.
The District Court of Amsterdam recently found itself competent to rule on damages claims against the non-Dutch participants of a sodium chlorate cartel through anchor defendant Akzo Nobel. The arbitration and choice of forum clauses laid down in the customer contracts did not alter this. Companies should keep in mind that they cannot always rely on these clauses in cartel damages claims.
The Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal recently ruled that the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) was wrong to fine the Dutch National Association of General Practitioners (LHV) for breaking a seal affixed by ACM officials during a dawn raid. According to the tribunal, the breaking of the seal could not be attributed to LHV and it therefore quashed the fine.
According to a recent decision of the Trade and Industry Appeals Tribunal, the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) was wrong to find that the relevant market should be limited to each individual tender project when applying the national de minimis clause to systematic bid-rigging cartels. The tribunal also clarified that the five-year limitation period relates only to the ACM's power to impose a fine.


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As I stated in my dream living room post, the Arco lamp is one of those classic modern pieces that I've longed for since I was young. The hefty Carrara marble base and long sweeping stainless steel neck make for quite the statement piece, yet the lamp seems to fit so well in just about any room.
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Halloween offered six excellent treats for Harry Potter fans in the form of new writings included in the newly added Order of the Phoenix segment to JK Rowling's official Harry Potter website, Pottermore.com.
October 31 has arrived and, as promised, Pottermore delivered the goods and then some! J.K. Rowling's official Harry Potter site added Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which offers six new writings, penned by Rowling herself.
Harry Potter fans are counting down to Friday when "all will be revealed" at Pottermore, J.K. Rowling's official Harry Potter site. The Pottermore Facebook page has been giving us fun little trick and treats. Yesterday's trick (or treat?) pointed to the subject of a new writing to Pottermore. But looking at all of the clues together, we're inclined to think that all of the trick and treats may be hinting at this new story.
As Halloween approaches, the Pottermore website and Facebook page continues to tease us with tricks and treats leading up to October 31, when "all will be revealed." Today's treat came in the form of a crossword puzzle, which, when solved correctly, would reveal a scrambled word that would tell us the subject of a new writing that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is set to share.
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J.K. Rowling's Twitter has been pretty quiet since earlier this month when she had Harry Potter fans buzzing about her tricky anagram, which offered a clue about the Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them feature adaptation.
There's more than one way to participate in a fandom, as fanatics the world over likely know. Some participate in cosplay, others write fan fiction. And some people collect, as is the case for this Mexican Harry Potter fan, who's accumulated so much Harry Potter paraphernalia, he's made the Guinness World Records.
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As the Quidditch World Cup has played out by report at the official Harry Potter website, Ginny Potter (nee Weasley) has been reporting from the games, delivering the updates for those wizards and muggles who can't be present at the magical event. But it was Rita Skeeter's recent report that has given us a real update on the happenings of the Harry Potter characters in the present day.
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There were Weasleys in Orlando today! Bonnie Wright, Oliver Phelps and James Phelps -- best known together for playing Ginny, George and Fred Weasley respectively in the Harry Potter films -- paid a visit to Universal Orlando today and they were gracious enough to Instagram some of the highlights of their visit, giving Harry Potter fans an inside look at the Diagon Alley attraction that's opening at Universal Orlando this summer.
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obama and immigration amnesty: let this be the first step toward free migration
On Thursday, President Obama is scheduled to make a speech where he will likely announce an executive order that curtails some of the worst aspects of our immigration system, such as deportation of individuals who were brought to our country as children. I fully understand that Obama is a politician, not a magician. Even if he agreed that migration restrictions are unwise, he probably won't act to pardon every undocumented immigrant.
However, I do hope that tomorrow's actions won't be an excuse to restrict migration even more. Instead, I hope that amnesty, or deferral of action, will allow Americans to reassess immigration. I want Americans to realize that travelling from Mexico to Arizona is no different that travelling between North and South Carolina. As long as someone travels peacefully, leave them alone. Preventing someone from taking a job, or owning a home, or enrolling in school, based on their nationality is no different than preventing someone from taking a job because they are Jewish, Black, or female. It's simply wrong.
So tomorrow, I will cheer for every person who can now sleep without the fear that they will be forcefully moved to another country. But at the same time, I ask my fellow Americans to think seriously about the morality of immigration restrictions and I hope that they see that is simply an unjust law. We need a new world, a world of open borders.
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open borders and out of state tuition: a key hole solution that works
In Open Borders theory, a key hole solution is a policy proposal that is designed to promote the liberalization of immigration while addressing a very specific policy concern. For example, let's say that I was afraid that Canadians can't drive. Instead of banning Canadians, we would simply require Canadians to take extra driving lessons before they get a license.
People may think key hole solutions are wonky, or they wouldn't address the concerns of restrictionists, or just simply wouldn't work. Here is an example of an actual key hole solution that (a) is widely popular, (b) works pretty well, and (c) is a solution to an issue raised by open borders. It's called out of state tuition.
The idea is simple. Public universities offer discounts to residents who have lived in the state for a few years. The idea is that once you've paid years of sales taxes, property taxes, and other taxes, you get to use a public service at a discount. Why is this a problem? Open borders. America doesn't restrict what state you can live in. You can move anywhere. But if you haven't lived in a specific state for a while, you haven't paid your share of state taxes that go to education. The solution is very easy. Become a resident, file some tax returns, and you get the discount.
What I like about this example is that it is a genuine policy issue (people claiming residency just for the discount) created by free migration. It is also a policy that is simple, humane, and fairly popular. The next time you hear a complaint about open borders ask yourself if there is something easy and simple we can do rather than condemning millions of people to poverty.
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the politics of college admissions at Berkeley and Cal Tech
A few days ago, we got into a fruitful discussion of college admissions. Steven Pinker wrote a widely discussed article condemning the Ivy League for using non-academic criteria in admissions. I concurred with the basic point, but noted that it is all for naught because Pinker doesn't discuss why college admissions is set up the way it is. Basically, current admissions policies are designed generate income, political legitimacy, academic respect, and other factors. People simply wouldn't stand for an admissions policy that would turn Harvard into Berkeley or Cal Tech, where Asians are the majority and Latinos and African Americans are under represented, not to mention all the influential people whose above average kids can't get into Harvard without the legacy program.
In the comments, Chris Martin suggested that if Cal Tech and Berkeley could do it, it wouldn't be so bad. I think Chris under estimates the issue. To see why, let's review Berkeley and Cal Tech:
- Berkeley: This was a school that had a policy where students were given an index that combined a number of factors, such as GPA, SAT, race, extracurriculars and so forth. This system was not changed internally and race was only dropped due to a ballot initiative and various judicial battles.
- Cal Tech: Even though Cal Tech is probably a more elite school than Harvard, it is very different in that the political pressures on engineering and science schools are much weaker. Roughly speaking, every smart kid in America dreams of the Ivy League, but only the nerdiest kids want to go to Cal Tech. In other words, I've never heard of wealthy senators intensely lobbying Cal Tech to make sure their C+ son makes it in.
Bottom line: These two cases are not exemplars of internally driven change. Instead, they highlight how constrained college admissions policies are.
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steven pinker, do you want a meritocracy? YOU CAN'T HANDLE A MERITOCRACY!!!!
In case you're wondering, I'm obviously Tom Cruise and Steven Pinker is Jack Nicholson.
Recently, Steven Pinker wrote a response to William Deresiewicz' recent article/book, which claims that the Ivy League is a horrible soulless place. Overall, I concur with Pinker's retort. Deresiewicz doesn't offer evidence to show that careerism has gotten any worse, he makes a broad over generalization about non-elite college students, and he overstates the cases that non-elite colleges are under appreciated refuges of learning (although a few are). The bottom line for Pinker is that the Ivy League is where talented kids should go and we should spend our efforts making it more academic by emphasizing standardized tests in admissions and de-emphasizing things likes sports and music.
I could quibble here and there, but instead, I'd like to focus on what I think is a profound problem with Pinker's retort. I share Pinker's desire to create a more academic environment in higher education, but nowhere in the essay does Pinker come to grips with why the system of elite college admissions is the way it is. Why, exactly, does Harvard, and most other competitive schools, use a mix of academics, extra-curriculars, race, legacy, and geography? Here's the simple answer:
Race. And money. But really, race.
Here's a more subtle answer:
College admissions policies are the result of multiple political and financial pressures. Management scholars call it "resource dependence." Your organization must be set up in a way to keep the resources flowing. Elite colleges need political legitimacy, scientific & scholarly legitimacy, prestige, a positive self-image, and loads of cash. A purely academic admission policy does not accomplish this complex goal. The current admission policy does.
Now, let's get down to the nitty-gritty. Jerome Karabel's The Chosen is the most comprehensive study ever conducted on elite college admissions and it explains in detail why the admissions system at Harvard looks the way it does. He focused on Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, but versions of the policies are now standard at other leading research universities.
Roughly, it goes something like this. First, the "docket system" (sorting people into geographical regions) was intended to limit Jews from the Northeast, mainly from New York and New Jersey, and favor specific private schools. Second, the emphasis on being "well-rounded" was designed to limit Asians who had trouble with English and didn't do "artsy" things. Third, affirmative action was introduced to bolster African American and Latino enrollments in the post-Civil Right era. Fourth, legacy is simply a fancy word for "pay to play." Fifth, the types of people who give the most back in donations are not the artists or painters that Pinker rightfully praises. They are those who do "Wall Street," and related careers like "Big Law," and they can be identified by extra-curricular activities in high school. College admissions has evolved beyond these basic policies but the overall structure remains. Academic performance is one very important factor, but there are others.
If Pinker were to have his way and shift to a strictly academic admissions system, the following would happen:
- A huge increase in Asian enrollments
- A modest decrease in White enrollments, but with strong Jewish enrollments
- A substantial reduction of African American and Latino enrollments
- An increase in people who don't give back
- A very angry group of industry leaders, senators, governors, and other powerful people who are really angry that their kid didn't get in.
Harvard as we see it today would cease to exist. You'd instead see it turned into something like Berkeley or Cal Tech, which are White minority institutions. How would he deal with the inevitable blow back?
I applaud Steven Pinker for decrying the dilution of academic culture. I've spent my entire career in places like Berkeley, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Bloomington and I don't regret it. But still, unless he can explain how he'll solve this complex political problem that admissions policies are designed to solve, his preening is more of a show and not serious attempt at academic reform.
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holy smokes, reagan and bush both supported open immigration – just watch this clip
This clip is full of rationality, sanity, and basic human decency. Reagan even proposes an essentially open US/Mexico border at the end. When Reagan is to the left of Obama, it shows our policies are in need of serious overhaul.
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indiana student killed in the ukraine
Last week, Indiana Ph.D. student Karlijn Keijzer was killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The university news web site reports that she was an athlete, gifted science student, and an accomplished teacher. Her passing is a tragedy that has deeply touched the IU community.
History will likely pin this senseless death, and the deaths of hundreds of others, on the separatists and their cruel patron in Moscow. Yet, we should reflect on a broader point. This type of violence, where governments hand out such sophisticated weapons of war to masked men, is made possible by nationalist sentiments. Putin only thrives because of a deep spring of nationalist pride that legitimizes war, a sentiment that exists in many nations. Before we egg on our leaders and demand that they bring war to other nations, let us remember the innocent people who will suffer.
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on facebook and research methods
Twitter is, well, a-twitter with people worked up about the Facebook study. If you haven't been paying attention, FB tested whether they could affect people's status updates by showing 700,000 folks either "happier" or "sadder" updates for a week in January 2012. This did indeed cause users to post more happy or sad updates themselves. In addition, if FB showed fewer emotional posts (in either direction), people reduced their posting frequency. (PNAS article here, Atlantic summary here.)
What most people seem to be upset about (beyond a subset who are arguing about the adequacy of FB's methods for identifying happy and sad posts) is the idea that FB could experiment on them without their knowledge. One person wondered whether FB's IRB (apparently it was IRB approved — is that an internal process?) considered its effects on depressed people, for example.
While I agree that the whole idea is creepy, I had two reactions to this that seemed to differ from most.
1) Facebook is advertising! Use it, don't use it, but the entire purpose of advertising is to manipulate your emotional state. People seem to have expectations that FB should show content "neutrally," but I think it is entirely in keeping with the overall product: FB experiments with what it shows you in order to understand how you will react. That is how they stay in business. (Well, that and crazy Silicon Valley valuation dynamics.)
2) This is the least of it. I read a great post the other day at Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective Blog (here) about all the weird and misleading things FB does (and social media algorithms do more generally) to identify what kinds of content to show you and market you to advertisers. To pick one example: if you "like" one thing from a source, you are considered to "like" all future content from that source, and your friends will be shown ads that list you as "liking" it. One result is dead people "liking" current news stories.
My husband, who spent 12 years working in advertising, pointed out that this research doesn't even help FB directly, as you could imagine people responding better to ads when they're happy or when they're sad. And that the thing FB really needs to do to attract advertisers is avoid pissing off its user base. So, whoops.
Anyway, this raises interesting questions for people interested in using big data to answer sociological questions, particularly using some kind of experimental intervention. Does signing a user agreement when you create an account really constitute informed consent? And do companies that create platforms that are broadly adopted (and which become almost obligatory to use) have ethical obligations in the conduct of research that go beyond what we would expect from, say, market research firms? We're entering a brave new world here.


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Invariably, these are the same people who claim that democracy is paramount, that the wishes of the people must always prevail over the "special interests." All of that goes out the window the moment the people (not some theoretical concept of the people, but the actual people) demand that the government-employee gravy train slow down.
Manchester voters have twice approved a tax-and-spending cap. The special interests (yes, public employee unions are special interest groups) teamed up with out-of-state leftists to kill it once, and they have tried unsuccessfully to kill it ever since the voters approved it the second time. Having failed in their ultimate goal, now they plead with public officials to override the cap, which would be to override the wishes of the people.
Year after year the argument is precisely the same: Spend more money on the existing public school system, or the children will suffer. Never do the advocates for higher taxes and higher spending advocate for structural changes that might really improve the lives of Manchester's children by bringing deep, lasting reforms to the public schools. It is always money, money, money.
Does it never occur to the supposed boosters of public education that the system itself is the problem, not the level of funding? Apparently it does not. For when people propose improving the system in ways that do not involve massive infusions of more cash (as Mayor Ted Gatsas has done), they have one response: attack.
Overriding the spending cap is not the solution for making Manchester's school system better. Yes, in some areas more money would help, and when the economy improves the money will come. But many school system flaws are not financial, and no amount of money will fix them.
Spending more money on schools does not take real courage. What takes real courage is upending the status quo so that teachers, administrators and students are all held to higher standards and then held accountable should they fail to meet them.
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During an appearance during today's NFL AM show on the NFL Network, Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks was asked if he skipped OTA's because of his contract situation. "I really don't talk about my contract in the media and stuff like that. Contract wasn't related," replied Nicks. I believe Nicks skipped OTA's to avoid any possibility of suffering an injury. He was forced to show up to minicamp since he would be fined if he didn't. He doesn't have a choice, he has to play out the final year of his contract. Need NFL Tickets? The post Hakeem Nicks still claims skipping OTA's didn't have to do with his contract appeared first on Pro Football Zone.
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CLEARLAKE OAKS, Calif. – The effort to bring a cell phone tower to the Spring Valley community is getting closer to completion.
Spring Valley resident Bob Hendrickson, who also chairs the community's safety committee and is on the advisory board for County Service Area No. 2 – which covers the Spring Valley Lakes subdivision – has been one of the people helping move the cell tower forward.
He told Lake County News that the new tower is about to be installed by Verizon.
The 4G cell tower, which is being designed to look like a water tower, is to be located at 2589 Indian Hill Road.
While it's a Verizon project, it will use some AT&T phone lines, Hendrickson said.
Following a failed effort about a decade ago, the push to get a cell tower gained ground after the 2012 Walker and Wye fires.
The fires, located east of Clearlake Oaks, damaged phone lines to the community.
First responders reported that during that incident – as well as in other cases where they've responded to the Spring Valley area – they were challenged by a lack of cell coverage.
The result was that Northshore Fire, Cal Fire, Lake County Fire and county Supervisor Denise Rushing joined forces with residents to get the project on track.
A community meeting and vote of Spring Valley's residents were held earlier this year, as Lake County News has reported.
Hendrickson said 98 percent of the community – which includes about 900 property owners – was in favor of the project.
"It was really remarkable how few people voted against it," he said.
At the February community town hall meeting, a Verizon representative had reported that the goal was to have the tower completed by August at the latest.
However, work to construct the tower began later, with the digging of the foundation starting on Oct. 22, Hendrickson said.
About two weeks ago the foundation was poured, with Hendrickson noting that the process used a lot of concrete.
Hendrickson said the foundation is now in place, and the electrical and electronic work is done.
He's anticipating that the tower will arrive and be craned into place early next week, at which point the Verizon crew will install the microwave antenna.
Once the tower is installed, Hendrickson said it's expected that Verizon will be able to offer a more accurate estimate of when the project may be completed.
Hendrickson said he anticipates that Spring Valley's residents will be able to make cell phone calls by the end of January.
While Hendrickson is looking forward to the project's completion, he noted, "One isolated cell tower doesn't mean you're suddenly going to have super duper cell service."
He said more cell towers will be needed to improve the services to Spring Valley, and officials have reported that Spring Valley's tower is part of a larger plan to increase cell phone service all along the Highway 20 corridor.
With the cell tower project nearing completion, Hendrickson said the community's next big project is working with the county of Lake to establish a community emergency response team.
So far, 25 Spring Valley residents have indicated a desire to get involved, which includes becoming certified following a training set to begin in January.
He said Lake County Office of Emergency Services Manager Marisa Chilafoe has acquired the money for training and other needs for the group.
"It's an exciting project to get going," he said.
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The Tour de France is both epic and inspirational for cyclists of all sorts.
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THE TOUR DE France, the epic annual European bicycle race, inspires all sorts of cyclists — on all sorts of bikes — to pedal the routes of the professional racers.
Sweden's Ake Johansson, left, and a friend cycled on the 2013 Tour de France route on a homemade tandem bicycle. In a twist on conventional tandems, one rider faces forward, one backward. Makes it easy to see what's coming up behind, at least.
This year's Tour de France runs July 5-27 (see letour.com). The world's top cyclists will surge along 2,271 miles of road, mostly in France but also in Britain, since this year's race will start in Yorkshire and also touch Belgium and Spain.
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Bravo took us right from the The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills season finale to the reunion show last night, and one Housewife was glaringly absent.
We break down who bailed and who had the best fake out in THG's +/- recap ...
The Housewives hit Andy's couch so that must mean the season is over. But one Housewife didn't show.
Adrienne Maloof bailed and not just on the reunion show but on the entire series. Minus 15. Too bad her final act as a Housewife was to no-show.
I suppose it all became too much for her but Lisa was right. You don't join a reality TV show if you have skeletons you don't want exposed. Fame comes at a price and it's one Ms. Maloof seems unwilling to pay.
Minus 30 because the viewers are still the last to know what the big secret is and that's nothing but frustrating. What good is reality TV if we can't dish the dirt?
But on to the Housewives who did show up. Taylor's looking as botoxed as ever. Did she borrow those lips from Daffy or Donald? Minus 12. She's looking more ridiculous every season.
At least Taylor's in love…with a married man…who lives in Colorado. What could go wrong here?
Adrienne may be out but Brandi is definitely in and she's more than willing to say whatever's on her mind but I'm guessing we'll have more fun with that in part 2 than we did tonight.
Best fake out of the night went to Andy. Plus 45 for perpetrating the rumor that Leann Rimes was the latest Housewife and then pretending she was about to be presented. Very funny.
Kyle and Lisa go at it once again. Minus 18 because this fight gets more boring every time I have to listen to it. Kyle feels that Lisa's cut her off and Lisa believe Kyle never has her back.
It's time to go to your separate corners and move on.
Just when I expected everyone to pile on Brandi, it was Yolanda who was under attack.
First we see footage of Taylor saying that she feels like Yolanda thinks she's better than her. Plus 10. Um…that's because she is.
Yolanda admits she never watched an episode of the show before she signed on. Minus 15. Oh honey, that was just dumb. Information is power. Never turn it down.
Then Kim goes after Yolanda over their supposed juice cleanse date. Only in Beverly Hills do women make a date to do a group cleanse. Minus 11. It makes me glad I don't live there.
But the dates were made through production people, not directly between Kim and Yolanda. Problem solved… sort of.
The funny part about Yolanda is that she can be just as direct as Brandi, she just says it more politely and with an accent. Plus 15.
Yolanda and Kyle bicker over their definitions of friendship. Let's face it. This is a reality show. Does anyone really expect these two to become best buddies?
There's lots of sniping about who came to whose parties and then Kyle throws Yolanda under the bus for calling out Lisa in Paris.
To be honest I only remember Yolanda saying it was wrong of Lisa to continually talk about Kim, especially while Kim was sitting right there. I don't recall her really tearing Lisa apart.
Minus 20 because Bravo didn't show any of the footage to back it up.
Andy claimed there's more to life than dinner parties and suing friends in Beverly HIlls. Yeah, there's too much drinking and a lot of back stabbing too.
The claws have definitely came out on the sofa. Can't wait to see who else gets scratched in part 2.
Adrienne is such a tacky bitch. Doesn't anyone remember the Christmas tinsel she wore in her hair on her entire first season? Who shows up at a party crying about how your kids want you at home? Go the fuck home then stupid! She projects all of her faults on everyone else, attention seeker, fame whore, shit talker, selling stories, fugly swamp pig.
Totally agree. The ONLY reason Adrienne showed up was to draw attention to herself and try to put a damper on Lisa's festivities. A total bitch loser. Lisa has more class in her pinky finger than Adri-yawn has in her entire botoxed body.
No this is a reality tv show. Adrienne was contractually obligated to show up to the " last Party" of the season. She did not want to be there. Every housewife franchise has a closing party that serves as the final scenes for the season and everyone shows up. Think of the last show on the RHOC everyone even past season cast shows up to the party. And don't forget the Table flipping dinner of RHNJ. Sometimes there is real drama during these season closing parties but Adrienne showing up was more about fulfilling her episode requirement before she quit.