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Attorney and journalist Amy Bach spent eight years investigating the widespread courtroom failures that each day upend lives across America. In the process, she discovered how the professionals who work in the system, however well intentioned, cannot see the harm they are doing to the people they serve. The book is Ordinary Injustice, How America Holds Court.
Winner of the 2010 RFK Book Award.
- Book review Washington City Paper
- Book review Scott Greenfield
- Justice by the Numbers New York Times
- ABA Journal Ordinary Injustice by Amy Bach
The American Bar Association (ABA) recently added a "Civil Right to Counsel" page,
"Law Governing Appointment of Counsel in State Civil
Proceedings", with 50 research reports, one for each state detailing existing authority for appointment of counsel in various types of civil proceedings. There is
an Appendix: International
Law Relating to Appointment of Counsel in Civil Proceedings. United
States v. Duarte-Acero, 208 F. 3d 1282 (11th Cir. 2000) is a case about International Law in Florida and the U.S. Eleventh
From the Forward: "It is a commonplace for courts throughout the United States to announce, "there is no right to counsel in civil cases in this state." Yet, in truth, in every state there are at least a few categories of civil cases in which indigent litigants have a right to counsel. Indeed in some jurisdictions there are many such rights. It also is not unusual for state law to grant judges a discretionary power to appoint counsel for such litigants in still other kinds of cases, or even for all civil cases."
- ABA Toolkit Right to Counsel in Civil Proceedings
- ABA the 50th Anniversary of Gideon v. Wainwright
- Human Rights in the U.S. Handbook for Legal Aid Attorneys
- Fifty Years Later The Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright
- US DOJ: How to Make a Civil Rights Complaint
- "Legal aid, a right in itself" UN Special Rapporteur
- National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel
- The Philadelphia Bar's Civil Gideon Corner
"The legal community and public often ask, "What does 'civil Gideon' mean?" In the landmark United States Supreme Court case of Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), the Supreme Court decided that indigent defendants have a constitutional right to be represented by an attorney, at no charge, in state criminal cases. The term "civil Gideon" refers to a growing national movement that has developed to explore strategies to provide legal counsel, as a matter of right and at public expense, to low-income persons in civil legal proceedings where basic human needs are at stake, such as those involving shelter and child custody."
- Legal Services Corp, Documenting the Justice Gap
- UNODOC, Early access to legal aid in criminal justice
- Legal Information Institute, Gideon v. Wainwright
- Gideon v. Wainwright, Wikipedia
- Right to counsel Wikipedia
- Criminal Justice Act, 18 U.S. Code § 3006A
- Criminal Justice Act, U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals
- National Legal Aid Defender Association History
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte wrote about the right to legal representation in civil cases in his law review Tributaries of Justice: The Search For Full
Access, 25 Fla. St. U. L. Rev 631, Section V. Tributary
Four: A Civil Gideon Fund From A Service Tax On For-Profit Legal Services.
"Some court opinions hint that access to legal representation in civil cases might be a constitutional entitlement. footnote 58, See In re Amendments to Rules Regulating The Florida Bar—1-3.1(a) and Rules of Judicial Administration—2.065 (Legal Aid), 598 So. 2d 41, 43 (Fla. 1992) (noting that "the right to counsel is no longer limited to criminal cases")."...
In Re Amendments to Rules, 598 So. 2d 41 (Fla. 1992)
Pro Bono Primer for Florida Lawyers (PDF), The Florida Bar
The Florida Bar Journal, Pro Bono Services in Florida, April, 1999 Volume LXXIII, No. 4, by Judge William A. VanNortwick, Jr. and Kent R. Spuhler, Jr. and Paul C. Doyle, Jr.
EEOC: Reasonable Accommodations for Attorneys with Disabilities.
The ADA: One Avenue to Appointed Counsel re Civil Gideon (PDF)
ABA: Why not let nonlawyers help regulate the legal profession?
Prof. James Moliterno: The Trouble With Lawyer Regulation
Sixth Amendment to the US Constitution:
"In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence." Wikipedia
Freedom Riders for Civil Rights (1961), left
U.S. Civil Court System Needs Major Overhaul
U.S. Civil Court System Needs Major Overhaul, New Book Declares
PBS News Hour
October 18, 2011
A new book, "Rebuilding Justice: Civil Courts in Jeopardy and Why You Should Care," argues Americans don't understand how the courts work and that the system itself needs a major overhaul. Ray Suarez talked with the book's co-author on the campus of Georgetown University Law Center's Supreme Court Institute.
RAY SUAREZ: Well, the book reads like a 230-page indictment. What's the problem?
REBECCA LOVE KOURLIS: Well, it's not that complicated -- or it shouldn't be. If you get in a car wreck, and there's an argument about who should be paying damages, your assumption is that you can go to court to have that case resolved. The truth of the matter is that's probably the last place you want to be, because the fees and the costs will ultimately be more than your car is worth, even if you drive a really nice car. PBS News Hour
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System, IAALS: Authors Rebecca Love Kourlis and Dirk Olin tell the story of a civil justice system that has become alarmingly expensive, politicized, and time-consuming, degrading it to the point that it no longer meets the legitimate needs of the people it was created to serve. IAALS Facebook
Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Department of State
Ambassador Samantha Power is the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations and a member of President Obama's Cabinet. At the United Nations, Ambassador Power works to advance U.S. interests, promote and defend universal values, and address pressing global challenges to global peace, security, and prosperity. Read more
Wikipedia: Samantha Power (born September 21, 1970) is an Irish-born American academic, author and diplomat who currently serves as the United States Ambassador to the United Nations.
President Obama's letter on Syria
The White House, Syria Foreign Policy
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) The Carter Center
Signed by President Carter October 5, 1977
Ratified by the United States June 8, 1992
Article VI of the U.S.
Constitution provides "...all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the
Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding." (in part)
Universal Declaration of Human Rights - UDHR, 60th Anniversary, President George W. Bush addressed The United Nations General Assembly, September 25, 2007.
PRESIDENT BUSH: Mr. Secretary General, Mr. President, distinguished delegates, ladies and gentlemen: Thank you for the opportunity to address the General Assembly of the United Nations. Sixty years ago, representatives from 16 nations gathered to begin deliberations on a new international bill of rights. The document they produced is called the Universal Declaration of Human Rights -- and it stands as a landmark achievement in the history of human liberty. It opens by recognizing "the inherent dignity" and the "equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family" as "the foundation of freedom, justice, and peace in the world." And as we gather for this 62nd General Assembly, the standards of the Declaration must guide our work in this world....
UNODC's Action against Corruption and Economic Crime
Corruption is a complex social, political and economic phenomenon that affects all countries. The United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) is the only legally binding universal anti-corruption instrument. Signed by the United States December 9, 2003, and ratified by the United States October 30, 2006.
Wikipedia reports "In its 71 Articles divided into 8 Chapters, UNCAC requires that States Parties implement several anti-corruption measures which may affect their laws, institutions and practices."
UNCAC's Forward: "Corruption is an insidious plague that has a wide range of corrosive effects on societies. It undermines democracy and the rule of law, leads to violations of human rights, distorts markets, erodes the quality of life and allows organized crime, terrorism and other threats to human security to flourish. This evil phenomenon is found in all countries..." (English PDF).
The U.N. Global Compact site anti-corruption resources.
- United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)
- Signed by President George W. Bush December 9, 2003
- Ratified by the United States October 30, 2006
The Holocaust: German and American Law
Once a burial ground for partisan heroes of World War II, Lion Cemetery now contains many victims of the siege of Sarajevo.
What Happened to the Hague Tribunal?
The New York Times
by ERIC GORDY Op-Ed Contributor
June 2, 2013
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia decided on Thursday to acquit two Serbian state security officials, Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic. The acquittal is one of a series of dramatic reversals by the tribunal over the last year, and it fits into the evolution of an institution that came in with a squeak, banged around for a bit, and looks likely to go out with a whimper.
Stanisic and Simatovic had the largest hand in creating, training, arming, financing and directing several of the paramilitary groups responsible for a large number of crimes in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The tormented reasoning of the tribunal's 800-page verdict offers some fascinating reading: It affirms that crimes were committed and describes them in excruciating detail. It names the victims, names the perpetrators, and in most cases details the connections between the accused parties and the direct perpetrators.
Then it declines to convict, on the ground that the evidence does not show that the support provided to the criminals was "specifically directed towards the commission of the crimes."
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, Wikipedia
Kenya parliament to reconsider ICC membership
Kenya parliament to reconsider ICC membership
Aljazeera Africa
September 4, 2013
Legislators recalled for vote in advance of trials of president and vice president at international court at the Hague.
Kenya's parliament has been recalled to debate ending its membership of the International Criminal Court, in advance of a crimes-against-humanity trial of the vice-president starting next week.
Joyce Laboso, parliamentary deputy speaker, issued on Tuesday the order for the "special sitting of the assembly", with parliament to meet on Thursday.
However, even should Kenya choose to leave the ICC - the first country potentially to do so - it would not affect upcoming trials since legal proceedings have already begun.
The ICC trial opened of Vice-President William Ruto, who is facing three counts of crimes against humanity for allegedly organising 2007-2008 post-election unrest that killed at least 1,100 people and displaced more than 600,000.
Ruto's trial comes about two months before that of President Uhuru Kenyatta on November 12, who faces five charges of crimes against humanity, including murder, rape, persecution, deportation and other inhumane acts.
Both Kenyatta and Ruto have said they will cooperate fully with the court but deny the charges against them. Read more
International Criminal Court - ICC
website ICC on - Wikipedia
Crimes against humanity - ICC website CAH on - Wikipedia
Rome Statute - ICC website Rome on Wikipedia
Ratification of the Rome Statute
International Committee of the Red Cross - Rome Statute
Prevent Genocide - Rome Statute - International Criminal Court
Supreme Court Approval Rating Drops to 25-Year Low
Supreme Court Approval Rating Drops to 25-Year Low
ABA Journal Law News Now
By Debra Cassens Weiss
May 2, 2012
Only 52 percent of the public has a favorable view of the U.S. Supreme Court, down from a previous low of 57 percent in 2005 and 2007.
The favorability rating is at its lowest point in 25 years, according to a press release on the survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The poll was conducted in April after the Supreme Court held oral arguments on the constitutionality of the health care law.
Fifty-six percent of Republicans and 52 percent of Democrats and independents give the court favorable ratings. (Others in the survey identified themselves as having no party preference, members of other parties, or "leaning" toward Democrats or Republicans, according to a questionnaire summary.)
Among supporters of the health-care law, 52 percent have a favorable view of the Supreme Court. Among the bill's opponents, 55 percent view the court favorably. Read more here
Hat tip to How Appealing
Petition 13-7280 Writ of Certiorari SCOTUS (closed)
Gillespie vs. Reverse Mortgage Solutions, Inc., et al.
US Supreme Court docket page - Petition No. 13-7280
Petition denied January 13, 2014
Rehearing denied March 10, 2014
Petition for rehearing Petition No. 13-7280
The Cert Pool Petition No. 13-7280
Affidavit: well-founded fear of political persecution
Urgent Appeal: to Special Rapporteurs, United Nations
Petition 12-7747 Writ of Certiorari SCOTUS (closed)
Gillespie v. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Florida
US Supreme Court docket page - Petition No. 12-7747
Petition denied February 19, 2013
Rehearing denied April 15, 2013
Fraud or Impairment of 12-7747 discovered May 2013
Index Guide to Petition No. 12-7747
The Cert Pool Petition No. 12-7747
Blog post Petition No. 12-7747
Blog post David Rowland misled Florida AG, SCOTUS Petition
Application 12A215 GRANTED by Justice Thomas SCOTUS
Gillespie v. Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Florida
US Supreme Court docket page Application No. 12A215
No. 12A215
Title: Neil J. Gillespie, Applicant
Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, et al.
Docketed: August 31, 2012
Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit Case Nos.: (12-11028, 12-11213)
- Aug 13 2012 - Application (12A215) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 11, 2012 to December 10, 2012, submitted to Justice Thomas.
- Sep 13 2012 - Application (12A215) granted by Justice Thomas extending the time to file
Petition No. 13-1063 Writ of Certiorari SCOTUS (closed)
Paula Perez-Rodriguez v. The Bank of New York Mellon, et al.
Whether borrowers have the right under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to contest residential foreclosures that use the same fraudulent documentation numerous branches of the federal government and 49 state Attorneys General condemned and prohibited through various multibillion dollar settlements?
US Supreme Court docket page - Petition No. 13-1063
Petition denied May 5, 2014; time for rehearing expired
Ginsburg: "I would not look to the U.S. Constitution, if I were drafting a Constitution in the year 2012"
Ginsburg Appears on Egyptian TV, Talks About Constitution
ABA Journal Law News Now
By Molly McDonough
February 3, 2012
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrapped up a trip to Egypt with an appearance on Egyptian TV, where in a lengthy interview she discussed the U.S. Constitution and whether it should be a model for Egypt.
While urging that the U.S. Constitution be used as inspiration, Ginsburg said Egyptians should look to other countries with newer constitutions for guidance, the Huffington Post reports.
"Let me say first, that a constitution, as important as it is, will mean nothing unless the people are yearning for liberty and freedom," Ginsburg said in the 18-minute interview with Al Hayat TV, which is posted on YouTube. "If the people don't care, then the best constitution in the world won't make any difference."
Ginsburg was in Egypt to meet with judges, legal experts, law faculty and students in Cairo and Alexandria. According to the U.S. Embassy, she was there to "'listen and learn' with her Egyptian counterparts as they begin Egypt's constitutional transition to democracy," the Huffington Post notes.
On the television program, in a response to a question about drafting a constitution in the modern era, Ginsburg said she would not look to the U.S. Constitution when drafting in the year 2012 because it excluded women, slaves and Native Americans.
Rather, those writing constitutions should look at all constitution writing since World War II. She pointed specifically to the South African constitution and Canada's charter of rights and freedoms as good modern examples.
"Why not take advantage of what there is elsewhere in the world? I'm a very strong believer in listening and learning from others," she said.
The Huffington Post reports that no other justice on the current high court has publicly advised another country on the creation of a constitution. Read more
United States Constitution Wikipedia
U.S. Declaration of Independence Wikipedia
Constitution of South Africa Wikipedia
Canadian Charter of Rights & Freedoms Wikipedia
European Convention on Human Rights Wikipedia
'We the People' Loses Appeal Around the Would
'We the People' Loses Appeal With People Around the World
The New York Times
By ADAM LIPTAK
February 6, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Constitution has seen better days.
Sure, it is the nation's founding document and sacred text. And it is the oldest written national constitution still in force anywhere in the world. But its influence is waning.
In 1987, on the Constitution's bicentennial, Time magazine calculated that "of the 170 countries that exist today, more than 160 have written charters modeled directly or indirectly on the U.S. version."
A quarter-century later, the picture looks very different. "The U.S. Constitution appears to be losing its appeal as a model for constitutional drafters elsewhere," according to a new study by David S. Law of Washington University in St. Louis and Mila Versteeg of the University of Virginia.
The study, to be published in June in The New York University Law Review, bristles with data. Its authors coded and analyzed the provisions of 729 constitutions adopted by 188 countries from 1946 to 2006, and they considered 237 variables regarding various rights and ways to enforce them.
"Among the world's democracies," Professors Law and Versteeg concluded, "constitutional similarity to the United States has clearly gone into free fall. Over the 1960s and 1970s, democratic constitutions as a whole became more similar to the U.S. Constitution, only to reverse course in the 1980s and 1990s."
"The turn of the twenty-first century, however, saw the beginning of a steep plunge that continues through the most recent years for which we have data, to the point that the constitutions of the world's democracies are, on average, less similar to the U.S. Constitution now than they were at the end of World War II."
There are lots of possible reasons. The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the 18th century may send the signal that it is of little current use to, say, a new African nation. And the Constitution's waning influence may be part of a general decline in American power and prestige.
In an interview, Professor Law identified a central reason for the trend: the availability of newer, sexier and more powerful operating systems in the constitutional marketplace. "Nobody wants to copy Windows 3.1," he said.
In a television interview during a visit to Egypt last week, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court seemed to agree. "I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012," she said. She recommended, instead, the South African Constitution, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms or the European Convention on Human Rights.
The rights guaranteed by the American Constitution are parsimonious by international standards, and they are frozen in amber. As Sanford Levinson wrote in 2006 in "Our Undemocratic Constitution," "the U.S. Constitution is the most difficult to amend of any constitution currently existing in the world today." (Yugoslavia used to hold that title, but Yugoslavia did not work out.) [Monticello.org, tree of liberty question]
Other nations routinely trade in their constitutions wholesale, replacing them on average every 19 years. By odd coincidence, Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to
James Madison, once said that every constitution "naturally expires at the end of 19 years" because "the earth belongs always to the living generation." These days, the overlap between the rights
guaranteed by the Constitution and those most popular around the world is spotty.
Americans recognize rights not widely protected, including ones to a speedy and public trial, and are outliers in prohibiting government establishment of religion. But the Constitution is out of step with the rest of the world in failing to protect, at least in so many words, a right to travel, the presumption of innocence and entitlement to food, education and health care.
It has its idiosyncrasies. Only 2 percent of the world's constitutions protect, as the Second Amendment does, a right to bear arms. (Its brothers in arms are Guatemala and Mexico.)
The Constitution's waning global stature is consistent with the diminished influence of the Supreme Court, which "is losing the central role it once had among courts in modern democracies," Aharon Barak, then the president of the Supreme Court of Israel, wrote in The Harvard Law Review in 2002.
Many foreign judges say they have become less likely to cite decisions of the United States Supreme Court, in part because of what they consider its parochialism.
"America is in danger, I think, of becoming something of a legal backwater," Justice Michael Kirby of the High Court of Australia said in a 2001 interview. He said that he looked instead to India, South Africa and New Zealand.
Mr. Barak, for his part, identified a new constitutional superpower: "Canadian law," he wrote, "serves as a source of inspiration for many countries around the world." The new study also suggests that the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, adopted in 1982, may now be more influential than its American counterpart.
The Canadian Charter is both more expansive and less absolute. It guarantees equal rights for women and disabled people, allows affirmative action and requires that those arrested be informed of their rights. On the other hand, it balances those rights against "such reasonable limits" as "can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
There are, of course, limits to empirical research based on coding and counting, and there is more to a constitution than its words, as Justice Antonin Scalia told the Senate Judiciary Committee in October. "Every banana republic in the world has a bill of rights," he said.
"The bill of rights of the former evil empire, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was much better than ours," he said, adding: "We guarantee freedom of speech and of the press. Big deal. They guaranteed freedom of speech, of the press, of street demonstrations and protests, and anyone who is caught trying to suppress criticism of the government will be called to account. Whoa, that is wonderful stuff!"
"Of course," Justice Scalia continued, "it's just words on paper, what our framers would have called a 'parchment guarantee.' " Read more
Originalism - Back to the Future - September 17, 1787
In the context of United States constitutional interpretation, originalism is a principle of interpretation that tries to discover the original meaning or intent of the constitution. It is based on the principle that the judiciary is not supposed to create, amend or repeal laws (which is the realm of the legislative branch) but only to uphold them. The term is a neologism, and the concept is a formalist theory of law and a corollary of textualism.
Today, originalism is popular among political conservatives in the U.S., and is most prominently associated with Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Robert Bork. However, some liberals, such as Justice Hugo Black and Akhil Amar, have also subscribed to the theory. Read more
The Originalism Blog Why Originalism Is So Popular
Eric Posner, The New Republic
Legal Theory Lexicon 019: Originalism
The Founder's Constitution, Kurland & Lerner
Jack Balkin, Bad Originalism
Balkin, Scalia Blowing Smoke Again
Ed Brayton, Balkin on "Bad Originalism"
JustOneMinute, The NY Times Finds A
Booknotes interview with Jack Rakove on Original Meanings:
Second Constitution of the United States?
Second Constitution of the United States, Wikipedia
The Second Constitution of the United States is a controversial proposal made by a small but increasing group of scholars and activists from both left and right for a substantive effort to reform politics in the United States by means of overhauling the current United States Constitution. The current Constitution in Article V describes several ways in which the current constitution could be altered, but that in any event, thirty eight of the fifty states would be needed to ratify any changes. While in 2011, the number of voices calling for such a Constitutional Convention are small in number, there are reports of state legislatures leaning in the direction of substantive constitutional reform, based in part on widespread dissatisfaction with the American political process at the national level. In contrast, however, analyst David O. Stewart, writing in the Huffington Post, suggested that most Americans would "recoil from the disruption" of a possible second Constitution. Read more
Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We The People Can Correct It)
Our Undemocratic Constitution: Where the Constitution Goes Wrong (And How We
The People Can Correct It)
Sanford Levinson, Author
The Constitution is one of the most revered documents in American politics. Yet this is a document that regularly places in the White House candidates who did not in fact get a majority of the popular vote. It gives Wyoming the same number of votes as California, which has seventy times the population of the Cowboy State. And it offers the President the power to overrule both houses of Congress on legislation he disagrees with on political grounds. Is this a recipe for a republic that reflects the needs and wants of today's Americans? Read more
Review by Michael Kinsley, The New York Times: Levinson argues that too many of our Constitution's provisions promote either unjust or ineffective government. Under the existing blueprint, we can neither rid ourselves of incompetent presidents nor assure continuity of government following catastrophic attacks. Less important, perhaps, but certainly problematic, is the appointment of Supreme Court judges for life. Adding insult to injury, the United States Constitution is the most difficult to amend or update of any constitution currently existing in the world today. Democratic debate leaves few stones unturned, but we tend to take our basic constitutional structures for granted. Levinson boldly challenges the American people to undertake a long overdue public discussion on how they might best reform this most hallowed document and construct a constitution adequate to our democratic values. Read more
Professor Sanford Levinson talked about his book, Constitutional Faith on BookTV, in which he argues that the U.S. Constitution is worshipped to a degree that it is unhealthy for our democracy.
Constitutional Faith, Princeton University Press
How Democratic is the American Constitution? Second Edition
Robert A. Dahl, Author
Yale political science professor Robert Dahl takes a critical look at our Constitution and why we continue to uphold it, though it is "a document produced more than two centuries ago by a group of fifty-five mortal men, actually signed by only thirty-nine, and adopted in only thirteen states." As an instrument for truly democratic government, Dahl argues, it fails. With insufficient models to guide them and a distrust of unfettered democracy, the Framers allowed several "undemocratic elements" in: slavery was accepted and suffrage effectively limited to white men. But Dahl saves his most potent criticism for two provisions that have remained unchanged: the electoral college and the Senate, both of which tie votes to geography rather than population, thereby skewing political power toward coalitions of smaller states whose interests may not necessarily coincide with the nation's as a whole. And as the 2000 presidential election illustrated, the electoral college can frustrate the will of the majority. Read more
Law Prof Who Urged Abandoning the Constitution Gets
Abusive and Threatening Emails
ABA Journal Law News Now
By Debra Cassens Weiss
January 3, 2013
The op-ed by Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman was provocative and, apparently, anger-inducing.
Writing in the Sunday New York Times, Seidman said it was time to abandon the U.S. Constitution and its "archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions."
"As someone who has taught constitutional law for almost 40 years, I am ashamed it took me so long to see how bizarre all this is." he wrote. Imagine the president or Congress decides on a course of action. "Suddenly, someone bursts into the room with new information: A group of white propertied men who have been dead for two centuries, knew nothing of our present situation, acted illegally under existing law and thought it was fine to own slaves might have disagreed with this course of action. Is it even remotely rational that the official should change his or her mind because of this divination?"
The op-ed, written in advance of Seidman's new book, On Constitutional Disobedience, brought more than 700 emails in Seidman's in box, the Wall Street Journal Law Blog (sub. req.) reports. "My email box may never recover," Seidman told the blog. "I would say a large percentage of them are seriously abusive. Quite a few are anti-Semitic. Some are actual threats." Read more
Louis Michael Seidman, On Constitutional Disobedience 2012, The Scholarly Commons Georgetown Law paper
What would the Framers of the Constitution make of multinational corporations? Nuclear weapons? Gay marriage? They led a preindustrial country, much of it dependent
on slave labor, huddled on the Atlantic seaboard. The Founders saw society as essentially hierarchical, led naturally by landed gentry like themselves. Yet we still obey their commands, two centuries
and one civil war later. According to Louis Michael Seidman, it's time to stop.
In On Constitutional Disobedience, Seidman argues that, in order to bring our basic law up to date, it needs benign neglect. This is a highly controversial assertion. The doctrine of "original intent" may be found on the far right, but the entire political spectrum--left and right--shares a deep reverence for the Constitution. And yet, Seidman reminds us, disobedience is the original intent of the Constitution. The Philadelphia convention had gathered to amend the Articles of Confederation, not toss them out and start afresh. The "living Constitution" school tries to bridge the gap between the framers and ourselves by reinterpreting the text in light of modern society's demands. But this attempt is doomed, Seidman argues. One might stretch "due process of law" to protect an act of same-sex sodomy, yet a loyal-but-contemporary reading cannot erase the fact that the Constitution allows a candidate who lost the popular election to be seated as president. And that is only one of the gross violations of popular will enshrined in the document. Seidman systematically addresses and refutes the arguments in favor of Constitutional fealty, proposing instead that it be treated as inspiration, not a set of commands.
The Constitution is, at its best, a piece of poetry to liberty and self-government. If we treat it as such, the author argues, we will make better progress in achieving both.
Stephanie McCurry is a specialist in Nineteenth Century American history, with a focus on the American South and the Civil War era, and the history of women and gender. Read more
Who Won the Civil War? New York Times, July 2, 2013
Book TV: Stephanie McCurry, "Confederate Reckoning"
Professor Stephanie McCurry, Confederate Reckoning
But There Was No Peace: The Aftermath of the Civil War (Stanford)
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, Public Broadcasting Service
Michelle Alexander, author of "The New Jim Crow" - Kent Lecture
Penn is strongly committed to open learning — a vital part of our mission to increase access, around the world, to the educational resources that can change people's lives. Read more
An Honest Legal System Matters: Trickle-Up Economics
The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails
Everywhere Else Hernando de Soto, Author
Published 14 years ago, the information is dated in a way beneficial to understanding current economics, and why we in America are truly in a crisis over the misrule of law.
"It's become clear by now the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism in most places around the globe hasn't ushered in an unequivocal flowering of capitalism in the developing and postcommunist world. Western thinkers have blamed this on everything from these countries' lack of sellable assets to their inherently non-entrepreneurial "mindset." In this book, the renowned Peruvian economist and adviser to presidents and prime ministers Hernando de Soto proposes and argues another reason: it's not that poor, postcommunist countries don't have the assets to make capitalism flourish. As de Soto points out by way of example, in Egypt, the wealth the poor have accumulated is worth 55 times as much as the sum of all direct foreign investment ever recorded there, including that spent on building the Suez Canal and the Aswan Dam."
"No, the real problem is that such countries have yet to establish and normalize the invisible network of laws that turns assets from "dead" into "liquid" capital. In the West, standardized laws allow us to mortgage a house to raise money for a new venture, permit the worth of a company to be broken up into so many publicly tradable stocks, and make it possible to govern and appraise property with agreed-upon rules that hold across neighborhoods, towns, or regions. This invisible infrastructure of "asset management"--so taken for granted in the West, even though it has only fully existed in the United States for the past 100 years--is the missing ingredient to success with capitalism, insists de Soto. But even though that link is primarily a legal one, he argues that the process of making it a normalized component of a society is more a political--or attitude-changing--challenge than anything else." Read more
- The Mystery of Capital, New York Times Books
- The Mystery of Capital, CATO Institute
- The Mystery of Capital, Yendieu PDF
- The Mystery of Capital, Ludwig von Mises Institute review
The Institute for Liberty and Democracy envisions a world where the majority of people can fully participate in a
national and global economy by having access to property and business rights. We seek bottom-up reforms that are derived from understanding and recognition of existing extralegal systems and
customs. Read more
The rule of law and property rights came to America in the 18th and 19th century according to DeSoto (at 7:30 in the video). But what about the rule of law and property rights of Native Americans? The Lenape people claim the Walking Purchase of 1737 cheated them of their lands in the Lehigh Valley. The case was adjudicated in U.S. District Court November 30, 2004, see The Delaware Nation v. Commonwealth of Pa., et al., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, No. 04-CV-166. The 33 page Memorandum and Order of November 30, 2004 shows quite a story in land title and conveyance.
Foreclosure defense lawyer Matt Weidner was investigated by the Florida Bar for "exercising free speech in the courtroom" according to a story in
the ABA Journal Law News Now. Foreclosure defense lawyer Chip Parker of Jacksonville faced a Florida Bar complaint for
comments he made during a CNN interview, according to a story in the ABA Journal Law News Now. He told the network, "Foreclosure courts throughout the state of Florida have adopted a system of ramming foreclosure cases through the final judgments and sale—with very little regard to the rule of law." He also complained of "an attack upon the citizens of the state of Florida by retired judges."
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Famed trial lawyer Gerry Spence says judges should be drafted:
"Our judges should be drafted in the same manner that jurors are drafted-to act as judges for a limited calendar of cases after which they would be released to return to their practices. Every trial lawyer should be required to support the system in this fashion the same as every citizen is required to serve as a juror. If judges were drafted from the trial bar we would soon clear our dockets, because we could call up as many judges as were necessary to bring our dockets current. If judges were drafted, we would no longer be saddled for life with the political cronies of those in power, or be faced with judges who have received campaign contributions from our opponents. To be sure, we would experience some bad judges. But, Lord knows, we have them now - and often for life! On the other hand, we would benefit from the best minds in the legal business, who, under our present system, rarely seek the judiciary." - Gerry Spence, page 57, From Freedom to Slavery, The Rebirth of Tyranny in America.
Elizabeth Warren and Bank Regulators At First
Huffington Post
by Ryan Grimm
February 14, 2013
WASHINGTON -- Bank regulators got a sense Thursday of how their lives will be slightly different now that Elizabeth Warren sits on a Senate committee overseeing their agencies.
At her first Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, Warren questioned top regulators from the alphabet soup that is the nation's financial regulatory structure: the FDIC, SEC, OCC, CFPB, CFTC, Fed and Treasury.
The Democratic senator from Massachusetts had a straightforward question for them: When was the last time you took a Wall Street bank to trial? It was a harder question than it seemed. Read more
My letter to Sen. Warren, as filed in Petition No. 12-7747
Suit Offers a Peek at the Practice of Inflating a Legal Bill
New York Times DealBook
By PETER LATTMAN
March 25, 2013
World's largest law firm DLA Piper overbilled the wrong client
- Adam H. Victor who fought back.
They were lawyers at the world's largest law firm, trading casual e-mails about a client's case. One made a sarcastic joke about how the bill was running way over budget. Another responded by describing a colleague's approach to the assignment as "churn that bill, baby!"
The e-mails, which emerged in a court filing late last week, provide a window into the thorny issue of law firm billing. The documents are likely to reinforce a perception held by many corporate clients — and the broader public — that law firms inflate bills by performing superfluous tasks and overstaffing assignments.
The internal correspondence of the law firm, DLA Piper, was disclosed in a fee dispute between the law firm and Adam H. Victor, an energy industry entrepreneur. After DLA Piper sued Mr. Victor for $675,000 in unpaid legal bills, Mr. Victor filed a counterclaim, accusing the law firm of a "sweeping practice of overbilling."
Mr. Victor's feud with DLA Piper began after he retained the firm in April 2010 to prepare a bankruptcy filing for one of his companies. A month after the filing, a lawyer at the firm warned colleagues that the businessman's bill was mounting.
"I hear we are already 200k over our estimate — that's Team DLA Piper!" wrote Erich P. Eisenegger, a lawyer at the firm.
Another DLA Piper lawyer, Christopher Thomson, replied, noting that a third colleague, Vincent J. Roldan, had been enlisted to work on the matter.
"Now Vince has random people working full time on random research projects in standard 'churn that bill, baby!' mode," Mr. Thomson wrote. "That bill shall know no limits." Read more
Original court documents, DLA Piper v. Victor, 650374/2012
E-Mails Attached to Court Filing on Law Firm Billing
ABA Journal, Law News Now: 'Churn that bill, baby!' email surfaces in fee dispute with DLA Piper, Martha Neil, March 25, 2013
New York Law Journal: DLA Piper Emails Reveal Firm Overbilled, Former Client Says, by Christine Simmons, March 26, 2013
Supreme Court Allows Strip-Searches for Any Arrest
Supreme Court Ruling Allows Strip-Searches for Any Arrest
The New York Times
By ADAM LIPTAK
April 2, 2012
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband.
Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, joined by the court's conservative wing, wrote that courts are in no position to second-guess the judgments of correctional officials who must consider not only the possibility of smuggled weapons and drugs, but also public health and information about gang affiliations.
"Every detainee who will be admitted to the general population may be required to undergo a close visual inspection while undressed," Justice Kennedy wrote, adding that about 13 million people are admitted each year to the nation's jails.
The procedures endorsed by the majority are forbidden by statute in at least 10 states and are at odds with the policies of federal authorities. According to a supporting brief filed by the American Bar Association, international human rights treaties also ban the procedures. Read more
- Commentary by Karen Garcia on Sardonicky
- Related story on the ABA Journal Law News Now
- Linda Greenhouse on the Supreme Court and the law
Evidence of Innocence: The case of Michael Morton
60 Minutes CBS News
by Lara Logan
March 25, 2012
It's not every day that a convicted murderer clears his name and then returns to court to argue that his prosecutor should be prosecuted. But that's what happened recently in a high-profile case in Texas that raises broader questions about the power prosecutors have and what happens when they're accused of misusing it. At the center of this story is a man named Michael Morton. He was once an ordinary citizen with a wife, a child, a job, and no criminal record whatsoever. But then he was sent to prison for life. Read more
Justice and Prosecutorial Misconduct
The New York Times, Editorial
December 28, 2011
Michael Morton was exonerated by DNA evidence this month after being wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and serving nearly 25 years in prison in Texas. In seeking to prove Mr. Morton's innocence, his lawyers found in recently unsealed court records evidence that the prosecutor in the original trial, Ken Anderson, had withheld critical evidence that may have helped Mr. Morton. Read more
More Prosecutorial Misconduct: Sen. Ted Stevens Case
Justice Department: We won't repeat Ted Stevens mistake
McClatchy Newspapers
by Sean Cockerham
March 28, 2012
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday that its misconduct in the case against then-Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens was an isolated incident and Congress shouldn't pass a law forcing prosecutors to disclose all evidence they have to the defense.
Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski is pushing a bill to require prosecutors to turn over evidence to the defense immediately that could be favorable to the accused. Alaska Democratic Sen. Mark Begich, who beat Stevens in an election just days after his conviction, which later was thrown out, is a co-sponsor. The American Civil Liberties Union, among others, supports the bill, saying that this type of problem happens too often.
But the Justice Department released a statement Wednesday as the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on an investigator's report that concluded the Stevens investigation and prosecution "were permeated by the systematic concealment" of evidence that would have helped Stevens. Read more
Tab For The Ted Stevens Misconduct Report: $981,842
DOJ Threatens to Sue Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Civil Rights
ABA Journal Law News Now
By Debra Cassens Weiss
April 4, 2012
The U.S. Justice Department is threatening to sue a controversial Arizona sheriff for civil rights violations because of his treatment of Hispanics.
The department's civil rights division revealed a possible lawsuit after settlement talks broke down with Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, according to Reuters and the Washington Post. "We believe that you are wasting time and not negotiating in good faith," the department said in a letter to Arpaio's lawyer.
A Justice Department report released in December accused the sheriff's department of using racial profiling against Hispanics in police stops and denying them services in jail.
The DOJ says Arpaio's lawyers have twice called off settlement negotiations at the last minute, according to the Post account. After cancelation of a March 1 meeting, Arpaio held a news conference to claim President Obama's birth certificate is a forgery. Now Arpaio is complaining about the feds' demand for a court-appointed monitor.
"To the Obama administration, who is attempting to strong arm me into submission only for its political gain, I say: This will not happen, not on my watch!" Arpaio said in a statement published by Reuters. Read more here
U.S. Investigation (PDF) of the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
Justices' Ruling Expands Rights of Accused in Plea Bargains
The New York Times
By ADAM LIPTAK
March 21, 2012
WASHINGTON — Criminal defendants have a constitutional right to effective lawyers during plea negotiations, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday in a pair of 5-to-4 decisions that vastly expanded judges' supervision of the criminal justice system.
The decisions mean that what used to be informal and unregulated deal making is now subject to new constraints when bad legal advice leads defendants to reject favorable plea offers.
"Criminal justice today is for the most part a system of pleas, not a system of trials," Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority. "The right to adequate assistance of counsel cannot be defined or enforced without taking account of the central role plea bargaining takes in securing convictions and determining sentences." Read more Related story in the ABA Journal
For One Prisoner, Nutriloaf Diet May Violate Eighth
Amendment, Posner Opinion Says
ABA Journal Law News Now
By Debra Cassens Weiss
March 28, 2012
A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit filed by a prisoner who claimed the nutriloaf he ate in the Milwaukee County Jail was cruel and unusual punishment.
The opinion (PDF) by Judge Richard Posner of the Chicago-based 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals suggested appointment of counsel for the inmate, Terrance Prude, who vomited and suffered an anal fissure after eating nutriloaf at the jail during a stay to attend court proceedings. Jail officials gave Prude bread and water as a substitute, and his weight dropped from 168 to 154 after two stays at the facility. Other inmates at the jail also vomited after eating nutriloaf. Read more
Former US Attorney and Harvard Law School grad David W. Marston gave his opinion of the justice system in Malice
Aforethought: How Lawyers Use Our Secret Rules to Get Rich, Get Sex, Get Even...and Get Away with It. C-SPAN2
Critique compares the practice of law and the justice system to the Mafia.
"They all have undergone the same tough initiation, and once admitted to membership, all have sworn the same oath. They live by their own rules and have fiercely
resisted efforts by outsiders to penetrate their clan. They have a code of silence that makes the Mafia's dreaded omerta seem gossipy. And while the organization rigidly limits the operations of its
members to their assigned turf, their criminal activities within these areas are surprisingly varied." (Page 22, paragraphs 4 & 5)
"It's not the Mafia. Not the Medellin drug cartel…The members are all lawyers. And the organization is the American legal profession." (Pages 23-24) Link to C-SPAN2 video
Paul F. Campos is an author, blogger, and Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. Campos writes a blog for The Daily Beast, another at Lawyers, Guns and Money, and his own blog, Inside the Law School Scam. Campos on Wikipedia
In Jurismania, Paul Campos asserts that our legal system is beginning to exhibit symptoms of serious mental illness. Trials and appeals that stretch out for years and cost millions, 100 page appellate court opinions, 1,000 page statutes before which even lawyers tremble with fear, and a public that grows more litigious every day all testify to a judicial overkill that borders on obsessive-compulsive disorder. Campos locates the source of such madness, paradoxically, in our worship of reason and the resulting belief that all problems are amenable to legal solutions. In insightful discussions of a wide range of cases, from NCAA regulations of student-athletes to the Simpson trial, from our most intractable social disputes over abortion and physician-assisted suicide to the war on drugs and the increasingly fastidious attempts to regulate behavior in public spaces, Campos shows that the mania for more law exacerbates the very problems it seeks to remedy. In his final chapter, the author calls instead for a humbling recognition of the limits of reason and a much more modest role for our legal system. Read more
- Jurismania publisher Oxford University Press
- Book review, The New York Times
- Book review, H-Net Online
Justice: An Impossible Dream?
by Dr. Margaret Koch-Nabialczyk
"Our legal system has frankly broken down"
Lawyer and author Larry Klayman spoke to Book TV about his book "Whores, Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment" and claims
"Our legal system has frankly broken down, it has become a cesspool"
"Judges not making decisions on the merits, but on the basis of feathering the nests of those who got them their jobs"
"Lawyers who don't tell the truth"
Larry Klayman, Esq., founder and former chairman of the successful non-profit foundations Judicial Watch and of Freedom Watch, has dedicated his career to fighting against injustice and restoring ethics to the legal profession and government.
Klayman has brought lawsuits against Hugo Chavez and OPEC, among others. Klayman details his legal battles with President and First Lady Bill and Hillary Clinton (Chinagate and Filegate), Vice President Dick Cheney (secret energy commission meetings), and the Bush administration over illegal wiretapping of American citizens. His portraits of the likes of Janet Reno, Fred Thompson, Arlen Spector, Judge Denny Chin (who recently presided over the Madoff trial) and other Clinton insiders Klayman considers unethical, and who have come back to power in the Obama administration, reveal not always flattering sides of their well-cultivated images. Klayman also has choice words to say about media figures such as Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity and Paula Zahn, and he accuses media mogul Rupert Murdoch of sandbagging the original publication of WHORES by HarperCollins because of the book's negative portrait of Roger Ailes and Fox News. Above all, WHORES is an impassioned plea for reform of our judicial system with a number of provocative suggestions. more
Larry Elliot Klayman is a member of the Florida Bar, ID number 246220, admitted December 7, 1977. Klayman was reprimanded by the Supreme Court of Florida, case SC11-247 on August 29, 2011.


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May 28th, 2013 4 Comments
Eric Wareheim (of Tim And... fame) and Diplo's Major Lazer have a longstanding relationship when it comes to the dancehall-inflected project's visual needs. Wareheim introduced a Passa…   Read Story »
Apr 26th, 2013 7 Comments
There are many questionable things about Snoop's fake patois-drenched reboot as roots-reggae uplifter Snoop Lion -- and perhaps, per the NYT, tapping fellow Caribbean appropriators Major Lazer to…   Read Story »
Apr 21st, 2013 3 Comments
Sitting here in the afterglow of day two -- resting sore muscles and reflecting on an impossible collection of hard-earned memories -- I feel like I'm starting to come to terms with Coachella. The…   Read Story »
Apr 14th, 2013 3 Comments
Before we get into Saturday, let's not bury the day's big lede: R. Kelly joined Phoenix on stage to perform his biggest crossover that isn't from the Space Jam soundtrack, "Ignition (Remix)." Not…   Read Story »
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The video for "Watch Out For This (Bumaye)," a fired-up track from Major Lazer's new album Free The Universe, takes Diplo and dancehall superstar Busy Signal time-traveling back to 1993, when…   Read Story »
Apr 12th, 2013 3 Comments
If you caught any of Major Lazer's frantic, fun-as-hell festival-rocking live shows over the last few years, you likely saw girls twerking on speaker-risers, Skerritt Bwoy performing death-defying…   Read Story »
Apr 4th, 2013 6 Comments
An incredibly strange confederation of people got together to work on the song "Ashtrays And Heartbreaks": G-rap legend-turned-cuddly reggae croaker Snoop Lion, teen idol-turned-tabloid cautionary…   Read Story »
Mar 21st, 2013 12 Comments
Diplo's steady co-piloting in Snoop Dogg's self-reinvention into Snoop Lion continues with this Major Lazer-co-produced track "No Guns Allowed." The Beirut-interpolating track features guest vocals…   Read Story »
Mar 16th, 2013 2 Comments
Major Lazer's 2012 album Free The Universe featured a collaboration with Amber Coffman of the Dirty Projectors, "Get Free." At this year's SXSW both Coffman and Major Lazer finally performed the song…   Read Story »
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The release of Major Lazer's sophomore album Free The Universe looms, and Diplo's cartoonish EDM-dancehall hybrid has already released one free-online EP of remixes and ephemera. And now they've…   Read Story »

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17 November 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
To say a new episode of Closet Conversations was long overdue would be an understatement. Can you believe it has been a little over a year since the last one? That's exactly why we're back with a two-fer (i.e. two wardrobes wrapped up into one video).
This time around, we are chatting with the dynamic styling duo, Arlene Matthews (r) and Brandon Frein of Kit This! You'll soon find out that their wardrobe is just as fun and diverse as their approach to styling (which includes personal clients, fashion editorials and commercial projects). From Brandon's vast Louis Vuitton collection to Arlene's enviable selection of Rachel Comey garments, these ladies walk us through some of their favorite items and dish on what inspires their personal style.
Special thanks to our first-ever Closet Conversations sponsor, Randolph Street Market, for making this possible. And much love to Emmanuel Camacho for blessing us with his filming (and editing) skills.
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03 November 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
Being apart of this here blogging game has afforded me with many opportunities, some of which I never would have imagined. And being asked to co-host the upcoming Fashion Forward event, at the Museum of Science and Industry, is yet another "pinch me" moment.
Fashion Forward is all about celebrating innovation in fashion. The curators have worked extremely hard, over the past few months, to bring to you some of the most breathtaking and awe-inspiring items from around the world (I got a sneak peek, so trust me on that). Not only will you be able to see how science will influence the future of fashion, but you will also be allowed to experience the innovation firsthand, through some of the interactive exhibits.
31 October 2014 / By Dana Nostro
Something old and something new, combined, typically symbolizes good luck for new beginnings. This may be an old wedding tradition, but certainly applies to other significant moments.
Case in point: The eDrop-Off loves Christian Siriano event, which took place last week.
The party, hosted by eDrop-Off owner, Corri McFadden, and Christian Siriano celebrated their recent career achievements – a 10-yr anniversary and newly-established retail shop (The Collection at 1201 N. Clark St) for eDrop-Off as well as the first Chicago pop-up shop and a fragrance launch for Siriano.
28 October 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
We all know that a purchasing a new makeup product is the cheapest way to freshen up your look each season. Unless, of course, you are buying said product from Sephora.
Sephora has a way of convincing you that your entire beauty and makeup arsenal is subpar and needs a complete do-over. I can't even tell you the amount of times I've went in to make one purchase and ended up leaving with a bag full of things I "needed". With so many brands and interactive tools under one roof (not to mention the fact that they always give samples upon request), Sephora is also the best place for trying out new skincare products and fragrances.
And as if they didn't already meet all of our beauty needs, Sephora is now offering complimentary classes! Finally, we can learn how to apply all that makeup piling up in our drawers, like a professional.
23 October 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
Reading books is a pastime I thoroughly enjoy, but simply don't have time to accomplish. Even "light reads" take a back seat to spending time with this guy. But recently, while sifting through the countless unread messages in my inbox, I caught wind of a new book, A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy, centered around the idea of buying less and focusing more on quality. I must admit, this has become increasingly important to me in recent years. Maybe it's the old age (35 and still fine, thank you very much) or the simple fact that the more I come in contact with high quality goods (even if it is only while window shopping), the less desirable it becomes to shop fast-fashion wares.
22 October 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
Shopping trip (noun) – an opportunity to bond with friends while searching for the best deals, a new wardrobe, the perfect pair of shoes, et cetera, et cetera.
It's also the perfect way to try out car service with Blacklane, an international limousine company that has now made its way to Chicago. A few weeks ago, I rounded up a few of my best fashion friends (a new spin on BFFs) and planned a journey to the Fashion Outlets of Chicago.
Scheduling the car in advance was quite simple. Since I had to pick up someone along the way, I chose the hourly service (you can also do Transfer service, which is ideal for direct transportation to airports or events). After filling out a few details, I was given an estimate and allowed to select my vehicle of choice. It was all done online, in less than 10 minutes.**
9:30am: The ladies arrive at my house, where I provide them with popcorn and pralines for the trip.
10:00am: Our driver arrives in a roomy Cadillac Escalade, giving us the best of both worlds – luxury and style.
23 September 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
With Paris Fashion Week starting today, we couldn't close out Fashion Month (i.e. NYC-London-Milan-Paris) without providing you with a Soundtracked playlist inspired by the runway.
Whether this mix transports your mind to the front row of your favorite fashion show or has you strutting down the street to the office, our work here is done.
P.S. Modeling experience not required.
23 September 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
When it comes to quality basics, Uniqlo has the game on lock. And you know that age-old adage, "you get what you pay for?" Well, they've managed to turn that over on its head. From their classic tees to their warm yet stylish outerwear (hello, ultra light down wrap coat), it's quite baffling how they can offer so much goodness at such low prices.
05 September 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
With the weekend literally breathing down our necks, what better way to celebrate than with a bit of #FlashbackFriday (you know, #tbt's first cousin)?
Last month, I co-hosted the Glossed and Found + Furla Haute Happy Hour event (remember?) with a bevy of local beauties. Not only was it a great opportunity for everyone to get all dressed up, mingle with friends and ogle over Furla's new Fall collection, but it was also a kickoff for the new Thompson Chicago x FURLA Handbag Lending Program.
03 September 2014 / By Nikia Jefferson
Women with great style tend to be gadget lovers. Keeping up with the latest fashion trends goes hand in hand with staying up-to-date with the latest technology and mobile apps. That's exactly why I agreed to test drive the Bose Soundlink Mini speaker.
From headphones to computer speakers, my household is starting to become a Bose-only zone. The quality of sound is unmatched by other brands, so I figured the Soundlink Mini wouldn't disappoint. Provided to me by Verizon Wireless, midway through the summer, you can bet I put this portable speaker to good use.
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What's the Plan?
The title of this post comes straight from a question I was asked by a long-time member a couple of days ago. His interest was in what was "the plan" heading into this winter. Given the ice and snow mobile damage we incurred this spring I thought I would provide a short highlight as to what the next month to six weeks has in store from a maintenance standpoint.
While we have made great strides to past couple of seasons in increasing our bentgrass population on our greens. I am not that big of a fool to realize that the Poa is still there, and, on some greens is still the dominant turf species. We have made large strides this season with our practices (smooth rollers, regular light top-dressing, managing water, fertility and disease tolerance). We still need to protect the Poa going into the winter. Here is a great read via Michigan State University and their turfgrass department on winter preparations http://t.co/u7yGWHczGl.
Today was our first time mowing greens since Sunday. We raised the mowing height from our in-season height of .120″ to .140″. Increasing mowing height may not protect the turf from winter damage, but it may allow it to go into winter under less stress;
The Tuesday after Thanksgiving (October 14th) we will be performing our 2nd aeration of 2014. This process will include a 1/2″ solid tine aeration with a walking aerator (3 inch depth), followed by a 2nd 1/2″ aeration with our deep tine aerator (8 inch depth) at a 37 degree angle (thanks to hard work in finding the best angle to do a second aeration by a former US Superintendent Jerry Kershasky) from the first. By doing 2 at once we will be able to add more sand to our profile without the disruption (see the August post on aeration http://wp.me/p1ufSX-sY) of a core aeration. Fresh sand channels produce new roots, and double the holes will provide some surface drainage over the winter. Here is a look at the deep tine work we did earlier this week in a few spots;
We have tentatively scheduled our final greens spray to take place (weather permitting) Monday November 3rd. We will be using the same Premis/Insignia mix of products we used last year. Once this application is completed, a week later we will bury the greens in sand top-dressing. Why bury in sand you ask? Protection is the one and only reason;
A couple of newer measures we are planning on this year include tarping of 3 greens and snow fence around 4-5 greens that have been regular snow mobile targets. While I detest tarps, there are some merits to them. Particularly Midlands 7 and 8 green and the new green at Southern Uplands 2 based on the fact these three greens are the last to melt off all the snow every year. We have three tarps and we incur no expense by using them. Below is a look at a tarpped green for winter protection purposes;
The snow fence will be used on Highlands 4 – 5 and 6, Midlands 6 and possibly Uplands 9. Quite simply the fence will be a visible barrier against anything that attempts to make its way over these greens. Below is a picture from another golf course and their snow fence;
Once again we will also be removing some selective trees around greens this fall. We have contracted out this process to M.C. Tree and they will be starting this process in a couple of weeks. Why more trees? While we have made amazing strides the last 3 winters (Uplands 1 green is the testament of this work!!), there are still shade issues that are affecting greens. This was taken last Saturday afternoon at 2pm;
Above you can see that 3 trees are blocking afternoon fall/winter sunlight to this putting surface. To put it in simple terms, these trees "need to go" to promote healthy turf on this green.
Sadly, as much as many of you are likely sick of hearing this from me. The greatest issue we still face heading into the winter is Mother Nature and the unpredictability of the weather. It is such an unknown and as much as we have planned and tweaked the plan. Chances are we will face some challenges come April. Fingers are crossed that we won't have issues (the realist in me has a hard time typing this cliché).
As much as we are winding down, in some respects we are really just getting started. Once you factor in this work with our regular maintenance (blowing leaves, once a week mowing, irrigation blowout and cart services). Our small crew has a full plate heading into this 6 week run to the finish line.
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We as Christians shouldn't just think about being a light in the world, but actually be a light in the world. This light hearted video demonstrates the "what ifs" in life and shows how we as Christians can share God's love. Can be used as a welcome, invite, or evangelizing video.
Scripture: Matthew 5:16, Matthew 5:14
When people come to your Christmas Eve services, they all need a reminder to leave the chaos behind and to focus on the Child, the manger and the hope He brings.
Scripture: John 1:14, Matthew 1:21, Matthew 1:23
Instead of focusing on human willpower for New Year resolutions, this video brings the focus back to God and his commitment to us. It's a great theme for a January sermon series and can even be shown later in the year when New Year's resolutions are long forgotten but God is still keeping his promises.
Scripture: Hebrews 13:5-13:6, Psalms 32:8, Jeremiah 29:11
Tags: New Year's Day, Goals, God's Faithfulness, God's Promises, Hope, [more]
By: Outreach, Inc.
We Are The Church Video - This inspiring new video will positively challenge the way visitors and members think about the Church by showing how it offers people a place to find hope and help through true community in the midst of life's difficulties.
Scripture: Hebrews 10:25, Matthew 18:20, Acts 2:42
This powerful worship video is all about crying out to our God and worshiping Him for all He is and all He's done. "You", is a great way to intro your next message on worship or use it kick off your next worship service or event.
Scripture: Psalms 8:1, Psalms 95:6, John 4:21-4:24
God has given us so much to be thankful for. Life, love, grace, mercy and the promise of eternity with Him. "I Am Thankful" is a declaration of thanksgiving and a great fit for any message on thankfulness or your next Thanksgiving service.
Scripture: Psalms 95:2, 1 Chronicles 16:34, Psalms 7:17
By: MotionWorship
This Easter mini-movie illustrates the ways in which Christ was put to death for our sake. Imagery includes a crown of thorns, cross with purple fabric, wooden staff, nails & hammer, Calvary, and the tomb closing. It concludes with the resurrection complete with uplifting music and powerful messages of hope.
Scripture: John 3:16, Mark 15:14-15:22
By: SourceFlix
The prophet Isaiah uses the olive harvest as a metaphor to describe a coming judgment. In his description, the tree is the earth, the beating with rods is God's wrath and the falling olives are people. Isaiah's message is two-fold, to give strong warning of judgment, but also to bring hope…there will be a remnant…a few olives will remain! The important question then is how can we be part of the remnant? In chapter 53, Isaiah reveals that salvation will come through the coming of a person—one who will take God's wrath and punishment for sin upon himself.
Scripture: Isaiah 17:4-17:6, Isaiah 24:1, Isaiah 24:6
Have you ever wondered what hope truly is? It's more than a wish or a desire. Hope is the response of a heart longing for God. Hope is waiting for our Savior to return and knowing He's returning for us. Hope is about trusting in a God who has never let us down. That's what hope is.
Scripture: Proverbs 24:14, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 4:16-4:18
Tags: Hope, Trust God, Second Coming, God's Faithfulness
The Story of God's love, embodied and seen in the Person of Jesus, is indeed the greatest Story ever told. But what is that Story, and what are we being invited into?
Scripture: Luke 24:1-24:7, John 1:1-1:12
Tags: Easter, Invitation, Resurrection, Jesus Life, Hope


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April 27, 2000 1:13 pm
"Adolescence at the Millennium: Tales From the Field" to be discussed at Bates
Georgia N. Nigro, Whitehouse Professor of Psychology at Bates College, will lead a roundtable discussion on "Adolescence at the Millennium: Tales From the Field" at 4 p.m. Friday, May 12, in the Keck Classroom, Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The event, which celebrates Nigro's appointment as the Whitehouse Professor of Psychology at Bates, is open to the public free of charge.
April 21, 2000 12:57 pm
Retirees recognized at Bates
Thirteen Bates employees who have retired or will retire this year were honored at the college's annual Employee Recognition Luncheon on Friday, April 21. The noon luncheon and awards ceremony were held in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building. Retirees who have more than 10 years of service to the college received a Bates gift chair. Also recognized at the luncheon were employees observing anniversaries of service to Bates and new employees hired since Commencement 1999.
April 14, 2000 12:49 pm
Bates ranks third among nation's most "wired" college campuses
Bates College ranks third among the most "wired" college campuses in the nation, according to the May 2000 issue of Yahoo! Internet Life Magazine.
April 14, 2000 12:45 pm
Three Bates students named Philip J. Otis Fellows
Bates College students Kara McKeever of Westport, Conn.; David Sharratt of Canton, Maine; and Amanda Smith of Santa Fe, N.M., have been named 2000 Phillip J. Otis Fellows and will each receive a $5,000 grant for research and travel to promote greater understanding of environmental issues and the connection between the environment and spirituality.
April 13, 2000 12:40 pm
Bates students awarded Watson Fellowships
Bates College seniors Kristen Frederick of Columbia, S.C., and Weston Noyes of Salt Lake City, Utah, are two of 60 students nationwide recently selected to receive Thomas J. Watson Fellowships.
April 10, 2000 12:31 pm
Bates professor receives Celebration of Excellence award
Kathryn Graff Low, a clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychology at Bates College, has been selected as a finalist for the first Pizzagalli Construction Company Celebration of Excellence Award.
March 30, 2000 1:27 pm
Bates students present "Celebrating Places We Call Home: Stories From Lewiston-Auburn"
Bates College students enrolled in "Literature and the Environment" will present the results of a semester-long project, "Celebrating the Places We Call Home: Stories From Lewiston-Auburn," a series of interviews conducted with 15 Lewiston-Auburn residents about places that have particular meaning for them, at 5 p.m.Friday, April 7, in Chase Hall Lounge on Campus Avenue. The public is invited to attend free of charge.
March 24, 2000 12:44 pm
Bates to host State Odyssey of the Mind Tournament April 8
Seventy student teams from grades kindergarten through high school will compete at the day-long Maine State Odyssey of the Mind Tournament beginning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday, April 8, at various sites on the Bates College campus. The 12 state champion teams that emerge from the tournament at Bates will go on to compete at the Odyssey of the Mind 2000 World Finals at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 31-June 3. The public is invited to attend the state tournament at Bates free of charge.
March 23, 2000 12:41 pm
Bates Modern Dance Company to perform
The Bates College Modern Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Marcy Plavin, presents "Form, Function and Chaos," a concert showcasing the talents of 14 student artists, and featuring two works by Terese Freedman and Jim Coleman commissioned by the college as part of its millennial celebration, at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 31; 8 p.m. Saturday, April 1; and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 2, in Schaeffer Theatre on College Street.
March 20, 2000 12:34 pm
Walsh to deliver Founders Day Convocation address at Bates
Diana Chapman Walsh, the 12th president of Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass., will discuss "Living Our Stories Well" at noon, Monday, April 3, in Alumni Gymnasium as part of Bates' annual Founders Day Convocation, a time when the college reflects on the principles that were at its founding and continue to sustain it. The public is invited to attend the convocation without charge.


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Brockamp & Jaeger recently completed the remodel of the Oncology department and two radiation treatment vaults, one of which houses a new linear accelerator machine imported from Europe. Brockamp & Jaeger and the project team successfully completed this project ahead of schedule to allow a smooth turn-over to the medical equipment installers and then the Oncology staff.
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For most people living in rural areas, collection, treatment, and disposal of household sewage must be accomplished on site.
Groundwater professionals from across Pennsylvania gathered on May 7, 2014 at the Ramada Inn Conference Center in State College, PA for the 2014 Pennsylvania Groundwater Symposium. The symposium was again held during National Drinking Water Week in recognition of the importance of groundwater to both public and private drinking water supplies across Pennsylvania.
EPA's online Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection was recently updated in April 2014 to include the latest information about FY2014 federal funding allocations for programs focusing on watershed protection and restoration. The site houses an easy-to-use, searchable database of 85 programs in which financial assistance sources, including grants, loans and cost-sharing, are available to fund a variety of watershed activities.
Feral swine/wild hogs have been documented in numerous areas of Pennsylvania. USDA-Wildlife Services is looking for information in order to document locations and collect disease samples. Information is also being sought on shooting preserves (past and present).
Two teams of Penn State Extension educators, specialists, and faculty have been selected as national award winners by the Association of Natural Resource Extension Professionals (ANREP) and will be recognized on May 21 at the upcoming ANREP Conference in Sacramento, CA.
Penn State Extension has recently completed work on a new mobile device App called "H2OSolutions" to help private water system owners and professionals evaluate wells, springs and cisterns.
This May will mark the 24th anniversary of American Wetlands Month, a time when EPA and its partners in federal, state, tribal, local, non-profit, and private sector organizations celebrate the vital importance of wetlands to the Nation's ecological, economic, and social health. It is also a great opportunity to discover and teach others about the important role that wetlands play in our environment and the significant benefits they provide — improved water quality, increased water storage and supply, reduced flood and storm surge risk, and critical habitat for plants, fish, and wildlife.
Stormwater Sentries is a new game that can be accessed on Facebook and is designed to educate the public about how our actions impact local streams, rivers, and the Chesapeake Bay. Game players can take on missions to clean up trash, pick up after their pet, plant native trees, shrubs, flowers, and rain gardens, reduce impervious surfaces, install rain barrels and more. As missions are completed, they will see water quality improve in the local stream and they can take on advanced missions to restore the stream buffer to provide habitat for wildlife. The games was created by Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, in partnership with Timmons Group and SRRN Games.
New guidelines are in effect for those interested in non-point source pollution funding. Find out about the changes and applying for funding through PENNVEST.
Twelve York County police departments currently partner with the York County Solid Waste Authority (YCSWA) to host medication take-back boxes in their police department lobbies. Together, they have safely collected and disposed of a total of more than 1.2 tons of unused and expired medications since the start of the program in November, 2012.
Our forests are under attack. And the U.S. Forest Service is hoping that the Nation's fourth and fifth graders can help fight back. The Forest Service distributed Insects Invade, a teacher's package to 25,000 teachers nationwide.
On March 31, 2014 over 90 professionals came together to share their experiences working on land and water conservation issues.
Penn State Extension Water Resource Educators Jim Clark and Amy Galford led a pond management workshop for 38 undergraduate students from 11 different states on Saturday, March 29, 2014 in Spring Mills, PA.
Research indicates that both surface and groundwater are showing signs of increased salt concentrations as a result of human activities. Further, the increased salt levels can have an impact on stream dwellers.
This 37 page report is intended to assist communities in developing and evaluating CSO control alternatives that make green infrastructure part of their designs.
The Penn State Water Resources Team attended the 2014 Dairy Expo at Penn State University on February 12, to educate dairy producers about water quality problems.
Climate change is already having a profound effect on life in the oceans. Marine species tend to be highly mobile, and many are moving quickly toward the poles to stay cool as average ocean temperatures rise. These shifts can cause ecological disruptions as predators become separated from their prey. They can also cause economic disruptions if a fish population becomes less productive or moves out of range of the fishermen who catch them.
Managing a large field pond can be a challenging task. Sometimes the best option is to think of unique, innovative ways to approach the management task.
As we look around at ways to improve produce production, one area that offers the greatest return in both fruit quality and decreased fertilizer inputs is in getting the pH of your irrigation solution correct. Every crop has an ideal pH range where it removes nutrients from the soil solution optimally. Getting your soil and water pH right can be the difference between a profitable crop and high field / packing house losses.
On January 9, 2014, newly formed public water supply coalitions had an opportunity to meet with the Regional Director of the North-central PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) Regional Office, Marcus Kohl, in Williamsport, PA.


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Marjorie had a great time baking her Cinnamon Twist Coffeecake with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show September 30. Magic Johnson came over to taste the final product. Watch part one of their episode here. And for part two click here.
Welcome to BlueRibbonBaking.com! Marjorie Johnson's website includes information on her cookbook, baking tips from Marjorie herself, and updates on her upcoming live and TV appearances.
Marjorie Johnson on The Talk
Marjorie returned to The Talk on Wednesday November 12. She baked a treat from her cookbook,"The Road to Blue Ribbon Baking with Marjorie". Come and watch the fun here
Marjorie at KARE11 Barn Live from the Fair
Marjorie will demonstrate her first place blue ribbon original Bisquick recipe with Belinda Jensen at the KAREN 11 barn on Saturday August 30.
Marjorie on Joe Soucheray Garage Logic
Join Marjorie when she talks with Joe Soucheray live at the Minnesota State Fair at the KSTP AM 1500 ESPN radio booth. It is located on Chambers Street next to the 5 Eyewitness News building. Show starts at 1PM on Thursday August 21
Marjorie at the Minnesota State Fair 2014
Join Marjorie at the Fair this year at the following live broadcasts
Thursday August 21 on Joe Soucheray
Thursday August 21 3-4PM on Twin Cities Live channel 5.
Come on down to the 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS building near the grandstand on Chambers Street.
Monday August 25 around 4:30PM on My talk 107.1 FM radio with Lori and Julia. Located right on the corner of Randall and Cooper streets
Watch Marjorie on The Talk
To watch the Monday June 2 episode of The Talk click here. Guest Marjorie Johnson showcased her baking and talking skills with the ladies on the national TV show The Talk. It was a fun time!
Marjorie to appear on Twin Cities Live April 21
Marjorie going to be on "Twin Cities Live" on Monday April 21. She will be answering baking questions from the audience. It is their sixth anniversary year. The show began on April 21, 2008. MArjorie was on that week and has been a guest each year to celebrate the beginning of a new season. She is looking forward to being there. Hope you see the show. In the Minneapolis-St Paul area, it is on KSTP CHANNEL 5 from 3 to 4pm central time.The program can also be viewed that evening on twincitieslive.com
Marjorie to appear at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show 2014
Join Marjorie at the Minneapolis Home and Garden Show.
On Thursday February 27th she will join Elizabeth and Emily on the Lifestyle stage for a live taping of Twin Cities Live starting at 3:00 PM. First come, first serve seating begins at 2:00PM.
Marjorie then heads over to the Kitchen stage for a baking demonstration at 5 PM. She will answer questions from the audience on baking tips for blue ribbon results.
On Saturday March 1 Marjorie returns to the Kitchen stage for another baking demonstration at 2:00PM. More opportunity for answers to your baking questions.
Marjorie on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno baking Candy Cane Cookies
Marjorie is going to help Jay Leno make one of her favorite Christmas cookies. Watch Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
Marjorie to be on KARE11 with Belinda Jensen
Watch KARE11 on Saturday December 21 when Belinda and Marjorie whip up one of Marjorie's favorite holiday cookies, Candy Cane Cookies.
Watch Marjorie on The Tonight Show
Marjorie had a great time baking her Cinnamon Twist Coffeecake with Jay Leno on The Tonight Show September 30. Magic Johnson came over to taste the final product. Watch part one of their episode here. And for part two click here.


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Dionysos Hotelhttp://www.orbitz.com/hotel/Greece/Agistri/Dionysos_Hotel.h469991/
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Hotel Dionysos is located on the outskirts of the village of Skala in Skliri.This is a peaceful area of the island at all times of the year. The Hotel is located in a prime position with spectacular views of the sea, the neigbouring island of Aegina and the pine covered mountains of Agistri.On the ground floor there is a bar offering a variety of drinks, breakfasts and snacks. While you are in the bar area why not try Tavli - the Greek name for backgammon - a very amusing game. With an open fire in the bar area which helps to create a cosy atmosphere during the winter months.
Dionysos Hotel Rooms
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- Balcony with Sea View
- Air-condition, TV, refridgerator, small kitchenette
- Balcony with Garden View
- Air-condition,TV and refridgerator
- 2 Balconies with Sea View, 1
- Two separate areas, air-condition and TV in both areas, fireplace in living room, fully equipped kitchen
- Balcony with Sea View
- Air-condition, TV,refridgerator, sall kitchenette
- Free parking
- No smoking rooms/facilities
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- Air conditioned
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- Pet friendly
- Dining
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Days turned to weeks, and soon a month was past. Andrei has succeeded in composing the first movement, and was touching up the second by the end of May. Nadia kept a cool attitude to it all, although certainly less cheerful than before. Whenever she went to Andrei's house, that cheer she had in working with the composition was gone. But rather than being bitter, Nadia kept quiet, and worked as obediently as she could. Andrei didn't know the difference. So she thought.
Nadia walked
Nadia stopped. "How are you so sure?"
"There's something he hasn't told you."
"He's using you."
Nadia grimaced. "Well, of course he is using me. He is helpless otherwise."
"No, I don't mean that way..." he sighed again. They were walking in a hallway, and he led Nadia again into a more secluded area, where no one was walking.
"As a dear
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"It was wonderful," Nadia replied. "I really enjoyed it for the most part, except for one thing that happened."
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The rules will be kept simple: here's what I found, here's where I found it, here's a couple of sentences about it and (possibly) some opinions.
Not unlike Olympic Figure Skating, I will provide two sets of marks (letters A to D) on sound quality (SQ) and on overall impression (OI). These grades are entirely subjective, but here are some guidelines:
About "sound quality": my point of reference is my iPod (160 GB iPod Classic) with standard earbud-type
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