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Supremo – Remote access
Supremo is a simple and inexpensive software for remote desktop control, access and assistance.
With Supremo you can provide technical support remotely without the need to configure firewalls and routers. Just a few clicks and you will control the PC of your customer.
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Compatibile with Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, Server 2003, Server 2003 R2, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2, Server 2012 and Server 2012 R2 both 32-bit and 64-bit.
The key features of Supremo are:
- No configuration required
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Kate Moss for Liu Jo Spring/Summer 2013 Campaign
The fruitful collaboration of Italian brand Liu Jo and stunning model Kate Moss still continues and the incredible beauty proudly represents the Liu Jo, Liu Jo Jeans and Liu Jo Shoes and Accessories lines of the brand for the new season. Photographed by Solve Sundsbo, Kate Moss looks ultra-gorgeous in the newest Liu Jo spring/summer 2013 campaign, wearing an array of ladylike attire options and more casual pieces from the Liu Jo Jeans spring/summer 2013 collection.
The Liu Jo spring/summer 2013 campaign was photographed in the dreamy destination of Ibiza. Surrounded by heavenly flowers and a pool, Kate looks absolutely divine and feminine. For the new season, the Liu Jo spring/summer 2013 collection brings sophisticated and romantic designs in delicate pastel and neutral tones, as well as the hottest color of the season, emerald green, tile blue, versatile blacks and whites, rosy neutral shades and turquoise tones. The line draws inspiration from the '60s style and brings smooth lines, flirty floral prints, ruffles, pleats, embroidery, delicate see-through chiffon and lace that perfectly bring out the retro and romantic spirit of the collection.
The looks in the Liu Jo spring/summer 2013 collection are accessorized with color-blocked platform high-heeled sandals, bags with golden details, thin belts and long necklaces.
On the other hand, we have the Liu Jo Jeans spring/summer 2013 campaign, where Kate poses in a vintage car in intense red tones. In this collection, we can see more casual, day-to-day clothing pieces, including short denim shorts, leather jackets, printed tees, vintage scarves-inspired tops and maxi skirts. Despite its casual appeal, the Liu Jo Jeans spring/summer 2013 collection is incredibly bohemian and statement-making.
Whether you are getting ready for a special occasion this summer or want to look amazing every single day while going out of the house, you can be sure to find the necessary fashion items in the Liu Jo spring/summer 2013 collection. Get inspired from the two lovely campaigns and update your style with sophistication and boho-chic touches!
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Step 1Place the rice in a colander and rinse under cold running water for 1 minute.
Step 2Place the rice, water, butter and soy sauce in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Cover the pot, turn the heat to low and simmer until the water is absorbed and the rice is tender, about 15 minutes. Remove the rice from the heat and fluff with a fork.


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Craig to start electronics recycling program
To comply with the new Colorado law that makes it illegal to dump electronics in landfills, Craig will start picking up computers, televisions, printers and other electronic items to recycle.
Craig probably won't have enough volume of trashed electronics to recycle within the city, said Craig City Manager Jim Ferree.
It might be tricky to implement, he said.
"People will, I'm sure, have electronics buried in their dumpsters that we never see," he said. "It will have to be voluntary at first."
It's an expensive project, but unavoidable because the law became effective at the beginning of July, said Don Jones, city councilmember.
"It needs to be done — there's not an option," Jones said.
The prices vary. While televisions will cost people one dollar per screen inch for special pick-up, computer monitors will cost $12.
Erin Fenner can be reached at 970-875-1794 or email@example.com


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Setting Up Your Gravity Forms Plugin for WordPress
With the Gravity Forms plugin for WordPress you can now directly import new contacts into your Bidsketch account. No more manual entry; the data from the form are automatically imported as a new contact in your Bidsketch.
You can get the Bidsketch Gravity Forms plugin here.
After you install the plugin, you'll want to grab an API token from your Bidsketch account. You can do that by going into your Account Settings, in the API & Integration tab, and clicking on the link that says, "unique token."
That will take you to a new screen where you can generate a token by clicking on the "New API Token" button.
Once you have your API token, you can highlight it, and copy it. Then, go over to your WordPress dashboard. Your dashboard will now have a new menu item labeled Forms. Go to Forms > Settings.
This will take you to a screen where you can paste your Bidsketch API token.
Once you've saved your settings, go to the Bidsketch submenu in your Forms menu, and select the form that you want to use to send lead info to Bidsketch.
The final step is to map the fields of your form to Bidsketch contact fields. And that's it!
Now your leads will automatically be imported into your Bidsketch as new contacts.


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NFL Fantasy Files videos storm the Internet
Sam Farmer will have a story about the 18 NFL Fantasy Files videos that are sweeping the Internet. Some people can't believe the amazing displays of football prowess on display. Others are beginning to think that all these videos may not be legit.
We are presenting all 18 videos here for you to decide. Watch them, then leave a comment telling us what you think.
Joe Flacco can hit any moving target:
Darren Sproles has been working on his evasive moves:
Maurice Jones-Drew is explosive:
Santonio Holmes proves his footwork is no accident:
Kevin Boss shows how quick his hands are:
Jason Campbell can hit two receivers on one play:
Chris Simms has the accuracy you need:
Andre Johnson has the speed you need:
Laurence Maroney can fit through any tight spot:
Mike Nugent is a strong and accurate kicker:
Neil Rackers has the accuracy you need:
There are three reasons Chris Chambers should be on your fantasy team:
Mason Crosby rings a bell:
Chris Cooley has strength and instincts:
Marques Colston has quick hands:
Braylon Edwards is a Zen master:
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Washington State University football coach Dennis Erickson says he is not interested in replacing Miami coach Jimmy Johnson and has not talked to the Florida school.
Erickson had been rumored to be a leading candidate to replace Johnson, who is leaving to replace Tom Landry as coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Erickson, however, said Sunday he has not talked with Miami officials about the job.
"And I'm not going to," he said. "I'm staying at Washington State. That's what I wanted to do, and I feel very, very much obligated to do that."
Erickson, in the second year of a five-year contract with WSU, abruptly left Wyoming two years ago after telling players not to believe news reports he was considering the Washington State job. Erickson now says he regrets the way he departed Wyoming and says he could have handled the situation better.


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By: Andrea Hannah
Published: October 8, 2014 by Flux
336 pages
Source: ARC from publisher via Netgalley
(Goodreads / Amazon)
After her little sister mysteriously vanishes, seventeen-year-old Claire Graham has a choice to make: stay snug in her little corner of Manhattan with her dropout boyfriend, or go back to Ohio to face the hometown tragedy she's been dying to leave behind.MY REVIEW:
But the memories of that night still haunt her in the city, and as hard as she tries to forget what her psychiatrist calls her "delusions," Claire can't seem to escape the wolf's eyes or the blood-speckled snow. Delusion or reality, Claire knows she has to hold true to the most important promise she's ever made: to keep Ella safe. She must return to her sleepy hometown in order to find Ella and keep her hallucinations at bay before they strike again. But time is quickly running out, and as Ella's trail grows fainter, the wolves are becoming startlingly real.
Now Claire must deal with her attraction to Grant, the soft-spoken boy from her past that may hold the secret to solving her sister's disappearance, while following the clues that Ella left for only her to find. Through a series of cryptic diary entries, Claire must unlock the keys to Ella's past—and her own—in order to stop another tragedy in the making, while realizing that not all things that are lost are meant to be found.
Unfortunately I had a lot of "life happens" interruptions while trying to read this book and that resulted in me putting it down and picking it up for short snippets here and there over a month long period. 336 pages in a month?! That's ridiculously slow for me. My interest level never really grew enough for me to want to come back to the story. And because of that my overall rating dropped some. I couldn't seem to get deep enough involved with the story line or the characters. The character development also seemed lacking, especially where Grant and Claire are concerned.
What the....what on earth?! I'm so incredibly confused by this book. I liked the uniqueness of the disappearance of Claire's sister and the other little girl in their town, the mystery that surrounds both of the girls disappearances. But I was left with a whole lot of confusion and unanswered questions at the end. It's not often I read a book where I feel like I need someone to explain to me what just occurred. This is one of them.
Small town, Amble, Ohio has a lot of legends about wolves. These wolves are said to attack people and they crave cherry flavoring or cherry scents, oh and the color of periwinkle. Claire's thirteen year old sister is attacked one night and fifteen year old Claire is to blame for her injuries. To keep her out of jail her parents have her evaluated by a psychiatrist and sent to Manhattan to live with an aunt. While living with the aunt, 2 years later her sister goes missing and Claire finally goes back home to try to figure out what has happened to her. Along the way she and Grant connect once again (someone she was close with before leaving) and he helps her to piece together clues that Ella seemingly left behind. Claire believes the wolves have taken Ella, that they were the ones who attacked Ella in the cornfield and the other missing girl in town and she will get the proof she needs to prove it to everyone else.
I thought this book was going in a completely different direction - one that I was totally on board with and anxiously waiting to see the conclusion. But woah - the way it went was crazy weird and I still don't understand what I just read. What about Rae? Patrick? Grant? Ella and Claire's parents? Ella for crying out loud?
There were a TON of grammatical errors throughout the ebook version I received from Netgalley. Missing words, words inserted where they shouldn't have been, the wrong usage of words given the context of the sentence (example: using "her" when it should've been "him"). That many errors made it harder to read.
Overall it just felt extremely strange. So yeah, my initial reaction stands. What the what?! Sorry guys, this one just wasn't for me.
Favorite Quotes:
"Sometimes, the unknown is far scarier than what's really there, when you're ready to look."
And maybe that's just what we were now: two people with broken sisters that needed to stitch each other back together with hand squeezes and stillness. And maybe that's okay. Maybe that's more than okay.
"It's just that, you're one of those people that can do anything, if you want to," he breathed. "You're kinda like magic, Claire."
I wondered which was more lethal: What was inside the cornfield, or out. And did it even matter anymore?
Final Rating - 2.5 stars
This post is part of the ARC Thursday feature on Words Fueled by Love.


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In 1984, at age 27, Mark moved to Aspen to open Mark Justin, which
became a successful retail-clothing store/guide and outfitting service
for over 10 years. In 1995, he had the opportunity to acquire the
building that housed his operations and subsequently commenced
what has become a 22-year real estate career totaling over $725
million in residential sales. Mark has also been involved in Aspen's
commercial real estate market by developing/restoring the
Wheeler Block, the A.G. Sheppard and Prada buildings in Aspen
and have been honored by Aspen's Historic Commission for his
In the past 7 years, Mark has represented the
sellers of the highest priced single-family home sales in the state of
Colorado on two separate occasions. The closing of Aspen's
Summit House for $29.5 million was the most expensive home
sale in Colorado in 2015, and he brokered both the listing and selling
sides of a $20,750,000 Aspen estate which was the highest priced
home sale in the state of Colorado in 2011. Between those sales, Mark
represented the Buyer in the first successful real estate auction in
Aspen, which sold for $11,750,000 in 2012, and most recently, he
concluded the sale of an Aspen penthouse for $13,200,000, which,
at $2,700/sq ft, was one of the highest prices per square foot ever
paid in Aspen's real estate history. Because of these
accomplishments, Mark has earned the respect of his peers as well as
his customers and clients.
Mark and his wife, Laura, spend time in South Florida during the "off seasons", and their son, James, is a Sous Chef at John Besh's and
Aaron Sanchez's collaborative restaurant, "Johnnie Sanchez" in New
Orleans, LA.
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Each Sotheby's International Realty office is independently owned and operated.
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Heston's posh pub
Bray's elegantly eccentric, Michelin-starred Hinds Head.
Have you ever been to Bray? On the outskirts of Maidenhead lies the most perfect cluster of restaurants in a pretty waterside Berkshire village – holding 7 glittery Michelin Stars. The Alain-Roux owned The Waterside Inn with three Michelin stars); The Fat Duck, Heston Blumenthal's flagship, with a matching three Michelin stars; and The Hind's Head, also Heston-owned, with one Michelin star.
This white-washed 15th century building, sitting in front of the medieval village church, offers what it calls 'traditional British cuisine' with a menu that reintroduces some historic dishes with a hit if Heston theatre.
Not only has this historic Tudor building undergone a spectacular refurbishment, new Head Chef Pete Grey (a Hind's Head veteran having worked here for more than 3 years), has taken charge in the kitchen.
The new look reflects its hunting lodge and coaching inn past, with a vibe that is elegantly eccentric with a nod to the many royal connections. Upstairs is now The Royal Lounge (venue for Prince Philip's stag do)– essentially it's a cocktail bar, with tweed and velvet furnishings, taxidermy and dim lighting. Think cool gentlemen's club without the overflowing testosterone with granny chic.
The restaurant is now on the ground floor, a rich mix of wooden paneling, leather chairs, settels, fireplaces and parquet flooring. It's relaxed, buzzy and on a Monday night the place was packed.
Do not miss the opportunity to sink a cocktail and a bar snack in The Royal Lounge – it's theatrical and very cool. Aesthetically it is right up my street – shotgun chandeliers, Heston and his team immortalised in curtain fabric and cool artwork. The drinks menu is vast, craft beers, artisan gins and spirits, cocktails and mocktails that taste as good as the ones with booze.
I tried a couple (it was a sacrifice but for you, anything). Emily's Earl Grey Tea Sour, served in an elegant tea cup, not too sweet, totally drinkable made with gin, elderflower, tea bitters, Earl Grey syrup and Pimms float is right up my street. But for real drama, Great Expectations (rum, brandy, lemon and nutmeg) is served in a book. Open the cover and a hip flask containing your drink is nestled in the pages ready to be poured into a glass. There is always a danger these things can feel gimmicky, but the execution is clever, creative and just what the rebooted Hind's Head is all about.
If you fancy a bar snack, i tried two classics – the Chewit (essentially a posh pork pie) with a walnut ketchup based on a Tudor recipe and the legendary Hind's Had Scotch egg, served in a silver egg cup.
In the restaurant we sat next to enormous fireplace on the ground floor. There are two options depending on how hungry you are. A 5-course tasting menu or a la carte. After the bar snack I dived into the a la carte menu and plumped for the Lapsang Souchong tea smoked salmon, served with a sour cream butter and soda bread. A light starter with delicate flavours.
Followed by the winter warming Beef a la Mode – an indulgent braised Ox cheek with black truffle and champ mash. Pass the bread and mop up the gravy. It was melt in the mouth lovely.
No room for pud, after this lot. But I would have chosen the treacle start with milk ice cream or pumpkin and orange crumble if my jeans weren't cutting me in half.
Take a stroll (or a roll?) around the village. It won't take you long – about 50 metres before you make it to Story on the high street, a tiny boutique that must do the most incredible trade with all the passing foodies. Fair play though, because it's a little haven of great taste, with lovely jewellery, fashion and homewares.It's a short walk to the river's edge, but if you want to push up your daily step count, head down to Bray lock and can do some lovely looping walks around Bray, Maidenhead and Windsor.
Good for: Foodies who want to experience a Heston Blumenthal's world without choking on the bill. High quality lunchers (think good friend catch-ups or relaxed work lunches). Grab the girls for cocktails, date night with the other half or special occasion family get togethers. Kids are surprisingly well catered for.
Not for: those who want a more formal white table cloth style approach to Michelin dining.
£££: As befits a Michelin restaurant, you can add a couple of quid onto each course. So entrees start from £9, mains start at £20-£38 (and don't forget to add your sides of fries and veggies to that price). Desserts start at £8. There's a 3-cours set lunch Mon-Sat for £25 a head. So I'd say it's expensive for a 'normal' restaurant, but a fair price for the quality of the food. At the set menu is a cracking deal.
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Frank S. Stepan
Frank S. Stepan
Frank S. Stepan, 89, of Superior, died Sunday, April 15, 2018.
Frank was born on Nov. 16, 1928 in Breitung Township, MN the son of Martin and Katherine Stepan.
He graduated from Tower- Soudan High School in Northern MN. Frank served his country in the Army as a medic from 1946-1949. Following his service, he earned his undergraduate degree from the UMD and his Master's Degree from Texas A&M. He taught at Superior Central High School and Central Junior High School.
He was a member of Cathedral of Christ the King and the Polish Club. He enjoyed gardening, fishing, and loved Polka music.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Dolores (nee Chudecke); a son Gary Stepan; brothers and sister, Martin, Joseph, Paul, John, Jacob, Aloys, and Katherine
Frank is survived by his children, Terri (Bill) Cranmer of Tempe, AZ and Allan (Wendy Johnson) Stepan of Superior; brother, John Stepan of Seattle, WA and sister, Mary (Len) Greving of Crystal, MN.
Visitation will be held on Friday, April 20th from 10:00 a.m. until the 11:00 a.m. Funeral Mass at Cathedral of Christ the King Church. Rev. Fr. Andrew P. Ricci will officiate. Burial will be in St. Williams Cemetery at a later date.
The family would like to give a special thank you to the staff at Villa Marina Health and Genesis Rehab and Essentia St. Mary's Medical Center staff in Duluth.
In lieu of flowers please send a gift to Essentia Hospice
Downs Funeral Home, 1617 N 19th Street, is assisting the family with arrangements. To sign the online guestbook please visit www.downsfh.com.


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Okay, so this is probably the hardest blog post I'm going to write, but I am putting the blog on ice for a while. How long is a while? Honestly, at this point, I'm not sure. It definitely looks at this point like it will be months. The truth is, as the few of you who read this all ready know, I haven't been able to put my full energy into this for a while now. I realized while writing this that it had been far too long since the last Crystellen post, which isn't fair to any of you, or to the characters (as odd as that sounds), or quite honestly, to myself. Right now I've got too many things going on – trying to get into grad school (again), taking classes currently,…
So, I am putting the blog on ice for the indefinite future. Which is sad, because the last thing I want to do is pull a Stargate Atlantis (or SGU, for that matter) and stop before the story's finished, but I think it will allow me time to focus on other priorities, not to mention I'll get rid of that guilty feeling of "I should be writing my blog now," when I'm doing something else.
Treasure Hunters, do not despair, for I will eventually write the conclusion in the Emerys Treasure series, but it won't be this year. L However, they will return, and when they do, I will announce it here.
Thank you again for all of your support and interest. I sincerely appreciate it.
Humbly yours,
Cliffie Coates


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The Risks of Climate Change to Investors
What is the impact of climate change, both the realities and the myths, on investments? Impax founder and CEO Ian Simm explains on MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Reconversion of America for Peace
By J. FRANK RUSHTON, JR., President, Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
Delivered before the Southern Commercial Secretaries Association, Birmingham, Ala., March 20, 1944
Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. X, pp. 469-475.
ALMOST by accident the problem of reconverting America for peace became violently thrust into my consciousness a short time ago. It was a problem about which I had heard much discussion and which I supposed was one of those things to which I would turn my attention in due time. But there came to me an opportunity to take a vacation. I decided to take that vacation in Mexico. I have been there many times and I know a great number of the Mexican people. I thought it would be a place to rest for two weeks so that I might come home refreshed and better able to meet the problems of our war time economy. However, while I was in Mexico I saw and heard manythings which upset my thinking.
Let me tell you what I saw and let me offer you this apology. I was on my vacation. I did not go to discuss economics. I avoided to its fullest possible extent the discussion of politics. I sought to see none of the things that I shall mention to you and, therefore, I give you neither statistics nor any supplemental facts other than the statement that I met them. I saw them. I am powerless to interpret them. That must be your job.
I had landed in Merida, Yucatan and on the first evening I was there, I went out to the home of a Mexican friend, who runs a henequen mill. He owns a plantation on which be grows henequen and the product of that henequen is rope. We are buying that henequen because we need the rope. This is what I was told at the table, despite my endeavor to turn the conversation away: "What is it that you Americans have on your mind in this war? Are you aware of the fact that the heads of your various bureaus and agencies are coming into Mexico and through the Mexican Officials you are buying henequen from Mexico. You are paying 9c a pound for it when it's worth 3c a pound. Are you aware of the fact that none of that extra 6c is going to the people of Mexico but it's going into the hands of the politicos" (understand that politicos is Spanish for politicians). I tried to drop that conversation but across the table from me was the Consul for a neutral country. He leaned across to me and said, "Are you aware of the fact that we, too, need this product and that we are buying what you leave at 3c a pound?" The man who represents one of our allies in that particular area spoke to me with considerable bitterness. Said he, "You are leaving us no henequen. We need it badly and we, too, are paying 2c to 3c a pound for what is left." My Mexican friend went back to his theme and said, "This money isn't coming to the Mexican peon. Watch them as you move about. You will see they do not benefit. You are spending 9c a pound for what you reasonably could buy at 3c a pound and you are creating an inflation down here. When will you Americans learn that you hire a servant but you do not pay a friend? When are you going to understand that when you want a man's friendship, you first command his respect and if you don't have it, you get neither?"
Mexico City
I left Merida. I went up to Mexico City. I went out to meet my Mexican friends and the first thing I met was complaint that on the American Embassy in Mexico City there are eight hundred different attaches who are buying all through Mexico at the same rate as this henequen is being bought. They have taken the best rooms in all of the best hotels. They are squandering their money and our money in such a fashion that the prices in Mexico City are rising more rapidly than they are here at home. The Mexican people ask, "Why do you permit it? This is war. You have a manpower shortage. Yet in our City there are eight hundred of your men doing what could reasonably be done by fifty men and paying a price that's shutting us out and wrecking our economy. What's to become of us when you take these eight hundred men home and they quit spending as they are spending? Don't you Americans know that you hire a servant but you don't pay a friend? What do you mean by 'good neighbor' policy when we, the small middle-class are being squeezed out of existence. Frankly, we think you are doing it deliberately. Your money is going to our cabinet officials. It's going to our government. We are feeling the effects and not getting the money." I don't know that there are eight hundred men on the Embassy Staff.
I left Mexico City. I went back up towards Guadalajara to visit the places where I knew people. Here is what I ran into. I could not escape it. The story is current from the Rio Grande down to Guatemala that Mexico has decided to make itself a land of opportunity and that it is offering to Americans or to anyone else who will come there, five years of tax exemption if they bring their own capital and start a new business. Time and time again I met an American whose story was that the land of opportunity up here had gone; he had children; he had small capital; he could come down there and set up a leather tanning factory; he could come down and open a hotel; he could come down and set up a cotton spinning plant; he could come down and set up silver manufacture and in the five years that will come he had an opportunity to build a future business for his children. Don't ask me how many such Americans there I are. The Mexicans tell you they are there by the thousands. I don't know that that is a fact or isn't a fact. I know j that I met a considerable number and I am telling you the story that they told me: I know that some of your biggest American firms are opening new branches in Mexico, they are manufacturing their products in Mexico which up until this time, we have sold the Mexicans. They are creating a new industrial economy in Mexico.
And then the last thing. I was invited out to San Angeles one evening to dinner. There were some twenty- I odd young Americans at the table with me. There faced ! me down the length of the table gentlemen to whom I had ] been introduced and whose physical appearance was such j that there was no reason they should not have been in our armies. Here was their story. These were not draft dodgers. These were youngsters at the table with me who had enlisted in the American Armies. They had gone abroad. They had bought your fight and my fight. They had been wounded. They had gone into the hospitals and when the hospitals sent them out into the civilian economy they had met the American economy as it stands today. They took what money they had and the pittance that the Government gives them and they went to Mexico. Their reason for doing it, so they said down the table to me was this: "Look, we can live here cheaper; we can live where things are not rationed, where we are not strangled by a multiplicity of laws. We have done our share of the fighting; we are here to rest until such time as we see fit to come home, if we do." I faced them with mixed emotions and the point came when I rose and left the dinner table to go home, for I felt as you must have felt. Surely, no one can level criticism at men who have fought for us and who have been wounded. Equally surely, this is the hour of American agony and there wasn't one amongst them who couldn't have answered a 'phone, who couldn't have typed a letter or seen that an order was executed or directed a product on its path. There wasn't one that we do not need and need desperately. And I do not know how to criticize them for it but I do know that I was badly shaken and lest I should say something would regret, I left.
No, I don't know that we are paying nine cents per pound for henequen and thereby wasting millions of dollars, nor do I know that there are eight hundred people on the staff of the embassy in Mexico City. I only know the Mexicans say there are and say also that they resent the inflation which has come as a consequence. Neither do know how many Americans have gone into business in I Mexico, or if there are many of our youngsters who have left us for Mexico. But what little I did see and what I did hear, and what the Mexicans said they thought about it upset my thinking considerably. It raised many questions, which we Americans need to consider as we plan to reconvert America for peace. Do those questions disturb you and do they not make you view tomorrow almost as anxiously as you view today?
Time to Lay Plans
The time has come to consider reconversion. Donald Nelson says the time hasn't come to do anything about itbut the time has come to plan about it. He says that we have passed the shortage of steel; there is enough copper; there is enough zinc and that daily we are passing other shortages. Therefore, we must lay our plans. Nelson says that what's in the way is this: While the materials are here, the manpower isn't here. Still, we should be planning because the time will surely come in the near future when there will be enough manpower. When that time does come, then we Americans must start to reconvert our industry. We must be ready so there isn't too great a lag between the end of the war and the beginning of production for peace time. For that reason he has asked that every one of you think it over seriously and begin to plan.
When you turn to reconvert your industry, you face the easiest part of your problem, for there is a tremendous demand in this United States of America for consumer goods of all kind and it's going to spur reconversion from the very moment there's enough manpower. There are millions of automobiles that people want; there are millions of tires that they need; there are millions of refrigerators they would like to buy; there are thousands of homes to be built. There is a vast tide of things needed and production will be well supported by our backlog of War Bonds. When the time comes that this can be done, the people can buy so you are assured of a glowing, a quick start to retool our industry and reconvert it to peaceful products.
There's a second factor. All over the world there are ruined areas, cities have been blasted into rubble, towns and houses have been smashed to pulp. When the war shall be over and the full tide of our reconversion begins to take its effect, the world is going to look to us for a great many products with which to rebuild those ruined areas. There's another factor. Several millions of our children in the various jungles of the world and the various civilizations of the world have consciously or unconsciously been our salesmen. People who never heard of a jeep have seen one and wanted it; people who didn't know what a moving picture was have seen one projected. They have seen our razors, our radios, our cooking equipment. Thus, our whole Army, Navy and Marines in a certain sense have been our salesmen and to the other factors I have mentioned there is coming a world-wide demand for American products. If we handle ourselves wisely we can establish a trade that will go all over the globe in a fashion it never went before. So our problem of reconverting industry shall consist only in waiting for the time when the manpower is sufficient for retooling and then beginning to produce on a large scale to meet all three of these demands. That's easy.
But when we converted our industry to war, never forget that we also converted our Government to war. We haven't a Government now that is using peace-time methods and what shall it gain us if in turning industry back to peace we do not reconvert our Government to peaceful methods. It's going to be easy to reconvert industry but is it going to be easy to reconvert our Government?
Let's look at some of the problems that are in front of us and as we look at them, discuss them, and think about them—for they are far more serious than any industrial problem. All of the Mood-tide of our industry and our sales can be checked at the source if our Government isn't reconverted too. Moreover, let's define one or two terms and get them out of the way so they are no longer misunderstood. First, what do we mean by a reactionary. Well, a reactionary is a person who wants to go back to old forms of Government and old methods of business. Which is the older, the new American system born 150 years ago or government by cartel, by bureau and by directive? Government by bureau and directive was old when Greece was young. Lord Acton says that liberty began when the American constitution was written. Lord Acton had watched government by bureau and government by cartel, government of strangling dictatorships and directives keep Europe in half starvation. Who is the reactionary? Those of us who want to go forward into a newer, brighter day, bringing the good from the good old days under the American system of government or those who want to go into the dust of dead centuries and select governmental forms that have failed.
Second, there is the American way of life. It's much on the tongue of many people and what does it mean? I wish I could give you an exact definition. I cannot, but I can tell you this. The American way of life means to all of us the way of life that provides an opportunity so that any man, if he is willing to work—if he is willing to think—if he is willing to invent—if he is willing to save and he persists, if he so desires, he may be the top of whatever profession he, himself, shall choose, whether that be a great industrialist—a statesman—the head of a labor union —a great doctor—a great lawyer or a holder of many farms to produce much foods. Opportunity shall be open, and no dead hand of government shall interfere and say, "You shall not do it." That, to most of us is what we mean by the American way of life. Woodrow Wilson said after the last world war that the history of all freedom has been the history of limiting government. The founders of this nation sought to limit government. They set up three branches of the government. They said they balanced each other and what they meant by it was that each branch shall be so jealous of its authority that it should protect the people. These branches should fight each other to hold government in bounds and by that process the American people should be free, and government should be limited. As a consequence, this should be the land of opportunity.
Free Private Enterprise
Then there's another phase that's much bandied about and that's free private enterprise. What do you mean by it? Exactly what the words say. Free from government restraint except for criminal activity. Private in the sense that it's in the hands of the individual citizen—a man with whom you may compete if you see fit and not in the hands of the government. Enterprise implies that it is venturesome, that it is producing, that it is enterprising as it looks forward to tomorrow; enterprising in that it is building newer and better methods. Make no mistake about this. If it isn't free, it isn't going to be private and it isn't going to be enterprising. If it isn't private, then you know it isn't free, and you certainly can be sure that it isn't going to be enterprising. But never forget the last of the three words. If somewhere amongst us there isn't the will to be enterprising and to face tomorrow with a venturesomeness, then enterprise isn't going to be free and it certainly isn't going to stay private.
Lastly, what about the profit motive? There's something wrong perhaps today when you refer to a man as working for a profit and yet, where else has there been a motive that will make man work ? There is no effective motive anywhere except that a man shall know that if he is willing to work hard and save money, that he may earn; he may own; and he may make a profit. If you tell him he must work for the good of his fellow-men, he grins at you and agrees with you, but does he do it? You know the answer. Russia is held up before you today as a great and marvelous nation. They didn't have the profit motive. The war came and
Russia was being licked until the American nation with the profit motive was able in two years' time to give them the guns, the tanks and the planes which turned the tide and let them thrust the Germans back. The American profit motive in two years did what Russia could not do in ten. If you wish to investigate, study news dispatches, for now Russia has said that any man in Russia who wishes to work and wishes to save may bank his earnings. A Russian now may make a profit. So let's get the profit motive defined and out of our way. There isn't anything else that will stir us all to the benefit of us all as will the profit motive.
Will Bureaus Go?
Now, look at the reconversion of your government. The average man I meet thinks five things. I have discussed it with them wherever I have been. First, he thinks that as soon as this war is over, the bureaus will go. It's in his mind that the bureaus have been created by the war and when the war is over the necessity for them ceases. They will then disappear like the snow in the summer sun. Do you think that? Well, if you do, you don't think the same as the people who are in the bureaus. Perhaps you mean by the bureaus not the several hundred that existed when this war began but the some 200 that have been created because they are supposedly necessary to the production of war materials. Perhaps you think of the War Manpower Commission, you think of the War Labor Board, the Bureau of Economic Warfare. You name them. There are more than 200. Perhaps you think because they bear "war" in their title, when the war is over they will quit. Listen to Donald Nelson as he says, "You must have the War Production Board for years after the war shall be over so that in the reconversion of your industry you may have the direction of a bureau to keep you from making mistakes." Listen to Chester Bowles when he says that when the war is over the rationing of foods and other essential articles must continue for two or three years so that the American economy may be brought back to normalcy. Listen to Paul McNutt as he reaches out over your nation and sets up bureaus in each county to return the servicemen to civilian economy. He seeks to establish himself forever in the American economy by taking over the issue of servicemen. Don't you believe he can do it? Well, when the last war was over, the Veterans' Bureau was established to take care of the veterans immediately after the last war and it is still with us. So if you think they will disappear, you reckon without the heads of these bureaus.
Moreover, there was on the first of this month 3,300,000 employees in those bureaus, exclusive of the military. Now, what makes you think that when the time comes that it's hard to get along; when a man's got to assume responsibility; when he must work for his job; that 3,300,000 voters will lay down a job which pays them highly and which takes no responsibility; no act of will? There's something deadening about working in a government bureau where you obey a directive exactly. There's something which saps your vitality. It is similar to staying in a hospital. If you think these 3,300,000 voters are going willfully and wittingly to lay down a salary they probably cannot command in the civilian economy, you are mistaken. Therefore, if you think the bureaus will go as you reconvert government, think about it carefully and remember this—the bureaus will disappear only when, as and if the American people demand it and demand it with such vigor that the politicians must give in and destroy them. Don't think for a moment that you can start compromising on that issue either. For if you do, as you lop one bureau off, another will appear. Don't forget that the habit of bureaus didn't begin in the war. There were several hundred when the war began and they won't disappear when the war is over.
Will Taxes Decrease?
Second, the men I meet think that when the war is over, taxes will decrease. Do you think that? Let's look at it. When this present administration took over, we had a debt of 21 billions. When the war began we had raised that debt through our habit of spending lavishly to 50 billions. On January first of this year, the debt of our country in money spent, stood at 186 billions and that isn't our total debt. There were 90 billions at that time appropriated and unspent. I know of no man anywhere who thinks that we can come out of this war without a debt of at least 300 billions of dollars. Now then, the interest on that at 2% is 6 billions of dollars. So if you fund it into bonds; pass it on to the kids of tomorrow and say, "You pay it off. We are putting it in bonds. We will pay the interest on it," we will begin reconversion with a governmental expense of 6 billions of dollars for 130 million people to pay. You do the arithmetic and see if you think taxes can decrease. And on top of that, you have got to add the expense of 3,300,000 bureaucrats who will still be there when the Army is demobilized. These bureaucrats cost us eight billions per year. How then can your taxes decrease unless you are perfectly willing to shear into the expense of government and as you limit it, to cut it down. If you do that, there is some small chance of decreasing taxes. But when we do, never forget this; That in the decreasing of taxes, we've passed our own debt on to tomorrow. We have in effect said to our children, "Go offer your lives for us in this war and then come home and pay for it." And if we are courageous people, we won't do that. Our taxes won't decrease and we won't let politicians fool us. We'll cut government as far as we can cut it and we will start in to pay off our debt with some immediacy.
Lower Cost of Living
The next thing the average man I meet thinks is that when the bureaus have gone and taxes decrease, the cost of the necessities of life is coming down. How shall it? Taxes aren't going to decrease if we are a courageous people. The single other factor we've got which is as great is our labor costs. Have you any idea that labor, after the hard fight it has put up to get wages where they are, will willfully and wittingly sit down after the war and let us cut labor costs? If you have, you are not following the same thinking labor is. They've no intention of giving up their high wage level. They wouldn't be human if they did have that intention. We can count on the fact that our labor costs will be high. If our labor costs are high and our taxes don't decrease, how then shall we cut the cost of living? It will take just as large a proportion out of the pay envelope as it did before. So let's not fool ourselves. There is some relief to be found in mass production but there isn't much.
American Unity
And the next thing the man on the street thinks that I meet is that we must preserve the unity of this American nation and we must cooperate with government. You hear that bandied at you from every side. Let's look at it. What unity have we got? Before we start to preserve it, let's consider f we have it. There started a process some time ago of setting people aside and using them as a whipping boy, because by abusing them and promising benefits to other people, we could be divided and as we were divided, candidates could be elected or re-elected, as the case might be. As a result we are now divided into pressure groups. We have specialized groups that turn all the heat on Washington to get a special favor for themselves at the expense of the total economy. Trace it up.
Whipping Boys
We began by whipping industry. Industrialists were economic royalists; they were princes of privilege; they were malefactors of great wealth. Somehow by tearing them down we were going to build everybody else up. Somehow we were going to take money and benefits away from one group and give them to another group. We were going to give special benefits to this group and that group by taking the money away from the American people. The next thing we knew we were going to do great things for the farmer. We were going to tell him what to plant and how much to plant. We were going to give him parity. Surely he ought to have parity. I know of no man who does not wish the farmer to have parity. So, we created another slogan and further divided the American people in order that politicians might be elected or re-elected. By giving the farmer subsidies we created another pressure group.
Then we passed from that to labor. We jumped on certain forms of labor and we praised other forms of labor. We promised labor special benefits. Thereby we created another pressure group.
Next we picked on the Supreme Court. They were nine old men who stood in the way of paying special benefits to pressure groups so we had to change them. Next it was the doctors. Doctors' fees are too high we say, so we are going to make those fees cheaper. We are going to socialize medicines for the benefit of the people and by tearing the doctors down we are going to give certain people a special benefit. Of course, when medicine has been socialized you can't have the old family doctor who has stood to you as half physician and half father confessor. Nor can you select the doctor you think will be best. You must take the next doctor in line and probably he will be the doctor who is the most popular with the politicians.
Then a short time ago we decided we must give Federal moneys to the schools. Of course, it is to be Federal money with no strings attached. Did you ever see Federal money with no strings attached? There has never been such a thing and there never will be. But by putting up a bill to give these funds to teachers we have created another pressure group.
Divide and Rule
By using slogans for election and re-election we have so divided the American people that every man you meet is a farmer; or he is a little businessman; or he is a teacher; or he is an industrialist; or he is labor; or he is the representative of some pressure group who is going to wring a special benefit for himself out of our total economy. Is that unity? Has not this process of setting up whipping boys and creating pressure groups progressed so far that in the last sixty days Congress itself has been the whipping boys? Congress—the people we elected to pass our laws—Congress unwise as it may be but still our bulwark against dictatorship—is the last whipping boy and is being called hard names as a campaign issue. A new division being thrust on us. For what purpose? Can't you guess it? Don't you know that "divide and rule" is as old a political trick as there is?
Do you call this unity? Is this the unity you want to preserve? As we reconvert our government should we not first create unity by beginning with ourselves and remembering that we are above all things, Americans? That comes first and we have no right to be in any pressure group, I don't care what it is. We must not divide our government so that the few can benefit from what is taken away from the many. Get out of pressure groups if you want to start a unity. Don't ask for any special favor. If we want something which we think is wise, the democratic American way is to do it by voting and not to do it by lobbying or other forms of pressure. Let me make it clear, I mean ALL pressure groups, not just those that represent the farmer; not just those that represent labor but any group which seeks a special benefit at the hands of Congress or the Executive. Pressure groups ought to be destroyed. And when they have been; when we remember that our first duty is to America, then we are beginning to create unity which is worth preserving.
Next, what do we mean by cooperate with government? Aren't you tired of hearing it? Do we mean perhaps that when government issues a directive which is against every one of our principles, we shall be regimented and shall obey that directive to the last dot? Is that Americanism? Or do we mean that we shall get together in the electorate and determine those principles which the American people think are wise. Then, we shall agree with those principles and fight for them. What do we mean by cooperate? That word cooperate has come to mean to obey. Are we going to continue to let it mean obey? Well, we will if we sit quietly by and stay out of politics; if we seek to evade expressing our principles; or if we fail to fight for what we think is right. When every one of us is actively supporting our principles, then somewhere there is going to show a solidarity of what the American people think. When we know that, we are in position for the first time to cooperate instead of obey.
And lastly, the men I meet feel—they do not think, but they feel, that we should guarantee certain social and economic rights to every man. Do you think that? Are you aware of the fact that the people must support government and the government can't support the people? Are you aware of the fact that nation after nation has gone into the dust of failure because it translated the responsibilities of a citizen to his government into a debt of the government to the citizen. We have a duty to our government. That duty, at present, is to produce all of the war materials we can that we can fight successfully. It is our duty to pay our taxes. We have other duties to our government. But government doesn't owe us a thing. Government is our own creature which we created and government can guarantee us only this: The right to work if we wish to work; the right to earn; the right to own; and the right to go to the top, if we so desire. But the very moment government takes our duties to it and turns them around and says, "The government owes these debts to you," we are reactionary. We have gone back to pick up the things that have destroyed other people. We are guilty of European thinking. No government has been able to do that and succeed. No government ever will until human nature changes. So if you feel that the government ought to guarantee certain things that are social and economic and you think you are going to reconvert your government you'd better think again.
Are You Guilty?
While we are talking about whether or not government can guarantee social and economic rights, it is fair to ask a question. Have we been taking our social and economic
problems to government and asking government to solve them? Have we been shifting our personal and business responsibilities from our own shoulders onto the shoulders of government? If we have been asking for government help, for special government consideration, why do we not expect other people to do so? If we are going to reconvert government had we not better begin at home and assume the full social and economic responsibilities which are our personal obligations? Otherwise there is no chance to prevent government from directing every activity.
The Half Loaf Theory
When we have thought through those principles, what are we going to do about it? Our decision is plain in front of us. War necessities have made us do things that have converted our government into a government, temporarily, that is a government of dictatorship and a government of bureaus. But when the war is over and we reconvert industry, what are we going to do? Let government continue that path into the socialism that we have been fighting; let it drift further in until it becomes dictatorship; let it go until government ceases to ask us what we want done and tells us what we shall do? Or will we remember that the ' history of all liberty is the history of limiting government down to the bottom to where if it had any less power it wouldn't be government? Now, we've got to choose and we can't choose by simply avoiding the issue because we are going to take the responsibility and we are going to take it shortly. We'll either get up actively and say what our principles are or we'll sit silent. Then other people will force their principles on us and it will make no difference what principles we have decided on. We are going to take the consequence and to a large degree, we are going to take the blame.
When we have made up our decision which form of government we want, what else are we going to do? Continue to compromise our principles in favor of our purse? We have sat and felt that "a half loaf is better than none" and when it came to a fight and our principles were being stepped on, we have thought it best to forget our principles and preserve part of our capital. And that's the half loaf theory that brought Europe to Munich; it brought Europe from Munich into a world-wide war. And if we continue it here, it's going to bring us first, to bankruptcy and second, to slavery. And well be guilty ourselves if we haven't the courage to think our principles through and then get up and fight for them.
Having thought that out, are we going to stay strictly in our own business? I am being told by people all over the State of Alabama, "I take no part in politics." Well, let me ask you a question. I am not referring to whether or not you shall run for an office and try to keep it after you get it. I am asking you whether you know that you can't have a sound business or a sound anything else unless we have a sound government. I am not defining what I mean by sound government. That's your job. But our first duty is to our government because it is the creature of all the people and it represents America. Thus we cannot stay out of politics. It is up to us to support the man we think is right. It is up to us to support him actively and support him with all the honesty and vigor we've got. If we stay home and let other people do it, then we are going to continue what government we have to our own wreckage. What is there left for you to be afraid of? Haven't ail the things that frightened you, and made you compromise, come to pass? So if we're figuring on staying strictly in our own business, it makes no difference what our decision is. We must make up our minds what form of government we want. When we have made up our minds we must support our decision. We must destroy pressure groups. We must go into politics, And when it comes to principle, we must determine to pay millions for defense and not one cent for tribute.
Freedom's Last Stand
Let's look at it again. It has been plainly handed to us recently. The statement has been made by government officials that industry must provide full employment; that if industry doesn't provide full employment government will; that this is the last stand of free private enterprise. That's been said to us. What does it mean? Well, you know and I know that industry will employ exactly the number of men it is profitable for industry to employ and not one bit more. The purpose of industry is to provide a service at a profit or a product at a profit and when it isn't profitable to employ men, industry won't. Therefore, if they are sincere in saying that industry must provide full employment—and all of us want to provide it—then this is true. Government must make it reasonably possible for industry to make a profit or industry won't. Second, there is no sense in threatening industry unless those who make the threats want the credit if industry shall succeed and want to seize the job of government hiring if industry does not succeed.
What do these officials mean when they say government will provide full employment? Well, we've got a large proportion of our people on government now. There are more government employees in the State of Alabama than there are city, county and state employees. Multiply it a little bit more and we've got socialism. When the majority of the people in any country work for the government under government directive, they have socialism. And what on earth are we fighting? Yes, we are fighting to keep from being conquered. But it's also a clash of ideologies. What we're fighting is socialism which went into dictatorship. Will you fight socialism over there and sit silent while government officials begin to proclaim it over here? What do they mean this is free private enterprise's last stand? They mean this. This is freedom's last stand. For when industry ceases to be in private hands and goes into the hands of government; when we become government employees; we can call it what we will but we've been enslaved. When government officials say that if industry doesn't provide full employment, government will; when they say this is the last stand of free enterprise; they are throwing down a challenge to us as to how we shall reconvert our government, if indeed we shall reconvert it.
If we do not reconvert our government, of what use will it be to reconvert our industries? If government isn't reconverted we have sold out our country to cheap labor over the rest of the world. It may have been that you and I could dodge the responsibility of making such decisions in the past. It may have been that we could sit by and let other men make our decisions and deny that we had any part in those decisions. But that isn't true now. Shortly, we shall come face to face with the decisions which we must make and we cannot dodge the issue either. Here is why.
When Johnny Comes Home
In the not too distant future Johnny is coming marching home. Our own boys are coming back to us. Two years ago we drafted Johnny and sent him out to fight for us How gloriously he has fought we all know. Johnny has definite opinions as to what he is fighting for. I have seen a lot of Johnnies in the hospitals and as they came throughthe Chamber of Commerce and I know that Johnny has definite opinions. Yes, he is righting for Father and Mother. Yes, he is righting to keep his home free from invasion. But Johnny also thinks he is fighting for the American way of life. Johnny doesn't want a government dole when he comes home. Johnny doesn't want some bureaucrat telling him where he can work and for how much. Johnny doesn't want to spend his life standing in lines. Johnny wants a job and a permanent one with a future to it. Johnny wants to live in a land of opportunity where he can work and earn and save. Johnny wants a land where he can have all you have had and be all you have been.
When Johnny comes home he is going to look you in the eyes and ask you what you have been doing while he was out fighting for freedom and for the American way of life. Then you are faced with the issue and how shall you answer Johnny? Shall you say to Johnny, "My boy, while you were away I was too busy to look after the country you were fighting for. While you were fighting for freedom, I was careless and lost it. But Johnny, you can ask the bureaus, They will tell you where you can work and what your wages will be. And Johnny, don't forget you've got to help pay off a debt I let us accumulate." Will we say that to our own children? Or will we convert our government to the point that we can look them in the eye and welcome them home to the American way of life?
Will you reconvert government? Where are the leaders to lead you in that reconversion? We have our answer. We ought to be the leaders. Aren't we all tired of big leaders who squabble for power with us as the spoils? Aren't we tired of watching supposedly big men fight for political powers and wreck us while they do it? Surely we don't need any more big leaders. What we need is fifty thousand or a hundred thousand little leaders. We need men in each community who have thought reconversion through and who are willing to fight for their decisions. You ought to be one of those little leaders who know what the American way of life is and who is willing to give his time to reconverting our government to that way of life. When Johnny comes home he isn't looking to a big leader for an answer, he is looking to us, his parents and his people.
America was a land of opportunity. For whatever reason it isn't now. Will it ever be again? You've got to make up your mind now. What's your answer?
Don't tell me.
Tell Johnny.


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The poor Rosenborg cousins! They have really been through the ringer lately. Count Christian, younger son of Prince Knud, was diagnosed with cancer 3 years ago, but is now healed after extensive treatment. Now it is the turn of his wife, Anne Dorte, to struggle with throat cancer. It sounds like she's started to get on the mend, but boy was she down. She's a rather thin and faintly-built person anyway, but then to have lost weight with the disease and all, well, quite miraculous that she is coming through. The couple have three daughters, Josephine, Camilla and Feodora, the first two being twins.
Count Christian's older sister is the never-married royal badass Princess Elisabeth and his older brother is Count Ingolf, who would have been king if the preference for male-only offspring in Danish succession had been kept. In 1953, with help behind the scenes from Queen Ingrid, the law was changed so that Princess Margrethe could inherit the throne, forever pushing Knud's children to the sidelines. Ingolf is married to his second wife Sussie and has no children. Marrying commoners, both Ingolf and Christian were demoted to Counts of Rosenborg, as was the custom for finding non-equal partners. How strong Anne Dorte and Sussie must be in the face of an Aussie bogan coming into the family without demoting the weak Freddling to a life outside of the line of succession as a Count of Rosenborg.
Strong, too, are the three daughters of Christian and Anne Dorte - Knud's only grandchildren - who seem to have made happy lives for themselves with partners and children, despite being cast to the royal sidelines. These are Frederik's cousins who were discussed in Trine Villemann's book 1015 Copenhagen K. They were all at the pre-wedding party at Vega nightclub in 2004 when Derf mentioned that he looked forward to chatting with them more at his wedding reception a few days later. The girls shocked him by saying that while they were invited to the church for the ceremony, they were not invited to Fredensborg later for the reception. That is some cold blooded business right there, not inviting your blood cousins, Danish demi-royals, to the wedding party for the future king. Daisy can throw some shade when she feels the need! Happily, tensions have mellowed, or PR was prioritised: two of the girls were at Daisy's 40th Jubilee festivities at the Royal Opera, the same night fellow sort-of outsider Alexandra made an appearance.
Article: BT
Countess Anne Dorte Fights For Her Life
The last three months have been a struggle for Count Christian, who is cousin to Queen Margrethe, and Countess Anne Dorte of Rosenborg and their three daughters. They have all been loyal supporters of Countess Anne Dorte, who was diagnosed with cancer of the throat in November last year.
She came immediately into radiotherapy at Herlev Hospital, where she received radiation twice a day. And even though the family knew the trip, Count Christian was diagnosed with cancer in the throat three years ago, he is now healed, has proceeded with Countess Anne Dorte been very hard for her and the family. "It has been a much harder place for my mother than it was for my father. He received 33 radiation treatments, while my mother has had 56," said Countess Josephine of Rosenborg candidly to BT.
For the 65-year-old Countess has not only had to fight the cancer that is in the neck near the ear. Early in the morning of Christmas Eve, when Anne Dorte was coming out of Herlev Hospital with her daughter Josephine, she was unfortunate enough to break my right hip and shoulder. Therefore, the Countess immediately admitted to hospital orthopedic department. But although she had severe pain in her broken hip and shoulder, the will to live and spirit to continue to fight for life were stronger than the pain.
"My mother is so cool. In the afternoon, where she fell in the morning she had to have radiotherapy again. And even though she was in constant pain, so she completed her treatment that day. And all 56 radiation treatments with a broken hip and shoulder. She is simply a serious fighter", says the proud and impressed daughter.
It is certainly a battle of dimensions, the already slim and slender Countess has set out to win with an impressive willpower. But yet they have three daughters, their husbands men seven grandchildren aged three to 15 years terrified that Countess Anne Dorte would end up losing the fight.
Radiation treatment gave her the fact so large a wound in her throat, that for a few weeks she could neither eat or drink in a natural way. "Right after the New Year, she was so weak that every day was a victory in itself", says Josephine, who does not hide the fact that it has been a very hard process for the whole family. "It has been appalling to see my mother in so much pain", she says.
Today, Countess Anne Dorte is still hospitalised at Gentofte Hospital, where she has been fed through a tube for weeks. But last week the sad atmosphere in the family turned 180 degrees. "Last week we were told that the doctors could immediately see the cancer had thankfully gone", says Josephine.
And even more heartening is that the Countess is slowly eating regular food again. "On Saturday my mother ate a bit of a soft-boiled egg. It was just before we all sat and wept for joy. Lastly facing it. Now it is the right way", cheered Josephine on behalf of the entire Rosenborg family.
But there is still a long way to go before Countess Anne Dorte can leave her bed at Gentofte Hospital. "She must have some meat on her bones, and then she can start rehabilitation. She has not been able to before because she did not have anything in her for resistance", says a relieved Josephine.


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Addison's patient, Lily, has Stage 4 ovarian cancer and needs to be admitted to the hospital. But she's not going anywhere until someone she trusts agrees to watch Milo, her cat. This just in: Addison Montgomery has just been cast as the new Catwoman!
Addison gets into caring for the cat. She even buys Milo a new travel carrier. While on the way to visit Lily, she runs into her cute oncologist, Dr. Brian Reynolds (guest star George Newbern). He asks her out and she accepts. The pleasant moment doesn't last long as they reach Lily's room to discover she's passed away. Addison thinks she may end up like Lily, dying alone in a tiny room without friends. When Lily's cousin shows up at Addison's office, she offers to take Milo off her hands. That's not going to happen.
Naomi meets Dr. Gabriel Fife. He's a brilliant, arrogant, wheelchair-bound specialist who has designed a technique that improves the success rate for complex implantations in high risk groups such as little people. Curtis and Sally Donovan want to have a dwarf baby and Dr. Fife says, "We're going to give it to them."
Naomi has no intention of "designing" a baby and says so to her boss, William, who hired Fife behind her back. William says he isn't asking her to accept him, he's telling her. Even though she's being asked to do a procedure she finds morally wrong, Naomi is having trouble confronting Fife because he's in a wheelchair. So she decides to try to change the minds of the patients. But the Donovans make a compelling argument for the procedure.
Naomi discovers Fife has withheld information from her regarding the cancer risk for the baby. She tells off Fife and he's impressed she got over her reluctance to confront someone in a wheelchair. The Donovans know the risk and still want the procedure. But this time it's Naomi who makes the compelling argument. She will NOT implant a sick embryo. But she does offer to help them have a healthy baby because whether he or she is tall or small, it won't matter. That baby will be theirs to love and that's all that matters. Told ya it was compelling.
Charlotte is upset because two weeks have gone by and she has no patients. Cooper tries to help things along by going into an online chatroom and finding a few folks who may be in need of a good sexologist. Charlotte catches on to his scheme and says she doesn't want his pity patients. Coop argues that it isn't pity, it's a referral. He was only trying to help. Charlotte finally comes around. What's the web address for that chatroom again?
Pete's patient, Barbara, is seriously depressed. Her fiance, Jimmy, desperately wants her to get better. Violet is also treating Barbara and suggests a way to end the depression right now: Electroshock Therapy. Don't worry. This isn't One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest shock therapy. The whole procedure takes only a few seconds and Barbara wakes up no longer depressed. But she also doesn't know who Jimmy is.
Violet believes Barbara's memory was not affected. She thinks something terrible happened with Jimmy and she's blocked it out. But Jimmy's actually a nice guy. Too nice. He's the guy at the bar that you go home with at 3 a.m. because the guy you really want has already left with someone else. Barbara is pretending she doesn't remember him because she doesn't want to hurt him after all he's done for her. Poor, nice Jimmy.
Violet and Pete decide to lie to Jimmy to spare his feelings. Violet says, "Memory and emotion get all wrapped up with each other and sometimes it's hard to pull them apart." By the look on Pete's face, we get the sense that he may be taking this sentiment to heart. When Jimmy says this isn't how it was supposed to be, Pete agrees. But it is what is. All you can really do now is try to be happy for her. This time it's Violet who appreciates the sentiment. We do, too.


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Wantage Community
Ongoing EventsPlease note: Ongoing events may have been discontinued or details changed without giving notice to the Wantage website. If you know a program's information is incorrect, please contact the editor so the information may be removed/updated. Thank you!
Amateur Artists – meet Monday afternoons, 1-3 p.m. Have you been wanting to paint/model/sketch, etc., but can't seem to get around to it? Would you enjoy getting together with others for informal artistic afternoons? Please join us on Monday afternoons in the library's community room. Bring whatever materials you need for your chosen media. If you have any questions, please call Barbara Young at 973-875-7864.
Archery Classes
Open to children in grades 4 through 8. Student will receive 24 hours of training. All equipment is provided.Sponsored by the Wallkill River National Wildlife Refuge. Following the National Archery in the Schools Program, a certified instructor will teach safety, target practice, scoring and competition. Class size is limited and registration is required. Call for more information and to register. Phone: 973-702-7266 ext. 10. Cost: Free
Beemerville FD Auxiliary
Meetings are held the second Wednesday of the month, 7 p.m. at the Beemerville Firehouse. New members welcome! 973-875-3771
Bea's Kitchen Saturdays at noon at the Church of the Good Shepherd on Rt. 23. This program provides a warm and welcoming atmosphere for those in need of a hot lunch. Take out is also available. For more information call the church at 875-0919.
Breakfast at Sussex Elks – The 3rd Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. to 1p.m. $5 adults, $3 children, under 5 free. Pancakes, eggs to order, sausage, bacon, homefries, toast, OJ, coffee and tea. 875-3990
Community Garden
House of the Good Shepherd
Community Garden Plots free to Community Residents. Plus FREE gardening classes by Master Gardeners. For more information: firstname.lastname@example.com 973-383-8384 or email@example.com. Cost: FREE
Country Line Dancing
Mondays, 7–10 p.m. at the Sussex Elks Lodge
Kick up your heels...it's fun for the whole family. Light snacks and drinks are available for purchase.Proceeds will help the Elks continue their community outreach programs. Cost: $5. Phone: 973-383-0731.
Early Head Start – The Early Head Start's mission is to strengthen the community by providing cost effective, coordinated services to those in need, thereby increasing hope and self-esteem, encouraging goal achievement, and improving self-sufficiency. 37 Main Street, Sussex, NJ 07461. Phone: 875-8551. Fax: 875-0568
Elks Friday Fun Night — Every Friday night from 7 to 9 p.m. at Sussex Elks Lodge. Hamburgers, hot dogs, chicken nuggets, and french fries will be available, as well as $3 drinks. For more information/questions/specials available for the evening call 973-875-3990 or e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com. Join us for a fun-filled night of pool, shuffle board, darts, and most importantly, to meet new people!
Friday Night at the Y – This family activity provides an opportunity for parents to enjoy a fun-filled night out with their children. Families participate in games, crafts, swimming, snacks and more. There is no charge for this activity. As a reminder, parental supervision is required for all children throughout the event. Transportation is available from Newton, Hopatcong and Sussex. 6:30-9 p.m. Registration is required. Call 973-383-5129.
High Point Harmonizers – Attention gentlemen of all ages and experience! If you love to sing, or just want to sit and enjoy the music, join us Wednesday evenings from 8 to 10 p.m. at the Sussex Elks lodge. For more information Call Fred Spages at 973-383-0731.
High Point State Park – Activities details
Senior Farmers Market Vouchers
Income eligible seniors, age 60+ can receive $20 in vouchers to be used at participating farm stands. Vouchers will be distributed at a variety of senior sites throughout SussexCounty in addition to the Division of Senior Services office. Call Senior Services at 973‐579‐0555, Ext. 1221 for details or visit their website at www.sussex.nj.us/seniorservices.
Sunday Breakfast at Sussex Elks
The 3rd Sunday of every month, 10 a.m. to 1p.m. $5 adults, $3 children, under 5 free. Pancakes, eggs to order, sausage, bacon, homefries, toast, OJ, coffee and tea.
Sussex County Adult Day Care Center Open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at the Sussex Christian Reformed Church, 51 Unionville Ave. Limited transportation available.
Sussex Help Center – provides food to Sussex-Wantage neighbors in need through a variety of programs. The storefront in Sussex distributes food for families four times a week. Funding comes from private donations, individuals and churches. It receives no Federal, State, or governmental assistance. If you would like to make a donation, please mail your check to: Sussex Help Center, PO Box 415, Sussex, NJ 07461. Non-perishable food donations are also needed. Suggestions: canned vegetables, Pork 'n' Beans, canned fruit, Jello, pudding, soup, sandwich spread, peanut butter, jelly, tuna fish, mayonnaise, canned meat, macaroni, spaghetti, sauce, rice, tea bags, powdered milk, sugar-free food for diabetics. A barrel has been set up outside the Food Barn for food donations. If you would like more information or would like to volunteer, please call 702-1922.
Sussex-Wantage Special
Education Support Group
A weekly support group will be offered by parents, for parents. You are invited to participate for emotional support, guidance, information, and sharing. All meetings will be held at the Sussex Wantage Branch Library. Meetings will be held on the 4th Wednesday of each month. For more information contact Janice 875-8882 or Valorie 702-2404.
Sussex-Wantage Quilters
Group meets the first and third Wednesday of the month, 7-9 p.m. at the library. Experienced and novice, hand or machine, quilters are welcome. Bring an unfinished and/or current project. For more information, call 875-9791 or 875-9187 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com
YMCA High School Hangout
3rd Saturday of the month, 6–9 p.m. at the Sussex County YMCA
Come for a night full of activities, just for high schoolers. You and your friends can work out, play ping pong, karaoke, or just hang out in the pool Fun ideas welcome! FREE! Free pizza (limit 2 slices per person) and drinks. Further information: flier | 973-209-9622 | sussexcountyymca.org
Yoga on the Mountain
Yoga classes at High Point State Park
Enjoy the views at the "Highest Point in New Jersey" and fresh air, while getting yourself in shape. All classes take place at the Interpretive Center near the High Point Monument. Pre-Registration is recommended by calling Lynn at 702-0488. Event is FREE. Donations accepted to help cover costs of the program. The Friends of High Point State Park is a nonprofit organization. For more information regarding year-round free programs at High Point State Park go to friendshighpointstatepark.blogspot.com
Every Monday and Wednesday, 7 p.m. at Beemerville Fire House. Cost is $5 per class.


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Psychology: Selling yourself with honesty
Sometimes we have to sell ourselves to get what we want in life, such as getting a job or even acquiring new friends. There are many ways to sell a used car and there are many ways to present yourself to a prospective employer.
You might sell a car by making it look better; by cleaning and polishing it. That is just the exterior, maybe the prospective purchaser will want to look at the engine or will want to inspect the service history. What you have inside and your history is important too. Your history might be on your CV or resume if you're looking for a job. A CV is like the service history of a car, lots of breakdowns could look bad. So you think about your appearance and your history, then you can think about reliability. If you are reliable, you are more likely to be trusted. Turning up for an interview late will signify unreliability.
Pretending everything is great when you are selling a second hand car isn't always a good idea. Some car salesmen shout at the customers and try to bully them. Being honest and telling the customer that the fuel consumption of the car isn't that great, but that is made up for by it's reliability, will perhaps make the customer consider and balance both aspects of the car. Similarly, you can point out your faults and the prospective employer might see that as being refreshingly honest. Admitting that you are not perfect, but that you constantly strive to improve, might be seen as better than presenting yourself as someone who can't admit his own shortcomings.
Admitting you have problems might even help you get support from the employer. The employer might make adaptions to the work place because you have a disability for example.
Most of all we are judged on our behaviour and morality and so a reliable honest approach to relationships is likely to pay off in all situations. You need to find a balance between being introvert and extrovert. Don't shy away from expressing yourself, but don't express yourself too forcefully or loudly. Try to relax and use humour to make people feel at ease. There is no need to show off or try to be the life and soul of the party.
People are always fascinated by the conjurer who performs a trick that they can't understand or do. It's the cleverness of the trick that impresses. Being able to do something easily that others find hard, always impresses. It might be growing beautiful roses in your garden. It might be a special skill or knowledge that you make look easy. Such skills, even though a minor part of who you are, make you stand out from the crowd and help people remember you.
What do you think? Are you impressed by the loud mouthed car salesman or the quiet honesty of a trader with a sense of morality and a reputation to maintain?
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18 Apr Log While Drilling (LWD)
With our recent expansion LMI has converted all of it's drill head locators over to the DigiTrak F5. Thus being able to provide our customers with a complete data log of every bore. The Log While Drilling (LWD) software records the depth and pitch of each and every drill stem.
At the end of the workday this information is then uploaded to our pc's, and can then be converted to CAD drawings for complete as-build. To include any existing utilities crossed as well as the depths and locations of them.
LWD is an excellent way to pin point shallow bores and track bore path consistency.
LMI now offers this to our customers on a daily, weekly, monthly or per job basis per the customer's request at no additional charges, and these logs are also kept on file at our corporate office.
Please take this into consideration when choosing your next underground utility contractor.