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I love Amelia Bedelia! I feel like her sometimes, bless her! These are great!
We have used her to teach idioms (obviously she lacks this knowledge!)
You rock! These are awesome ideas for Amelia Bedelia!!
First Grade Blue SKies
I love Amelia Bedelia! She's one of my all-time favorites. Thank you for sharing your adorable anchor charts and activities.
Primary Junction
OH MY WORD! I absolutely love Amelia Bedelia. I love these books. I find that any child, boy or girl, finds Amelia Bedelia hilarious. I remember reading Amelia Bedelia when I was a kid. I've never thought of using these books as a lesson for cause/effect, but it's perfect! The kids will totally get it!
I especially adore your bubble map with that awesome illustration! Too cute! I can't wait to use this with my kiddles.
Thanks so much for sharing, Mrs. Lemons! You are THE BEST!!!
I am working on cause and effect in third grade right now! How awesome. This is great!
Thanks for sharing!
Wow. This is such a great way to present a complex concept. Thanks so much for showing me how to make this user friendly for second graders!!!!
So fun. I loved Amelia Bedelia books as a kid and love teaching with them now!
We are getting ready to teach cause and effect – these printables and activities are perfect!
Abby @ Third Grade Bookworm
Oh my goodness, thanks so much! 🙂 We are doing cause and effect this week and I'm out Thursday with a sub and kept racking my brain for what to have the sub do, this is perfect!
Stories From Second
I used to love Amelia Bedelia books! I love your blog…very cute! (new follower) come follow me for some math ideas and centers 🙂
Your charts are so stinkin cute. I have ZERO artistic ability! Im jealous!
Okay, cause and effect is SO hard for me!! Someone help me!
So cute, Amy! 🙂
You make the best charts! What do you do with all of them when you are finished?
Mary Beth
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Thank y'all!
Hadar- It is a VERY hard concept! I've spent a lot of time reading books and searching for cause/effect in advance so I will know what I'm talking about, ha!
Mary Beth- these are laminated, so I will wipe off and save for next year! I'll keep them on display while we are in this reading unit and them clean 'em up 🙂
You inspire me with all of your resources… It is 9:37pm here in my classroom at school and I just can't browsing your site. Can't wait to use this one, too!
Who doesn't love Amelia Bedelia!She does exactly what she's told. We happened to be doing cause and effect this week, so I'm glad I stopped by your blog. Thanks for the ideas!
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Thanks for the great idea! I've used Amelia Bedelia to teach idioms, but now I can add another trick to my bag 🙂 Thanks
Thanks for the great idea! I've used Amelia Bedelia to teach idioms, but now I can add another trick to my bag 🙂 Thanks
I was Amelia Bedelia for Character Dress Up Day last year! Love her. Thanks for the freebie!
I can't wait to do this with my class. We are reading The Day Jimmy's Boa ate the Wash this week. I have been searching for cause and effect activities, and I found it!
Thanks so much!!
Love Amelia Bedelia!!! We started reading her books last week to introduce Cause and Effect as well! The kids LOVED it! I also made the chart and my kids think I am an artist now! ha if they only knew 🙂
Thanks for all your wonderful ideas!
Thank you! My class loves Amelia Bedelia!!!
Love these activities – Amelia Bedelia is the best! Thanks for the freebies! Now I can't wait to teach cause and effect!
I officially love your blog! Being a first year teacher, I have found SO many cute and quality ideas to use! Thank you so much for all of your generosity in sharing! 🙂
These are wonderful ideas. My kids love these books….she is such a wonderfully honest character…
I need help.. Me n my kindergarten kid want to perform Amelia Bedelial on stage….
Can someone help with some ideas? Thanks..
Oh my goodness! I use to have Amelia Bedlia and the baby. I remember reading that book over and over again. I loved her books growing up. Thank you so much for this freebie. I'm always looking for good cause and effect ideas. I'm loving you blog, happy to be a new follower.
I Love this!!! Quick question, how long do you spend on author/character stories? How many days do you usually spend on one book I guess is a better question. 🙂 Thanks so much!
One day I dressed up for Amelia Bedelia for costume day, and it turned into a wonderful review of idioms and figurative language. I pretended like I really WAS Amelia and that all the idioms the kids were using were very confusing to me. They had so much fun trying to help me understand what the turns of phrase really meant 🙂 I will definitely be bringing the costume out again to do this cause and effect activity!


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UTT: RP-SG Mavericks edge out Dabang Smashers T.T.C in close tie
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Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 21 (ANI): RP-SG Mavericks edged out Dabang Smashers T.T.C 14-13 in a close tie on Day 8 of the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) at the Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai on Thursday. Dabang Smashers T.T.C's G Sathiyan warmed the hearts of the home crowd as the local star pulled off a stunning 2-1 (11-5, 11-9, 10-11) win over RP-SG Mavericks' Austrian world No 23 Stefan Fegrel in the men's singles (Foreign v Indian), the day's opening match. Sathiyan, ranked 110, cruised to an easy win in the opening game, and rallied brilliantly to win a tense second game. The Indian then recovered brilliantly from 3-7 in the last game before the experienced Fegerl won on the final point. Ukrainian world No. 56 Tetyana Bilenko made it 4-2 for Dabang Smashers T.T.C after she rallied from a game down for a 2-1 win (10-11, 11-7, 11-8) over Archana Kamath of RP-SG Mavericks in the women's singles (Foreign v Indian). Archana, 17 years old and ranked 217, won the opening game on the final point. However, Bilenko came back strongly to bag the next two. A Sharath Kamal / Sofia Polcanova (Austria) put RP-SG Mavericks in the lead 5-4 with a 3-0 (11-5, 11-7, 11-5) win over G Sathiyan / Kim Song I of Smashers in the mixed doubles (Foreign/Indian pair). However, China-born Ukraine world No. 28 Kou Lei of Dabang Smashers T.T.C edged out Portuguese world No. 31 Tiago Apolonia (RP-SG Mavericks) 2-1 (11-3, 10-11, 11-10) in the men's singles (Foreign player category) to level the scores at 6-all with five more matches remain in the ongoing tie. North Korean world No 19 Kim Song I defeated Sabine Winter of RP-SG Mavericks 2-1 (11-8, 11-8, 9-11) in the women's singles (Foreign player category) to hand Smashers the lead at 8-7. World No. 43 Sharath Kamal levelled it at 9-9 for RP-SG Mavericks with a 2-1 (11-8, 11-9, 5-11) win over Portuguese world No 14 Marcos Freitas (Dabang Smashers TTC) in the men's singles (Indian v Foreign) as the Indian's home fans supported loudly. Sabine Winter thumped Madhurika Patkar of Dabang Smashers TTC a 3-0 (11-9, 11-9, 11-6) in the women's singles (Foreign v Indian) to hand RP-SG Mavericks a 12-9 lead but Marcos Freitas helped Dabang Smashers TTC rally back to 11-13 with a 2-1 (11-5, 11-5, 10-11) win over Stefan Fegrel in the men's singles (Foreign player category). It boiled down to the last match of the day, the women's singles (Foreign player category) between RP-SG Mavericks' Austrian world No 44 Sofia Polcanova and Dabang Smashers TTC's Tetyana Bilenko. Polcanova won the opening game 11-8 to help RP-SG Mavericks edge ahead to 14 points before Tetyana Bilenko rallied to win the next two games to help Dabang Smashers T.T,C finish with 13 points. (ANI)

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And Dealing With Bullies
By Erika M Szabo
Illustrated storybook for children 4-12
Daniel looked up, wiping the water from his eyes. He saw a woman walking toward the water with a basket in her hand. As she got closer, the children saw an orange-colored cat with white paws and chest that was following the woman, crying and hissing. The cat was clearly in distress. She tried to claw and bite the woman's legs, and even when the woman kicked her, she didn't give up.
The cat's loud cries made the hairs stand up on the children's arms. They didn't understand what was happening, but they felt something was very wrong.
The woman ignored the cat, and when she reached the edge of the river, she took a tiny, meowing kitten out of her basket and threw it into the river as far from shore as she could. The kitten flailed in the air, desperately crying, and then splashed into the water.
Bianca and Daniel watched in horror. The woman grabbed another kitten and threw it into the river.
The woman laughed cruelly as she threw the third and fourth kitten into the water. The scene sent chills down the children's spines.
The adult cat gave out a painful cry, darted down the riverbank and jumped into the water. She reached one of her kittens, took it into her mouth, and started swimming ashore.
The group of kids stood in the shallow water looking just as guilty as Peter. Daniel punched Peter's shoulder playfully and said, "No name calling. Okay? Mark is who he is, and he will be a bully until he wants to change."
"Sure thing," Peter promised. "I'm not going to hang out with that bully anymore, no matter what he says or does. I'm scared of him, but I can run away if he tries to hurt me."
"Yes, you can run a lot faster than Mark," Daniel stated. "You're the fastest runner in school. Let's play," Daniel picked up the ball and threw it at Peter spraying him with water.
Peter laughed and splashed Daniel and the other kids. They splashed him back and soon they were laughing and happily playing in the cool water.
Bianca watched Daniel from shore and smiled proudly. Her BFF always found the right way to smooth things out and make everyone feel comfortable around him.
Peanut rumbled softly, staring at the bushes near the water. Bianca saw Mark and his two cronies standing by the bush.
Mark looked angry as he was staring at the kids who were playing in the water.
Scott and Aiden stood next to him with gloomy expressions on their faces. Bianca thought, they want to play with us, I know it. I wish they would stand up to Mark. Those two boys don't seem to be mean, they're just too afraid of that big bully. Bianca sighed and patted Peanut's head sadly.


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"Because cellular operates on licensed frequencies that many government and private organizations cannot legally control even inside their own airspace, unauthorized mobile communications can compromise security and create a significant challenge for organizations that rely on "no-wireless" policies as part of their security strategy," said Dr. Hemant Chaskar, VP of technology and innovation at AirTight Networks. "However with reliable detection technology, cellular devices can be easily located and physically removed or disabled to ensure compliance. And by integrating our new cellular detection with our automated wireless intrusion prevention system (WIPS), our customers can now maintain comprehensive 24/7 wireless security that combines tracking and reporting of cellular activity plus our industry leading WIPS for the unlicensed Wi-Fi bands."
The AirTight management console can alert security staff via email or the management interface whenever an incursion is detected. The information provided includes the time, duration, frequency band, and physical location of the cellular activity. In addition to alerts, custom reports can be generated and distributed automatically on a scheduled basis.
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A few weeks before Christmas I got into my very first car accident (having driven for over 10 years, that makes me very lucky). It was scary and painful. I was stopped and someone just rear ended me out of the blue. In a flurry of adrenaline and soreness I immediately started crying as I shuffled around for paperwork. Much to my chagrin, I couldn't find my updated insurance card amidst the snowstorm of paper in my glove box. By the time the cops arrived, I had successfully remembered I had a cell phone (thanks to the guy who hit me, he was no stranger to accident protocol), and looked up my insurance info online.
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Monkey business
No more monkey business! Right on, Jake Fuller, for your May 18 editorial cartoon about Jungle Friends' wish to extend its primate sanctuary to 39 acres in northwest Alachua County.
Jungle Friends cares for 188 monkeys at the 12-acre site off State Road 121, but has plans to accept approximately 150 more if the county approves this expansion into the rural neighborhood where I have lived since 1975. The expansion is being funded by universities, who after testing with drugs and different behavioral studies, are only to happy to rid these test animals from their care to avoid public criticism.
The 25 property owners and taxpayers who live on 142nd Avenue, which will be impacted by this development, are not happy. Jungle Friends has ignored requirement limits that were granted in the original plan.
I am concerned that it will not abide with the county's guidelines and regulations if this special exception is granted.
W.P. Benz,
No turning back
While it is admirable that Plum Creek held a series of public meetings on its Alachua County plan, it is important for citizens to realize the company's mission is not creating jobs or using the land for its most desirable purpose. Plum Creek management's job is to complete an entitlement process that will maximize the land's marketable value. Gaining a "blank check" rezoning by Alachua County will accomplish that objective.
What about all the jobs and the wonderful development they promise? Well, that will come later and be created or not by the eventual developer, not Plum Creek. I think it is very important for county commissioners to realize that by approving this ambitious proposal, there is no turning back.
If you want to protect the wetlands, wildlife and natural beauty of the county's wettest area, maintain the current Comprehensive Plan for development. It will do a much better job.
James Dick,
Fixing infrastructure
At the Community Redevelopment Agency's May 19 meeting, there was an hour-long presentation on the "double helix" bridge and a tree-lined intersection at Innovative Square. There were slide presentations and video of how delighted some students were crossing the bridge and how joyful everyone else was about it.
I wonder how many potholes could have been filled, how many roads fixed and how many lives and jobs could have been saved if the millions used on this bridge, intersection and other "visions" could have been used in fixing our crumbling infrastructure.
Some money could also have been used to try to get an equitable contact for purchasing power from the biomass plant, which, if done, could save many businesses and hundreds of jobs locally.
Don Glendening,
Entitled to care
This is in response to Gerry Felder's May 27 letter about changing the law so that veterans with non-service connected conditions will be excluded from Veterans Affairs benefits.
Over the years, thousands upon thousands have put their lives and educations on hold, left their families and joined the military. They indicated that they were willing to put themselves in harm's way for their country's sake.
That they did not get wounded in the course of their service does not mean they did not serve.
There is priority at the VA for those with service-connected injuries as there should be. There is no question there. But all veterans should be entitled to care as they age, especially those on low or limited incomes.
Everything is not broken at the VAs — what is should be fixed but not at the expense of other veterans. Serving one's country should still be appreciated with care as needed.
Elizabeth S. Patrick,
Seeds of the scandal
The VA hospital scandal is terrible. But let us not forget where the seeds of this scandal were planted. The Bush administration, with a Republican-controlled Congress, made huge cuts in veteran spending while their wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were raging.
Bush and the Republicans also closed VA hospitals and facilities, significantly reducing the resources for veterans, so that the deficit created by the tax cuts for the wealthy would not look so bad.
What frustrates me is that the mainstream media doesn't remind Americans, who may have forgotten the depredations of Bush and the Republicans, that Republican actions have ultimately brought on this tragedy.
M.L. Stein,


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Yup, I just counted them on my diary, with a little countdown for my reference. Just 54 days, that's all I have to keep my cool for, but you know what just walking to the building this morning and I got angry and annoyed and wanted to committ murder, and that was before I had walked in.
Yes it is defiantely time to leave this place if that is how I feel just walking towards the building. This place and the people and everything about it just make me hate everything…
Last night I was in tears at how worthless I feel and how worthless I have let this place make me feel – this is now moving into other areas of my life so that if someone makes an offhand comment I take offence because I see it as an attack at my worth. Justitfied, perhaps, paranoid, maybe…who cares it is how I feel.
there are drums at work today – african or soemthing and they are fucking pissing me off!!!!! Time for headphones I think and perhaps some calming music to inspire me for the day….
Doubt that will happpen in this fucking shit hole of hell….


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When I was younger, I enjoyed listening to a good ghost story, but I never believed that ghosts were
real. Of course all of that changed several years ago, when my husband, my two daughters and I moved into a
house where a young woman had died in her bedroom from natural causes. Her mother and father built this house
when their daughter was still just a little girl, and later after her parent's divorce, she and her mother continued living there. Some years later, the young lady died and her mother moved but instead of selling the house, she leased it for several years. We just happen to be one of the lucky ones who got to meet her daughter after her death.
The hauntings all began rather innocently. One day I thought I saw someone walk by an opened doorway, but after searching the entire house I discovered I was the only there. I didn't think much of it and came to believe I had only imagined seeing someone walk by, until it starting happening all of the time. Then one day, I was searching through the refrigerator when I thought I heard one of one my daughters say, "Mom," but when I turned around, there was no one behind me. In fact, the rest of my family was still fast asleep. With so many weird things happening, I thought I must be going a little crazy and chalked it all up to my wild imagination, until my daughters and husband basically had the same things happen to them at different times during our residing there. I guess our ghost got comfortable living with us, because after that first experience, she often said our names to get our attention.
My oldest daughter's bedroom must have been that young lady's room, during her lifetime, because most of the physical activity took place in there. Several nights my daughter would be woken from a sound sleep by someone shaking her bed or by loud footsteps in the room. One night, the activity was especially annoying because the ghost wouldn't stop shaking the bed. My daughter finally became so irritated she demanded that the ghost stop. Strangely enough, the ghost listened and settled down for the night.
For some reason I was never afraid of living in that house even though it was haunted. Our ghost never made us feel like we were trespassing in her home. In fact, I think she liked having us there. Six years later when we moved again, I thought we would leave those types of experiences behind, but on my very first day in our new home, strange things started happening there too. Every day around five o'clock, we would hear what sounded like the front door being opened and then there would be loud footsteps going down the hallway. I don't think this was ever an intelligent haunting though. We knew when we bought the house, whoever had lived there before us had anger issues. All of the walls and wood doors had holes where someone had slammed their fists through each and every one of them. Our beautiful home had absorbed so much bad energy that it kept reliving them day after day.
You'll be happy to know that our new house is free of spirits-good or evil. These days no one is trying to get my attention by calling my name or stomping down my hallway. Do I believe in ghosts? You bet your granny's panties I do, but so far I've never had to face one that scared me so much I went screaming out into the night. Besides, I'm not crazy enough to go out in the dark by myself.


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United States District Court, D. Utah, Central Division
February 1, 2018
EAGLE AIR MED CORPORATION, a Utah corporation; and VALLEY MED FLIGHT INC., a North Dakota corporation, Plaintiffs,v.SENTINEL AIR MEDICAL ALLIANCE, LLC, a Wyoming limited liability company; JEFFREY FRAZIER, an individual; and DOES 1 through 10, Defendants.
Campbell, Judge.
J. Furse, United States Magistrate Judge.
Sentinel Air Medical Alliance and Jeffrey Frazier
(collectively, "Sentinel") filed a Motion to
Quash Subpoenas to Sentinel Clients seeking to prevent
Plaintiffs Eagle Air Med Corporation ("Eagle")
and Valley Med Flight Inc. ("Valley") from
serving subpoenas on ten Sentinel clients. (ECF No. 127). On
September 19, 2017, the Court held a hearing on
Sentinel's Motion. (ECF No. 133.) During the hearing,
Sentinel converted its motion to quash into a motion for
protective order. (ECF No. 140 at 14.) At the conclusion of
the hearing, the Court asked the parties to submit additional
briefing on three issues: (1) the Court's authority to
modify or order withdrawal of the subpoenas issued in other
jurisdictions; (2) how Eagle and Valley selected the Sentinel
clients they subpoenaed; and (3) the relevance of the
documents sought in the subpoenas concerning other air
medical transport providers to Sentinel's good faith
defense. (Id. at 41-43.) After a careful review of
the parties' filings and papers, and consideration of the
parties' arguments during the hearing, the Court DENIES
Sentinel's Motion for the reasons addressed below.
April 7, 2017, the Court ordered Sentinel to provide Eagle
and Valley with a list of Sentinel's clients since
January 1, 2013. (ECF No. 34.) Sentinel provided the client
list on June 23, 2017. (ECF No. 145 at 3.) In July 2017,
Eagle and Valley's counsel noticed and served subpoenas
on three entities- Builders Trust of New Mexico, New Mexico
Casualty Company, and The Benefit Group-that Defendant
Jeffrey Frazier identified as "top five" Sentinel
clients. (Id. at 3, 6; ECF No. 145-3.) Sentinel did
not object to the subpoenas until filing its motion to quash
(now a converted motion for protective order) on September
11, 2017. (ECF No. 145 at 4.) The July subpoenas requested
four types of documents: (1) communications with Sentinel
referring to Eagle or Valley; (2) other communications with
any person referring or relating to Eagle or Valley since
January 1, 2013; (3) agreements with Sentinel regarding
Sentinel's evaluations or recommendations concerning the
medical necessity of, and reasonableness of charges and
appropriate reimbursement for, any air medical transport; and
(4) documents relating to services Sentinel rendered in
connection with Eagle or Valley transports since January 1,
2013. (Id. at 3-4; ECF No. 127-3.)
August 2017, Eagle and Valley served an additional seven
subpoenas on Sentinel clients-Summit Management Services,
Inc., Mutual Assurance Administrators, Inc., Meritain Health,
Inc., UMR, Inc., CoreSource, Inc., Gilsbar, LLC, and
HealthSmart Benefit Solutions, Inc.-that they identified from
the client list that Sentinel provided. (ECF No. 145 at 4-5;
ECF No. 127-2.) The August subpoenas requested three specific
types of documents: (1) documents regarding any review,
evaluation, or recommendation that Sentinel provided from
January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2015; (2) communications
referring to Eagle or Valley from January 1, 2013 to December
31, 2015, including any with Sentinel; and (3) documents
regarding Sentinel's expertise, skill, or qualifications.
may conduct discovery on "any nonprivileged matter that
is relevant to any party's claim or defense and
proportional to the needs of the case, considering the
importance of the issues at stake in the action, the amount
in controversy, the parties' relative access to relevant
information, the parties' resources, the importance of
the discovery in resolving the issues, and whether the burden
or expense of the proposed discovery outweighs its likely
benefit." Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(b)(1). "The court may,
for good cause, issue an order to protect a party or person
from annoyance, embarrassment, oppression, or undue burden or
expense." Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c)(1). A protective order may
"forbid[] inquiry into certain matters, or limit[] the
scope of disclosure or discovery to certain matters."
Fed.R.Civ.P. 26(c)(1)(D). The party seeking the protective
order bears the burden of showing good cause. McBride v.
Medicalodges, Inc., 250 F.R.D. 581, 583 (D. Kan. 2008).
"Whether to enter a protective order lies within the
court's discretion." Id.
As an
initial matter, the Court has jurisdiction to decide
Sentinel's motion, including as it relates to subpoenas
issued to third parties in other jurisdictions, since
Sentinel converted its motion to quash into a motion for
protective order.[1]See, e.g., Straily v.
UBS Fin. Servs., Inc., No. 07-CV-00884-REB-KMT, 2008 WL
5378148, at *2 (D. Colo. Dec. 23, 2008) (unpublished) (court
has authority to enter a protective order relating to
discovery sought in other jurisdictions because "the
broad outlines of discovery in a civil case are controlled by
the court where the case is filed"); Rajala v.
McGuire Woods, LLP, No. 08-2638-CM-DJW, 2010 WL 4683979,
at *7 (D. Kan. Nov. 12, 2010) (unpublished) (court has
authority to entertain motion for protective order
"where (1) the issues raised are central to the case
and extend beyond the specifics of the particular subpoena,
and (2) the requested ruling is necessary to insure that
general discovery issues will receive uniform treatment,
regardless of the district in which the discovery is
pursued"). Eagle and Valley do not dispute that the
Court has this authority. (ECF No. 145 at 2 n.1.)
respect to the merits of its motion, Sentinel sets forth a
number of arguments concerning the subpoenas, which it claims
necessitate the issuance of a protective order. First,
Sentinel argues that during the April 7, 2017 hearing the
Court imposed limits on the scope of third party subpoenas
sent to Sentinel clients. (ECF No. 127 at 2-3.) Specifically,
Sentinel claims the Court limited the scope of subpoenas to
documents between Sentinel and the subpoenaed party
concerning Eagle and Valley. (Id.; ECF No. 136 at
2.) While the Court discussed anticipated discovery directed
to Sentinel clients during the hearing, it did not impose a
hard limitation on the scope of subpoenas. The hearing
addressed Eagle and Valley's motion to compel production
of Sentinel's client list. The Court did not have before
it a motion concerning the scope of actual subpoenas directed
at specific Sentinel clients, and the parties did not address
the impact of the elements of the claims and affirmative
defenses on the necessary scope of discovery directed to
third parties. Therefore, the Court declines to use any of
the statements made at the April 7 hearing to limit the scope
of the subpoenas directed to Sentinel clients. Instead, the
Court assesses the discovery sought through the subpoenas for
relevance and proportionality.
Sentinel argues that Eagle and Valley are attempting to
harass Sentinel's clients through issuance of subpoenas.
(ECF No. 127 at 2, 4; ECF No. 136 at 3, 5.) The Court does
not find any evidence to support this assertion and is
satisfied with Eagle and Valley's explanation concerning
the method it used to select entities to subpoena from the
client list Sentinel produced. As Eagle and Valley point out,
during his deposition, Defendant Jeffrey Frazier identified
three of the clients subpoenaed-Builders Trust of New Mexico,
New Mexico Casualty Company, and The Benefit Group-as
"top five" Sentinel clients. (ECF No. 145 at 3,
6; ECF No. 145-3.) Sentinel's counsel also identified New
Mexico Casualty and The Benefit Group as entities for which
Sentinel performed claims reviews relating to Eagle and
Valley. (ECF Nos. 145 at 3 n.2 & 127-4.) Therefore, the
issuance of subpoenas to these entities is reasonable.
Of the
seven other entities subpoenaed, Eagle and Valley's
counsel compared the Sentinel client list[2] with a list
containing Eagle and Valley payors during the relevant
timeframe to identify entities that were both Sentinel
clients and Eagle and Valley insurance payors. (ECF No. 145
at 6-7.) Six of the seven entities that Eagle and
Valley's counsel identified as clients and payors in
common, and issued subpoenas to, underpaid Eagle or Valley.
(Id.) In all, Eagle and Valley subpoenaed 10 out of
188, or less than 5%, of the entities identified on the
Sentinel client list. (Id. at 7.) Eagle and Valley
also indicate their intention to subpoena nine additional
Sentinel clients that substantially underpaid Eagle and
Valley during the relevant time period. (Id. at 7
n.5.) If Eagle and Valley issue these subpoenas, they will
have subpoenaed approximately 10% of the total number of
Sentinel clients.
the Court understands Sentinel's concerns regarding
subpoenas to certain of its clients, the Court cannot
conclude that Eagle and Valley have acted unreasonably in
selecting the clients to subpoena or that they are engaging
in a "fishing expedition." Instead, the evidence
indicates that Eagle and Valley's counsel have acted in
good faith to limit the number of subpoenas ...
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FROM ITS PERCH on a Whidbey Island hillside, Wild Rose Farm looks out over the wide, blue curve of Penn Cove. If that doesn't sound romantic enough, the farm boasts 30 acres of gardens and open pastureland reached by a long, winding driveway lined with fruit trees. The pastures are dotted with heritage breeds of fluffy sheep, watched over by a vigilant guard llama.
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I wrote up my original Top 25 list for my iPod about a month after I got it. I've now had the iPod for several months, and like a rutted road that's seen heavy traffic, so my Top 25 list has become clearly defined. Certain things will become obvious: My favorite singer is Susanna Hoffs, and my favorite groups are The Bangles and Cracker. I also have a taste for cover songs, with artists doing someone else's song and sometimes actually doing it better. (Heresy!) Without further ado, here's my list, as well as a little video bonus thrown in (October rankings in red):
1. (#1) "She May Call You Up Tonight" - Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers, Vol. 1 (2006)
2. (#3) "And Your Bird Can Sing" - Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers, Vol. 1 (2006)
3. (#4) "Monday, Monday" - Matthew Sweet/Susanna Hoffs - Under The Covers, Vol. 1 (2006)
You may get the idea that I really liked that CD. And you'd be right. It's a collection of '60s cover songs, some well-known, others obscure to anyone who wasn't into the '60s music scene. The top song on my list falls into the latter category: It was originally done by The Left Banke (most famous for "Walk Away Renee," and like that song, this one was also written about her), and I really like the baroque arrangement. The twist is that in the original, the male vocalist was trying to keep another guy away from the girl, while in this version, the female vocalist is trying to keep the girl away from the guy. "And Your Bird Can Sing" was originally done by the Beatles on Rubber Soul. This version is pretty faithful to the original, but I like it better. "Monday, Monday" was a big hit for the Mamas and the Papas, of course. This version is in a different key, but it works well. And it gets played a lot on Mondays, just because.
4. (#2) "It's All Been Done" - Barenaked Ladies - Stunt (1998) - A great song with a storyline crammed into 3:26. Have we met before... and before... and before? (And haven't you read this before... Back in October? Yeah. I plagiarized myself!)
5. (NR) "Pride" - Susanna Hoffs - unreleased demo (1996) (downloadable here for free!) - Sometimes you find cool music in the oddest places. In this case, I found the song via Susanna Hoffs' Wikipedia entry, as an external link on Bill Bonk's site. If you're a Bangles or Susanna Hoffs fan at all, this song is a must-have! The download link is in MP3 format.
6. (NR) "Ring of Fire" - Social Distortion - Social Distortion (1990) - A full-on punked-out rave-up of the Johnny Cash classic. This version of the song kicks some serious ass.
7. (#7) "Family Tradition" - Cracker - Countrysides (2003) - This comes off an album where Cracker went out and played honkytonks under the name of Ironic Mullet. This is their cover version of one of Hank Williams, Jr.'s signature songs. Sobriety strictly optional.
8. (#6) "I Touch Myself" - Divinyls - Divinyls (1992) - Speaking of vocals, there's only one Christina Amphlett. You'll probably recognize the song if you saw the Austin Powers movies. Remember the scene when he made the Fembots heads' explode? Yeah, it's that song.
9. (NR) "Tear Off Your Own Head (It's A Doll Revolution) - The Bangles - Doll Revolution (2003) - The Bangles got back together after more than a decade of hiatus and came up with Doll Revolution. It has some good songs on it, including this song that was written and originally recorded by Elvis Costello. Susanna Hoffs does the lead vocal on this song.
10. (NR) "Jolene" - Mindy Smith, Featuring Dolly Parton - One Moment More (2004) - A wonderful remake of Dolly Parton's classic, with Mindy Smith's ethereal lead vocal and Dolly coming in at the end on the harmony.
11. (NR) "I Do" - Lisa Loeb - Firecracker (1997) - I'm pretty much indifferent to the rest of the album, but I loved this song. The arrangement and her voice were perfect for each other.
12. (NR) "Turning Japanese" - The Vapors - New Clear Days (1980) - You just had to be there. Great material for an air guitar solo.
13. (NR) "Dancing Queen" - Sixpence None the Richer - Best of... (1999) - I grew up in the 1970s, back before the gays had appropriated ABBA. I got this CD primarily for the songs "Kiss Me" and "There She Goes," but this one reached out and grabbed me. Leigh Nash's voice is perfect for the song, and the arrangement is excellent. There's also a good cover of Crowded House's "Don't Dream It's Over" on the CD.
14. (#11) "Teen Angst (What The World Needs Now)" - Cracker - Cracker (1992) - "What the world needs now is another folk singer, like I need a hole in my head."
15. (NR) "Monster" - Fred Schneider - Fred Schneider and the Shake Society (1984/1991) - This is an oddity, in more ways than one. The CD originally came out under that title in 1984, and was re-released in 1991 as just Fred Schneider. The video below came out in 1985. Fellow B-52 Kate Pierson appears in the background vocals, but wasn't in the video.
16. (NR) "Blue" - LeAnn Rimes - Blue (1996) - I was late to the party on this one. Last fall, after having lunch with my dad, I was driving home and heard this song on the contemporary country station and I was just blown away by her voice. "Who is that?!" I asked. The radio was no help, but fortunately, all you need to do is type some song lyrics into Google and you'll find out. I was even more amazed when I found out that she was only 13 when this CD was recorded! I ordered Blue at a bargain-basement price from Amazon.com, and it was worth every penny I paid for it. This song is just the tip of the iceberg.
17. (NR) "Blue Collar Man" - Styx - Pieces of Eight (1978) - Actually, I got this off the Greatest Hits CD, but the original is considerably older. A great anthem for any man who works long nights with impossible odds, keeping his back to the wall...
18. (#8) "Mr. Wrong" - Cracker - Cracker (1992) - Another amusing song from Cracker's debut CD.
19. (NR) "Cold December (In Your Heart)" - Glen Campbell - By The Time I Get To Phoenix (1968) - This was one of the albums I grew up with as a kid. This song was never a hit, but maybe it should have been. The song is dated, with its lush strings, but I like it.
20. (#17) "Pictures of Matchstick Men" - Cracker - Hello, Cleveland! (Forever bonus disc) (2002) - "Hey, waitaminute! That's a Camper Van Beethoven song!" you say. And you're right. But David Lowery was in Camper Van Beethoven, which is why he's doing the song on this live disc. Love the wailing guitar chords that open this song.
21. (NR) "Whole Lotta Lovin'" - Huey Lewis & The News - Fore! (1986) - I saw Huey Lewis & The News with the Tower of Power horns in Berlin in 1987. The opening act was a woman I'd never heard of who did an acoustic set that was so good that I bought her CD at the concert hall. Her name? Melissa Etheridge. Huey and the boys did a great show, too.
22. (NR) "On A Bad Day" - Kasey Chambers - Barricades and Brickwalls (2002)
23. (NR) "A Little Bit Lonesome" - Kasey Chambers - Barricades and Brickwalls (2002)
A couple of great songs by an Australian singer doing Americana. She really sells you on the songs.
24. (#15) "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" - Cracker - Countrysides (2003) - This time, they do Merle Haggard. Again, sobriety strictly optional.
25. (NR) "Star, Star" - Joan Jett - Album (1983) - A cover of the Rolling Stones' X-rated classic. It was controversial when it first came out as an uncredited song that only appeared on the cassette tape, not the vinyl album. It's on the CD of Album, as well as on certain greatest hits collections. The song is sizzlingly raunchy.


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Yesterday's snowstorm finished up with a few more inches overnight, bringing the local ski area storm totals to the 9-12" range. Just as important though, was the amount of liquid that the snow held, and based on the fact that we received 0.56" of liquid equivalent at our house, and Mt. Mansfield picked up at least 0.60", Bolton Valley should have been well above the half inch mark. An inch or two of liquid equivalent would have been even better, but even a half inch is more than we've had in recent storms.
The amount of liquid in the snow seemed substantial enough that I decided to see how Timberline was skiing this morning. The last time I'd looked, it wasn't quite there, but after our past couple of storms, plus somewhere near 9 inches of additional snow from this latest one, it was worth a look. As I parked at the Timberline Base, I met another couple of skiers who had just come down from a run, and were preparing to go back up for another one after a quick break. When I asked about the snow, one of them said, "It's @#$%(#$%^ awesome!" I took that as a good sign.
I followed an excellent skin track up Twice as Nice, and generally found 9 to 10 inches of settled powder. However, in the lowest elevations there was often little to no base below that snow. I hate to say it, but rolling the trail with a snow cat would probably be the best thing to do in terms of preserving the snow, turning it into a base, and getting it ready to support lift-served skiing. The tracks of previous skiers definitely spoke to the quality of the powder though – it was classing Timberline fluff that had settled nicely with no wind.
I ended up making my descent on Spell Binder, and indeed the snow was awesome, just as that skier had indicated. The main detractor from the experience was that there just isn't enough base snow yet to take the steep terrain with reckless abandon. I found 15 inches of snow atop the Spell Binder headwall, but I had to play it safe on that steep terrain since there are rocks lurking. So, even with the great snow, that offered champagne on top and a very nice "right side up" density gradient, I have to give the skiing a middle of the road sort of score because of the base. One more big storm and some settling of what's out there now, and Timberline will probably be ready for some lift served skiing. Actually, the resort was planning to open at least the main snowmaking routes over there today, so a lot of the area should be ready to go if more snow comes.


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Queensland's largest agricultural field day CRT FarmFest is off to a flying start, with over 2000 exhibitors and a crowd of more than 60,000 visitors expected over the three day event.
FarmFest organiser, Fairfax Rural Events group manager Kate Nugent said farmers are focused on how they can continue to develop and improve efficient farming practices and will be on the look out for new and innovative machinery and technology to achieve their goals.
"We have seen an increase in the number of exhibitors which has demonstrated the incredible power of CRT FarmFest in terms of what it means to the Australian agricultural industry," she said.
"We know our farming sector has faced challenges and it has been difficult times, so we are saying come along to FarmFest and have a day off the farm and see what is new, what is innovative and what is happening in smart farming, it's all here."
Ms Nugent said the site was the largest ever, now at a whopping 22.48 hectares of static display including the Vanderfield machinery demonstration site.
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Though it is incomprehensibly popular, the idea that the Christian God is a God who ensures that all that happens on earth fits into a divine plan and is according to God's will is also unaccountably stupid. Such a view, briefly, makes a mockery of the immense amount of senseless tragedy and suffering that this earth experiences far, far too often. It robs us of any sort of agency. And it also denies the reality of any sort of evil or sin (all events actions must be perfectly good because they are exactly as God intends them to be). And such a view is alien to Scripture, which continually emphasizes the importance of human choice, the reality of corruption and evil, and presents a God who is often quite dissatisfied with events as they are. Not all that happens on earth is just (obviously!); and there is no plan that everything fits into.
Of course, I am far from the first to see many of the gaping pitfalls in the image of God. Many church members, leaders and laity alike, frequently denounce it, and it has never had any currency in any academic theology that I am aware of. However, what surprises me is the consistency with which the only alternative view offered (in the church and on TV – academic theology here tends to have a greater degree of nuance and options) is one in which God becomes a God who does not interfere in human affairs or natural events. This God tends to manifest in the acts of community and in the kindness and services of friends and strangers. Undoubtedly, this framework has much to commend to it. For one, it is not manifestly untrue to the bulk of human experience. There is, also, a great deal of truth to its claims that God works and is present through the church, through other communities, and through individuals. When I look back on my sermons, faith stories, and teachings, these are the sort of stories I have told to point to God's presence and workings in the world.
And yet, I remain uneasy with the claim that God does not interfere with human affairs or natural events. For one, this view is hard to reconcile with Christian Scripture: with the God of Israel who directly intercedes as a deliverer time and time again, with Jesus the miracle worker, healer, and exorcist, with the God of Jesus who raises him from the dead, and with the Holy Spirit who works various miracles in the lives of the apostles. I also start to wonder why we bother to keep talking about God if we have this view; if what we do (and feel) is the sum of God's activity, then it would seem that God is, in fact, dead and that we have killed him. What does God-talk add to the fact that it is often profound when people are kind?
So what are we left with? I do not want to attempt a (sure to fail) theodicy here. But, just as the Spirit works in varied and often tumultuous ways, perhaps a list of ways in which we might, at times, be able to talk about God can weave a way through the alternatives of a determinate God and an immanent world with no room for God.
- Practice confession not explanation. We confess allegiance to Christ, and in doing so proclaim that at the end of the day Christ is the world's true ruler. This is often confused with explaining the world away, as if such a confession gives us license to pretend to understand what is by definition senseless. Confession is often grieving, defiant, desperate, baffled, and furious, even as it clings to a certain celebration of and hope in Christ's victory; explanation cannot be any of these things. So confess and celebrate Christ's ongoing presence and victory, and take a step back from the explanations, remembering that "God does not interfere in the world" counts as an explanation.
- Keep the God who is redeemer, sustainer, and creator of this world together with the God who intervenes in lives, causing miracles and wonders. Any apocalyptic interventions are the same thing as God's redemption/sustaining/creating of the world; to borrow a well-used phrase, salvation is "with the grain of the universe" not against it. Jesus's miracles and exorcisms were apocalyptic acts, inextricable from his proclamation of the political reality "Kingdom of God," itself inextricable from visions of the prophets and the coming of God's most-natural reign. In Tokens of Trust, Rowan Williams gives one of the best accounts of miracles that I have encountered, noting that given God's ongoing redemption and creation of the world, a miracle is not so much God interfering the natural processes, but some resistance to the way of love in which this universe is conceived giving way; Grace breaking through that which distorts nature.
- Get rid of some cynicism and come to see that God-talk can add quite a bit to the fact that "people are kind." This is the case for at least two reasons. First, throughout Scripture, perhaps the most significant way in which God "intervenes" in the world is through the call and guidance of an assortment of individuals and communities. Without God there is no Moses, Jeremiah, or Paul. And today Jesus calls to all. We should not, therefore, be surprised or dismissive when contemporary and past saints say that they only do what they do because of God's empowering call. Second, as I read the Scriptures, the miraculous events done in the name of the Holy Spirit are small game; the real deal for the Holy Spirit is the calling together and sustaining of that impossible community called church. Put another way, if it is not always clear how kindness benefits from God-talk, perhaps we should also question the confidence of those who believe that we can so easily achieve kindness on our own. Of course, when we phrase it in these terms we find that God is actually doing quite a lot of "interfering."
- Remember God suffers with us. I don't believe that Moltmann's suffering-God holds all the answers, as some people seem to think, but there is also something truthful to the fact that in suffering God grieves with us and, in that grief, works to bring glimpses of grace into and out of even the worst of situations.
- Practice a degree of openness when told stories by those who have seen God at work in their lives, especially when told by the marginalized and oppressed. And so, when Bishop John Yambasu calls us in Canada to pray for them in Sierra Leone, I will do so, and in doing so will not tell God what God might do and how God might bring grace to that terrible situation. Likewise, if fellow believers tell me that they have seen God at work in my life, then I need to take that seriously.
So here are some ways that I think we can take about God at work in the world without everything immediately falling apart. I don't think that any one works perfectly or fits well into all situations, but some speech along this line will further allow for glimpses of the living God. I'd love for your feedback. What ways did I miss? In what ways do my suggestions, in fact, fall apart immediately?


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Dear Valérie,
My company is gearing up to tackle international markets. The board of directors and the executive directors will be meeting next month to look at the different ways internationalization will affect our marketing and branding. My colleagues and I have been going back and forth between calling our company global vs. international, but I fear that none of us truly understand the subtle differences between the two. Would you please tell us what the differences are and what other elements we should be aware of while re-branding our company to create a more international perception?
Thank you for your help!
Dear Rob,
What an exciting time this is for you and your colleagues! Stepping into the international arena will color your professional life like no other exercise ever has!
Branding a company or a product to fit the international market place can be tricky, as the one-size-fits-all approach doesn't work. You might have heard of the baby product line Gerber, which transposed into French means "to puke;" or the need to modify an acronym, such as PPQ – a Japanese telecommunication company, which in Japanese reads without any problem but makes most English speakers giggle. A brand check is thus in order before choosing any name or acronym for international marketing.
As to the difference between an international and a global company, it is as follows: an international company is a company that sells its services or goods beyond its own border. A global company is a company that has a presence in different markets and is vertically integrated in each market. This means that each region is in charge of its own R&D as well as its own manufacturing, marketing and distribution. There is also the term "multinational," which is the in-between: a company that has offices in different regions but still depends on the headquarters for manufacturing, marketing, etc.
As your company is starting out, I would recommend you add "International" after your name and omit "global" until you truly have developed a global presence.
I hope this helps!
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