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Three first-half goals saw Heybridge Swifts move up the table.
They secured a 3-0 victory at Scraley Road against visiting Romford to go third in Ryman League division one north.
The home side opened the scoring on 17 minutes through Michael Cheek's penalty strike.
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M&H robbery suspect sentenced to five years
The 27-year-old Hastings man who robbed the M & H convenience store on May 22 has been sentenced to 58 months in prison. On Monday, Aug. 12, Judge Joseph Carter sentenced Joseph Robert Olson to serve his time at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at St. Cloud.
Olson was given credit for time served — 83 days, was ordered to pay fees and fines of $155 and pay restitution as determined by the Department of Corrections.
The robbery was reported shortly after 5 a.m. May 22. When Hastings Police arrived, they spoke with store employees. One reported she had just started counting her till when a man came into the store with a knife and demanded money. After he had the money, he and theft left the scene on a childrens' bicycle.
Police obtained the gas station's video surveillance and saw a man matching the description given by the employees. He was holding a knife in his right hand and was yelling at the employees. Police were given tips about who the man was and were able to identify him as Olson. They located him at his residence. His girlfriend was also present when he was located.
Olson denied involvement in the robbery. The girlfriend reported that the prior night Olson was apparently talking about robbing the gas station He drank some liquor and was in and out of the house, she said. When she got up in the morning, Olson showed her a bag of money. Olson made several purchases later that morning.


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The newly opened New Yaal No. 1 Restaurant is one of Southend-on-Sea's freshest and most unique Asian dining offerings. The dedicated chefs serve an impressive array of authentic Sri Lankan and Indian dishes using traditional cooking methods, using herbs, spices and coconut milk native to South Asia to enrichen the dishes further.
The cosy and welcoming restaurant provides the perfect escape from real life, whether it be for an intimate date, or a gathering with friends or family to celebrate something special. The team behind New Yaal No.1 are passionate about giving diners a true taste of Sri Lanka, especially to those who have never tried it before. If you're a fan of Indian, you're bound to love the dishes that New Yaal prepare. From their simple yet ever-so flavoursome daals, loaded with spices, ginger and garlic, to more complex meat, prawn and vegetable curry offerings, there's bound to be something to tickle everyone's fancy. Being a relatively small island, Sri Lanka's speciality is prawns and fish, and New Yaal's selection of seafood is some of the freshest locally source produce you'll find.
There's also a handful of Indian options available such as Balti, Kormas and Tikkas, as well as very traditional Sri Lankan snacks available, such as the delicious string hoppers, perfect for drenching in your choice of curry. Curious? Order them and see!
Located near the centre of Southend-on-Sea, and just a few minutes' walk from Southend Victoria railway station, the New Yaal restaurant beckons those craving some mid-week spice to come inside. With the combination of fragrant food, outstandingly friendly service, ambient mood lighting, and traditional touches to the décor such as Sri Lankan decorations and elephants, you're bound to be transported to the exotic shores of this island in the Indian Ocean.
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All the snowstorms this winter are keeping many people inside and away from stores and restaurants, but some businesses are benefiting from the bad weather.
Business is booming, for instance, at Ocean Bay Autobody Shop in Point Pleasant.
"We're seeing everything from minor fender-benders, bumpers coming off the car, rear impacts because of traveling too close, as well as major collisions, people sliding off the road hitting telephone poles, trees," said manager Jerry Santangelo. "We do police towing, so if there's any major accident in town, we will get the call."
Landscapers who equipped their trucks with plows also are getting a boost at a time when their vehicles normally sit idle.
Rutgers economist James Hughes said he doesn't expect the overall economy to suffer because of the storms. When the weather improves, he predicted, people will resume shopping.
In the meantime, Hughes said, the storms are pushing up costs for overtime and supplies in the public sector. And the snowy buildup of ice and snow will leave a lot of work as it melts.
"There's going to be significant repavement, patching, and the like that are probably going stress everybody's budget whether it's municipal, county, or state," he said. "So that will have to be made up probably in the next fiscal year."
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FOOD fanatics from across Somerset will be flocking to Taunton next month for the annual Foodie Festival in Taunton.
Organised by Somerset charity St Margaret's Hospice, the one day fundraising event will have craft stalls, entertainment and plenty for food and drink on offer.
Budding bakers will have the chance to show off their culinary skills as a new bake-off competition joins the fun for the first time this year.
Event organiser, Elizabeth Bruin said: "This year's event will have a foodie focus with many delicious foods and drinks stalls keeping tummy's full and refreshed."
There is still a lot to see and do once you're full though with live bands, including Best Kept Secret, Fools and Horses and Stuff like Stan on stage.
Once your food has gone down why not have a go on the bouncy castle or watch the Morris dancers.
For those who still aren't full up there's a vintage tearoom for visitors who want to relax and have a cream tea.
Any companies wishing to book a stall still have time to reserve their pitch and can contact St Margaret's fundraising team on 01823 345911.
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The two major highlights of any wedding weekend are the ceremony and the reception. The expenses included for the ceremony will be the fee for the site, clergy payment, music and custodial feels. Expenses for the reception will include food, drinks, entertainment and venue charges. In most cases the reception will be the most expensive event of your wedding weekend.
As you start to set up your budget, keep in mind that you only have a certain amount of money to spend. The process of budgeting will help you turn that money into the wedding you have always imagined.
You may be pleasantly surprised that as you share your wedding plans with family and friends, someone may step forward and offer financial support, or perhaps host an event during the wedding weekend. To know about this before you set your budget would be ideal, but not crucial. If you grandmother would like to purchase your wedding gown for you, for instance, you simply remove that item from your budget and distribute the money to another area. Be flexible enough in the planning to make changes as they become necessary.
Work on the basis of percentages after you have established your bottom line. Here is a standard guideline of what to include and how much of the budget they will require.
- 38.0% – Reception
- 14.3% – Rings
- 14.3% – Honeymoon
- 9.5% – Photography and Videography
- 7.0% – Miscellaneous Expenses
- 5.7% – Attire
- 4.7% – Music
- 3.5% – Flowers
- 3.0% – Invitations
Generally, most couples find themselves going over their budget by about 10%. A great way to "plan" for this is to include that in "miscellaneous expenses." Remember to be diligent and stay within your budget, to some extent. Keep in mind that you are not trying to stay under budget, but rather trying to not over spend.


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Atheists lost their case against the "In God We Trust" motto on the nation's currency Wednesday.
It's a battle they have lost several times before as court after court has affirmed that printing and engraving the country's motto on its money does not violate the U.S. Constitution.
The plaintiffs, a group that included humanists and minor children, argued before a federal appeals court that the words amount to a government endorsement of religion, disallowed by the First Amendment's Establishment Clause. They further held that, forced to carry around a religious statement in their pockets and pocketbooks, their constitutionally guaranteed right to freely exercise religion is being violated.


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Certificate in Copyright Management Returns for a 6th Year!
Copyright education can take many forms – from on the job training to law school to practical short online and in-person courses. In the latter vein, the 7 online courses and 2 in-person courses leading to a Certificate in Copyright Management are now scheduled for 2012-2013. Participants may enroll in one or several courses or the whole program. Below is a list of courses with updates for this 6th year of the Certificate in Copyright Management program. Schedule and Curriculum Outline.
Updates for 2012-2013:
Intro to Copyright Management (CCM 100)
- thoroughly revised and updated. This intro course to get you started in dealing with managing your copyright issues has been expanded from a 2 week to a 3 week course with new content dealing with copyright terminology, global v. domestic copyright issues, understanding copyright in the bigger context of intellectual property, and reading and understanding news relating to copyright court cases, studies and legislation.
Global Copyright (CCM 300)
- one of the biggest changes regarding this course is that it will now be offered at the beginning of the Certificate program. So many uses of content are now global (e.g., online uses), and copyright law in each country derives from international norms and treaties, that it makes sense to understand the global picture before delving into domestic copyright law particulars.
U.S. Copyright (CCM 200)
- an old standard. Much of the content remains the same in this course however recent court cases will be added to the curriculum.
Canadian Copyright (CCM 201)
- a required course for any participants based in Canada however many non-Canadians also enroll in this course. 2012 has been an exceptional year in Canadian copyright with Copyright Act amendments (which took 15 years) and Supreme Court decisions. Even if you have taken this course before, you may want to join us again.
Digital Content and Social Media Copyright (CCM 400)
- the content of this content is ever-evolving. Last year Pinterest became a new topic of discussion. We will wait to see what new in the digital world will be included in this course. Always a topical course.
Library and Special Library Copyright (CCM 500)
- another standard course, with the addition of discussion of hot off the press court cases.
Copyright Principles for Authors and Publishers (CCM 800)
- With its initial offering only in 2012, this course continues to evolve as we see new issues arise in e-publishing
Teaching Others About Copyright (CCM 700) + Copyright Compliance and Management (CCM 800)
- our only in-person courses will be held in San Diego in 2013. These hands-on courses provide practical guidance to participants who take home both a copyright management plan/blueprint and a draft project on copyright education. With the interactive nature of these courses, they are tailored each year to the needs of our participants. Plus stay tuned to hear about the excellent guest speakers who will join us.
Have You Already Participated in a Copyright Course?
Another big change for the 2012-2013 Certificate is that past participants who want to benefit from a review or update on any of the courses may repeat a course at half price!


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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Nguyen, Khue Dang URN etd-11072011-200036 Title Supercritical Pyrolysis of Toluene Degree Master of Science in Chemical Engineering (M.S.Ch.E.) Department Chemical Engineering Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Wornat, Mary Committee Chair Benton, Michael Committee Member Henry, James Committee Member Keywords
- benzofluoranthenes
- indenofluorene
- naphthofluorenes
- toluene bond dissociation energies
- HPLC chromatogram
Date of Defense 2011-11-03 Availability unrestricted AbstractThe development of future high-speed aircrafts will required the jet fuel to act as the primary engine coolant to absorb excess heat produced by the engine components. To aid in removing the excess heat and reducing the aircraft's weight, future jet fuels used for high-speed aircrafts will act as both coolant and fuel; however, by exposing the fuels to temperatures and pressures above their critical point, they undergo pyrolysis to form larger and/or more abundant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) and eventually carbonaceous solid deposits in the pre-combustion environment.
The formation of solid deposits in the pre-combustion environment results in clogging of the fuel line, reduced engine performance, and meticulous engine maintenance, so it is important to understand the mechanisms leading to the formation of carbonaceous solid deposits from thermally stressed hydrocarbons. Using a flow reactor, an investigation was conducted to understand the reaction mechanisms leading to the formation of PAH, which are known to be precursors to solid deposits. The reactant toluene, selected to be a representative of the aromatic components of real-world jet fuels, was pyrolyzed in a flow reactor under supercritical conditions, with temperature conditions between 550 and 685 C and pressure conditions between 50 and 100 atm.
Identification and quantification of the gas- and liquid-phase samples are conducted using gas chromatography (GC) with flame ionization detection and high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC) with diode-array ultraviolet-visible (UV) detection – the liquid-phase GC and HPLC are in series with mass spectrometry (MS). Identification using gas-phase GC, liquid-phase GC, and HPLC revealed the formation of 60 hydrocarbon (aliphatic and aromatic) products, of which three unsubstituted PAH products have never before been identified as products of toluene pyrolysis. Furthermore, temperature and pressure dependent yields of the identified hydrocarbon products are presented.
The formation of gaseous products as well as aromatic products in the supercritical toluene pyrolysis environment is the result of decomposition of toluene, recombination of unstable molecule fragments, dehydrogenation of aromatic products, and/or successive addition of aromatic molecules to low-ring-number aromatic products. At high thermally stressed conditions the formation of increasingly high molecular PAH becomes insoluble in the fuel and forms a distinct solid phase, carbonaceous solid deposits.
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Industry insiders have been saying they knew for some time that the company had been struggling. There were rumors as far back as six months ago about company executives rushing to the bank with a 4 million dollar check from Warner Bros. to cover payroll. Apparently, last week they found themselves in a similar situation.
What lessons can be learned?
It's time to pull back the curtain and expose what's really going on. Finally, the slick veneer that was Digital Domain has rubbed off. The truth is; visual effects companies, especially publicly traded corporations like Digital Domain, are concerned about one thing and one thing only; making money for their shareholders and owners. They are not concerned about you as an employee or your family, or artistic expression, or the environment, or the country for that matter. It's about profit!
Reread CEO John C. Textor's resignation letter of September 6th here. After all the self-serving nonsense he admits the decision to close the Port St. Lucie facility was, "without compassion". That's a good way to put it.
The truth is; as unrepresented at-will employees, artists have no voice in the workplace. The company sets the conditions for employment. What they say goes and when they say, "go!" you go. Usually with a cardboard box in your arms and a few mementos collected over the years if you are lucky. In Digital Domain's case, under the watchful eye of police officers there to insure employees didn't steal company assets on the way-out.
You'll find when VFX houses experience financial troubles, artists get hurt the most. If you are owed wages; you probably won't see the money without a huge fight especially if you are working in Canada. In Montreal the government will cover 3k in lost wages but that is it. In Quebec you're considered an "unsecured creditor". That's legal jargon for "screwed". Once they go bankrupt you're last-in-line to get paid. All you can do is hope they don't go under. Things aren't quite that bad here in California, but it's still no picnic.
The time has come to ask tough questions. How many more Digital Domain like companies is it going to take before artists decide enough-is-enough? Wouldn't you be better off working under the protection of a union contract? After all, the CEO and the boards of directors all have written contracts. Why not you? Wouldn't it be nice to have a grievance procedure and to know someone is looking out for your interests along the way? Don't rely on a company to look out for your interests. They don't care. Remember, they only care about profit. The drama that has become Digital Domain is the perfect case for finally organizing the VFX industry.
What about Digital Domain's competitors?
Well, insiders say Sony is sending HR people to Florida to see what talent can be found. One result will likely be lower wages for artists and increased pressure for the bottom line as companies review their own balance sheets. Perhaps Sony will acquire some of Digital Domain's projects. Either way it's a mess.That's why Digital Domain is the perfect case for organizing the VFX industry. Until the industry does; you can expect the drama to continue. There are plenty more Digital Domains out there; companies treating artists "without compassion". The names change but the stories remain the same.


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The future of the Real Madrid goalkeeping berth seems to be tied to the name of David de Gea. The Manchester United goalkeeper is Real Madrid's choice to take the baton from Iker Casillas. Contacts between Madrid and the player's camp began some weeks ago ahead of next season.
The goalkeeper believes that his time at Manchester United has now been completed and he yearns for Spain and La Liga (despite conflicting reports that have emerged in the last few hours about his contract renewal). In fact, whenever he can he takes some time to come to Spain, as he did this week to enjoy a few days of rest that he had been given by Van Gaal. Those inside the English club know De Gea's intentions. Therefore, they have hedged their bets by recruiting Víctor Valdés, who was presented as a new Manchester United player on Thursday. Valdés is under contract until 2016 and has the option for a further year. But in addition to signing the former Barça man, United are also closely monitoring Tim Krul, the Newcastle goalkeeper that will arrive at Old Trafford if De Gea finally heads to Madrid.
Valdés had words of praise for the player who is now his new team-mate: "De Gea is the best goalkeeper in the world."
Link. De Gea's contract at United ends on June 30 next year and at Old Trafford they know that if he is not transferred this summer, he will be able to leave on a free transfer next year (if his contract is not renewed). Therefore, they will not create undue obstacles to prevent his departure. According to the British press, Manchester United have placed a price tag of 30m euros on the Madrid-born goalkeeper, 8m euros more than the fee they paid Atlético Madrid for him in 2011.
De Gea's arrival at Madrid would cover the departure of Casillas who, following the Champions League final, reached an agreement with Florentino Pérez to continue at the club this season and leave on a free next June. Having regained his starting berth, Madrid's captain (who has a contract until 2017) has also recovered some of his cache and will not lack offers.
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I think this falls under the "What are they thinking????" category. I am amazed, they SAY it's not against the solar or wind power users, yet the power companies are wanting to charge an extra fee on those who generate enough power to sell it back to the power companies…
Right now, it's apparently awaiting the governor's signature, I would hope that the governor is smart enough NOT to sign this into law.
Oklahoma City, OK, April 22, 2014– Some Oklahoma residents who install solar panels or wind turbines on their property in the future are likely to get hit with a surcharge on their utility bill. Senate Bill 1456 passed 83-5 on Monday, and awaits a signature from Governor Mary Fallon.
The bill, if signed, would authorize utility companies to charge higher base rates to "distributed generation" customers. Distributed generation customers are residents who generate enough electricity through their solar panels and turbines to sell excess energy back to the grid. The utility companies would apply for this authority through the Oklahoma Corporation Commission.
Oklahoma utility companies support this measure, explaining that the new rate increase will keep prices "fair". Utility companies justified the bill by explaining that they lose money when they buy excess electricity from these residents and redistribute it to other customers. By creating a new class of customers and charging them an increased rate, they argue that utility companies will reclaim the money they've lost.
According to The Oklahoman newspaper, Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. spokeswoman Kathleen O'Shea said, "We're not anti-solar or anti-wind or trying to slow this down, we're just trying to keep it fair."
Environmental groups are opposing the surcharge, and there are residents who are concerned about what the cost is going to ultimately be. There's a possibility that the surcharge will discourage people from seeking to install solar energy on their property if SB 1456 is signed into law.
"It may affect our business, but we don't know yet," said Chris Gary, owner of Sun City Solar Energy in Oklahoma City. "Is it a killer for solar in Oklahoma? I don't believe so, but when you open the door to a charge, that means it can always be increased. A speedbump could turn into a roadblock."
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Germersheim is a town in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, of around 20,000 inhabitants. It is also the seat of the Germersheim district. The neighboring towns and cities are Speyer, Landau, Philippsburg, Karlsruhe and Wörth.
After his invasion of Gallia, Gaius Iulius Caesar made the Rhine river the border between the Roman Empire and Germania. Some small areas east of it were later invaded and added to the Roman province of Agri Decumates. As it was attacked more and more it was given up in the second half of the third century and a military camp was founded, named "Vicus Iulii" ("Village of Julius/Julius' Village). It was supported up to the fourth century.
The first record of the name "Germersheim" is from 1090, when it was named in the Sinsheimer Chronik (Chronicle of Sinsheim). The German King Rudolph von Habsburg (Rudolf of Habsburg) gave Germersheim city rights in 1276 (18 August). There is a legend which says that he, as a sick man, rode from Germersheim to Speyer to die there and not in Germersheim.
In 1325 the town was given to the Electorate of the Palatinate by King Ludwig IV. It got a higher status in the following centuries. A Catholic Order founded a monastery in 1298 which it used up to 1527.
Still strategically important during the French Revolutionary Wars, in July 1793 Germersheim was the scene of a significant French defeat when an Austrian army under the veteran Field Marshal von Wurmser defeated a French army under Beauharnais.
General Hans Graf von Sponeck, who ordered the retreat of his troops from Kerch because they were going to be hopelessly cut off by the Russian landings at Theodosia, on the Crimean Peninsula, and against express instruction of his superior officer in the winter 1941, was interned here in the fortress after Hitler had commuted his death sentence to six years detention. In the purge following the failed assassination attempt on Hitler Graf Sponeck, although not involved, was shot. Today, a street in Germersheim is named Hans Graf Von Sponeck Straße in his honour.
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One of the oddly frustrating things about Congress is how good some of our own congressmen and senators are.
It's hard to change Washington when your elected representatives are already trying!
In particular, we'd like to single out Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, R-10th District, and Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C.
Both have recently renewed a push for a balanced budget amendment.
Why every member of Congress doesn't jump on board the idea is beyond us. Even a drug addict would probably choose to be addiction free; why wouldn't our members of Congress like to be liberated from their addiction to our money?
Well, never mind. We just answered our own question. But doesn't that kind of spell out the need for an amendment?
Still, we appreciate Broun's and DeMint's cries in the wilderness. We wanted them to know those cries have not gone unnoticed here at home.
But to give you an idea of how vast the wilderness is, we recently asked Broun to comment on the heroes of the fiscal sanity movement -- and the only name that came to mind was DeMint's, who he said stands alone as the Senate's stalwart defender of the people's purse.
Broun said DeMint likes to refer to "constitutionalists," rather than the more elastic and abused "conservative." We'll buy that.
DeMint recently gave a powerful speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee gathering in Washington, in which he talked about the original "Contract with America": the U.S. Constitution.
"Every congressman, senator, president and Supreme Court justice takes an oath to protect and defend that Constitution," he said. "And I think it's time they started honoring that oath!"
We couldn't agree more.
That means respecting freedom, DeMint said, adding that "freedom includes the right to succeed, to build a large business and to make lots of money. It also includes the freedom for mismanaged and insolvent institutions to fail."
The fight to reclaim the Republican Party for its storied conservatism -- oops, for constitutionalists -- is, he said, "a fight between those who take their constitutional oath seriously and those who don't."
We just wish there were more of the former in Washington.


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A Connellsville legend fought to have Armistice Day recognized
Max C. Floto marched home from World War I in 1918 and into history many years later when he was named the Father of Armistice Day — now Veterans Day — in the American Legion's national magazine.
The Connellsville man and his friend Thom Scott Sr. of Dunbar came back from the trenches of France with one more mission: to make Armistice Day a national day of recognition for all World War I veterans.
Floto and Scott joined the newly formed American Legion Post 301 in Connellsville, named in honor of Milton L. Bishop, the first local soldier who died in the war. As 1918 faded into 1919, they got busy, determined that Armistice Day would become a national holiday.
The National American Legion adopted Floto's proposal at its first national convention, held in Minneapolis in 1919. All Legions across the United States agreed to annually observe Armistice Day on Nov. 11, the day the cease-fire was signed.
Floto and Scott had larger ideas in mind. They wanted the general population's patriotic support as well.
They lobbied the state to make Nov. 11 an official veterans holiday. On March 21, 1921, Pennsylvania's General Assembly did just that.
1938: U.S. proclamation
From there, it was on to Washington. Floto, Scott and a flock of supporters spent more than 15 years writing letters and talking to congressmen and senators. On May 13, 1938, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed Nov. 11 as a national holiday.
Max Floto and Thom Scott Sr., in the words made famous by Gen. Douglas MacArthur upon retiring, simply "faded away" from their campaign, satisfied that they had accomplished what they had set out to do.
Floto, who lived on East Crawford Avenue for many years, remained active in veterans affairs in Connellsville, visiting the American Legion post and riding in parades. He faithfully attended the city's veterans commission meetings and banquets.
"Max was a short, quiet man, a very personable fellow," said Ed Cope, a Connellsville native and longtime newspaper photographer.
Floto was a good friend of Cope's father, the late Donald Cope, and Allen Q. Jones, 89, of Dunbar Township, whose military titles have included a stint as Pennsylvania State VFW Commander. Both Donald Cope and Jones served in World War II, and Cope was a mainstay at local veterans events — especially Connellsville's Memorial Day ceremonies.
Floto: Courier employee
Ed Cope became acquainted with Floto at the Daily Courier. Floto worked for several years at the newspaper as a bookkeeper with Walter Driscoll. At that time, the Driscoll family owned The Daily Courier.
"Everyone looked out for Max, especially when he got older," Cope said. "He and my father were great friends."
Armistice Day did not become Veterans Day until 1954. A World War II soldier from Alabama — Raymond Weeks — headed a delegation that lobbied to have the holiday broadened to honor all veterans, not just those who served during World War I. President Dwight Eisenhower, who had served as Allied Supreme Commander during World War II, signed the proclamation that renamed the holiday.
When President Ronald Reagan presented Weeks with the Presidential Citizen Medal in 1982, Elizabeth Dole, wife of then-Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas, proclaimed Weeks "the father of Veterans Day."
Technically, that would be true, if such an honor was based upon a mere name change.
There might not have been a Veterans Day in November if there hadn't been an Armistice Day first — an event made possible by the dogged determination of Max C. Floto, assisted by Thom Scott Sr.
Laura Szepesi is a contributing writer.


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You're free to make your own choice when it comes to dating
Q: I am a healthy, reasonably attractive and fit, 50-year-old, single gentleman. I am often told I look like a man in his early 40s. I enjoy an excellent job and earn a comfortable income. I rarely date, but when I do, I seem to meet and date younger, attractive women. I have had no success with women near my age, and I have found many to be irritable and malcontents.
This greatly offends my friends' wives, female co-workers, and my sisters and mother. I find I am the recipient of a lot of unsolicited advice and mean-spirited barbs. I expect this middle-age female angst and jealousy, and I let it roll off me. I have slowly reduced my circle of friends and family to a select few as I don't need this treatment, nor do I need to explain my tastes in women. What is the best way to handle this behavior?
Older Gentleman Dating Attractive Younger Women
A: When you find the occasional middle-aged woman to be a malcontent, it's probably about her attitude.
When you find the occasional attractive younger woman to be a good match, then it's probably about her suitability.
When the occasional woman gets offended because your date is young and attractive, then it's probably about her issues.
You find middle-aged women to be malcontents. You generally prefer younger, attractive women. Your preferences have offended roughly every woman with whom you have professional, social and familial contact. (Do you have any female friends, by the way? Or does your contact with women fall into two categories: romantic, or unavoidable?)
You're entitled to indulge your taste in women, to offend those who disapprove, and to avoid those you offend.
You're also free to say you date "rarely" — then to cite failure with women your age, then to make reference to "most of the young ladies," which together suggest you date plenty, which arguably undercuts claims to success. It is, after all, your yarn to spin.
If, however, you're going to spin that yarn to support a conclusion that women are either hotties or hags, then please know those hags are entitled to the opinion that this isn't about them — it's about you.
Ideally, they would decline to feed your bias, and keep their opinions to themselves. Unless, of course, you ask for it.
If the invitation says 'no gifts,' it's okay not to bring one
Q: What do you do when an invitation says "no gifts, please," but at least one person will show up with gifts anyway? Do you abide by the host's wishes but then look like a doof compared with other guests? Get a smallish gift so you don't look like a doof, but then risk annoying the host?
To Gift or Not to Gift
A: Be the doof who figured the host must have meant it or wouldn't have written it.
If you have reason to believe someone is keeping score despite the no-gifts directive, then that just gives you even more reason not to play games, and just take the directive at face value.
For what it's worth — though it is best to respect the host's wishes, no host should be "annoyed" at a well-intentioned gift.


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text: Well, folks, on behalf of both Chuck and myself I have to apologize for letting the blog go dry. I can guarantee you we haven't been kicking back like this guy. We've been really busy, bringing new clients on board, building out our Fresh Ground Intel offering, preparing our MassChallenge application and servicing our existing clients. Plus, we have a few other things going on. So over the next few days, I'll be posting updates here on each of these topics. Thanks for your patience -- lots of good things happening here at Fresh Ground, so please stay tuned!


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People say that the main reason why so many Filipino nurses leave the country is because of the low salary that they receive here. That is indeed true. Some hospitals in the country pay their nurses as low as Php3,000 a month.
Government hospitals and big companies may pay higher; but, it is still a huge difference to what nurses earn abroad. The salaries of Filipino nurses may be low in the Philippines, but the fact is that not every Filipino nurse can acquire an overseas job right after board exams. He/she still need to work in the local circuit to gain valuable experience. Therefore, the Filipino nurse still has to endure a few months of local wages.
Below is a representation of the average starting salary that a Filipino nurse earns in the Philippines:
As you can see, small privately owned hospitals and clinics pay their nurses the least. The turnover of nurses in these institutions is quick and these types of hospitals and clinics are constantly hiring. The same also goes for small provincial hospitals and health centers owned and operated by the Philippine Government.
Large and multinational institutions on the other hand, pay more than small hospitals do. However, their starting salary is still lower compared to government-owned medical centers. The higher salary margin is the reason why there are a lot of nurses that flock to these institutions. Nurse turnover is also quite fast here because a lot of their employees are constantly leaving for abroad.
Pre-service Trainings
For hospitals to ensure that they hire only the best, they would often require their applicants to undergo Pre-Service trainings. Smaller hospitals and clinics require a training period of 2 weeks to 1 month while big companies and government institutions require an extensive 3 or 6 months training. Most hospitals require a certain a fee from their trainees depending on their chosen area. Training fees can reach as much as Php 4K. This can be a very tough period for an entry level nurse as he/she will have to go without salary for the period of training. That is the reason why some nurses are deterred from entering big hospitals because of the training period that they require.


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Wadena plants trees for recovery, education and commemoration
Wadena appreciates trees: that much was evident in several planting events in the week around Arbor Day.
During April's regular city council meeting, Public Works Director Ron Bucholz announced that Wadena was named a "Tree City USA" again this year.
Arbor Day was observed April 27, a few days after Earth Day which was April 22.
The city of Wadena Parks Advisory Board planted trees at Burlington Northern Park in the early evening April 26.
On Monday, three groups of teacher Lori Grendahl's Wadena-Deer Creek sixth graders planted white sprice seedlings in Tapley Park with the help of Anne Oldakowski of the Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD).
Oldkowski said the trees - about 75 of them - were to replace those lost in the tornado.
The first group of kids planted in the northwest corner near where high schooler Adam Leverson had done his Eagle Scout project this past winter.
The second group worked close to the entrance of the Tapley trail.
The third group planted on the south side by the dirt road.
A little over half of Wadena's trees lost in the 2010 tornado have been replaced.
According to Oldakowski, the SWCD estimates that over 10,000 trees were lost in Wadena because of the tornado. The number does not include the trees lost in the east Otter Tail tornado.
Many of those 10,000 trees were from Tapley Park and the Wadena County fairgrounds area.
Oldakowski said about 4,800 trees were replaced last year, with about 250 landowners.
This year so far, about 550 have been planted, with about 50 landowners.
The school and the fairgrounds, along with some boulevards, are still to be done this fall.
On Tuesday, May 1, two rows of spruce were planted behind the Freshwater Education District building on the north side of U.S. Highway 10.
East Wadena was not affected by the 2010 EF4 tornado, but Oldakowski said the trees would create a beneficial windbreak reducing erosion and preventing some debris from being blown across the highway from the north winds.
Ted Winkels of the Freshwater Education District said the planting project was also made possible by Nite Owl allowing them to plant trees on part of their property.
He said they will grow for 100 years and hoped they would be 100 feet tall.
At the Freshwater site, Oldakowski said the SWCD is doing a cost sharing program to help landowners who have erosion problems.
The little evergreens behind Freshwater won't be so little in a few years, so the two rows were planted 20 feet apart in a zigzag pattern to make an effective windbreak while giving the plants enough space.
"These are the nicest trees I've ever seen," Winkels said.
M State scheduled a tree-planting ceremony for May 5 to honor the late Dick Bentrup for his support of education.
A memorial dedication for Bob Zosel, Sr. will be held today at 3 p.m. at Black's Grove park.
When he was alive, Zosel planted many of the Black's Grove trees still standing now.


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Mental Health
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Well first off FMLA. FMLA can be taken whole, or intermittently, which is how you might need it. It is unpaid, but only when all of your sick, personal and vacation time is expired. Then it switches to unpaid leave. Once you are there a year and have a qualifying condition, (you do) they must give this to you and it protects your job.
I guess I misunderstood the bed rest concept. What you have sounds like a respite at home. No work, but you can do light stuff. No sex for Rob. That's bad for him. And, I know you love to look up medical things, but this could simply dissolve, this clot, and back you go to work. If you read the dangers on the Tylenol bottle they sound pretty grim too, but most of the time, the vast majority of it...nothing happens. You have to see this as prepare for the worst but expect the best. You do the first part well, but I am hoping you can get some of the second part...expecting the best, ***** ***** more strongly.
I do not think you are a mess. I think you are in a lot of emotional and "life" pain. ANd, it was very sweet of her to offer to come get you. And, it does show you how people are supposed to be vs. what you were shown by your mother. And you can now see how normal is for a little girl. Kate is smart and clever and explores and investigates. She is not going to sit still and let life simply happen around her. You have many of those traits as you describe yourself. As a result, you can see what you were told about your own value by your mother, compared to how you deal with Kate as her parent. It is night and day.
And, this all shows you how became so questioning of your own thoughts and feelings at times. Mom instilled a lot of self doubt in you. But that does not mean you cannot see it for what it was and realize, based on all that you have told me about your own parenting, that you can "rewrite" what happened to you as a girl and begin to see that need for love and acceptance and loneliness as the result of a parent who made you feel so insecure. And, look at what the restrictions Rob faced. They were different than your own, yet you see the results of what happened to him as a child reflected in the behavior of his adult life. My point is, you too have hurts that came from what mom did, and her restrictions and withholding of love and acceptance. But, if you can see that this is not you, but rather her issues, it can help you feel more secure, more solid, as mom's issues were her own...and they were not about you.
I am glad you and Rb talked about the money in the home. He doesn't sound quite so investigative as simply confused. And, agreed: Not seeing your mother is a good thing. She is not doing well and you do not need that pressure. You have enough of your own stuff right now. And MIL. That was not very kind, at all. She laughed at this, and ok, in a dark weird way it has some humor, but why on earth could she not see that this behavior is hurtful to you? All you wanted is to get along and feel like a real daughter and to be loved and accepted by your mother. That is not funny. Her reaction to you (your mom) is pitiful really. But it is not funny. I am sure I would find your family a psychological hoot. Mine is. Steven
FMLA, once granted burns sick, then personal, then vacation until it is all gone. Yes, sadly, they will make you use your vacation and all leave time as FMLA and the clock starts ticking on the FMLA time limits the moment it is active. But they have to give you an equivalent position if you return to work under FMLA. It does not have to be your old job, but it has to be same rank and level. They cannot terminate you if FMLA is active. Only if FMLA expires fully can they do that or if they lay you off b/c the jobs no longer exist.
Now, prior parent experiences aside: We have all been there. I can tell you maybe three-four times stuff like this vomit in the dark episode happened to my own kids, where you think they are okay but then find out they are not...You swear that you will never neglect your own children but then discover by accident that you did. It happens, to the best of us.
We had our monitor on the wrong channel and thought nothing was wrong and you guessed it; it was. So, if your going to condemn yourself, you may as well condemn me and my wife too, and everybody else I know. This is not bad parenting, this is an accident. Bad parents, and I have seen lots, tell the child to shut up and go back to bed or beat the child for being sick, etc. You were not abusive, you just happened to join the parents who wish they had clones to cover everything club.
And great work with the magical thinking flashlight monster killer. I missed that she would see the monster dying as a bad thing. Looks like flashlight paralyzers are in your future. The lethal options just don't cut it with your daughter obviously. (I had to smile at this one. She is clever and funny, that Kate.)
I know it is easy to worry about the job and the leave and everything. But wait and see what happens. You do not know the details yet and you may be able to return to work if the clot dissolves. Extending the contract to match time actually worked. I get that. But I want to see them put in the expense to recover the 5k if you leave. I bet they would lose more than they would gain. Steven
All of the places I worked treated FMLA like your current employer. It started immediately and they make you use your time as a part of it. (that is how I was trained as a manager as well.) But the bot***** *****ne here is not FMLA. It is that this is a lot of confusion, and ongoing confusion, as not all the facts are in.
Yes, you could be cleared to return to work in two weeks, but you might not. You do not know, and won't for while, sadly. And, it is possible that you could jeopardize your pregnancy by working, but until you talk with your doctor you cannot make a choice right now, either way. So, no use worrying about what you cannot change.
I do feel that it is my obligation to say that the life of you and your unborn baby should take precedence over any job. I know economically that this is easy to say, hard to do, but I worry about you and the damage you could do to yourself emotionally if you went to work and lost the baby as a result. I am not sure I could advocate for you returning to work if you were on a restriction. Again, the final choice is yours, but I do get concerned for your emotional well being. That is my job.
I do know that it is grossly premature to even talk/think about having another child and discussing what if I lose this baby? That is a thought process for another time, another place, perhaps not even real. There is planning, and there is planning that is unhealthy. That is the second of the two. Of course you will think thoughts like this, but it is a thought that for now, should be immediately pushed aside.
Kate is, cunning. Yes, that is the word. She is bright in a way that makes even the brightest thoughts fail. Who knew she would do this lethal monster crying thing. Hey, at least you know she is on time developmentally/cognitively as she understood what you were doing 100%...but killing the monster and crying...didn't see that coming.
A thought about the 5k: Let it go onto your credit report and put a refute statement on it that says it is in contention. That is an option as well. I think that this whole thing is nothing short of career blackmail. If they want nurses so badly they should allow some flexibility and prorate the fee, something. I can see why everyone hates it (them). Steven
As you cannot help but work, you need to assert what is best for yourself and the baby. Although pregnancy is not a disability per say you can approach this with Peter as an accommodation request that is temporary. He may balk, but at least you can ask.
I certainly would say that you should. I would not be afraid to play the emotion card here as there is nothing legal you can apply to the situation. Work sounds too crazy and busy for you to be there as you are now...and stress at this job is a given. So you have to do what you have to do to take care of yourself. If begging for a job change is the way to need to do it, I would say, so be it. He may not like it, but it is better than you not being at work at all.
Kate is cunning in a child's impish way. I didn't mean it as an adult's definition, as that has a lot of negative connotations to it.
Your contract does suck. That is not professional, but I think you can agree that it is the truth.
You are caught in a highly stressful situation. I agree. You seem to get caught in a lot of these seeming no win situations. But I do know that you come through them and before we sell the farm here; it is worth asking Peter what he thinks and getting a full assessment from the doctor as to what the risk is, in his opinion. What are the real risks with working that the baby would miscarry? This is not known, and until it is, the full choice cannot be made. Steven
I thought about this for a while. The attorney is right. There are times when you have to put your short term employment welfare against what might be a tougher long term outcome.
Simply: If a complicated pregnancy qualifies as ADA the employer has to accommodate it if the accommodation is reasonable. They have little choice. It is not, Peter, please accommodate. It is, HR I need an accommodation due to a temporary disability. If they cannot find it in the unit you are with presently,they can find it in utilization review, follow up care, whatever. But they have to. I know what you mean about not wanting to create enemies, but if you do this with grace and firmness, I do not see that happening.
You are right. You had several pregnancies and this one is the only complicated one. It happens. And, that is why we have these laws. And, I know from HR that the laws favor you heavily in this, not the employer. So. if you can. Go for it.
There is wisdom in getting multiple opinions so I see nothing wrong with asking your old friend. Just do not get too many opinions or you will feel like a wave on the sea.
You do not know what you will experience with this baby and even if you work there as is, there is no guarantee that the baby would be hurt. Based on your history I can see how you would think so, but the past does not guarantee the actions of the future in this way. But in all things, do not jump to conclusions. You don't even know what the facts are. And, talk about possible regrets. There are many, much more permanent consequences than a job loss with certain courses of action. I do not think you should decide anything without lots and lots of information. Don't get me wrong: I know you want to know, but sometimes we cannot know. And, throwing away all that you have over this? I just do not see it happening.
You waited a year on that licensing issue, and that worked out. This will too, but waiting and learning facts is a process. Let the process happen. Right now you are safe with a short restriction and medical respite from work. And, things do happen quickly once they get rolling. Your OB will see you; not rushing you in is a good sign as they probably cannot judge fully yet either. Deep breath. Steven
Hello Liz,
Did have a hot, but nice 4th. I am not sure how my BIL stood it, cooking in front of a hot grill for two hours...but at least I didn't have to do it.
My middle daughter wants to see Brave in the worst way. What do you mean it took an odd direction? (I couldn't care less about spoilers in a cartoon). But your adventure in the theater sounds interesting to say the least. Two years olds a 45 minutes of focus, not too bad. And the 4th of July is a great day to go to the movies. We used to do it all the time as it often less crowded.
Well, it is a good thing to have a new baby monitor. You need one and the tricycle, that is good too...and I am hoping that you are able to go back to work without incident. From what you are telling me, you seem like you are making some progress physically. Let's hop[e this is a good sign.
You may want to talk with the moderators. Pearl does have subscriptions.
Hope Kate is feeling better. Steven
Well, it does sound like Brave is less than wonderful. I kind of liked the empower the girls theme, but if half of the movie is fighting a bear transformation, yawn...no way will we watch that until it comes out on disk...which is what we do most of the time anyway.
Constipation and glycerin suppositories...ah, memories. That is not good that your relatives miss the fact she hasn't had a bowel movement. When my kids were little we knew how long it had been, all the time. It helped with toilet training and tracking that fact wasn't hard, even with two of them in diapers.
It is best, ***** ***** what I know clinically and as a parent, to let the kids decide when they are ready to toilet train. We encouraged with reinforcements, but even with all of that they were ready when they were ready, and not a second before. And, if is weird. Each child has the duration of the process different. Some take a short time, others longer. Jack was done in a week. Nikki, six months. Kate will tell you when she is ready. And, I will give yo the thoughts of our favorite pediatrician on bottles and sippy cups. When we worried that our children were not progressing he said" See many adults with bottles and sippy cups? They self regulate the process. So true. Naturally, at a certain age they just move on. As far as toilet training when you have a new one ion the house. We did. It worked. But it was slower at times due to all the interruptions, etc. But I think it is a good idea. If Kate seems ready, why not? If not, that is okay too. Pearl.com is what JA is turning into. Check it out if you wish. I saw they had subscriptions last I looked and the questions end up with us here, for now.
I think you had to tell your OB about the bleeding. It was significant and what if you had not said something? You might have pushed yourself further. I think this break helped you. And, not saying anything is your choice I guess, but as you are not going to listen to what they say anyway...what is the risk of telling the full story? At least if you do you might be able to get an accommodation for work under ada.
A rubber snake? My oldest had one too. The others were never interested in them. I had one though. Snakie I think I called it. How original. Steven
I see nothing wrong with wanting an ipad. One of my coworkers bribed her husband for one. She loves it. I think they are great. And, if your laptop is dead, what a great reason to get an ipad.
My kids never asked about the toilet. We had to consistently expose them to bathroom stuff, and the usual reinforcements were used. We were consistent, but without a lot of pressure. It worked well, although I think I hate pull ups the most, as they seemed to make the process harder than just wearing big kid underwear. The wet feeling is disliked by most of them and that feeling motivates.
If you see no signs of interest at night in toilet training she is probably too young yet. My girls got serious into it around 2.5. Before that it was so hit or miss.
Sippys and bottles all pass away. Sippys slowly, although the built in straw cups helped move them away from sippy cups. Heck, even I like sippy cups. they are kind of cool. Pearl was started by JA, if I am correct, as an eventual successor to JA. I can see questions from both sites by logging into JA, and they have subscriptions.
I think that you are losing the house a bit soon in this scenario...if the world was run on what "might happen" we all would be dead. I know it is scary, but I can't encourage you to think about anything until the facts are in. I hate to keep parroting that line, but it is the best course of action. Wait and see. Plus, even within the possibilities of you not going to work as you are, there are other choices. So, sadly, as much as I hate to say this, you have to wait. So before you have yourself on skid row and eating out of trash cans, wait it out.
Sometimes, in my opinion, it is better to settle a strike than to do what ConEd is doing right now. People will get hurt. The expertise is not there and you are so right. Wearing business casual for years, people lose skills. And no look at what happened. By the way, remind me again not to mess with your father, ever. Pulled the guy out my the shoulders? Do you know how strong you would need to be to dead lift that kind of weight? The man must have been incredible back in the day.
Really? Mom is willing to start an argument about what "pasta" is called. (It is called pasta, right?. Most people call it that .Of course, we just called it noodles here, us primitive Germans. ) But in this situation you can see what she is doing, and how far she is willing to go just to keep the tension up. She is so used to this pattern that she has to reach for anything to comment on. And, you wonder why you feel so rejected...she rejects based on anything, so at least see that this is not you. It is her, plain as can be. Steven
Thank you for the sauce recipe. I will try it. It does not sound hard at all. My wife's mother is not Italian, but thinks she should be so she makes sauce as well as my BIL who is studying to open a restaurant. He makes (many) sauce(s) too. But truthfully I appreciate the easy recipe as they seem to take hours and hours to do theirs, sweeten that, sour this, etc. By the time its all over the kitchen is a mess and I have lost my appetite.
I forget exactly how the lady I work with bribed her husband. I think she covered something or other for him. She is pregnant too, with a high risk pregnancy, so no sex as motivation either.
Don't tell me you have a LG refrigerator, the huge French door one with the bottom freezer, cause we do too. And, if your father is as big as that, and it is huge, that is a big man. Powerlifter with you at the gym? Wow, I can hardly imagine that, as a little girl in a sweaty, nasty gym is an odd picture. But I have to admit, having to share the bathroom with them is probably the scariest part of the whole thing. Your dad sounds really funny. Now I know where you get the sense of humor you have. It is a lot like his, circumstance based, irreverent and clever. He does sound very smart as well.
Kate is still a bit young for toilet training. You'll always hear from these yuppie parents who will tell you their child was toilet trained in a day, at 1.5, but don't believe it. 2.5 is where the fun begins and many do not get it until they are 3.2months. So, you're fine.
And, all kids get the self sourced shame thing about poop, probably a good thing. It's normal.
Egg noodles; yup. And they dumped sauce from a jar on that. Awful. I used to hate noodles with sauce because of it. Germans cannot cook Italian, at all. I never knew spaghetti could taste good until I met my wife.
What are you supposed to think? You have one day. Today. What you know today is not bad news, actually good news that you are no longer bleeding. You probably just needed a break. And, I doubt, really doubt that you will be restricted to bedrest. You may have restrictions on working like horse, hence a desk job adaptation, but take that as it comes. I know...you want to know and it is hard not to think catastrophe. But, 90% of what we fear never takes place. And I can hear you thinking now...but I am that 10%! I am! You're not. Relax.
We need a new thread. Steven
Well, my kitchen has blue counters and honey oak cabinets and it looks splashy all the time too. And sauce: everywhere, lid or not. You just cannot contain that stuff. You sound passionate about your cookware. I have no idea what is really in my kitchen as far as pots and pans. We have some ceramic coated iron stuff and some stainless restaurant style pots, but the rest seems pretty ordinary. I am a great microwave user. (lol) although I can make shrimp scampi very well. The rest of it is hit or miss.
I am not sure what to tell you about your sexual life. I am sure there are alternatives. You just have to use your imagination.
You sound like you have nice stuff. But if your father is as big as a 24 cubic foot fridge, that is a big guy...and the fridge colds a lot of sauce, that is for sure! I like how you talk about your father. He sounds very nice. And, keeping you safe; he seemed to do a great job of that when you were little. Plus, I like his sense of humor.
German food is awesome, but as I was raised within a first generation German family I have had too much of it. It is great, don't get me wrong, and the baking especially is out of this world, but too many years of it has made it feel too ordinary to me. I much prefer other nationalities cooking at this point, and I have developed a thing for Asian food of all types, but Japanese is a favorite.
You definitely have it bad with the pregnancy food thing. Ich möchte Deutsch Lebensmittel!! (I want German food!)
I still strongly feel that this will work out. The baby's health was not an issue as long as you got some rest. And, you did. Plus you were told the clot would absorb. Although you feel that you are the 10% that always gets the short end of the stick, take heart. And, be positive. What we speak sometimes comes to be, so speak well of this situation.
We need a new question/posting. Steven
TMM? Maybe the heat got him? Don't worry; like flu season he will come around.
Are you okay? You told me that you were not doing well. Still bleeding or better?
Our home is country looking, sort of a country looking Williamsburg combination. And, I made your sauce. It certainly is easy as fast and it tastes good. I made two versions, one with some sugar and one without. The one without was better. I fed both to my kids and wife. All liked it, except nicole who would not eat anything last night, just because.
My brother in law should be here soon. I will let the bil chef taste it. We will see what he says. I am sure he will like it.
Your childhood restriction are very common in families who have control issues, in this case your mother. The results are usually the same each time, insecurity, feeling uncertain about what to do or not do and an achy loneliness that sometimes is there and sometimes not. The isolation made your reading skills really good so I am not surprised to see how intellectual you can be.
Your neighbors sound so fun; 3am and talking loud and cursing? What on earth are they thinking? I know they are not and that is the issue, but really...that is terrible. Don't the other neighbors complain?
Ron White; the comedian? A sex dream. Well,if that doesn't settle it that you are having a boy I don't know. Wow, weird dream. I could interpret it, but the whole think about your life being exposed to others and sadly comical does not sound too good. I think I will pass.
Yup, Irish trumps most stuff, unless you ever have had anything norwegian. That stuff is really gross. Cold fish and broth for breakfast? No way! But, I have some Irish in me, a little on my father's side. Baney was the name. And from what I gather I am not missing a thing food wise.
Cake and sex? Could be worse...Might be a good deal. lol
You have to set up a new account? I just wanted you to set up a new question. Steven
I wanted to try the sauce, just because I was in the mood for Italian. My bil liked it, but I think I need to use Contadina, not Huntz. It was a tad zingy. And, my bil often will with hold praise if it is too simple, just because real cooking is supposed to be hard in their world.
Well, I did not have the sauce recipe, but I was roasting chickens just like that for a number of years; good isn't it. Today I am making beer butt chicken, and I hope you know what that is. My favorite chicken recipe.
I love Rob' sense of humor. And, you could say that Con Ed is being discriminatory. Snap a picture of the picket lines with all the home depot crew replacements and then send it to labor relations. Fun
With your mom, no you are not crazy. She is, and I too feel that either kate will become you reincarnated or she will love her to death in compensation for how she treats you, yet will have no insight how or why she is doing it. I am not sure if I was surprised about your father and what mom did, but she is manipulative in a very hurtful way; very...She is one of those who has no insight however. And that is the scariest part.
Reading is not what you read but how much. Escapism is why most read anyway and you will find that common in most emotionally and physically abused kids. You did develop higher functioning as a result, so at least something decent came out of all that restriction.
No, not because Ron White is a pig is the baby suspected to be a boy. (Really, should I and all men be insulted by that comment?) It's the weird sex dreams that usually show up right about now in boy pregnancies.That is my thought anyway. Testosterone in women does not always give increased sex drive, but it may give some wild dreams.
Let me know when you set up the new account. Steven
Ok...looking for new question. I will try the Contadina. I actually want to as for some reason I am into sauces this week.
Rob might be funny, but you have the record with the two strike comment. I nearly spit my drink on that one. That was funny. And, the more kids you have the more people seem to feel that they can say something to you about your parenting skills. And, it says a huge amount about her that she waited until Rob left to say something.
People like this are too common. She was probably from Pennsylvania. That pattern seems rampant here. I am sure you ruined nothing. Kate was acting as a 2 year old acts and was being creative, not bad. Steven


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Country Quickie: Johnny Cash Day, Judds Hit Big & More….
Thursday, August 4th has officially been proclaimed as Johnny Cash Day in Arkansas. Arkansas State University will hold the 1st Johnny Cash Music Festival on that day as well. Some performers slated to appear…..Roseanne Cash, John Carter, George Jones, Kris Kristofferson and more!
Kellie Pickler and Julianne Hough are among the celebrities featured on People magazine's "Most Beautiful" list. Look for the issue on newsstands now!
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Installing through Marketplace
If you built a Hello World add-on, you ran JIRA Cloud in development mode, and installed your add-on manually into the application. The next phase of your add-on development is to test your add-on being installed via the Atlassian Marketplace.
This is important if you wish to test your add-on in a licensed state, or start along the path to listing your add-on. This is necessary whether you want to eventually make your add-on available privately or publicly, free or paid.
Table of contents
- Before starting
- Creating the Marketplace listing
- Access tokens
Before starting
There are a few prerequisites before you create your Marketplace listing:
- Create or get access to a cloud-hosted product instance
You can create an environment for testing simply by signing up for a free development cloud application.
- Your add-on and your
atlassian-connect.jsondescriptor file are served over HTTPS
Your add-on (and your
atlassian-connect.jsondescriptor) must be served over HTTPS to be installed into a cloud instance. Your add-on must have a
baseUrlthat starts with
https://; a
baseUrlof the form
http://my-server.com:443/will not be accepted. Additionally, your HTTPS certificate cannot not be self-signed.
- You have an Atlassian user account associated with the Marketplace
You need a Marketplace user account associated with a vendor profile to create a listing. You can create a new vendor profile when you create your listing, or have your account added to an existing profile by somebody already associated with it. To get an account associated with the Marketplace, sign up here.
Creating the Marketplace listing
With your Marketplace account set up and add-on descriptor on hand, create the Atlassian Connect listing as follows:
Now, you can generate test license tokens for your add-on and install it in cloud instances, either through MyAtlassian for live instances, or through the descriptor link of the listing view for locally-running instances. The next section provides more detail on how to do this.
Access tokens
If you created a private listing in the Marketplace, you can create and use access tokens. Access tokens are like licenses that you can generate and manage without going through the usual licensing process. Tokens let you install and test add-ons under development in live cloud instances. You can also use these licenses to install and use private add-ons if you only intend your add-on for internal use.
If your add-on is paid, after you install your add-on and apply a token, you can test your add-on against various license states like valid, expired, and unlicensed.
Access token restrictions
While access tokens are like licenses, a few restrictions apply.
- 50-token limit Each add-on can only have 50 active tokens at a time.
- Token removal You can delete or remove tokens at any time. If you have 50 active tokens, you can remove one to be able to create another. Add-ons in cloud instances with deleted tokens are treated as unlicensed.
- No reusability
A token is bound to a particular add-on and cloud instance. After a token is applied to an Atlassian application instance, it is permanently associated with that instance, and can't be used with another.
Creating tokens
You can create a token from your add-on's private listing on the Marketplace. If you've already installed the add-on, you can create tokens directly from the Manage listings page. If you're generating a token to share with an external tester, you need to create the token in the Marketplace.
Generating an access token from a Marketplace listing
After you create a private listing for an add-on, you can generate an access token from your listing:
- Log in to the Atlassian Marketplace.
- Click the Manage listings link.
- Click the name of your private add-on from the listings page.
- Click on the Private Listings tab.
- Click Create a token.
This button appears only in the Manage add-on page for private cloud-hosted add-ons. If you don't see the button here, make sure your listing is private and cloud-hosted.
New tokens appear in the subsequent list. From here, you can either apply them manually to an add-on if it's already installed, or use the link for the token to install the add-on and install the add-on at one time. Delete tokens using the Remove button.
The Marketplace token links are installation URLs that include the token. You can share this link with external customers or partners for testing.
Installing add-ons with access tokens
After generating the token, you can use the token URL to install the add-on and apply the token in the same process:
- Copy your token link from your Manage add-on page in Marketplace.
- Log into the cloud instance where you want to install your add-on.
- Go to Manage add-ons in the administration console.
- Click Settings at the bottom of the page.
- Check the box to Enable private listings.
- Back in the Manage add-ons page, click Upload add-on.
- Paste the URL of your descriptor from the Marketplace, and click Upload.
Your descriptor is retrieved and installed, and your token is applied. You should see an "Installed and ready to go!" dialog.
Now you can test your add-on, modify its licence states (if it's paid), or manage the token. To test, set the license state to the one you want. From the License status menu, choose the state you'd like to test – active trial, subscription, inactive subscription, etc.
The usual options for managing the subscription for your add-on will be disabled in the user interface, since the token is the mechanism that serves this function for now.
Applying a token from the administration console
You can also generate a token directly from a listing directly in the product like JIRA or Confluence. You can do this from the Manage add-ons page in the administration console:
- Follow the instructions above to Enable private listings from the Settings dialog.
- Install the add-on using your HTTPS-hosted
atlassian-connect.jsondescriptor URL. Click Upload add-on and paste the URL into the corresponding field.
- After installing the add-on, expand the details view for the add-on.
- Click the plus (+) symbol next to Access token.
- Log in using an account associated with your Marketplace vendor profile.
- Follow the in-app directions to generate and apply the token.
If you need to delete a token from an add-on, click the edit icon next to the token in the add-on view, and clear the content and save. This deletes your token in the instance, although it still exists on the Marketplace listing. You can disable an add-on in the administration console after you have removed its token.


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A DUDLEY health visitor has been suspended from working as a registered nurse for 18 months for ongoing investigations into serious failings in her work.
Linda Whitehouse, a health visitor for the Black Country Partnership NHS Foundation Trust, based in the Brierley Hill team, was given the interim suspension by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) following allegations surrounding her timekeeping and unexplained absences from work after colleagues voiced concerns.
The hearing held in London on January 10, which Mrs Whitehouse didn't attend, heard how she was suspended from duty on November 8 2011 and underwent a disciplinary hearing, where evidence was heard against her alleged failure to provide adequate care and safeguard vulnerable children and their families in the borough.
Mrs Whitehouse resigned before the conclusion of the hearing, but was dismissed by the Trust for gross misconduct on December 11 2012.
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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – A couple of different times, a couple of different ways, reporters on Monday tried to get Bill Stewart to talk about last Friday's instant replay reversal at Cincinnati.
|Ryan Clarke watches Cincinnati celebrate its 24-21 victory over West Virginia last Friday night at Nippert Stadium in Cincinnati.
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Each time he declined to elaborate.
"That game is beyond us, it's over and in the books," Stewart said. "It was in Saturday's sports column as 24-21 and it can't be changed."
Pressed harder, Stewart didn't budge.
"I got on the bus and took my boxed lunch and did a lot of soul searching and thinking and I'll let it go at that," he said.
Stewart said his coaches will use the free week to get injured players healed up in time for next Friday's Backyard Brawl against Pitt at Milan Puskar Stadium.
Two years ago, 28-point underdog Pitt came into Morgantown and ruined the Mountaineers' chance to play in the national championship game. This year the roles are almost reversed. Pitt is back in the Top 10 for the first time since preseason 2003, and the Panthers are gunning for their first outright Big East title since the league was formed.
Next Friday, West Virginia will be the underdogs on its home field.
"I heard (Pitt coach) Dave Wannstedt talking on the Big East call and he said it's the Big East brawl and he's ready for it," said Stewart. "I saw some quotes in the paper and the players are ready for it and that's really great for college football."
In addition to getting healthy, West Virginia has a lot of things on its plate to accomplish this week. No. 1, the Mountaineers have to figure out how to keep a kickoff from being returned to midfield or beyond. West Virginia is ranked 90th this week in kickoff coverage, giving up 22.9 yards per return on kicks that rarely reach the 10 yard line.
Against Cincinnati last weekend, the Mountaineers were so concerned with getting down on coverage to tackle Mardy Gilyard that they were penalized on consecutive kickoffs.
"I told them to get a little jump on that for Gilyard," said Stewart. "We tried it and got caught with our hand in the cookie jar."
West Virginia also needs to reestablish an identity on offense. Are the Mountaineers a passing team? Are they a running team? Are they a power team? Are they a spread team?
Injuries and inexperience have forced the offensive staff to come up with different plans virtually each week. In week three at Auburn, West Virginia was freewheeling and aggressive down the field and that resulted in five interceptions in a 41-30 loss to the Tigers.
Seven weeks later against Cincinnati, West Virginia's plan was to try and possess the football for long stretches to help out the defense by keeping Cincinnati's offense off the field.
That tactic nearly worked.
The Mountaineers had their best offensive showing since the Connecticut game, running for more than 200 yards for just the fourth time this season.
Noel Devine, despite ankle, hip and hamstring injuries, ran for 88 yards on a season-high 25 carries. Power back Ryan Clarke scored a 37-yard touchdown and finished the game with 60 yards on just five carries. The running game also opened things up for quarterback Jarrett Brown, who completed 17 of 25 passes for 188 yards and a touchdown. It was his best all-around passing performance since the Syracuse game.
"He played so much better," said Stewart. "He was in the flow of the game so much more."
A third key area West Virginia needs to clean up is its run defense. The 3-3 stack is designed specifically to stop the run and it has done that beautifully through the years. Heading into this season, West Virginia had allowed only nine 100-yard rushers in its previous 51 games.
This year, however, four runners have cracked the 100-yard barrier and three others have come close. In its last three games, West Virginia allowed B.J. Daniels to rush for 104 yards in a loss to South Florida, Darius Ashley to run for 164 yards in a narrow victory over Louisville, and Isaiah Pead to run for 175 yards in Cincinnati's three-point win last Friday.
West Virginia's run defense has slipped to fourth in the Big East rankings this week (giving up 121 yards per game) after consistently ranking near the top of the conference in run defense the last five years. When a defense is struggling to stop what it's designed to stop then that is concerning on all levels.
"First of all, Isiah Pead is a good back," said Stewart. "He made us miss and that is the No. 5 team in the country and they did well. The youngster at Louisville is pretty good, ran the ball a lot, and we were in a bend-and-not-break mode and didn't give up a touchdown and won the football game. I wish we could hold everybody to 20 yards, but it doesn't happen in this day in age."
Pead and Ashley are good backs, but they are not in the class of Pitt freshman Dion Lewis, who leads the Big East in rushing averaging 129.1 yards per game. Lewis ran 21 times for 152 yards and a touchdown against Notre Dame, and he currently leads the Big East with 13 rushing touchdowns. Lewis' backup, Ray Graham, had a 53-yard run against the Irish and is averaging 6.1 yards per carry.
"If we give up a third big game in a row we're in trouble," said Stewart.
The surprisingly rapid development of Lewis as a feature back has helped make quarterback Bill Stull one of the most efficient passers in college football under first-year Pitt offensive coordinator Frank Cignetti. Stull's passer rating of 159.4 is 14 points higher than the next best passer in the Big East, and his 18-to-4 touchdown-to-interception ratio is among the best in the country.
West Virginia has to find a way to stop Lewis first, and then have enough men left in the back end to deal with 6-foot-5 receiver Jonathan Baldwin, who is blossoming into a big-time playmaker.
"The Baldwin youngster is special," said Stewart. "We had a young guy like that a few years back named Chris Henry. He plays on Sundays now. That's who Baldwin reminds me of."
Stewart said the reason Pitt is playing so well right now is because Wannstedt was given the time to put his plan in place and recruit players to fit that plan.
"They have good talent," he said. "They have more talent than they did five years ago. Someone told me there was an article that said Dave asked for patience way back. And the Pitt people gave him patience."
Because of that, for the first time in years West Virginia is going to be playing a Backyard Brawl as the underdog with a big chip on its shoulders.
"I am going to tell the team to out-block, out-tackle, out-hit, out-hustle Pitt; strain and play Mountaineer football," said Stewart. "Were we a better team in game 10 last week than we were in game nine? In my assessment we were. We played better on the road against Cincinnati than we played at home against Louisville."


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NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Hornets coach Monty Williams had insisted there was nothing wrong with Ryan Anderson.
And Anderson, who had been shooting 31 percent in his past five games, echoed his coach's words with his performance.
With Anderson breaking loose early, the Hornets built a commanding lead in shooting past the Sacramento Kings 114-105 on Monday at New Orleans Arena.
The victory was not without cost, however, as rookie power forward Anthony Davis sprained his left ankle in the second quarter and did not return.
Anderson, a Sacramento native, scored 27 points, shooting 7-of-14 on 3-point attempts. He had 17 points during a 34-point second quarter as the Hornets rolled to a 25-point halftime lead in their best first half of the season.
His performance keyed 48.3 percent 3-point shooting (12-of-25) by the Hornets and 45 points by their bench. The Hornets also grabbed 20 offensive rebounds in outrebounding the Kings 49-36.
"(Point guard) Greivis (Vasquez) and the guards did a good job of finding me, and the bigs did a good job of running to kind of distract the defense a little bit. And we did a great job of guarding in that quarter, so it really opened up our shots and got me some open looks," Anderson said.
The victory was the seventh in nine games for New Orleans (14-27), which was coming off a disappointing loss Saturday to Golden State in which its defense had been shredded.
Davis said after the game that he tweaked the ankle earlier in the quarter, but with treatment, he expects to play Wednesday at San Antonio.
Sacramento (16-26) came in having won three of four games, but started slowly with an early start on a day in which news broke that a deal had been reached to sell the Kings to a group of Seattle investors.
Perhaps helped by Davis being out of the lineup, the Kings showed much more fight in the second half, going on a 23-4 run during a five-minute period in the third quarter to get back in the game. They scored 22 of their 60 points in the paint in the third quarter.
However, after Sacramento closed the gap to 91-81 early in the fourth quarter on a steal by Tyreke Evans and a lob to Travis Outlaw for a dunk, Anderson was there to stem the tide. He sank 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions around a jumper by Outlaw, and New Orleans led 97-83 the 8:44 mark.
The Hornets led 106-97 with 2:57 showing when Eric Gordon hit an off-balance jumper against contact with 2:57 left. Vasquez came back with 50 seconds left with a 27-foot 3-pointer that sealed the deal.
Kings center DeMarcus Cousins, who had 29 points and 13 rebounds, said Anderson's second helping was the key, but Vasquez was the unsung hero.
"(Anderson) changed the game for them, and we were playing catchup the whole time," said Cousins, who scored 12 points on 5-of-5 shooting in the third quarter. "Vasquez played great. He ran the team well and got in the cracks (of the Kings' defense)."
Vasquez finished with 19 points, 11 assists and seven rebounds. Gordon scored 16 points; and Al-Farouq Aminu, in another strong performance, had 14 points, 11 rebounds, three assists and a steal. Davis had 11 points and six rebounds.
Packing the lane to prevent Cousins from being effective on the low block, the Hornets had the Kings shooting from the perimeter — and missing.
Meanwhile, Anderson got hot, microwave quick. He sank his first 3-pointer at 9:38 of the quarter for a 37-24 lead. His third 3-pointer, at 5:19, made it 47-32.
He followed with one two minutes later for a 55-36 lead. By the end of the quarter, the Hornets led 64-39, and Anderson was 5-of-8 on 3-pointers in the second quarter alone.
The Hornets got off to a great start, leading 30-18 when the first quarter ended.
"After what happened against Golden State, we just wanted to come out strong on the defense from the start," Aminu said. "That's what we talked about."