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A Sister's Test
- Wanda Brunstetter Author
- 2008 17 May
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from A Sister's Test by Wanda Brunstetter (Barbour Publishing).
Chapter 1
Ruth, watch out! Get out of the way!"
Ruth Hostettler halted. A hammer slid down the roof of her sister's new house. "Ach!" She jumped back as it bounced off the sheets of plywood, just missing her head.
Martin Gingerich scrambled down the ladder and rushed to her side. "Are you okay, Ruth?"
Ruth nodded as she looked up at his strong, handsome face. She saw tenderness there, and something more. Did she dare believe he might be falling in love with her?
Her heart pounded like a blacksmith's anvil as Martin pulled her to his side.
"You need to stay away from the work site. It's too dangerous." His hazel-colored eyes were wide with obvious concern.
"I—I was coming to see if the workers wanted something to drink."
Martin wiped the rivulets of sweat running down his forehead; then he bent to pick up the hammer lying in the dirt near Ruth's feet. "I think we could all use a break." He leaned his head back and stared at the roof. "Luke most of all, since he's the one who lost his grip on that hammer."
Ruth's gaze followed Martin's. Luke Friesen sat near the edge of the roof, shaking his head. "Are you all right, Ruth?"
"I'm okay. Just a bit shook up."
"I thought I had a good grip, but that hammer slipped right out of my hand."
"You need to be more careful!" Martin's harsh tone took Ruth by surprise. Usually he was very soft-spoken.
"Jah, well, she shouldn't have been standing where she was. The work site's no place for a woman." Luke grunted. "Hand me that hammer, would ya, Martin?"
"Why don't you come down and take a break? Then you can get the hammer yourself."
"Guess I will."
As Luke descended the ladder, Martin smiled at Ruth, lifted his straw hat, and brushed back his coffee-colored hair. "Would you like me to go with you to get something to drink for the workers?"
"That would be nice." Ruth appreciated Martin's kindness. In all the time she and Luke had courted, Luke had never offered to help with anything. For that matter, he'd never shown much concern for her welfare, not even when her family's home had been broken into and other acts of vandalism had taken place. Instead, Luke had admitted to Ruth that he owned a truck he kept hidden in the woods and made her promise not to tell anyone. On several occasions, he'd acted as if he might be hiding something. Ruth was sure she'd done the right thing by breaking up with him. Having Martin as a suitor made her happier than she'd ever been during her courtship with Luke.
"I'm glad you weren't hit by Luke's hammer," Martin said as they started for the house. "It's bad enough that your sister and her husband lost their home in that horrible fire a few weeks ago. The last thing we need is for anyone to get hurt today."
Ruth nodded. "We were all relieved that nobody was hurt in the fire. I know Grace and Cleon appreciate all this help building their new home. This is the second Saturday in a row that they've had a large crew working on it."
"That's what friends and family are for."
Martin's dimpled smile made Ruth feel tongue-tied and tingly. She hadn't felt like that when she and Luke were together. More than anything, she'd felt irritated the last few months they'd been courting.
"Sure is a good turnout today," Martin said.
"Jah. The house is almost done, and it will be good for Grace and Cleon to have their own place again."
"I heard your daed say that the fire chief found a cigarette lighter on the ground outside their old house. He thinks the fire might have been intentional."
Ruth nodded, wondering if she should tell Martin that Grace thought the English reporter she used to date might have started the fire before he left the area. She decided it would be best not to say anything since they had no proof it was Gary Walker. Besides, Dad had his own suspicions about who might have set the fire.
When they reached the home of Ruth's parents, she turned to Martin. "If you'd like to have a seat on the porch, I'll run inside and see if Mom's fixed anything to drink yet."
Martin took a seat on the porch swing, and Ruth hurried into the house.
She found her mother and two sisters in the kitchen, along with a few other Amish women and their nearest English neighbor.
Mom smiled at Ruth and pushed a wisp of dark brown hair back into her bun. "Are the men ready to take a break?"
"Jah. I came in to get them something to drink."
"There's iced tea and lemonade in the refrigerator." Grace motioned toward the stove. "We've got some coffee heating, too." Her blue eyes twinkled like sparkling water.
"You'll need help carrying the beverages out," Ruth's younger sister, Martha, put in.
"Martin's waiting on the porch to help me with that."
"Martin Gingerich?" Sadie Esh asked.
Ruth nodded, and her cheeks turned warm.
"That fellow's really sweet on my sister, and I think she's equally sweet on him." Martha grinned at Ruth, and the skin around her blue eyes crinkled. "Look how red in the face she's getting."
Ruth shrugged. She couldn't deny her interest in Martin, but she wasn't about to admit it, either.
"Leave your sister alone," Mom said, shaking her finger at Martha. "When you find a fellow you like more than your dogs, you'll turn red in the face whenever his name's mentioned, too."
"How are things going with the new house?" Grace asked.
"Everything was fine until I nearly got hit in the head," Ruth said as she removed a jug of iced tea from the refrigerator.
Mom gasped. "Oh, Ruth, are you all right?"
"I'm fine. It just shook me up a bit."
"How'd it happen?" their English neighbor Donna Larson questioned.
"A hammer tumbled off the roof. It could have hit me if Martin hadn't shouted a warning."
"Was it Martin's hammer?" Cleon's mother, Irene, asked.
"No, it belonged to Luke."
Mom pursed her lips. "Luke Friesen's here today?"
Ruth set the jug of iced tea on the counter and turned to face her mother. "He and his boss both came to help."
"Your daed's not going to like that. He doesn't trust Luke, and if he thought for one minute—"
"Ach, Mom, surely you don't think Luke would intentionally let his hammer fall." Martha's face had turned red as a pickled beet. "I think Dad's still angry because Luke's not working for him anymore."
"Luke was fired, and you know it."
"That was only because he didn't see eye to eye with Dad on everything."
Mom squinted at Martha. "Luke came to work late on several occasions, and he thought he knew more than your daed about things. And don't forget about those sunglasses of Luke's that were found near my clothesline after it had been cut."
Martha stared down at the table. "That doesn't prove he cut the line."
"Toby says Luke's been acting strange for several months," Sadie put in. "He thinks Luke hasn't been right in the head since he started running with some rowdy English fellows."
Ruth was glad Luke's mother hadn't come today. It wouldn't be good for her to hear such talk about her son. In fact, she didn't think they should be having this conversation, especially not in front of Donna Larson.
Martha shot Sadie an exasperated look. "You can tell your boyfriend that he's done some strange things, too. Does that make him a suspect?" Sadie opened her mouth as if to comment, but Cleon's mother spoke first. "It's not our place to judge Luke or anyone else. It might be good if we change the subject."
"I agree." Ruth headed back to the refrigerator for a pitcher of lemonade. "I'm taking this outside. If some of you would like to bring out the coffee and cookies, I'm sure the men would appreciate it."
As Martin waited on the por ed God that she hadn't been near mishap with the hammer Ruth, he thought about her hurt. He'd had an interest in Ruth for a long time—ever since they were children. Even back then, he thought she was beautiful, with her dark brown hair and matching eyes, not to mention her gentle, sweet spirit. During their teen years, when they'd first started attending singings and other young people's functions, he'd been too shy to ask if he could give her a ride home in his buggy. Then Luke Friesen began courting Ruth, and Martin figured his chances were nil. Now that Luke was out of the picture, Martin hoped he might be able to win Ruth's heart.
"What's the matter, Martin? Did you get tired of crawling around on the roof?" Abe Wengerd asked as he clomped up the steps to the back porch.
Martin motioned to the house. "I came here to help Ruth get something to drink for the workers."
Abe glanced around, then tipped his head in Martin's direction. "Don't see any sign of Ruth. Looks to me like you're taking a break."
Martin chuckled. "Guess I am at that. But just until Ruth returns from the kitchen."
"How come you didn't go in with her?"
"Figured I'd only be in the way." Martin's cheeks warmed. "Besides, she asked me to wait out here."
"Reminds me of the way my Alma used to be." Abe reached under his straw hat and pulled his fingers through the ends of his unruly reddish-brown hair. "That woman could get me to do most anything." A shadow crossed his face as he stared down at his boots. "Sure do miss her."
Martin couldn't imagine what it must be like for Abe, losing his wife after she was struck by a lightning bolt. Now the poor fellow had six children to raise on his own. Martin wondered whether Abe would marry again—and if so, whether it would be for love or so his children could have a mother.
"Did you come up to the house for a particular reason or just to see if I was loafing off?" Martin asked.
Abe leaned against the porch railing. "From what I've seen of your work habits at the harness shop, I'm convinced you're not the kind to loaf around." He nodded toward the back door. "In answer to your question, I was heading in to use the facilities."
"What's wrong with the portable outhouses that were put up for the workers to use?" Roman Hostettler asked as he stepped onto the porch. "Are they too smelly for your sensitive nose?" He snickered and bumped Abe's arm with his elbow.
Abe nudged him right back. "They were both in use. I figured you wouldn't mind if I used the one inside."
"Don't mind at all." Roman pushed the screen door open. "Go right on in."
When Abe disappeared into the house, Roman flopped into one of the wicker chairs that sat near the swing and fanned his damp face with the brim of his hat. "Sure has turned into a warm day, jah?"
Martin nodded. "That's why Ruth went into the house to get something cold to drink. As soon as she comes back, we'll take it to the workers."
"It's nice of you to want to help," Roman said with a sly-looking smile. His brown eyes twinkled, as though he knew Martin's secret.
Martin's ears burned with embarrassment. Did Ruth's dad know how much he cared for his daughter? Would Roman approve of his courting Ruth? He was tempted to ask but decided to bring up another subject instead. "Did you see that hammer fly off the roof a while ago?"
"Sure didn't. Did anyone get hurt?"
"No, but the hammer almost hit Ruth."
Roman's dark bushy eyebrows drew together. "How'd it happen?"
"It was Luke's hammer. He said it slipped out of his hand."
"Humph! As much training as that fellow's had using a hammer, he shouldn't be losing his grip. That was just plain careless." Roman's eyes narrowed as he glanced at the place behind his house where the section of property he'd given Cleon lay. "I never invited Luke to this work frolic. If I'd had my way, he wouldn't have come."
"Who invited him?"
"Cleon. He invited Luke and his English boss, John Peterson. Guess he wanted all able-bodied carpenters to help so we could get the job done quicker."
"Even so, if he knew you didn't want Luke invited—"
"Since it's Cleon and Grace's house, I didn't think I had the right to say who could help and who couldn't." The scowl on Roman's face was enough to curdle fresh goat's milk. "Now that I know one of my daughters could have been injured because of Luke's carelessness, I have a right to say what's on my mind." He stood and pivoted toward the porch steps.
"Where are you going?"
"To send Luke Friesen home!"
© 2007 by Wanda E. Brunstetter
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted
in any form or by any means without written permission of the publisher. Published by Barbour Publishing, Inc., P.O. Box 719, Uhrichsville, Ohio 44683,


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First name RIOGHNACH's origin is Irish. RIOGHNACH means "royal". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with RIOGHNACH below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of rioghnach.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with RIOGHNACH and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming RIOGHNACH
NAMES RHYMING WITH R�OGHNACH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 8 Letters (ioghnach) - Names That Ends with ioghnach:
Rhyming Names According to Last 7 Letters (oghnach) - Names That Ends with oghnach:
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (ghnach) - Names That Ends with ghnach:
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (hnach) - Names That Ends with hnach:tiarchnach leamhnach
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (nach) - Names That Ends with nach:gwernach cearnach tighearnach clunainach awarnach
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ach) - Names That Ends with ach:laoidheach toirdealbach vach bearach coigleach coilleach deasach ealadhach muireach toirdealbhach cailleach luighseach moireach buach calbhach carthach ceallach ceardach clach darach keallach kellach muireadhach nathrach pesach pessach searbhreathach shadrach tearlach treasach zach noach raghallach rabhartach dubhthach dubhloach diomasach cleirach bradach lach aballach cathasach gerlach gwenhwyfach coinneach taithleach yiftach
Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ch) - Names That Ends with ch:adanech coaxoch xiloxoch bich abdimelech cynfarch rhydderch conlaoch culhwch matholwch twrch uisnech erich friedrich heinrich baruch deoch abimelech abukcheech aldrich bailoch birch cruadhlaoich darroch deutsch dietrich enoch feich fytch murdoch nixkamich parisch raleich rich seanlaoch welch avimelech ulrich dutch diederich fionnlaoch choilleich roch fitch burch usenech
NAMES RHYMING WITH R�OGHNACH (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 8 Letters (rioghnac) - Names That Begins with rioghnac:
Rhyming Names According to First 7 Letters (rioghna) - Names That Begins with rioghna:
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (rioghn) - Names That Begins with rioghn:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (riogh) - Names That Begins with riogh:rioghbhardan
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (riog) - Names That Begins with riog:
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (rio) - Names That Begins with rio:rio riobard riocard rion riona riordain riordan
Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ri) - Names That Begins with ri:ria riagan rian rica ricadene ricadonna ricard ricarda ricardo ricca riccardo rice richael richard richardo richelle richer richere richie richlynn richman richmond rick rickard ricker rickey rickie rickman rickward ricky ricman rico ricwea ricweard rida riddhi riddoc riddock rider ridere ridge ridgeiey ridgeley ridgely ridha ridhi ridley ridpath ridwan rigby rigel rigg riggs rigmor rihana riikka rikard rikka rikkard rikward ril riley rilla rille rilletta rillette rillia rillie rilynn rim rima rimona rina rinan rinat rinc ring rinji rinna rinnah ripley rique risa rishim risley risteard risto riston rita ritchie ritsa ritter
First Names which starts with 'riog' and ends with 'nach':
First Names which starts with 'rio' and ends with 'ach':
First Names which starts with 'ri' and ends with 'ch':
First Names which starts with 'r' and ends with 'h':ra'idah raananah rabah rabiah radeyah radolph raedleah raedpath rahimah rahimateh rajah raleah raleigh ralph randolph raniyah rawdah rawiyah rebekah reidhachadh reileigh reinh reneigh riyadh roth ruairidh ruanaidh ruhleah ruqayyah rush ruth ruwaydah ryeleigh ryleigh
English Words Rhyming RIOGHNACH
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH R�OGHNACH (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 8 Letters (ioghnach) - English Words That Ends with ioghnach:
Rhyming Words According to Last 7 Letters (oghnach) - English Words That Ends with oghnach:
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (ghnach) - English Words That Ends with ghnach:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (hnach) - English Words That Ends with hnach:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (nach) - English Words That Ends with nach:
|noun (n.) A lamentation for the dead; a dirge.
|noun (n.) See Coranach.
|noun (n.) A bunch of feathers; a plume.
|noun (n.) A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander.
|noun (n.) Alt. of Spinage
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ach) - English Words That Ends with ach:
|noun (n.) Alt. of Ache
|noun (n.) A foot of three syllables, the middle one long, the first and last short (~ -- ~); as, h/b/r/. In modern prosody the accented syllable takes the place of the long and the unaccented of the short; as, pro-phet#ic.
|noun (n.) A cavity which leads into the stomach, as in birds.
|noun (n.) See Orach.
|noun (n.) An attachment.
|verb (v. t.) To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.
|verb (v. t.) To connect; to place so as to belong; to assign by authority; to appoint; as, an officer is attached to a certain regiment, company, or ship.
|verb (v. t.) To win the heart of; to connect by ties of love or self-interest; to attract; to fasten or bind by moral influence; -- with to; as, attached to a friend; attaching others to us by wealth or flattery.
|verb (v. t.) To connect, in a figurative sense; to ascribe or attribute; to affix; -- with to; as, to attach great importance to a particular circumstance.
|verb (v. t.) To take, seize, or lay hold of.
|verb (v. t.) To take by legal authority: (a) To arrest by writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in the suit. See Attachment, 4.
|verb (v. i.) To adhere; to be attached.
|verb (v. i.) To come into legal operation in connection with anything; to vest; as, dower will attach.
|noun (n.) A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.
|noun (n.) The bark of the roots of the azedarach, used as a cathartic and emetic.
|noun (n.) A stroke whose object is to land the ball on the putting green. It is made with an iron club.
|verb (v. i.) To come or go near, in place or time; to draw nigh; to advance nearer.
|verb (v. i.) To draw near, in a figurative sense; to make advances; to approximate; as, he approaches to the character of the ablest statesman.
|verb (v. t.) To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance.
|verb (v. t.) To come near to in place, time, or character; to draw nearer to; as, to approach the city; to approach my cabin; he approached the age of manhood.
|verb (v. t.) To take approaches to.
|verb (v. i.) The act of drawing near; a coming or advancing near.
|verb (v. i.) A access, or opportunity of drawing near.
|verb (v. i.) Movements to gain favor; advances.
|verb (v. i.) A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access.
|verb (v. i.) The advanced works, trenches, or covered roads made by besiegers in their advances toward a fortress or military post.
|verb (v. i.) See Approaching.
|noun (n.) Alt. of Backarack
|noun (n.) Pebbles, collectively; shingle.
|noun (n.) The shore of the sea, or of a lake, which is washed by the waves; especially, a sandy or pebbly shore; the strand.
|verb (v. t.) To run or drive (as a vessel or a boat) upon a beach; to strand; as, to beach a ship.
|adjective (a.) To make white, or whiter; to remove the color, or stains, from; to blanch; to whiten.
|verb (v. i.) To grow white or lose color; to whiten.
|noun (n.) A bitch of the hound kind.
|noun (n.) The act of breaking, in a figurative sense.
|noun (n.) Specifically: A breaking or infraction of a law, or of any obligation or tie; violation; non-fulfillment; as, a breach of contract; a breach of promise.
|noun (n.) A gap or opening made made by breaking or battering, as in a wall or fortification; the space between the parts of a solid body rent by violence; a break; a rupture.
|noun (n.) A breaking of waters, as over a vessel; the waters themselves; surge; surf.
|noun (n.) A breaking up of amicable relations; rupture.
|noun (n.) A bruise; a wound.
|noun (n.) A hernia; a rupture.
|noun (n.) A breaking out upon; an assault.
|verb (v. t.) To make a breach or opening in; as, to breach the walls of a city.
|verb (v. i.) To break the water, as by leaping out; -- said of a whale.
|noun (n.) A spit.
|noun (n.) An awl; a bodkin; also, a wooden rod or pin, sharpened at each end, used by thatchers.
|noun (n.) A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes in metal; sometimes made smooth or without edges, as for burnishing pivot holes in watches; a reamer. The broach for gun barrels is commonly square and without taper.
|noun (n.) A straight tool with file teeth, made of steel, to be pressed through irregular holes in metal that cannot be dressed by revolving tools; a drift.
|noun (n.) A broad chisel for stonecutting.
|noun (n.) A spire rising from a tower.
|noun (n.) A clasp for fastening a garment. See Brooch.
|noun (n.) A spitlike start, on the head of a young stag.
|noun (n.) The stick from which candle wicks are suspended for dipping.
|noun (n.) The pin in a lock which enters the barrel of the key.
|noun (n.) To spit; to pierce as with a spit.
|noun (n.) To tap; to pierce, as a cask, in order to draw the liquor. Hence: To let out; to shed, as blood.
|noun (n.) To open for the first time, as stores.
|noun (n.) To make public; to utter; to publish first; to put forth; to introduce as a topic of conversation.
|noun (n.) To cause to begin or break out.
|noun (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool.
|noun (n.) To enlarge or dress (a hole), by using a broach.
|noun (n.) A species of fern with fronds (Asplenium Ceterach).
|noun (n.) A large, closed, four-wheeled carriage, having doors in the sides, and generally a front and back seat inside, each for two persons, and an elevated outside seat in front for the driver.
|noun (n.) A special tutor who assists in preparing a student for examination; a trainer; esp. one who trains a boat's crew for a race.
|noun (n.) A cabin on the after part of the quarter-deck, usually occupied by the captain.
|noun (n.) A first-class passenger car, as distinguished from a drawing-room car, sleeping car, etc. It is sometimes loosely applied to any passenger car.
|verb (v. t.) To convey in a coach.
|verb (v. t.) To prepare for public examination by private instruction; to train by special instruction.
|verb (v. i.) To drive or to ride in a coach; -- sometimes used with
|noun (n.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Blatta, and allied genera.
|noun (n.) A tooth of a wool comb.
|noun (a. / a. pron.) Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of you.
|noun (a. / a. pron.) Every; -- sometimes used interchangeably with every.
|noun (n.) Earshot.
|noun (n.) Encroachment.
|verb (v. i.) To enter by gradual steps or by stealth into the possessions or rights of another; to trespass; to intrude; to trench; -- commonly with on or upon; as, to encroach on a neighbor; to encroach on the highway.
|noun (n.) Alt. of Eric
|noun (n.) The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot.
|noun (n.) The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
|noun (n.) Hindrance; impeachment.
|verb (v. t.) To hinder; to impede; to prevent.
|verb (v. t.) To charge with a crime or misdemeanor; to accuse; especially to charge (a public officer), before a competent tribunal, with misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.
|verb (v. t.) Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct.
|verb (v. t.) To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper.
|noun (n.) See 3d Leech.
|noun (n.) A quantity of wood ashes, through which water passes, and thus imbibes the alkali.
|noun (n.) A tub or vat for leaching ashes, bark, etc.
|noun (n.) See Leech, a physician.
|verb (v. t.) To remove the soluble constituents from by subjecting to the action of percolating water or other liquid; as, to leach ashes or coffee.
|verb (v. t.) To dissolve out; -- often used with out; as, to leach out alkali from ashes.
|verb (v. i.) To part with soluble constituents by percolation.
|noun (n.) Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species (N. barbatulus) is used as a food fish.
|noun (n.) The raccoon.
|noun (n.) An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks.
|noun (n.) Alt. of Orache
|noun (n.) See Orach.
|noun (n.) The act of striking the heel of the fore foot with the toe of the hind foot; -- said of horses.
|verb (v. t.) To reach above or beyond in any direction.
|verb (v. t.) To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat.
|verb (v. i.) To reach too far
|verb (v. i.) To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel or shoe of the forefoot; -- said of horses.
|verb (v. i.) To sail on one tack farther than is necessary.
|verb (v. i.) To cheat by cunning or deception.
|noun (n.) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
|noun (n.) A thick, bushy plot; a thicket.
|verb (v. i.) To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.
|verb (v. i.) To stir; to move. See Quick, v. i.
|noun (n.) A well-known high-flavored juicy fruit, containing one or two seeds in a hard almond-like endocarp or stone; also, the tree which bears it (Prunus, / Amygdalus Persica). In the wild stock the fruit is hard and inedible.
|verb (v. t.) To accuse of crime; to inform against.
|verb (v. i.) To turn informer; to betray one's accomplice.
|noun (v. & n.) To cook, as eggs, by breaking them into boiling water; also, to cook with butter after breaking in a vessel.
|noun (v. & n.) To rob of game; to pocket and convey away by stealth, as game; hence, to plunder.
|verb (v. i.) To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.
|verb (v. t.) To stab; to pierce; to spear, as fish.
|verb (v. t.) To force, drive, or plunge into anything.
|verb (v. t.) To make soft or muddy by trampling
|verb (v. t.) To begin and not complete.
|verb (v. i.) To become soft or muddy.
|noun (n.) Alt. of Rache
|noun (n.) An effort to vomit.
|noun (n.) The act of stretching or extending; extension; power of reaching or touching with the person, or a limb, or something held or thrown; as, the fruit is beyond my reach; to be within reach of cannon shot.
|noun (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity.
|noun (n.) Extent; stretch; expanse; hence, application; influence; result; scope.
|noun (n.) An extended portion of land or water; a stretch; a straight portion of a stream or river, as from one turn to another; a level stretch, as between locks in a canal; an arm of the sea extending up into the land.
|noun (n.) An artifice to obtain an advantage.
|noun (n.) The pole or rod which connects the hind axle with the forward bolster of a wagon.
|verb (v. i.) To retch.
|verb (v. t.) To extend; to stretch; to thrust out; to put forth, as a limb, a member, something held, or the like.
|verb (v. t.) Hence, to deliver by stretching out a member, especially the hand; to give with the hand; to pass to another; to hand over; as, to reach one a book.
|verb (v. t.) To attain or obtain by stretching forth the hand; to extend some part of the body, or something held by one, so as to touch, strike, grasp, or the like; as, to reach an object with the hand, or with a spear.
|verb (v. t.) To strike, hit, or touch with a missile; as, to reach an object with an arrow, a bullet, or a shell.
|verb (v. t.) Hence, to extend an action, effort, or influence to; to penetrate to; to pierce, or cut, as far as.
|verb (v. t.) To extend to; to stretch out as far as; to touch by virtue of extent; as, his land reaches the river.
|verb (v. t.) To arrive at; to come to; to get as far as.
|verb (v. t.) To arrive at by effort of any kind; to attain to; to gain; to be advanced to.
|verb (v. t.) To understand; to comprehend.
|verb (v. t.) To overreach; to deceive.
|verb (v. i.) To stretch out the hand.
|verb (v. i.) To strain after something; to make efforts.
|verb (v. i.) To extend in dimension, time, amount, action, influence, etc., so as to touch, attain to, or be equal to, something.
|verb (v. i.) To sail on the wind, as from one point of tacking to another, or with the wind nearly abeam.
|noun (n.) A cockroach.
|noun (n.) A European fresh-water fish of the Carp family (Leuciscus rutilus). It is silver-white, with a greenish back.
|noun (n.) An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.
|noun (n.) The redfin, or shiner.
|noun (n.) A convex curve or arch cut in the edge of a sail to prevent chafing, or to secure a better fit.
|verb (v. t.) To cause to arch.
|verb (v. t.) To cut off, as a horse's mane, so that the part left shall stand upright.
|noun (n.) A defamatory forgery or falsehood published for purposes of political intrigue.
|noun (n.) Alt. of Sandarac
|noun (n.) A beach lying along the sea.
|noun (n.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)
|noun (n.) A coach that runs regularly from one stage, station, or place to another, for the conveyance of passengers.
|noun (n.) An enlargement, or series of enlargements, in the anterior part of the alimentary canal, in which food is digested; any cavity in which digestion takes place in an animal; a digestive cavity. See Digestion, and Gastric juice, under Gastric.
|noun (n.) The desire for food caused by hunger; appetite; as, a good stomach for roast beef.
|noun (n.) Hence appetite in general; inclination; desire.
|noun (n.) Violence of temper; anger; sullenness; resentment; willful obstinacy; stubbornness.
|noun (n.) Pride; haughtiness; arrogance.
|verb (v. t.) To resent; to remember with anger; to dislike.
|verb (v. t.) To bear without repugnance; to brook.
|verb (v. i.) To be angry.
|noun (n.) Any plant of the genus Rhus, shrubs or small trees with usually compound leaves and clusters of small flowers. Some of the species are used in tanning, some in dyeing, and some in medicine. One, the Japanese Rhus vernicifera, yields the celebrated Japan varnish, or lacquer.
|noun (n.) The powdered leaves, peduncles, and young branches of certain species of the sumac plant, used in tanning and dyeing.
|noun (n.) A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, meblius.
|noun (n.) A turnspit.
|adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Auer von Welsbach or the incandescent gas burner invented by him.
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|noun (n.) Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
|noun (n.) Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
|noun (n.) The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
|verb (v. i.) To engage in riot; to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, or the like; to revel; to run riot; to go to excess.
|verb (v. i.) To disturb the peace; to raise an uproar or sedition. See Riot, n., 3.
|verb (v. t.) To spend or pass in riot.
|noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Riot
|noun (n.) One who riots; a reveler; a roisterer.
|noun (n.) One who engages in a riot. See Riot, n., 3.
|noun (n.) Excess; tumult; revelry.
|noun (n.) A rioter.
|adjective (a.) Involving, or engaging in, riot; wanton; unrestrained; luxurious.
|adjective (a.) Partaking of the nature of an unlawful assembly or its acts; seditious.
|noun (n.) The act or practice of rioting; riot.


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The British & Irish Lions unbeaten start to the tour was ended by the ACT Brumbies in Canberra as the Lions failed to score a try for the first time Down Under.
A try for the hosts by Tevita Kuridrani early in the game proved to be the difference as the Lions faced their toughest test of the tour so far, and didn't produce the goods.
It was nearly the perfect start for the Lions and for Shane Williams when, after just two minutes, the Welsh winger was bundled into touch, yards from the try-line.
It was the Brumbies that took the lead in the fifth minute though, when Kuridrani powered past Christian Wade on his way to the try line. Ian Prior missed the conversion.
Halfway through the first half, and the Lions had the chance to reduce the deficit but Stuart Hogg could only drill his penalty kick against the post.
The Lions escaped punishment though, as Jesse Mogg missed his penalty ten minutes later, as it drifted wide.
Minutes before the break and the Brumbies did extend their lead. Ian Prior missed his second kick at the posts before Mogg managed to make it 8-0, with just two minutes of the first half remaining.
The hosts couldn't hold on until the break though. Peter Kimlin went off his feet at a ruck and Hogg obliged with the penalty to get the Lions on the board.
It was the Brumbies that kept up the pressure in the second half as just five minutes after the interval, Mogg scored another penalty to make it 11-3.
Just eight minutes later, and the lead was 11 points, Mogg again on duty, slotting between the posts.
From here, it looked like the Lions were on a fight back mission.
Hogg reduced the deficit to eight with a penalty, before he hit the post again with a kick just two minutes later.
That was to be Hogg's last action as Owen Farrell replaced him and Farrell was straight on kicking duty as he reduced the deficit to five with 18 minutes still to play.
With ten minutes to go, Farrell was in action again as his boot made it 14-12 but the Lions couldn't overturn the score line, and will go into the first Test match against Australia on Saturday following their only defeat of the tour.
It is expected to be a different starting XV on Saturday in Brisbane, but this defeat could be a dent in the confidence of the tourists, who are looking to beat the Wallabies for the first time in a series since 1989.
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ST. PAUL, Minn.—A decision about pay raises for top Minnesota officials, including state lawmakers, now rests with the Legislature.
The appointed Compensation Council voted Monday night for a package of proposed pay hikes for the governor, legislators, judges and state agency heads.
The raises would be the first for the governor and legislators since the 1990s.
Lawmakers have been reluctant in past years to embrace similar pay proposals, but legislative leaders and Gov. Mark Dayton are leaving the door open this time.
The recommended raises for elected officials wouldn't kick immediately. The governor's $120,000 a year wage would rise by 3 percent in 2015 and 2016, and lawmakers would see their annual pay go from about $31,000 to about $42,000 in that time frame.
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BOSTON, Mass. – For the first time in the history of the UMass Boston softball program, the Beacons will be making their second straight trip to the Little East Conference, which is scheduled to begin on Thursday at noon at the Eastern Connecticut State University Softball Field in Mansfield, Connecticut.
The Beacons, who earned the sixth seed in this year's tournament, will open up play against the top-seeded Warriors of Eastern Connecticut. UMass Boston closed out its 2012 regular season schedule with a 17-19 overall record, 3-11 in the LEC.
Thursday's conference tournament meeting between UMass and ECSU will mark the first-ever between the two squads. Last season, the Beacons fell to Western Connecticut in the opening round, but bounced back in their second game to record the program's first postseason win with a 4-2 victory over Plymouth State. UMass were eliminated the next day by Rhode Island College (4-1) in a very close game.
Going into this year's tournament, head coach Natalia Ardagna will bring with her a solid mix of both veteran and new talent that has shown it can compete with any team they face.
Junior Sue Killilea (Abington, Mass.) enters her second postseason with the Beacons with a team-leading .413 average in 32 games played. The catcher turned shortstop this season totaled 45 hits, 20 RBI and 29 runs scored in 109 at-bats. She reached base a combined 72 times and ranks amongst the league leaders with her .661 slugging percentage. Going into the tournament she leads the LEC in triples with 10 and also has seven doubles to her name as well. On the base-paths the Abington native leads the Beacons and is ranked in the top-10 in stolen bases with 10. Earlier in the year, Killilea broke-up a potential perfect game for the Warriors with a huge triple in the bottom of the seventh inning in game one of the doubleheader.
UMass is also looking for big things from their two freshmen power hitters in Samantha Hemstock (Northford, Conn.) and Amanda Perry (Worcester, Mass.). Hemstock currently sits second on the team with .355 average and has 39 hits, 22 RBI, 19 runs scored, and 44 total bases. Right behind her is Perry with her .333 average and .713 slugging percentage. As a freshman, Perry has already established three new program records in home runs in a season and in a career with 11 and runs batted in in a season with 36. She has reached base a team-best 77 times and currently carries a .417 on-base percentage, which is second behind Killilea's .480 obp.
In the circle the Beacons have looked to senior pitcher Kara Willis (Burrillville, R.I.) and freshman Michelle Zullo (Everett, Mass.) all season long. The two have recorded a combined 227.1 innings of work and have struck out 124 batters respectively. Zullo currently leads the bullpen with three shutouts and has a 10-9 record overall. Willis has started in 19 games this season and has gone the distance 14 times.
As a team, the Beacons currently sit fifth in the LEC with a .303 average, a .425 slugging percentage, and .360 on-base percentage. They are also ranked fifth in hits with 303, runs batted in with 154, and total bases with 425. UMass is currently sitting second in triples with 20 and is fourth in home runs with 15.
When looking at Eastern Connecticut State the only thing that fans and teams will see this postseason is senior All-American Molly Rathbun. Perhaps one of the most dominant players to ever play in Willimantic, Rathbun has been a staple in the Beacons line-up for the last three seasons and has carried the Warriors to back-to-back NCAA Division III Regional titles and appearances in the Division III Softball World Series.
Going into Thursday's meeting with the Beacons, Rathbun ranks second in the Little East with her .475 average, and currently has 47 hits, 35 RBI, 10 doubles, and three home runs. In the circle there is no one close to her 0.32 ERA. In 153.0 innings of work, the senior has totaled 247 strikeouts, while only allowing 21 walks, 55 hits, 14 runs (7 earned), and currently boasts a 25-1 record overall, with four saves.
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Insurance Carrier/Appellant.
1. Copeland v. Johnson Group, 24 Kan. App. 2d 305, 944 P.2d 179 (1997), is analyzed and applied.
2. Under the facts of this case, leaving employment for good cause for reasons unrelated to the injury involved, does not constitute bad faith in seeking employment.
Appeal from Workers Compensation Board. Opinion filed January 17, 2003. Affirmed.
Joseph Seiwert, of Snider & Seiwert, L.L.C., of Wichita, for the appellee.
Stephen J. Jones, of Law Office of Stephen Jones, of Wichita, for the appellants.
Before BEIER, P.J., PIERRON, J., and PADDOCK, S.J.
PIERRON, J.: PIP Printing, Inc., and Dodson Insurance Group (PIP) appeal the determination of work disability granted by the Workers Compensation Board (Board) to Kelly Cavender. PIP argues the Board improperly computed Cavender's work disability based on a 100% wage loss.
The facts in this case are for the most part undisputed. In October 1999, Cavender, a printing press operator at PIP, was injured while lifting a 70-pound box of paper. Over the next several months, she received medical treatment. In January 2000, PIP terminated Cavender's employment, and she filed a workers compensation claim on January 18, 2000. Cavender eventually had back surgery in late March 2000 and was released to go back to work in September 2000 with work restrictions, including multiple lifting restrictions.
After her injury, PIP never offered Cavender accommodated employment. On September 24, 2000, Cavender found a job with Envelope Manufacturers (Envelope) working in customer sales. She worked at Envelope for $8 per hour and was supposed to be full time, but usually was sent home early from work. Cavender testified that her boss at Envelope made unwelcome contact with her, including hugging and touching, and that he engaged in sexual relations with a coworker, not his wife, at the workplace. Cavender stated that her boss' conduct bothered her a great deal, to the point she quit on December 31, 2000. Cavender was unable to find other employment.
There was no dispute that Cavender's functional impairment rating was 15% whole body impairment and she was entitled to work disability. The parties agreed that Cavender suffered a task loss of 12.5%. However, the parties greatly contested what percentage of post-injury wage loss would be used to determine Cavender's work disability. PIP argued Cavender had exhibited bad faith in terminating her position with Envelope and, therefore, her wage loss should be determined on her ability. Cavender argued she terminated her position with Envelope in good faith and, therefore, her wage loss should be determined by actual wage loss.
The Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) sided with PIP and found Cavender's wage at Envelope would be imputed to her wage loss in determining work disability.
"The real issue concerns the Claimant's wage loss. The Claimant argues that she was forced to resign from Envelope Manufacturers because of sexual harassment and should be entitled to 100% wage loss. Assuming the Court were to find this to be the case, that may give rise to an action against Envelope Manufacturing; however, it may not give rise to an increased wage loss under Workers Compensation. Based on the Claimant's testimony, the Court finds that the Claimant did not self-terminate her employment for reasons of sexual harassment but terminated her employment for actions by her [employer] which violated her sense of morality. The Court will therefore proceed as if the Claimant were still employed with that employer for the purposes of determining wage loss. The testimony was that if the Claimant were to have stayed with that employer that she would have received the same fringe benefits that she received with the Respondent. The Court will, however, take into consideration that the Claimant only averaged $248.13 per week for her base wage. This would give us a 42% wage loss."
The Board took a view opposite the ALJ and determined that Cavender had exhibited good faith in her job search after her injury and was successful in obtaining employment with Envelope. The Board found that her job with Envelope was an "untenable work environment" and that she had "acted reasonably and in good faith in making the decision to quit that job." She then made a good faith effort to find employment, but was unsuccessful. The Board held that Cavender's good faith actions necessitated use of her actual wage loss in determining work disability. The Board found Cavender had a 100% wage loss following her injury, a 48% wage loss while she worked at Envelope, and a 100% wage loss after she quit her job at Envelope. The Board stated:
"In this case, because there is no gap in benefits, the award of permanent partial disability compensation calculates the same by using only the last wage loss percentage and the last percentage of work disability. Therefore, the award will be calculated based upon a 56.25 percent permanent partial disability which is arrived at by averaging the 12.5% task loss with the 100% wage loss."
PIP argues the Board incorrectly computed Cavender's work disability based on a 100% wage loss. PIP contends Cavender is not entitled to work disability derived from a 100% wage loss when she voluntarily terminated her post-injury employment based on matters unrelated to her workers compensation injury or her physical restrictions. PIP claims Cavender's voluntary termination should limit her work disability using an imputed wage based on her actual employment.
K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 44-556(a) specifically subjects workers compensation appeals to the Act for Judicial Review and Civil Enforcement of Agency Actions (Act), K.S.A. 77-601 et seq. The Act limits the relief granted on appeal. K.S.A. 77-621(c). K.S.A. 77-621(c) states that the court shall grant relief only if it determines any one or more of the eight conditions stated are present, including the following:
"(4) the agency has erroneously interpreted or applied the law;
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"(7) the agency action is based on a determination of fact, made or implied by the agency, that is not supported by evidence that is substantial when viewed in light of the record as a whole, which includes the agency record for judicial review, supplemented by any additional evidence received by the court under this act."
K.S.A. 44-510e(a) allows work disability in excess of functional impairment only if the claimant is making less than 90% of his or her preinjury gross weekly wage. If this percentage is met, K.S.A. 44-510e(a) provides the equation for computing work disability:
"The extent of permanent partial general disability shall be the extent, expressed as a percentage, to which the employee, in the opinion of the physician, has lost the ability to perform the work tasks that the employee performed in any substantial gainful employment during the fifteen-year period preceding the accident, averaged together with the difference between the average weekly wage the worker was earning at the time of the injury and the average weekly wage the worker is earning after the injury."
The cases interpreting K.S.A. 44-510e have added the requirement that an employee must set forth a good faith effort to secure appropriate employment before work disability will be awarded. See Copeland v. Johnson Group, 24 Kan. App. 2d 306, Syl. ¶ 7, 944 P.2d 179 (1997); Foulk v. Colonial Terrace, 20 Kan. App. 2d 277, 284, 887 P.2d 140 (1994), rev. denied 257 Kan. 1091 (1995).
The good faith of an employee's efforts to find or retain appropriate employment is determined on a case-by-case basis. "Where the Board finds an employee made a good faith effort, the Board's determination will be upheld if supported by substantial competent evidence." Parsons v. Seaboard Farms, Inc., 27 Kan. App. 2d 843, 848, 9 P.3d 591 (2000). Whether the Board's findings of fact are supported by substantial competent evidence is a question of law. See Berry v. Boeing Military Airplanes, 20 Kan. App. 2d 220, 223, 885 P.2d 1261 (1994).
"In workers compensation cases, substantial evidence is ' "evidence possessing something of substance and relevant consequence and carrying with it fitness to induce conviction that the award is proper, or furnishing substantial basis of fact from which the issue tendered can be reasonably resolved." [Citation omitted.]' Angleton v. Starkan, Inc., 250 Kan. 711, 716, 828 P.2d 933 (1992)." Foulk, 20 Kan. App. 2d at 285.
In Foulk, an employee refused an employer's offer of accommodated employment and then claimed that she was entitled to work disability. The Foulk court disagreed stating that "it would be unreasonable . . . to conclude that the legislature intended to encourage workers to merely sit at home, refuse to work, and take advantage of the workers compensation system." 20 Kan. App. 2d at 284. The holding in Copeland expanded Foulk by adding the good faith test:
"In attempting to harmonize the language of K.S.A. 44-510e(a) with the principles of Foulk, we find the factfinder must first make a finding of whether a claimant has made a good faith effort to find appropriate employment. If such a finding is made, the difference in pre- and post-injury wages based on the actual wages can be made. This may lead to a finding of lesser wages, perhaps even zero wages, notwithstanding expert opinion to the contrary.
"If a finding is made that a good faith effort has not been made, the factfinder will have to determine an appropriate post-injury wage based on all the evidence before it, including expert testimony concerning the capacity to earn wages. Since no such determination was made here, we reverse and remand on that issue also." 24 Kan. App. 2d at 320.
PIP warns the court to not extend the good faith test beyond the intent and purpose of the workers compensation system. PIP contends the good faith test is appropriate when an employee is terminated from employment either from an accommodated position with the same employer, due to the employment being outside physical restrictions, or because circumstances have changed justifying a refusal of accommodated employment. See Parsons v. Seaboard Farms Inc., 27 Kan. App. 2d 843 (2000) (accommodated job 45 miles away and on night shift)); Oliver v. Boeing Co., 26 Kan. App. 2d 74, 977 P.2d 288, rev. denied 267 Kan. 886 (1999) (work began to exceed employee's restrictions); Lee v. Boeing Co., 21 Kan. App. 2d 365, 899 P.2d 516 (1995) (employee terminated from accommodated position due to economic lay offs). However, PIP argues disability benefits should be limited or denied for claimants who terminate future employment based on reasons wholly and apart from their injuries or restrictions.
The Workers Compensation Act does not impose an affirmative duty upon the employer to offer accommodated work. See Griffin v. Dodge City Cooperative Exchange, 23 Kan. App. 2d 139, 147-48, 927 P.2d 958 (1996), rev. denied 261 Kan. 1084 (1997). If an employer does not offer accommodated work, the employee still has a duty to look for work within his or her restrictions. However, if an employee sets forth a good faith effort and cannot find work earning at least 90% of their preinjury wage, then the past employer is responsible for work disability.
The purpose of the good faith test, at its very core, is to prevent employees from taking advantage of the workers compensation system. Copeland, 24 Kan. App. 2d at 319. In situations where post-injury workers leave future employment, the good faith test is extended to determine whether leaving was reasonable. Clearly, in the cases cited by PIP, leaving employment was reasonable when the employment became outside physical restrictions or the changed circumstances justified a refusal of accommodated employment. However, the reasonableness of leaving employment is not limited to a decision based on work restrictions or injuries.
The present case is closest in nature, while still not on point, to those cases where an injured employee is terminated due to economic downturn and layoff and the employee is found to still be entitled to work disability. Those cases present a situation where termination or leaving employment is unrelated to the workers compensation injury or restrictions. The Boeing court stated: "It is not the intent of the legislature to deprive an employee of work disability benefits after a high-paying employer discharges him or her as part of an economic layoff where the employer was accommodating the injured employee at a higher wage than the employee could earn elsewhere." 21 Kan. App. 2d at 372.
The case at bar does not present a situation where the employee is denied work disability based on termination for cause. Kansas courts have found that under certain circumstances, a worker is precluded from obtaining permanent partial disability compensation. In Perez v. IBP, Inc., 16 Kan. App. 2d 277, 826 P.2d 520 (1991), Perez argued that his work-related injuries prevented him from engaging in any type of employment following his termination from IBP for absenteeism. The Perez court recognized that "K.S.A.1990 Supp. 44-510e(a) creates a presumption that no work disability exists under circumstances where the worker returns to the same work, for the same wage, after an injury." 16 Kan. App. 2d at 279. This court noted the evidence revealed that Perez returned to work almost immediately after his injury, worked 33 out of 57 days, and was ultimately terminated for absenteeism. This court concluded by affirming the award limiting Perez to his demonstrated functional impairment and not granting any work disability. 16 Kan. App. 2d at 279.
The parties cite two other cases which they believe are analogous to this situation.
In Watkins v. Food Barn Stores, Inc., 23 Kan. App. 2d 837, 936 P.2d 294 (1997), the claimant was injured but able to return to work in an unaccommodated job at a wage comparable to that earned before his injury. The court found under those facts that the presumption of no work disability applies and will not be rebutted absent evidence of a change in the employee's physical condition. 23 Kan. App. 2d at 839.
In Tharp v. Eaton Corp., 23 Kan. App. 2d, 895, 940 P.2d 66 (1997), the court distinguished the rule in Watkins where a sham position was created which did not require any work. The court found the statutory presumption of no work disability was not invoked due to the artificial accommodated position not being an actual work situation. 23 Kan. App. 2d at 898.
Neither of these cases is directly on point, but they do underline the purpose of the workers compensation system to compensate workers based on actual loss of earning capacity.
Under the facts of this case, there was substantial evidence supporting the Board's finding that Cavender met the burden of showing a good faith effort to find appropriate employment.
"[A]bility or capacity to earn wages only becomes a factor when a finding is made that a good faith effort to find appropriate employment has not been made. . . . Once a finding has been made that the claimant has established a good faith effort, the differences in pre- and post-injury wages can be based on the actual wages made." Helmstetter v. Midwest Grain Products, Inc., 29 Kan. App. 2d 278, 281, 28 P.3d 398 (2001).
We stress that the facts of this case appear to clearly indicate, for a number of reasons, a hostile workplace which practically compelled Cavender to resign. The fact that the reason for her leaving this employment was not injury related is not controlling. The issue is one of good faith attempts by Cavender to find employment.
There is no evidence in this case of bad faith on the part of Cavender to take advantage of the workers compensation system. There is no dispute that she exhibited a good faith effort to find employment before and after she left Envelope but was simply unsuccessful. The fact that she left her employment with Envelope because of allegations of sexual harassment and open sexual relations in the work place does not equate to bad faith under the Workers Compensation Act. Consequently, the Board correctly determined Cavender's wage loss utilizing her actual wage earnings following her injury.


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By Cody Willard
To find out what stocks and options I'm trading in my personal account, please check out TradingWithCody.com, where you also get access to all five of my investment books, including the brand new "30 Stocks for the Cloud Revolution" for free.
Let's review what I've been doing to re-build my portfolio in broad terms.
From a strategic standpoint, I've been buying the best companies I can find in the App Revolution and the Cloud Revolution like Apple, which I discuss in more detail in the video below, which I think will explode into a new bubble in coming years and I've complemented those longs with long positions in the commodities-we-consume like the DBA and a huge opportunity to catch the upside in the best companies in an upcycle like the auto industry and our Visteon long. I've been shorting the worst culprit of the mortgage service crisis and the too-big-to-fail banks who remain dependent upon welfare from the government to survive and also shorting some of the companies on the wrong side of the App and Cloud Revolutions like Cablevision. And starting early last week just as they started crashing, we started shorting and buying puts in silver and gold.
From a tactical standpoint, I've been buying when the markets have taken big hits like they did just days after I started building this portfolio and the Japan tsunami hit, crashing our markets and theirs for days. We bought common and calls and I highlighted each common stock and option trade I've been doing as I've been doing them for you dear readers. Likewise, I've been buying puts and shorting stocks after big rallies to the upside in the broader markets, using the higher prices as opportunities to build the dark side short bets.
And the fact is that both the strategies and the tactics have been working very well, as some of these readers have attested in recent emails from subscribers of TradingWithCody.com where I detail all my stock and option trades in real time:
Really enjoying your trading with Cody subscription. I just joined and I am slowly building up my positions and love the story. So far all my positions are up, unlike my other stock newsletters that I cancelled today. – Clay
Hey Cody, I'm delighted with your analysis, and I've made way, way more than your subscription price on my trades. My NUAN Jan calls are up 157%! – Jim
First of all, CY, and now NUAN have many times over paid for my subscription, with every other trade above water, except RVBD [editor's note: RVBD is up 20% since we received this email]. – Dan
You paid for my subscription for the year. Bought the ZSL yesterday and probably sold early but got a 20% return in 24 hours. Great call. – Sarah
Like Sarah, I made 20+% shorting SLV. I also made 100+% on SLV puts. Also like her, I had to take the big profit off the table. Hopefully there will be another opportunity coming with SLV. I kept my short on GLD. Great timing from you. Thanks. – Larry
But let's step back for a moment and set some expectations here. It's not normal to correctly pick and trade 20 new positions over the course of 75 days or so, which is how long I've been re-building this portfolio now. We've had some big winners in the portfolio already, especially in some of our options trades, most of which were done with long-dated in-the-money calls because they weren't even supposed to be short-term bets, even as I correctly thought we could juice our profits by navigating the swings like we did.
But here's the real deal when it comes to trading — great traders aren't going to be right 100% or 90% of the time. They won't be right 70% of the time. Great traders build their portfolio slowly but surely, staying in the game at all costs, but they really only need to get 55% or so of their trades right over the course of the next ten years and we'll be very successful investors with huge gains in our personal portfolios.
I'm proud and thrilled that we've got so many positions going so right for so many of our subscribers. But I want to be clear that I do not have a magic bullet for picking stocks and I will get some of these trades wrong sometimes. I am human and I am fallible. I will guarantee you this much though — nobody will work harder, think freer or bring you more challenging analysis than yours truly.
In the meantime, respect the winning streak! And enjoy it.
To find out what stocks options I'm using to maximize my profits, please check out TradingWithCody.com, where I detail all the trades in my personal account in real time and where you also get access to all five of my investment books, including the brand new "30 Stocks for the Cloud Revolution" for free.
At time of publication, Willard, author of Revolution Investing and Trading With Cody, was net long lots of app and cloud stocks, DBA, Visteon, and short gold, silver, Cablevision and financials though positions can change at any time. None of the information in this column constitutes a recommendation by Willard of any particular security or trading strategy is suitable for any specific person.


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September 5, 2009 11:04:00 PM
QUITMAN -- All eyes were on Markese Triplett on Friday night.
Many believed the Louisville High School senior wide receiver would be the playmaker to watch against Quitman High.
Perhaps a couple of those eyes should have been watching speedy Quitman junior wideout Dyar Ealie.
Ealie scored on a 90-yard kickoff return and a 58-yard pass play and made a 9-yard, over-the-shoulder touchdown catch on fourth down to lead Quitman to a 42-25 whipping Friday night.
"He was a real good player, and we really didn''t know much about him," Louisville coach Brad Peterson said. "You really could see how good he was on the film. He was very elusive."
After Louisville had taken a 7-0 lead with 4 minutes, 2 seconds left in the first quarter on a 41-yard fumble return by Triplett, Ealie took the ensuing kickoff at the Panthers'' 10, broke down the left sideline, and the cut back to the middle just past midfield to race to the end zone untouched.
"We wanted to kick the ball away from No. 2 (DeAnthony Pickens), and that wasn''t a real good decision," Peterson said.
After the Wildcats (2-1), retook the lead at 13-8 on a 1-yard quarterback sneak by Chris Wraggs, Ealie had another big play to help Quitman answer.
Just three plays after Louisville''s score, Quitman quarterback Wesley Warren hit Ealie with a pass down the right sideline, and Ealie outran the Wildcats to put the winners back in front 14-13 with 10:16 left in the half.
Two possessions later, the Wildcats found themselves pinned deep at their 11. On first down, Quitman linebacker Adrian Moore stepped in front of a Wraggs pass and walked in for the touchdown from 14 yards out with 4:40 left in the half.
"The kickoff return killed us and the interception return killed us," Peterson said. "We didn''t play great and Quitman did. I thought they played a heck of a football game."
Although his team led 21-13 at halftime, Quitman coach John Douglass knew his team would have to score more.
"I told them at halftime, ''Guys we get the ball first, we have to score,'' " Douglass said. "If we do it''s a three-score ballgame and it changes their whole mentality.''"
Four plays into the second half, Pickens busted through a hole in the middle and raced 50 yards for a touchdown with 10:52 left in the third quarter. The kick by Carlos Davis extended the lead to 28-13.
"We always talk about the first possession of the third quarter being the deciding factor and they won that factor right there," Peterson said.
The victory helped the Panthers open a refurbished stadium, which was nothing more than a dirt plot in mid-summer, in style.
"It''s probably the biggest win we''ve had since I''ve been here," Douglass said. "I felt going into it that it was the biggest game we have played -- opening this stadium, playing one of the best 4A schools in the state, and all that goes with it."
The Wildcats didn''t go away easily. They cut it to 28-19 on a 36-yard pass from Wraggs to Jordan Christion, who made a juggling catch for the touchdown with 4:21 left in the third quarter.
Once again, Quitman responded. This time, the Panthers marched 66 yards on nine plays, with Pickens scoring on a 2-yard run with 11:56 left in the game to make it 35-19.
Quitman made it 42-19 on a 9-yard pass on fourth and goal from Warren to Dyar. Louisville added a late touchdown on Blake Cunningham''s 7-yard run.
Pickens rushed for 155 yards on 20 carries to lead Quitman, while Warren hit on 7 of 13 passes for 130 yards.
Ealie had four catches for 111 yards.
The Panthers held Louisville to just 51 rushing yards and picked off three passes.
Wraggs hit on 17 of 29 passes for 164 yards for Louisville, while Triplett had six catches for 31 yards and Christion had four catches for 73 yards.
Cunningham led Louisville rushers with 32 yards on seven carries.
Louisville will play host to Class 6A Tupelo at 7:30 p.m. Friday, while Quitman will travel to Meridian High.
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Valerie Harper, diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in January and given three to six months to live, has defied the odds and as of June was close to remission, the actress and her doctor revealed Thursday morning on the "Today" show.
The 74-year-old "Rhoda" star, who went public with her diagnosis in March, has combined chemotherapy with Eastern options including acupuncture and Chinese tea. Harper has the rare condition leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, which occurs when cancer spreads to the fluid-filled membranes that surround the brain. It's a metastatic form of cancer, meaning it traveled to those membranes from the lung cancer she was diagnosed with in 2009.
But even though it's good news, it doesn't mean her brain cancer is cured.
"The problem is that any minute this can change ... ," her doctor said. "[Patients] develop resistance to the therapy and it's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when."
Harper has maintained an upbeat public attitude since her cancer revelation, which she shared in detail at the time with People magazine. Now, she's cooperated for "Valerie's Story — A Meredith Vieira Special," set to air Sept. 19 on NBC. The cameras travel into Harper's home and even accompany her to chemotherapy.
Before learning of her new status, she explained to Vieria, "Spontaneous remission lives as a possibility, do you know what I mean, girlfriend? ... It's there. ... I think infinite possibility is beautiful in every area."
And that possibility manifested as reality, in this case.
Harper's husband, Tony Cacciotti, naturally, was thrilled by the prognosis.
"Going from having three months to live or less," he said, "we're into our sixth month and now there's even hope beyond that, right now we're looking at ...
"We're looking at Christmas," said his wife.
"This is overwhelming," Cacciotti said.
Another possibility in Harper's future: a whirl as a contestant on "Dancing With the Stars." TMZ reported the rumor Wednesday, naming Tristan MacManus as her partner. The new "DWTS" cast will be officially revealed Wednesday on "Good Morning America."
[For the record, 2 p.m. Aug. 30: An earlier version of this post incorrectly said Harper "beat lung cancer." Leptomeningeal carcinomatosis is a metastatic form of cancer, meaning it traveled from the lungs.]
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The Demise of Newsweek: Good Riddance to Rubbish
Everyone is falling all over themselves crying in their beer about the demise of one of America's most cherished cultural institutions.
The Smithsonian wasn't bombed. The Metropolitan Museum hasn't been ransacked. Nor has the proverbial fat lady finally sung at the Met Opera.
No, we're talking about Newsweek. Yes, I was shocked too; not that it was discontinuing its print edition but that it was still printing every week. And if that's so, is the most recent issue in my dentist's office always at least 1 year old?
To those who believe that a cabal of 1 percenters repressed an eensy-left-of-center newsweekly, the most obvious culprit is the one you're using right now. Even if the Web hadn't made a weekly digest as quaint as receiving news via Pony Express, Newsweek would eventually have fallen victim to the 24-hour-a-day news cycle of cable TV "news' networks (ironic quotes here), daily syndicated entertainment-journalism programs, and all the other blather that fills airtime between ads for treatments of bizarre ailments.
Newsweek actually has existed for two years on life support. In 2010, its parent company, the Washington Post, got tired of subsidizing its losses and couldn't unload it until a retired billionaire, Sydney Harman, bought it for $1, which gives a good indication of how the market valued the magazine.
Even more damaging than the exodus of readers to digital media was its obvious cooking of its circulation figures. By virtually giving subscriptions away, it was able to charge more for ad space. But media buyers knew that most readers were barely glancing at the content -- and at ads not at all.
Harman was briefly lauded as a savior of serious journalism until he revealed that he had teamed up with Tina Brown and would merge his new property with her fledgling all-things-to-all-people website, the Daily Beast.
The British-born-and-bred Brown made her reputation early in her career as the editor of a struggling society glossy magazine called The Tatler. She gussied it up with big-name contributors, and covered more of London's swinging set and less stodgy titled nobility and royals.
Bright, ambitious and ruthless, Brown was the female version of the nasty, brutish Fleet Street reporters satirized in Evelyn Waugh's novel "Scoop." British journalism has always been more rough and tumble than ours. Reporters routinely use blackmail, bribery, payoffs, sexual favors -- anything to get a story, amply demonstrated by the current unfolding of hacking private phone lines, including the immediate family of a brutally murdered young girl.
Brown also spearheaded relentless press coverage of Princess Diana, about whom she much later wrote a thick book that I devoured. It also showed the dogged searcher of hard facts, the shaper of a narrative, the mistress of breezy English. That she and her cohorts hounded Princess Di to her death in Paris is apparently something, however, that has escaped her piercing gaze.
Brown arrived on these shores to revive another dying venerable magazine title, Vanity Fair. Brown transformed it into an upscale, literate version of People. As a reward, the publisher gave her the most prestigious editing job in English-language magazines, The New Yorker.
Some (many, actually) say she dumbed down the magazine, which is probably unfair. Its famous fustiness was out of date; long articles on series on subjects like the history of the potato seemed stale, irrelevant and, in a world less inclined to linger, too damn long.
She made it relevant again, but also introduced photography and brought in writers far from the suede-patch-sleeved norm there. She badly flubbed her next move when she founded Talk, which represents the worst of her editorial instincts. If Vanity Fair was People for the 1 percent, the short-lived glossy Talk came off as their National Enquirer.
She eventually recovered and became a TV talking head, author, and founder, with (barely closeted) media mogul Barry Diller, of the Daily Beast. Now Diller has decided -- very reasonably, in my opinion -- that a publicly traded company can't afford the luxury of subsidizing a money pit.
The Article That Made Newsweek Jump the Shark
Brown immediately brought to Newsweek her trademark brand of flashy headlines, bold graphics, shortened content and lots and lots of photographs. But she also brought to the most sober of the newsweeklies in-your-face articles that screamed "Read me, dammit!"
Longtime editor John Meacham was the epitome of the old WASP Establishment. Sober, responsible, intelligent and industrious, in between editing a weekly he managed to write several nonfiction books and even won a Pulitzer Prize for biography.
Brown was to Meacham as, say, one of Liz Taylor's necklaces was to Barbara Bush's single strand of pearls. To her, buzz was all. It didn't matter if people hated your magazine or thought it ridiculous; they were talking about it. The Harman's family pointedly and publicly stated that they were walking away from the magazine because of her misguided policies favoring sensationalism over sober reporting on important subjects that weren't "sexy."
As it became more apparent that the magazine was on the ropes, Brown sunk ever lower into mire of crappy writing, shoddy reporting and shallow thinking.
Which brings us to Newsweek's own Fonzi moment, when it waterskied over the shark.
The skier was one Ramin Setoodeh, a young gay journalist who has since become a footnote, a has-been. Setoodeh claimed that, after actor Sean Hayes came out as gay, it was impossible to accept him as a leading man. "Most of the critics ignored the real problem -- the big pink elephant in the room," he wrote, about "Promises, Promises," Hayes' first turn as a Broadway musical star.
Actually, every critic ignored it. But that's only the beginning of Setoodeh's lack of intelligent reporting.
He compared Hayes unfavorably to the macho swaggering of Jerry Orbach's original assay of the role, although Sedooteh admits he never saw Orbach perform anywhere but on TV's "Law and Order," which is like judging Sally Field based on "The Flying Nun."
What's so weird about this article is that Setoodeh blithely glides over the careers of closeted actors like Tab Hunter, Rock Hudson and Richard Chamberlain in one sentence. Following his argument, the obvious question is, do we look at their performances differently knowing that? As a lover of old movies, I never thought Hunter's or Hudson's romancing of their leading ladies suddenly became fake because I now knew that they preferred partners with different plumbing.
Setoodeh's twisted logic became the subject of universal ridicule. I can't recall anyone stepping up to defend him, excepting, perhaps, the homophobic Christian Right. The drumbeat of opprobrium culminated in Chenoweth herself called his piece "horrendously homophobic" in a lengthy printed response.
"This article offends me because I am a human being, a woman and a Christian," she wrote. "For example, there was a time when Jewish actors had to change their names because anti-Semites thought no Jew could convincingly play Gentile."
She could have added that this was the Nazis' justification for "de-Jewing" the German performing arts. Setooodeh's argument leads to some odd conclusions. For example, no Gentile should play Shylock. No practicing Jews or Protestants could pull off a convincing performance of the passionately committed Catholic St. Thomas Moore.
Rather than feeling chastised, Brown saw the outcry over such ridiculous articles as a success in her campaign to create the sacred buzz. People were talking about Newsweek! A big Broadway star wrote a lengthy response to one of our articles! We have more Google results for this issue than Time!
Over the next two years, the magazine's cover stories, always a magazine's floating trademark, would descend to nonsense like "Obama: The First Gay President" (with a rainbow halo), followed by a simplistic hatchet job on the president by one of the most notorious Obama bashers, Niall Ferguson. At least the magazine was even-handed: One issue dismissed Romney as a "wimp," while another discussed how well his Mormon religion prepared him to be national leader.
It's not worth going over all the madcap silliness that overshadowed the magazine's proud history like a pig shitting on a truffle it had just found. But attention must be paid to one of the last cover stories -- and the one that took Brown's Newsweek from the merely ridiculous to potentially dangerous. Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- surprise, the wife of the odious Ferguson! -- wrote of how she "survived the Muslim rage."
Publishing this only days after Americans were horrified by a mob's murder of our ambassador to Libya, this exercise in Islam bashing and the ugliest stereotypes made Newsweek the kind of magazine that, if it were being published in Germany in 1938, would have followed Kristallnacht with a story about an Aryan man who escaped rape, poverty and circumcision at the clutches of demonic, sex-crazed, avaricious Jews.
Toward the end, Newsweek's weekly stream of lowest-common denominator crap like "Heaven Is Real," lazy recycled news reports like "America's Obesity Crisis" had reduced it to a punch line. Even Michele Bachmann managed to solicit sympathy from, among others, the National Organization of Women for the infamously Photoshopped "crazy eyes" cover photo of her.
Making Bachmann look even more crazy is merely unprofessional and personally insulting. But to attempt to horn into the national conversation by fanning the already high-level flames of anti-Muslim hatred in this country is the worst kind of advocacy journalism. And to ghettoize gay actors into effeminate or macho-clone stereotypes would be beneath a high school newspaper.
No, I won't miss Newsweek. And my dentist still has lots of old National Geographics.


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I've been away from the site most of the day because it's taken all day to wipe up the snorted coffee all over my desk from the news that the European Union has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Is today April Fools Day and nobody told me?
I can hardly contain the paroxysms of mirth and disgust at this vain and self-regarding gesture. Fortunately, I don't have to. The overachieving Walter Russell Mead felt the same way, and apparently didn't snort his coffee. Some choice excerpts:
Move over, UNICEF. Make some room, Pugwash Conference, United Nations and IPCC. American Friends Service Committee, Doctors Without Borders, and International Committee of the Red Cross, you have a new colleague. The European Union is joining the ranks of organizations awarded the world's most sententious and self-regarding accolade, the Nobel Peace Prize. . .
The Europeans have made a bigger hash of their social insurance policies than we have, their immigration policy is a time bomb, their ideas about foreign policy and power are laughable, and their monetary incompetence will be held up to the wonder and scorn of future generations for centuries to come. They are almost as incompetent at constitution making as they are at currency organization. For generations EU leaders have boastfully compared themselves to the American founders; for generations they have failed to build an effective polity. Each new constitutional or treaty initiative creates a bigger mess: more inconsequential, ill-defined bureaucracies and legislative bodies, less public support, less effectiveness and transparency in governance.
No part of the world is more narcissistic than Europe. No one sings "We are the World" with more assurance and less doubt.
I'm glad Walter has saved me the trouble of hooting and jeering this ridiculous pick. Of course, the Nobel Peace Prize has been so debased by its recent winners (Al Gore, Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama. . .) that maybe I've missed the real genius here, which is that the pick is meant to heap ridicule on Brussels. I guarantee the Eurocrats won't get the joke. But it's sure giving me a great laugh.


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This February, you could be flying to Seattle – the home of grunge and the rainy capital of the Northwest Kingdom – to see Soundgarden live in concert and meet the band backstage. The prize also includes $500 – so you can do Seattle right. It's like 1994 all over again.
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The NBA Cheerleaders are Back! — Morning Eyegasm [PICTURES]
Now that the NBA lockout is officially behind us, and teams are back on the court, we can concentrate on the most important part of any NBA game — the cheerleaders. Every NBA game is indoors, unlike the NFL, where the pom-pom pushers for the cold weather teams have to bundle up when the temperature drops. NBA cheerleaders wear short shorts all year long. The NBA, it's fannnnnntastic!
Here is a gallery of early season NBA cheerleaders working the hardwood. Hehe. We did that on purpose.


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