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should i take dha while pregnant?
haven't seen an ob yet but the ob nurse asked if the prenatal vitamins i'm taking had dha in them. she also gave me some samples of vitamins that have dha but they aren't vegan so i haven't taken them. should i be taking a dha supplement?
Most prenatals have it in already now-a-days, but I did take it while I was pregnant. I think all formula's are now fortified with DHA too, I'm not sure if there's any reason not to.
DHA helps to guard against neural tube defects. That's why it is recommended for women who are trying to get pregnant start taking it.
I'm pregnant and take Deva Vegan DHA made from Flax oil. They are easy to swallow and a reasonable price.
Yes, dha should be taken before, during, and after pregnancy. It's good for brain health and function. I take a flax oil w/ dha(brand = Flora) added. It's in the fridge case. I mix the oil into my daily protein shake because you also need 75-100g of protein a day when you are preg/nursing.
I was prescribed a non-vegan pre-natal vitamin w/ dha when I was pregnant, but they made me throw up. It was the fish oil. Any thing fish made me throw up while I was pregnant, meat, fish, barbeque, diary all made me throw up. It was AWEFUL! Needless to say, I couldn't take those vitamins. After taking them twice, and throwing up twice, I gave up.
So I threw those out, and went to GNC and bought some vitamins that didn't have dha in them, vegen ones if I recal right, and a vegan dha suppliment that came from algea. During my next pre-natal visit I told my doctor about the situation, and he was un-happy until I showed him the bottles of what I was taking, then he seemed to be okay with it.
Today, my son is a very healthy 3 year old boy who hates fish, and is not a big meat eater, but LOVES fruit and tofu, two things I CRAVED while pregnant. Funny how that goes....


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ORGANIZER: Amanda
Amanda Lanum wrote -
When I was 9 I lost my grandpa Al to cancer. It was my first experience with death and I thought for certain I would be sad forever. He was 52.
Fourteen years later my dear grandma Barb also lost her battle with cancer. She was 58.
And in 2010, one of the only women I admire as much as my mother, my grandma Charlotte, died after just a 10-month battle with pancreatic cancer. She was a month away from her 65th birthday.
One biological grandparent left, and he is battling bladder cancer at this time.
Now, as I celebrate my 28th year, I want to do what I can to keep my parents around for many more birthdays. I don't need a $5 Hallmark card (that I'll throw away anyhow), Donate to the American Cancer Society instead. I'm doing YOU a favor because now you don't have to find that perfect, clever birthday card for me. Win-win. ;)

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Making Temporary Installations Safe for All Trades
James Bond has a license to kill. Sometimes, temporary installations look like something rigged up under that same license. The NEC not only helps to ensure the safety of the end-user, but it also protects all the trades working on a project that employs temporary electrical installations.
Many people might think of the electrical inspector as the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ), but the inspector isn't the only AHJ on a given job. If a project is in progress and using temporary power or light, the general contractor and OSHA can also enforce temporary installation rules. The insurance providers of parties like your company, the general contractor, other trades, and the property owner can also get involved.
The requirements of Art. 527 apply to all temporary power and lighting installations, including power for construction, remodeling, maintenance, repair, demolitions, and decorative lighting. They also apply when temporary installations are necessary during emergencies or for tests and experiments. All the requirements apply to temporary installations unless specifically noted in Art. 527.
Certain venues have additional requirements. Temporary installations for trade shows must comply with Art. 518. Temporary installations for carnivals, circuses, fairs, and similar events must comply with Art. 525.
Time constraints.
Temporary installation rules do provide some savings in cost and time when compared to permanent rules. At one time, electricians would install temporary power or lighting under those looser Code requirements, and installations would be "temporary" on a permanent basis. As a result, time constraints made their way into the NEC and are defined as follows:
- Construction period
You can use temporary electrical power and lighting installations during the period of construction, remodeling, maintenance, repair, or demolition of buildings, structures, equipment, or similar activities.
- Decorative lighting
You can use temporary electrical power for decorative lighting for 90 days.
- Emergencies and tests
You can use temporary electrical power and lighting installations for the duration necessary for emergencies or for tests and experiments.
You must remove all temporary installations immediately upon completion of the purpose for which they were installed.
Areas of application. The NEC provides specific rules for each major area of application in 527.4. What's especially useful about this arrangement of the NEC is that you can refer to exactly what you're working on. For example, if you're providing a temporary branch circuit, you can refer to 527.4(C) to review the requirements. The NEC addresses these areas of application in a logical order, beginning with the service entrance:
- Services
You must install a service per Art. 230. You must treat a service as permanent, even if it's temporary.
- Feeders
You can't use open conductors for temporary feeder installations. Instead, you can use cable assemblies, hard-usage cords, extra-hard usage cords, and NM cable. However, you can use individual open conductors for feeders where the individual open conductors are accessible only to qualified personnel.
- Branch circuits
You can't use open branch-circuit conductors, such as "festoon lighting," for temporary installations. Instead, you can use cable assemblies, hard-usage cords, extra-hard usage cords, and NM cables (Fig. 1). However, you can use open wiring for branch circuits in holiday decorative lighting if the circuit voltage-to-ground doesn't exceed 150V, the conductors aren't subjected to physical damage, and the conductors are supported on insulators at not more than 10-ft intervals.
- Receptacles
Receptacles must be of the grounding type and the equipment grounding (bonding) terminal of the receptacle must be grounded (bonded) to an equipment grounding conductor (250.118), in accordance with 250.146. This doesn't mean driving a ground rod and bonding to it without bonding to the rest of the system. Remember, electricity always seeks to get back to the source, not to the earth.
- Lighting vs receptacles
On a construction site, you need to put the lighting and receptacles on separate circuits to prevent the lights from going out if the GFCI opens. The same principle applies where you're using a multiwire circuit. Put lighting on one circuit and receptacles on the other.
- Disconnecting means
All ungrounded circuit conductors must have a disconnecting means, such as a switch or circuit breaker. Ungrounded circuit conductors of a multiwire branch circuit need a disconnecting means at the panelboard, and it must open all of the ungrounded conductors simultaneously. If the multiwire circuit uses single-pole circuit breakers, you must use an approved handle tie to secure the trip handles together. For additional requirements for multiwire branch circuits, see 210.4 and 300.13(B).
- Lamp protection
You must protect lamps from accidental contact by using a suitable luminaire or a lampholder with a guard.
- Splices
On construction sites, you don't have to put splices of cords or nonmetallic cables in boxes. However, this doesn't mean you can use "twist and tape" or other unapproved methods for making those splices. You must use methods and devices suitable for the purpose.
- Protection from accidental damage
You must protect cables and flexible cords from accidental damage, sharp corners, and projections. You must also provide protection for cables and flexible cords when passing them through doorways or other pinch points.
- Terminations at devices
Cables and flexible cords that enter enclosures must be secured to the enclosure with fittings designed for the purpose. You can't just stick them through an opening in an enclosure. The intent is to prevent stress on cables and cable terminations.
- Support
Make sure you support cables, cable assemblies, and flexible cords at intervals that ensure protection from physical damage. To provide this support, use staples, cable ties, straps, or other similar products that won't damage the cable or cord assembly. The AHJ can make specific cable support requirements based on jobsite conditions. Per 230.10, you can't use trees or other vegetation for support of overhead spans of branch circuits or feeders.
GFCI protection. You must provide ground-fault protection for temporary wiring used for construction, remodeling, maintenance, repair, or demolition of buildings, structures, equipment, or similar activities (527.6).
All 15A, 20A, and 30A 125V receptacles used for temporary power must have GFCI protection. You can provide GFCI protection via circuit breakers, receptacles, cord sets, or other devices, such as GFCI adapters that incorporate listed GFCI protection (Fig. 2).
You must provide GFCI protection for receptacles that are part of the permanent wiring of the building and used for temporary power (Fig. 3). However, GFCI protection isn't necessary for receptacles located in industrial establishments that are only qualified personnel are involved in maintenance and follow an assured equipment grounding conductor program (AEGCP).
Receptacles rated other than 15A, 20A, or 30A 125V that supply temporary power to equipment used by personnel during construction, remodeling, maintenance, repair, or demolition of buildings, structures, equipment, or similar activities must comply with GFCI protection or an AEGCP (Fig. 4). You can use GFCI protection and an AEGCP on the same job — they aren't mutually exclusive.
An AEGCP requires grounding tests of cord sets, receptacles, and cord-and-plug connected equipment. You also must test all equipment grounding conductors for continuity. Each receptacle and attachment plug must be tested for the correct attachment of the equipment grounding conductor. Record the results of these tests and make them available to the AHJ. The tests must be performed:
Before the first on-site use.
When there's evidence of damage.
Before equipment is returned to service following repairs.
At least once every three months.
For wiring over 600V nominal, you must provide suitable fencing, barriers, or other effective means to limit access to only qualified personnel. Common sense and/or the AHJ may also require such guarding for lower voltages, based on jobsite conditions.
The requirements for temporary installations can be summed up rather simply. First they must be truly temporary. Service entrances have no temporary allowances. Other applications allow you to use cords and cable assemblies rather than installing raceways, and they allow you to place splices outside of boxes. But there's a trade-off. You must also provide the additional protection of a GFCI or AEGCP. In addition to satisfying the AHJ, you ensure your own safety when your temporary installation conforms to Art. 527.
Are you still confused by the Code? For additional information on Code-related topics please visit www.mikeholt.com or send an e-mail directly to the author at [email protected].


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The first step is to prime your Windows or Mac computer for remote access through the Chrome Web app store. The process requires you set up a six digit pin number that will authorise a remote connection between your smartphone and computer.
The next step is to download the Chrome Remote Desktop application from your Android smartphone. Authorise the connection by entering your PIN and your desktop will be displayed on your smartphone.
Once these steps are followed, it's possible to access your desktop remotely, or even authorise someone else to do so by sharing a code — a nifty way to have a relative troubleshoot your computer when they're on the go.
The Google application has been available on the Play store for six hours at the time of writing, and in that time it has earned a 4.5 star rating with generally positive commentary.
Things you should know
In this mode your smartphone touchscreen will control the computer's cursor. This means it will work as the computer's trackpad.
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The computer needs to be powered for a remote connection to be established. Initiating remote desktop can be done from the Chrome Remote Desktop application on your Android smartphone, or from the Chrome app drawer on your computer.


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No. 84,963
ROGER NOVAK, REBECCA MASSEY, and CINDY LUSHER, ON BEHALF OF THEMSELVES AND OTHERS SIMILARLY SITUATED,
MUTUAL OF OMAHA INSURANCE CO., a Nebraska corporation
a Nebraska corporation, and JOHN DOES I-V,
1. Whether jurisdiction exists is a question of law over which an appellate court exercises unlimited review.
2. A foreign corporation may be subject to personal jurisdiction for an action in Kansas, even if the action did not arise out of any activity enumerated under the Kansas long arm statute, K.S.A. 60-308, when the foreign corporation is present within Kansas, is served with process while in Kansas, and is served with process under K.S.A. 40-218.
3. Kansas generally follows the lex loci rule for contracts: the law of the place of contracting will control. The place of contracting is where the last act necessary to complete the contract occurs.
Appeal from Saline District Court; DANIEL L. HEBERT, judge. Opinion filed August 3, 2001. Reversed and remanded with directions.
Richard D. Greene, Robert W. Coykendall, and Joseph W. Kennedy, of Morris, Laing, Evans, Brock & Kennedy, Chartered, of Wichita, Glen E. Smith, of Glen E. Smith & Associates, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and John R. Vincent, of Riverton, Wyoming, for appellants.
James D. Oliver, of Foulston & Siefkin L.L.P., of Topeka, Patrick R. Day, of Holland & Hart L.L.P., of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Debra Egli James, of Hampton & Royce, L.C., of Salina, for appellees.
Before GREEN, P.J., KNUDSON, J., and PHILIP C. VIEUX, District Judge, assigned.
GREEN, J.: Rebecca Massey and Cindy Lusher appeal from a judgment of the trial court dismissing their action against Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company and Mutual of Omaha Life Insurance Company (Mutual) for lack of personal jurisdiction over Mutual. Both companies were incorporated in Nebraska and have conducted business in Kansas. Mutual has a division office in Wichita, which recruits and supports agents in central Kansas. On appeal, Massey and Lusher, who are nonresidents of Kansas, maintain that the trial court had personal jurisdiction over Mutual because of its presence within Kansas and because it was served with process in Kansas. We agree and reverse and remand.
Roger Novak, who is a resident of Kansas, appeals from the decision of the trial court granting summary judgment in Mutual's favor, finding his action to be time barred. On appeal, Novak contends that his suit should not be time barred because of a clause contained in Mutual's contract. We agree and reverse and remand.
Mutual is a corporation headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. Mutual offers various insurance products nationwide, including health and disability insurance. Mutual's products are made available by a network of agents employed throughout the United States. The agents are independent contractors and may sell insurance products for other companies. Agents are assigned to local division offices managed by district sales managers and general managers.
New Mutual employees are required to sign the Mutual of Omaha Agent's Contract (MOC). The MOC articulates an agent's basic duties as well as the company's responsibilities and a separate set of "schedules" which describe and control the specific terms of compensation and benefits depending upon the different products and associated contract incentives an agent decides to sell or accept. The sections of the MOC most relevant to this appeal state as follows:
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3. Agent's Account.
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(c) The Company shall have the right to withhold payment of any credit balance in the Agent's account for not more than 13 months after termination of this Contract to assure that funds are available to reimburse the Company for any indebtedness. Thereafter, any net credit balance shall become due and payable.
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10. Limitation of Actions. Any claim by the Agent under this Contract must be brought within one (1) year of the occurrence of the claim. Any claim for compensation may only be brought against the corporation which issued the Attachment to which the claim relates.
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15. Controlling law. This Contract is to be construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Nebraska."
Mutual maintains an account for each agent. The account tracks income, expense items, and compensation payment described as credit and debit transactions. The agent also receives a monthly agent statement detailing the agent's financial activities with Mutual. Agents continue to receive a monthly agent statement for a period after termination of their employment until the account clears.
A large part of an agent's compensation is from commissions received for selling insurance products. "First year" commissions are commissions based upon a percentage of the eligible first-year premium received from the insured in the first policy year. If an agent's employment with Mutual ends before the entire first year of premiums is paid on an issued policy, Mutual stops crediting the agent's account for first-year commissions unless the agent is vested, that is, has been employed by Mutual for 10 consecutive years.
Novak was recruited in Salina, Kansas, to sell Mutual's products in Kansas. Novak began selling Mutual products in early 1992, and his contract was terminated on January 20, 1995, due to lack of production. Upon termination, Novak was furnished with a final agent statement and made no written objection to its contents as required by the contract.
Massey lived and worked in West Palm Beach, Florida. From May 1991 until she left the company in July 1993, Massey sold Mutual products. Lusher began working for Mutual in 1991 and left in 1993. Lusher lived and worked in Wyoming.
On January 20, 1999, Lusher brought an action against Mutual in Saline County, Kansas. Lusher claimed that Mutual breached the MOC by not paying out first-year commissions, regardless of the length of her employment. Novak and Massey were also plaintiffs in Lusher's action. Mutual moved to dismiss Massey's and Lusher's claims on the ground that they could not obtain jurisdiction over Mutual in Kansas. The trial court agreed and dismissed Massey's and Lusher's claims.
Mutual also moved for summary judgment on Novak's claim, arguing he was barred by the 1-year limitation period under the MOC agreement. On the other hand, Novak argued that the contract should be construed under Nebraska law, and Nebraska law does not allow parties to limit the applicable statute of limitations for a breach of contract claim, which is 5 years. The trial court determined that the contract was a Kansas contract and was to be performed wholly in Kansas. As a result, the trial court applied Kansas law and determined that the 1-year limitation period barred Novak's claim.
Although Massey and Lusher assert several arguments as to why the trial court improperly dismissed their suit, those arguments distilled to their bare essence present the following question: Did the trial court properly dismiss this action for lack of personal jurisdiction over Mutual? Whether jurisdiction exists is a question of law over which an appellate court exercises unlimited review. Cypress Media, Inc. v. City of Overland Park, 268 Kan. 407, 414, 997 P.2d 681 (2000).
The thrust of Mutual's argument is that Lusher and Massey have no connections to Kansas and their cause of action did not arise in this state. Mutual relies on the Kansas "long arm statute," K.S.A. 60-308, and Three Ten Enterprises, Inc. v. State Farm Fire & Cas. Co., 24 Kan. App. 2d 85, 942 P.2d 62, rev. denied 262 Kan. 969 (1997).
Three Ten and its predecessor cases adhere to the theory that questions of personal jurisdiction in Kansas require a finding that the case falls within the purview of the Kansas long arm statute. Three Ten involved an action by Three Ten Enterprises, Inc., Foam Form (Three Ten), a limited partnership organized under the laws of Kansas and licensed to transact business in Nebraska, against State Farm Fire & Casualty Company (State Farm), a foreign corporation authorized to do business in Kansas. State Farm issued a policy to Three Ten covering Three Ten's premises in Papillion, Nebraska. Three Ten made a claim with State Farm to recover losses suffered from an employee theft.
Unhappy with the result of the claim, Three Ten sued State Farm in Miami County, Kansas, and argued a theory of recovery under Nebraska law. State Farm moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. The trial court denied the motion, holding personal jurisdiction existed under a theory of general jurisdiction.
On appeal, Three Ten argued that the Kansas long arm statute, K.S.A. 60-308(b), is to be liberally construed over nonresident defendants. In addition, Three Ten argued that the doctrine of "general jurisdiction" makes it unnecessary for plaintiffs to show that defendants' conduct falls within the parameters of 60-308(b). 24 Kan. App. 2d at 90. The Three Ten court disagreed. Our court determined that general jurisdiction is a due process concept and does not excuse a plaintiff from satisfying the test for long arm jurisdiction under 60-308. As a result, our court reversed the trial court's decision.
Although State Farm in Three Ten was apparently served with process under K.S.A. 40-218, which required foreign insurers to consent in advance to jurisdictions in certain situations in return for doing business in this state, Three Ten failed to argue jurisdiction under this statute. Moreover, the Three Ten court neglected to address the service under 40-218.
Service in this case was made by serving the Insurance Commissioner under 40-218. After Mutual moved to dismiss for a lack of personal jurisdiction, the plaintiffs re-served Mutual under K.S.A. 60-304(e) and (g). Mutual argues in its brief that K.S.A. 40-218 is not an independent source of statutory authority for gaining jurisdiction over an insurance company by serving it within the state; rather, the statute only "provides the manner in which process must be served on foreign insurers, limiting that to counties in which the plaintiff resides or where the cause of action occurred. Jurisdiction is considered an entirely separate step." According to Mutual, Three Ten must be read to require K.S.A. 40-218 to be used in conjunction with K.S.A. 60-308(b) to gain jurisdiction over a foreign insurer, and K.S.A. 60-308(b) confers statutory authority for the assertion of jurisdiction.
Mutual cites Deines v. Vermeer Mfg. Co., 752 F. Supp. 989 (D. Kan. 1990), as support for the proposition that jurisdiction must be predicated upon K.S.A. 60-308(b), even if service is made under K.S.A. 40-218. In Deines, service was made upon the defendant insurance company, Liberty Mutual, apparently under K.S.A. 40-218. Liberty Mutual argued its contacts with Kansas were so minimal that it would be unfair and improper for the court to assert jurisdiction.
The Deines court began its analysis of the jurisdiction issue by applying the same two-part test used in Three Ten. First, does the defendant's conduct fall within the scope of the long arm statute? Second, does the exercise of personal jurisdiction comply with due process requirements as set out in decisions of the United States Supreme Court? The trial court stated that a plaintiff must satisfy both requirements by a prima facie showing before a court may exercise jurisdiction. 752 F. Supp. at 998. After examining the Kansas long arm statute and the constitutional requirements for the exercise of jurisdiction to comport with due process requirements, the trial court stated:
"In the present case, we are compelled to hold that the court has personal jurisdiction over Liberty Mutual. Liberty Mutual is a foreign insurance corporation authorized to transact business in the State of Kansas. Liberty Mutual, pursuant to K.S.A. 40-218, authorized the Kansas Insurance Commissioner to accept service of process on its behalf. The insurance company also agreed that service of process upon the Commissioner of Insurance would be valid and binding. Thus, personal jurisdiction is proper in this action because this defendant purposefully availed itself of the privilege of transacting business in this state. Moreover, Liberty Mutual had actual knowledge that it could be haled into court in Kansas, and agreed to submit to the jurisdiction of the Kansas courts. Defendant's summary judgment motion as to personal jurisdiction will be denied." 752 F. Supp. at 1000.
Thus, although the Deines court stated it was necessary to comply with the Kansas long arm statute, it relied at least partially on Liberty Mutual's actions in consenting to be served through the Kansas Insurance Commissioner to determine it was fair to exercise personal jurisdiction over the company.
K.S.A. 60-308(d) states: "Nothing contained in this section limits or affects the right to serve any process in any other manner provided by law." This subsection recognizes that the long arm statute covers only certain situations. As a result, when the long arm statute does not cover a particular situation, resort must be had to the traditional bases of jurisdiction such as citizenship; domicile and residence; or consent, actual or implied.
For example, Missouri recently rejected an argument that its long arm statute was the exclusive means of obtaining jurisdiction over a foreign corporation and used a traditional method for establishing jurisdiction. In State Ex Rel. K-Mart Corp. v. Holliger, 986 S.W.2d 165 (Mo. 1999), a Missouri resident injured in a fall at a K-Mart store in Colorado brought suit against the company in Missouri. K-Mart sought to have the case dismissed for lack of personal jurisdiction, or, in the alternative, on the grounds of forum non conveniens.
As in the present case, K-Mart conceded there were no constitutional impediments under the Due Process Clause to asserting jurisdiction, as the company transacted substantial business in Missouri. The Holliger court stated the issue as follows: "K-Mart bases its contention that Missouri courts lack jurisdiction on the remarkable assertion that the only means by which jurisdiction may be obtained over a foreign corporation is through the state's long arm statute, section 506.500." The court continued: "K-Mart's theory turns jurisdictional history on its head. Prior to the enactment of Missouri's long arm statute in 1967, Missouri cases uniformly held that a foreign corporation present and conducting substantial business in Missouri was subject to the jurisdiction of our courts." Further, "[w]here a corporation registered agent is served in Missouri, assertion of jurisdiction was no more than adherence to the traditional understanding that a state may condition a corporation's doing business upon the appointment of an agent in the state for service of process." 986 S.W.2d at 166-67. The court also recognized that historically, jurisdiction was exercised over corporations by service upon an agent in the forum state, and Internat. Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 90 L. Ed. 95, 66 S. Ct. 154 (1945), authorized extraterritorial exercises of jurisdiction where minimum contacts existed between the defendant and forum state sufficient that the exercise of jurisdiction would not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice. Finally, the Holliger court stated:
"K-Mart relies on the long-arm statute for its argument that Missouri does not have personal jurisdiction in this case because the claim did not arise out of one of the activities enumerated in the statute. However, long-arm statutes, as the name implies, are intended to expand the reach of the law of the state to authorize jurisdiction over foreign corporations that are not necessarily authorized to do business in the state but whose activities justify personal jurisdiction. In fact, we can find no Missouri case challenging jurisdiction over a foreign corporation whose registered agent was served in Missouri. The provisions of section 506.150 are incorporated into rule 54.06, which explicitly applies only to 'service outside the state.' In this case, there is no need for a 'long-arm' to reach K-Mart outside of Missouri, because K-Mart has a registered agent in Missouri.
"We reject K-Mart's argument that Missouri's long-arm statute is the exclusive means of obtaining jurisdiction over a foreign corporation. If its argument were to succeed, it would severely limit the reach of Missouri law and the protection that law gives Missouri residents and others authorized to use our state's courts. Under section 351.582(2), issuance of a certificate of authority to a foreign corporation authorizes it to conduct business in Missouri and makes it 'subject to the same duties, restrictions, penalties, and liabilities . . . imposed on, the domestic corporation of like character.'" 986 S.W.2d at 168.
Finding jurisdiction to be proper, the Holliger court determined that Missouri's long arm statute was inapplicable. 986 S.W.2d at 169.
Although Mutual urges that the reasoning of Three Ten, requiring the two-step analysis incorporating the Kansas long arm statue, is the correct approach, Three Ten is distinguishable from the present case. The court and the parties in Three Ten did not address K.S.A. 40-218. Here, we determine that Mutual was present within the jurisdiction, that Mutual was served with process while in Kansas, and that Mutual gave its actual consent to jurisdiction under K.S.A. 40-218. As a result, we determine that the trial court had personal jurisdiction over Mutual with respect to the action brought by Massey and Lusher.
Next, Novak maintains that his suit is not barred by the clause in the MOC requiring actions to be commenced against Mutual within 1 year of the time the claim arises. He propounds several theories under which the limitations clause is either invalid or inapplicable to his suit. The resolution of this issue does not require an analysis of all Novak's theories but rather of the choice of law issues relating to the 1-year limitations clause.
The MOC contains a provision directing that it is to be "construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Nebraska." Novak argues this is a choice of law provision requiring the application of Nebraska law. On the other hand, Mutual claims the language mandates only the application of Nebraska rules of contract construction and not its substantive law. Mutual contends that because the performance of the contract between Novak and Mutual mainly occurred in Kansas, the law of place of performance should govern, which would be Kansas. Because contractual limitations provisions are enforceable in Kansas, Mutual maintains that Novak's suit is barred by the 1-year time period contained in the MOC agreement.
Mutual cites Aselco Inc. v. Hartford Ins. Group, 28 Kan. App. 2d ___, 21 P.3d 1011 (2001), in support of its argument that the place of performance rule should be applied. In Aselco, the court stated that "[t]he law of the place of performance determines the manner and method as well as the legality of the acts required for performance." 28 Kan. App. 2d ___, Syl. ¶ 7. As a result, the Aselco court determined that because an insurer's performance of its duty to defendant would have taken place in Kansas, Kansas law should govern the determination of the existence of the duty.
Kansas follows the Restatement First of Conflict of Laws. See Safeco Ins. Co. of America v. Allen, 262 Kan. 811, 822, 941 P.2d 1365 (1997). As a result, Kansas applies the lex loci contractus doctrine and applies the law of the state where the contract is made. A contract is made where the last act necessary for its formation occurs. Wilkinson v. Shoney's, Inc., 269 Kan. 194, 210, 4 P.3d 1149 (2000).
Although some Kansas conflicts cases have involved issues of performance, few cases have used the place of performance rule to resolve contract choice of law decisions. See Hartford Accident & Indem. Co. v. American Red Ball Transit Co., 262 Kan. 570, 574-75, 938 P.2d 1281 (1997) (generally Kansas follows the lex loci rule except when public policy requires otherwise); St. Paul Surplus Lines Ins. Co. v. International Playtex, Inc., 245 Kan. 258, 270, 777 P.2d 1259 (1989); Hefferlin v. Sinsinderfer and others, 2 Kan. 401, 398-99 (1864); Gillespie v. Seymour, 19 Kan. App. 2d 754, 763, 876 P.2d 193, rev. denied 255 Kan. 1001 (1994); American States Ins. Co. v. McCann, 17 Kan. App. 2d 820, 823-24, 845 P.2d 74, rev. denied 252 Kan. 1091 (1993); State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Baker, 14 Kan. App. 2d 641, 644-45, 797 P.2d 168, rev. denied 247 Kan. 705 (1990); Frasher v. Life Investors Ins. Co. of America, 14 Kan. App. 2d 583, 585, 796 P.2d 1069 (1990); Simms v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 9 Kan. App. 2d 640, 642, 685 P.2d 321 (1984); Walker v. Imperial Casualty & Indemnity Co., 1 Kan. App. 2d 349, 351, 564 P.2d 588, rev. denied 223 Kan. 846 (1977).
As a result, we decline to apply the place of performance rule.
In the present case, Mutual included language in the contract above the signature line indicating it wished the contract to be made in Nebraska: "The parties hereto have executed this Contract, but the same shall not be binding upon the Company until approved by an Authorized Representative at the Home Office in Omaha, Nebraska." Although Novak was recruited, trained, and signed the contract in Kansas, the explicit language of the contract is that Mutual would not be bound or obligated until it was approved in Nebraska. Therefore, the place of contract formation in this case is Nebraska.
Since the issue is the validity of a provision of limitations, the law of the place where the contract is made will govern the obligations of agents to bring an action against Mutual within 1 year of the time the claim arises. Restatement of Conflict of Laws § 346 (1934). Because that place is Nebraska, Nebraska's substantive law will be applied to determine the validity of the 1-year limitations clause.
Nebraska statutes dictate that an action on a contract or written promise may be brought within 5 years. Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-205(1) (2000). A contract provision that alters the statutory limit for bringing an action is against public policy in Nebraska and will not be enforced by Nebraska courts. Dunlop Tire & Rubber Corp. v. Ryan, 171 Neb. 820, 825-26, 108 N.W.2d 84 (1961). As a result, the 1-year limitations provision in the MOC was void.
Mutual argues that Nebraska's choice of law rules look to the state with the most significant relationship to the case and apply that state's substantive law. According to Mutual, that state would be Kansas in this case and Kansas would enforce the 1-year limitations provision. Mutual cites Mertz v. Pharmacists Mut. Ins. Co., 261 Neb. 704, 625 N.W.2d 197 (2001), in support of its argument. Nevertheless, Mertz is distinguishable from the present case. In Mertz, the court specifically noted that "[t]he agreement did not contain a choice of law provision." 261 Neb. at 707. Moreover, the Restatement (Second) of Conflicts of Laws, as quoted in Mertz suggests the "contacts" to be considered "[i]n the absence of an effective choice of law by the parties." 261 Neb. at 708. (Emphasis added.) Here, the parties expressly agreed that their contract should be construed "in accordance with the laws of the State of Nebraska." Moreover, Kansas has expressly followed the lex loci rule over the "most significant relationship" test suggested by the Second Restatement. See Safeco, 262 Kan. at 822.
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Anyone else having issues with going prone? Not all the time, but enough times to be noticeable, I'll try to go prone and it won't. There are no obstructions around.
Yep. I had this on whiteout last night. I was in the middle of the street not next to anything. I just wanted to lay down to adjust some setting and thought my nunchuck stopped working. I moved more in the open and it started working again, so I know exactly what you mean..
Theres so many places on strikezone were i can't go prone.... very anoying
I've had it happen on Stormfront a lot and a few times on Overlord.
where exactly? If you can give me specific places on those maps I can add them to the bug/glitch thread.
I'll do my best to pay more attention and write down where I'm seeing it. No pattern yet though - it's quite random.
That and that it's REALLY SLOW going prone - takes forever.
I have noticed issues going prone on the map Strikezone. I have found a short term fix. Stand up, jump, now hold button until prone. Works for me, but strange that prone seems to be blocked in clear spaces. Can the KEM Strike version of the map be causing prone blocks for some strange reason?
Nope, on maps that I've played on, prone is blocked partially. As if you can't fully dropshot, it has a slow delay after you crouch. It happened ever since the patch. I think they purposely disabled dropshotting :/
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Free Gary Johnson! Overturn the Convictions of Ed Frey, Arthur Bishoff, Collette Connolly! Hands Off Christopher Doyon! End Laws making it Illegal for the Homeless to Sleep at Night! Seize Housing From the Banks for those Who Need Housing! For a Nation Wide Jobs Program Building Housing for All!
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[Photo by Liberation News. Daily protests at the Santa Cruz Courthouse from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM demanding freedom for protesters convicted of sleeping.]
Free Gary Johnson! Overturn the Convictions of Ed Frey, Arthur Bishoff, and Collette Connolly! Hands off Christopher Doyon!
By Steven Argue
For protesting on the county steps against Santa Cruz laws that make it illegal for the homeless to sleep at night, homeless activists Gary Johnson (no relation to Becky Johnson) and Attorney Ed Frey were sentenced to 6 months in jail on June 10th. Bail was set for Ed Frey, pending appeal, at ,000. Their only act of civil disobedience was sleeping. This occurred at their three month protest called "Peace Camp 2010". Revealing the political nature of the draconian sentences, Judge Gallagher told homeless activist Gary Johnson that he "could get some sleep in jail" before they were dragged away in chains for their 6 month sentences. The law they were protesting makes it illegal for the homeless to sleep at night, outside or in a vehicle.
On Friday, June 24, after two weeks in jail, Ed Frey was released on bail pending appeal with his bail of ,000 dollars reduced to 0. Supporters quickly passed the hat and Ed Frey was released from jail on bail. Gary Johnson still sits in jail.
Also convicted for sleeping at the protest were Arthur Bishoff and Collette Connolly. A fifth protester, Christopher Doyon didn't show up for the kangaroo court trial and bench warrant was issued. A sixth protester, Eliot Anderson was freed by a hung jury that failed to convict him. A juror said of the case, Anderson should not have to gas his dog to try to get into a shelter to legally sleep.
Many potential jurors were upset by the fact that they were to sit through a two week trial for the "crime" of sleep. One example was an elementary school teacher who said, "When I first came to Santa Cruz, I lived in my van for three years. During that time, I was hassled, arrested, and jailed. There is no way I could be impartial in this case considering the pain these people are suffering." A number of potential jurors said such things, but of course they never made it on to the jury. People who are aware of what is going on generally don't make it onto juries in the United States. Those less aware people who made it onto the jury were told, in a typical manner, that they weren't allowed to have their own opinions. In the oft repeated mantra of blind stupidity and injustice in America's capitalist courts, Judge Gallagher told the jury, "Even if you disagree with the law, you must follow the law."
The four protesters were convicted of state anti-lodging law 647(E) for sleeping at the protest. Arthur Bishoff and Collette Connolly did not show up for the absurdity of sentencing and warrants were issued. Ed Frey and Gary Johnson were offered 400 hours of Community Service and 3 years probation for sleeping. In response, Gary Johnson, homeless, asked, "How can I take probation to obey all laws, when you've defined "sleeping" as lodging to the jury, making it a misdemeanor crime? How can I not sleep for six months during probation?" On basic principle and inability to comply, both Gary Johnson and Attorney Ed Frey turned down probation.
This was reminiscent of an earlier Santa Cruz case where Sandy Loranger did time in jail for feeding the homeless soup. When the judge offered her counseling instead of jail Sandy Loranger replied, "If feeding my fellow people is a crime, I am beyond rehabilitation."
The protest Gary Johnson, Ed Frey, Arthur Bishoff, and Collette Connolly were prosecuted for was peaceful in nature with the only act of civil disobedience being the illegal act of sleep outside. Basic protest facilities were included with Attorney Ed Frey providing the protesters with a needed port-a-potty. This helped provide the homeless with a safe place to sleep for months, despite the city government's failure to provide such needed relief for its citizens.
The protest also shamed the city government into modifying the city's law that makes it illegal for the homeless to sleep at night by providing a dismissal of the charges in court if the homeless being charged with sleep can show that they were on the waiting list for the insufficient shelter provided at the Homeless Service Center at the time they were ticketed. Other protests in the 1990s shamed the Santa Cruz City government into reducing the fine for sleeping at night outside or in a vehicle, but the Santa Cruz City Council continued to keep sleep at night for the homeless illegal at that time as well.
During those protests in the 1990s activists were arrested and brutalized by the infamously repressive Santa Cruz Police. Activist B.D. was tackled off his soap box and pepper sprayed by the Santa Cruz Police for giving a speech in favor of the homeless in front of numerous eyewitnesses and a video camera. In 1998 this author was beaten and arrested, spending four days in jail, for exercising my First Amendment right to distribute literature. It was literature in favor of rights for the homeless and opposed to police brutality.
The law for which Gary Johnson and Ed Frey were arrested, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced was Penal Code Section 647(E), for "unlawful lodging". This is a California state law. It was also recently used in August 2010 by the Santa Barbara Police to ticket Courtney Caswell-Peyton, a Santa Barbara disabled woman who fell asleep in her wheel chair. She showed-up for court worried about the possibility of getting her first conviction for any crime. Facing strong protest in that case, the Santa Barbara DA dismissed the charge in the "interests of justice". While happy about not being convicted, she left court saying she was still homeless and questioning why she had no place to sleep.
Unlike the Santa Barbara dismissal, Gary Johnson, Ed Frey, Arthur Bishoff, and Collette Connolly were convicted in the notoriously bad Santa Cruz courts. Judge Gallagher is making an example of them for standing-up against the anti-homeless laws of Santa Cruz. The suspected reason cops charged the four with the state law rather than the Santa Cruz anti-sleeping law was a loophole where city laws didn't apply because the protest was on county property. But, as a cop once told this author, "this is Santa Cruz; we can find a law for anything". And find a law they did.
In 1983 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an earlier version of Penal Code Section 647(E) was unconstitutional in the case of Kolender v. Lawson. It was an anti-vagrancy law that was brought to the supreme court after it was used by San Diego Police to repeatedly harass a Black man with dread locks who was committing no real crime. As a result of that Supreme Court ruling that version of Penal Code Section 647(E) was repealed by the state legislature in 2008.
Since the overturning of the original 647(E) a new version was passed by the State Legislature which states, "Who lodges in any building, structure, vehicle, or place, whether public or private, without the permission of the owner or person entitled to the possession or in control of it" "are guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor". Lodging is being used as a euphemism for sleeping here. This is the law the four protesters were convicted under.
In May 2011, this anti-homeless law 647 (E) was made even worse with the State Legislature making a second violation punishable of up to a year in jail and ,000 fine. So now homelessness in the state of California is punishable by up to a year in jail if one is caught doing it twice.
Voting for this worsened anti-homeless law were Democrats and Republicans alike, including local Santa Cruz Democrat and darling of many reformist liberals, Bill Monning. Monning voted for that increased penalty at the same time that the people who actually stand-up for human rights were fighting the constitutionality of the law in court with their freedom on the line.
Here is a full list of those who voted for the worsened anti-homeless law: Achadjian, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Beth Gaines, Bill Berryhill, Block, Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, Butler, Campos, Carter, Charles Calderon, Chesbro, Cook, Davis, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Grove, Hagman, Halderman, Hall, Harkey, Hayashi, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, Jeffries, John A. Pérez, Jones, Knight, Lara, Logue, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, Miller, Monning, Morrell, Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Pan, Perea, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, V. Manuel Pérez, Valadao, Wagner, Wieckowski, Williams, and Yamada.
None voted against.
As the California state government, dominated by Democrats, passes anti-working class austerity and extremely harsh anti-homeless legislation, the Democrat holding power in Washington, Obama, wages wars in an increasing number of the world's countries for the profit of arms manufacturers, oil corporations, and other imperialist capitalists and locks-up suspected whistle blower on U.S. crimes against humanity, Bradley Manning, under intolerable conditions. Bradley Manning is accused of releasing the helicopter footage that shows U.S. troops nonchalantly gunning down civilians including journalists, first aid respondents, and children in cold blood. Instead of charges of murder for those who committed it, it is Bradley Manning who goes to prison under Obama. Likewise, billions that could be used in a saner society for housing, healthcare, and education are squandered on war.
Meanwhile, the local Democrats in power in Santa Cruz send out their county and city cops to silence protests for human rights for the homeless, support legislation against immigrants like the "Secure Communities" program, and threaten to cut the already meager wages of In Home Support Workers, wages needed to provide the care that helps keep the disabled, elderly, and dying in their homes. While Santa Cruz Mayor Ryan Coonerty supports the city's anti-homeless laws, police repression, and has signed on with the anti-immigrant "Secure Communities" program, he opposes measures that would help fight homelessness like an increase in the minimum wage and has been part of carrying out austerity that includes the lay-off of workers and cuts in homeless services while at the same time hiring more cops.
As the current crisis of capitalism threatens the break-down all that is left that is civil in our society, the Democrats charge ahead with the Republicans in making sure it is the poor and working class who pay for the crisis of capitalism, not capitalist profits. All reformist dreams of the Democrat Party in any way being a source of any sort of "hope" should be abandoned in favor of recognizing reality. Labor unions must abandon their illusions in the Democrats and stop giving them our money and instead prepare to fight by putting union dues in strike funds. The true power of labor will never be found groveling at the feet of hostile Democrat politicians. Instead, labor has the potential to win demands by shutting down the profits of the capitalists.
As opposed to the Democrat's program of more war, more cops, criminalization of poverty, political repression, and austerity labor should move forward with our own demands. Those could include a massive jobs program to house the homeless, the seizure of housing foreclosed by the banks to be used by those who need it, and an end to capitalist medicine in the United States, a major cause of debt, homelessness, and death. Without an independent fight-back of the working class, using the power of the strike for political demands, the situation will just continue to grow bleaker.
A revolutionary worker's party should be built to advocate and lead on just such a class struggle program. To remain a tool of the working class in the long run such a party also needs to have an anti-capitalist program for the building of socialism. Political parties without a clear anti-capitalist program, once in power, just become mere rulers over the inherent injustices of the capitalist system. Instead of capitalism, an egalitarian socialist economy in the United States with production based on human need rather than capitalist profit could provide everyone with a job, housing, health care, and free education. Such a society needs to be built on principles of workers' democracy rather than Stalinist dictatorship or American style dictatorship of the wealthy.
The alternative to socialist revolution becomes increasingly clear as capitalist society becomes less and less able to take care of its people; climate change caused by capitalist greed becomes an increasing threat to the future of human civilization; the capitalist state becomes increasingly repressive; and the leading capitalist countries plunge the world into war after war of imperialist domination and conquest. As the great German revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg said in 1918, the alternatives are socialism or barbarism.
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End Laws making it Illegal for the Homeless to Sleep at Night!
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Steven Chu announced Friday he will resign his position at the Department of Energy, after serving four contentious years as Energy secretary.
The Nobel-Prize-winning physicist made renewables a centerpiece of his tenure. But while surges in wind and solar installations garnered praise from Democrats, Republicans excoriated the Obama administration when clean-energy investments backfired.
In a lengthy resignation memo to his staff, Mr. Chu ticked off what he counts as the department's accomplishments under his lead: increased investment in high-risk, high-reward energy technology development; a doubling in production of clean, renewable energy from wind and solar; and more than $90 billion in Recovery Act loans to green energy companies.
When Solyndra, a solar panel manufacturer backed by $535 million in federal loan guarantees, filed for bankruptcy in 2011, critics of investments in private energy firms pounced. Chu downplayed the incident, saying that only 1 percent of the more than 1,300 companies funded by DOE Recovery Act funds went bankrupt.
"The test for America's policy makers will be whether they are willing to accept a few failures in exchange for many successes," Chu wrote in his letter Friday. "America's entrepreneurs and innovators who are leaders in [the] global clean energy race understand that not every risk can – or should – be avoided."
Chu said he will remain in the post at least through February and until a new secretary is selected.
When then President-elect Obama nominated Chu in 2008, he bucked a trend of appointing politicians or industry leaders to the post. The choice sparked optimism among academics who felt they had one of their own as the nation's top energy administrator.
"His appointment should send a signal to all that my administration will value science," Mr. Obama said at the time. "We will make decisions based on facts, and we understand that the facts demand bold action."
Indeed Chu, formerly the director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, won praise from many corners for the implementation of smaller, focused programs like energy efficiency block grants, the weatherization assistance program, the advanced research projects agency - energy.
But some say Chu's lack of experience inside the beltway overshadowed his wealth of experience outside it.
"Obama tapped the Nobel physicist to lead his fight to stop global warming and transform the nation's energy economy but the broad climate bill the president hoped would become part of his legacy never made it through Congress," the National Journal reported Friday, "and Chu later found himself embroiled in the political controversy over the bankrupt solar company Solyndra."
Chu, who will earn the title of longest-serving Energy secretary by the time he officially steps down, takes the long view.
"Just as today's boom in shale gas production was made possible by Department of Energy research from 1978 to 1991, some of the most significant work may not be known for decades," he wrote in his resignation letter. "What matters is that our country will reap the benefits of what we have started."
The president has not yet named a successor, but Politico lists former North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan, former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, former Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, and former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm as potential candidates. All of them are onetime politicians.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Gallaudet University football team suffered a gut wrenching loss to the hands of Mount Ida College, 22-16, on a blustery Saturday afternoon at Hotchkiss Field before a crowd of 450. The visiting Mustangs scored 14 unanswered points in the second half without their star running back en route to the come from behind win between the two Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) foes.
Mount Ida (4-2, 3-1 ECFC) lost its preseason All-American junior tailback Johrone Bunch early in the game as he went down with a knee injury midway through the first quarter. The conference leading rusher came back into the game in the second quarter and on his first carry immediately went down with the same knee injury. He left the game and did not return as he finished with two carries for four yards. Last season against Gallaudet, Bunch ran for 137 yards on 27 carries and one touchdown as the Mustangs won 23-6.
Gallaudet (3-4, 1-3 ECFC) set the tone early on as the Bison marched right down the field on their opening drive that ended with a 3-yard touchdown run by senior quarterback Jimmy Gardner (St. Augustine, Fla.). Gardner's seventh touchdown run of the season capped a 5-play, 42-yard drive and lasted just two minutes and 21 seconds.
Mount Ida's opening drive only lasted a minute as on the third play quarterback Scott Drosendahl (22-for-34, 288 yards) was intercepted by senior linebacker Joshua Doudt (Medina, Ohio) at the Gallaudet 44. Doudt took off down the sideline towards the end zone and made it to within a few yards but a Bison penalty forced the Buff and Blue to start the drive at the Mustang 44.
Gallaudet had its drive stall at the Mustang 16 and forced the Bison to attempt a 33-yard field goal. Senior kicker Justin Wilson (Carmichael, Calif.) converted the kick as Gallaudet held a quick 10-0 lead with 7:38 left in the first quarter.
The Mustangs got on the scoreboard early in the second quarter when Paul Shaughnessy (20 carries, 81 yards) ran the ball in from a yard out for the touchdown. Mount Ida went for two and converted when Drosendahl hit junior wide receiver Nick Lynch with the three-yard pass to cut the Bison lead to two, 10-8.
GU responded on the next drive when it only needed three plays to find the end zone. Senior running back Cole Johnson (Eden Prairie, Minn.) took a reverse and ran 47 yards for the score at the 10:45 mark before the half. The Bison botched the extra-point attempt as a low snap led Johnson to try and run the ball in but he was tackled short of the end zone. Gallaudet led 16-8 at intermission.
The Bison offense missed opportunities in the second half as a Mustang fumble led to a missed field goal and two possessions later Gardner (5-for-11, 46 yards) threw an interception in the Mount Ida end zone to stop a 13-play, 53-yard drive late in the third quarter. GU only had the ball twice in the fourth quarter and led to a punt a turnover on downs at the end of the game.
Drosendahl threw an 8-yard pass late in the third quarter to pull the Mustangs to within two, 16-14, as the two-point conversion pass failed. The sophomore quarterback engineered the game-winning drive midway through the fourth quarter. The Mustangs went 80 yards on five plays for the game-winner. Drosendahl ran the ball in from five yards out with 4:13 left in the game.
Gardner finished with a team-high 53 yards on the ground on 19 carries. Johnson had 47 yards on the touchdown run and freshman Michael Hantge (Hutchinson, Minn.) was effective in the second half as he ran seven times for 46 yards. The Bison finished with 205 yards on the ground and 251 yards of total offense, their lowest total of the season.
Mount Ida was held to 102 total yards on the ground, its second lowest mark of the season, while the 288 passing yards was the second most in the season for the Mustangs.
Doudt led all tacklers with 10 tackles, nine solo, and had one interception and 22 return yards for the Bison. Sophomore linebacker Tom Pangia (Hammonton, N.J.) finished with seven tackles, one for a loss of five yards and forced and recovered a fumble. Junior defensive back Kevin Berrigan (Frederick, Md.) had six tackles and Gallaudet's only sack for six yards. Gardner was sacked twice by the Mustang defense in the loss.
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"The world of espionage is not divorced from the rest of the world," says Thomas Boghardt, the International Spy Museum's historian says.
That became even evident this week when the FBI announced the arrest of 10 alleged Russian spies living and working in the United States and a couple of years ago, when the CIA released World War II era personnel files, including one for chef Julia Child, who did admin work for the intelligence service back when she was Julia McWilliams.
And because spies live and work among us, they need every day objects to conceal their secret files and transmissions.
In the previous century, technology we may find quaint today was invaluable for covert operations. The broadest collection of these gadgets can be found at The International Spy Museum, one of a few spy museums in the world. The Central Intelligence Agency also has a museum in Langley, but it can only be visited with an invitation. There is, however, a virtual tour.
While you wait on that special invitation, Boghardt shines a light on 10 famous — and infamous — spy gadgets housed at the International Spy Museum, which is open to the public. — By Alyssa Danigelis, Discovery
Lipstick pistol
"It's a classic," Boghardt says of this 4.5 millimeter single-shot weapon, presumably taken from a KGB agent in the mid-1960s. While it's unclear whether this dangerous "kiss of death" was ever used, a cyanide pistol was used for assassination in that era. These covert weapons are surviving examples of the "active measures" that were taken in this time period, unlike many of their intended targets.
This little camera, Model F-21 issued by the KGB around 1970, was concealed in a buttonhole and has a release that the wearer presses from a pocket. Just squeeze the shutter cable and the fake button opens to capture an image.
Hidden, portable cameras could be used at public events such as political rallies without detection. Boghardt notes that the Spy Museum's director Peter Earnest, who worked for many years in the CIA on intelligence, has used one of these cameras.
Coat camera
This little camera, Model F-21 issued by the KGB around 1970, was concealed in a buttonhole and has a release that the wearer presses from a pocket. Just squeeze the shutter cable and the fake button opens to capture an image.
Hidden, portable cameras could be used at public events such as political rallies without detection. Boghardt notes that the Spy Museum's director Peter Earnest, who worked for many years in the CIA on intelligence, has used one of these cameras.
Microdot camera
In the 1960s, the East German foreign intelligence service HVA issued this tiny camera, which takes photos of documents and uses a chemical process to shrink the text down so that a block of text appears no bigger than a period. This way agents could hide secret messages in plain sight. Boghardt points to an infamous incident involving microdots: Dusko Popov, a double agent during World War II, gave microdots to the FBI that mentioned German interest in Pearl Harbor. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover didn't trust Popov, however, so he never passed the information to president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Shoe with heel transmitter
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Western diplomats in Eastern Europe avoided buying suits there, preferring to mail order clothing and shoes from the West. In Romania, the secret service used this to their advantage, working with the postal service to install a transmitter in shoe heels. Boghardt says that the recording device was discovered during a routine room sweep that revealed a signal, but the signal disappeared when all the diplomats left the room.
Enigma cipher machine
Messages sent over the wireless in the World War II era could be intercepted so the Germans used a cryptographic device. On the surface, the Enigma cipher machine looked like a regular typewriter, but it wasn't. A keyboard was linked to rotors, powered by an electric current, which transposed every keystroke several times. Corresponding messages went out in Morse code and required keys, which changed daily, to decipher — get it? "De-cipher. " Which is exactly what the Allies did, cracking a code the Germans thought was unbreakable.
Cipher disk
It's tempting to think that spy gadgets aren't all that old, but even Caesar encoded messages using cryptography. This disk dates back to the Civil War, when it was used by the Confederate side — CSA stands for Confederate States of America.
It's pretty obvious how the device works: rotate the inner wheel to displace the letters. M = G, P = J, etc. Simple to crack, right? Not if the message is written in a language you don't know. Spies were tricky like that.
Bulgarian umbrella
A Bulgarian secret agent used an umbrella just like this one on a London street to kill Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov in 1978. A standard umbrella was modified internally to inject poison into its target with the press of the trigger. In Markov's case, the umbrella contained a ricin pellet, which is next to impossible to trace.
The museum displays a replica, made specially in Moscow for the collection. Boghardt says that in 1991, a room full of similar deadly umbrellas was uncovered in Bulgaria.
Pigeon camera
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a spy satellite! Before the dawn of aerial photography, pigeons did the job. Flying over enemy territory with a camera on autoshoot, pigeons could provide crucial information without getting lost along the way. Beyond photography, the birds also carried messages at times when radio communication was spotty or down. Pigeons sent through enemy fire up until the 1950s had a 95 percent success rate and were duly decorated with medals of honor for their service.
Tree stump bug
This tree stump bug used solar power to function continuously in a wooded area near Moscow during the early 1970s. The bug intercepted communications signals coming from a Soviet air base in the area and them beamed them to a satellite, which then sent the signals to a site in the United States. Solar power meant that no risky battery changes were needed. Nevertheless, the KGB discovered this green bug so the museum's copy is a replica.
Dog doo transmitter
Dog doo? Really? Boghardt says this, er, doohickey has a hollowed-out space inside, ideal for holding a message so that case officers and sources could communicate without raising suspicion. Doo tends to be left alone, which is why beacons disguised as tiger excrement were used to mark targets in Vietnam, Boghardt says. One of the risks is obviously that such a device would be thrown away or discovered by someone accidentally.
"Accidents happened all the time," the historian says. "That's one of the challenges of being a spy or case officer."


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Massachusetts girl cheerleads despite losing leg to cancer
By Laurie Los,The Standard-Times
Dressed in yoga pants and a t-shirt, GNB Voc-Tech junior Alexis Morel was determined to show her new cheerleading coach exactly what she could do on the first day of tryouts last August.
She ran. She jumped. She tumbled. She even did a back handspring.
Then Morel changed from long pants to shorts, exposing her prosthetic left leg to the surprise of Sara Aiello.
"I would have never picked her out of a crowd," said the first-year coach before a recent night's girls basketball game.
That's the first impression Morel wanted to make.
"I don't want to be treated differently," the 16-year-old amputee said before crossing her right leg over her prosthetic while sitting on the bleachers at GNB Voc-Tech. "I don't know if I feel like a normal teenage girl because I don't know how that is.
"At first, (the prosthetic) was kind of awkward, but now it feels like it's more a part of me. Now it seems so natural, like it was supposed to happen."
Morel's life forever changed nearly three years ago when doctors found a tumor on her left leg and diagnosed her with osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer most commonly found in children. A 13-year-old Morel went through weeks of chemotherapy — 36 to be exact — but the cancer in her leg had progressed too far and she needed to get it amputated below the knee or have bone graft replacement.
"When she made the choice to do the amputation instead of the fake bone put in her leg, she wanted to be able to always do sports and be active," said Morel's mother, Julie. "She said 'I want to do this because I want to be normal again. I want to be me.' And that's what she's done."
Since Morel didn't know if she'd ever be able to cheer again, on the day of her surgery she did what she thought at the time would be her final back handspring.
"That day they said 'No tumbling' and I said 'I want to try it one last time,'" she recalled.
Soon after Morel's chemotherapy ended on Feb. 13, 2011, she was determined to cheer again.
"I stopped chemo in February and I did a back handspring in June," she said proudly.
Morel and the rest of the Bears were set to compete recently at the Winter Cheerleading South Regionals at Whitman-Hanson after finishing third at the South Coast Conference meet.
It was a long road for Morel to get here.
First, she needed to learn how to walk with a prosthetic. Then she learned to run and jump. Now Morel is able to do nearly everything required of a high school cheerleader.
"I have no limitations," she said. "I can do anything I put my mind to."
Morel spends most of her time cheerleading as a base, providing support for the flyer during a stunt, but she can still fly, something she did a lot of with the American All-Stars based in Seekonk before she became an amputee.
"She's an amazing base, but there was one day when we were all joking around and I was like 'It would be awesome to have Lexy fly' and she said 'I can fly,'" recalled Aiello. "She grabbed three bases and jumped into a stunt. I'm like 'Wow, that was unexpected.' With basing, she's on the ground, but flying I didn't think she would do. But she just jumped up there like it was nothing. Nothing shocks me anymore with her."
The one thing Morel has found difficult to do is knee spins on the floor, but it hasn't stopped her from trying over and over again.
"She's tried it so many times, but she just can't do it," Aiello said. "Once in a while, she'll say 'I physically cannot do that,' but she doesn't use her leg as an excuse."
Sometimes it hurts Morel to run long distances, but she does it and pays the price after practice with swelling, bruises and irritation on her leg.
"If I have a long day at practice, my leg will really swell the next day. In the morning, it can be difficult," she said. "If my leg sweats a lot, the rubbing from my liner and my leg in the socket, it can cause an irritation."
But for Morel, it's all worth it.
"Cheerleading is my life," she said. "It's really important to me. I missed so much before (because of the cancer) so now that's all I want to do."
When Morel returned to cheerleading, her mom's biggest concern was that she wouldn't be treated the same as others.
"I just hoped that she didn't get disqualified for being disabled or that they would look at her differently," Julie said. "She's been able to do more than others that have tried out because she's been a cheerleader since she was a little girl. I didn't have any doubt. I was just hoping she was going to make it and they weren't going to judge her differently because she's an amputee now."
Because part of her prosthetic leg is metal, Morel must cover it with an ace bandage and wrap it in gold duct tape at competitions. This made her feel uncomfortable so her teammates decided to wear a gold strip on their legs as well.
"Everybody had a gold strip on their legs so the judges asked 'What's that?' and I said 'Because we have one girl that has to do it, then the whole team is going to do it,'" Aiello said. "It worked out well that the color for her cancer was gold and our school color is gold."
"All of the other cheerleaders will put one strip of gold around their legs to support her, and I think that's awesome," said Julie Morel.
Earlier this season at another competition, Aiello overheard a judge saying to someone that having Morel tape her prosthetic leg was not a big deal because "she's not going to be doing too much anyway."
"I just looked behind me and shook my head," said Aiello. "Then the first thing Lexy did was a running tumbling pass and they were like 'Holy crap, maybe she can do a lot.' People are thrown by her. They don't expect her to do anything."
The most challenging part for Morel is when people stare at her.
"I'm fine if you ask me about my leg, but I don't like when people stare," said Morel, adding that she understands how her cheerleading can be an inspiration to others.
"The way she approaches the whole thing, it's inspiring," said Aiello. "So many people would have taken that situation and made it 'woe is me' and not gone back to what they love and she didn't. She just has so much spirit."
Although Morel has experienced some dark days, she's been able to have a bright attitude, knowing that one day things would get better.
On a visit to the doctor recently, she found out that for now at least, she's cancer-free.
"The doctor said she has no limits," Julie Morel said. "She can jump. She can run. She can do anything. Her blood is good. She's normal again, which is awesome."


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A Houston pastor is behind bars, accused of sexually assaulting one of his foster children, Harris County prosecutors said.
Darryl Earl Houston, 47, faces three felony counts of sexual assault of a child under 17 years of age, court records show. He was charged Aug. 22.
A judge denied bail for the suspect, who was being held Monday at the Harris County Jail.
The girl told Harris County sheriff's investigators that she had sex with Houston six times at a residence on Bicentennial Court in northwest Harris County, from April 7-24, 2013, according to an arrest warrant filed in the case.
The girl was 14 when the alleged assaults occurred.
"The complainant (victim) stated that while the other family members were upstairs, the defendant turned off the lights and she and the defendant engaged in sexual intercourse," the arrest warrant states.
The girl told a therapist at the Children's Assessment Center that Houston "would tell her how he really liked her and how they would be together in the future," according to the warrant.
Questioned by sheriff's investigators, Houston denied the allegations. He submitted to take part in a polygraph exam, and the results of the test showed "deception," investigators said.
Child Protective Services removed the girl and the other foster children from the home, according to the investigators.


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Like many other staples of 20th century schools, the textbook is gradually becoming absorbed into the growing technological landscape in education.
But the printed page isn't in danger of extinction in MetroWest classrooms just yet, and may not be for the foreseeable future.
"I think we're in this interesting kind of in-between phase right now," said Linda Vaden-Goad, vice president of academic affairs at Framingham State University. "I feel fairly certain we're moving toward digital content, and that digital content will continue to get better."
But ultimately, she said, it will be�students' preferences that dictate where that movement goes next.
At schools in the region, the transition is already underway, with many districts offering a range of options. Depending on the subject or grade level, students are either reading printed books only, fully online texts, or a hybrid of the two in which digital content supplements a hardcopy textbook.
"It's all very new at this point. But we do know students learn by being engaged," said Maureen Greulich, executive director of secondary education at the Marlborough schools. The digital environment, she added, "is the world they will work in, and the world they will grow up in."
Marlborough's transition to online content is being driven partly by the district's simultaneous move to a one-to-one computing model. This upcoming school year, students in fifth through ninth grade will all have Chromebooks,�Greulich said.
"A drawback (of online content)�is ensuring that all students have access to the tools in school and at home," said Framingham Superintendent Stacy Scott, whose schools are also planning to provide more laptops to individual students in the coming years.�"As the district moves toward a higher student-to-device ratio and as the proliferation of handheld devices at home increases, access will be less and less of a problem."
Kevin McIntyre, the Milford schools' assistant superintendent�of curriculum, instruction and assessment, estimates in three to five years the majority of work students will be doing will be online. There are numerous�advantages�to digital text, he said, including the ability to offer interactive content and immediate feedback, as well as features that can better accommodate disabled students.
"I think it's an overall positive development," he said.
It's also a relatively affordable one for now,�school officials said; many textbook publishers will discount their products, for example, if districts buy bundled print and online content.
At the�college level, meanwhile, where the students are the ones expected to bear the cost of their reading materials, digital books�provide a real cost-saving option. Nicole Curley, a recent graduate of�Framingham State who is hoping to get into a graduate program at the school, estimated she saved about $100 on her recent purchase of an online psychology book.
"It's ridiculous how much (textbooks) cost," she said, adding many classes now will allow students to buy cheaper, older editions if they only have a few differences from the newer ones. "I know the professors are trying to be accommodating."
At Framingham State, for example, they are�more frequently making available open source material, which can be shared for free with all students, Vaden-Goad said.
"It's really an exciting time in academics, because of this explosion in access to material," she said, adding one of the main challenges for institutions like Framingham State is�to make�sure students are still accessing content that meets high standards of scholarship.
Tom Hallock, the associate publisher at Boston-based Beacon Press, said the transition to digital content is "so far, so good" in his industry, although the explosion of electronic books in the wake of the introduction of the Kindle and similar devices several years ago has plateaued more recently. Currently, Beacon's sales - the company sells fiction and non-fiction educational books - are approximately 80 percent print, 20 percent digital.
"I don't know what choice we have. The market moves in directions according to its own logic," he said. "From a financial point of view, it doesn't make a real difference to us. The good news is that people are reading."
But contrary to what might be popular opinion, the move to online reading isn't being completely embraced by the current generation of students, he said. "There does still seem to be a preference for print."
"I'm an English major - I have to write inside them," said Sarah Gonsalves, a graduate student at Framingham State who said she doesn't envision herself ever becoming a convert to digital print. "I'm a dying breed, I know."
"It depends on your learning style," said Curley, who also feels a little more at home with printed text. "Online books are harder to navigate. It's a lot easier to just flip through a book."
The practical benefits of a hardcopy book may never be entirely replicated by a computer, which is why some school officials believe textbooks, unlike writing slates and the abacus, could stick around a little while longer yet.
"Sometimes the textbook is still the best way," Greulich said.
Scott O'Connell can be reached at 508-626-4449 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter: @ScottOConnellMW
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Like many other staples of 20th century schools, the textbook is gradually becoming absorbed into the growing technological landscape in education.


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