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One of the things I have been looking forward to is more extended family gatherings. Our move to Spokane is making this so much easier, and last night I got to play the hostess. On the menu . . . Hawaiian Haystacks. We hadn't eaten these in a long time, but they were scrumptious.
There were 7 adults and 11 kids in attendance. My biggest worry was how much rice to cook and how to cook those large quantities. I am not a fan of cooking rice on the stove, and frankly not very good at it. And, when I cook for our family, I cook rice in a little rice bowl that came with our steamer. It does a great job, and it is the perfect size for our little family. It looks kind of like this:
What I really want is something like this:
But, after using this, I'm convinced I don't need anything else.
So, after searching the internet for some options for cooking large quantities of rice, I came across the following instructions:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Place the quantity of rice that you want (I used 12 cups of rice for my group – way too much) in an oven-proof pan.
- Pour boiling water (twice the amount of rice – I used 24 cups), over the rice and seal with a layer of plastic-wrap and then a layer of foil.
- Let the pan sit for 20 minutes.
- Place the pan inside the oven and set the timer for 35 minutes.
- After the time is up, shake the rice and if there is no "sloshing" sound, it is finished.
I was in complete amazement when I looked at my rice. Isn't it beautiful?
Fluffy and sticky, and everything you want rice to be. I think this may be my new way to cook rice. Forget about the $225 rice cooker!


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#IRegretNothing is the eighth episode of season three of Degrassi: Next Class.
Main Plot
Lola's friends are not there for her when she takes a nerve-wrecking test.
Sub Plot
As Tristan makes progress, Miles worries that the play will be in danger of getting cancelled.
Third PlotMaya sinks further into her depression as everyone begins to isolate from her.
- Lola finds out that she is pregnant and has an abortion. This marks the first time that the franchise has followed a character into the room where the procedure was going to take place.
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Regular Cast
- Amanda Arcuri as Lola Pacini
- Amir Bageria as Baaz Nahir
- Jamie Bloch as Yael Baron
- Stefan Brogren as Archie Simpson
- Chelsea Clark as Esme Song
- Reiya Downs as Shay Powers
- Ana Golja as Zoë Rivas
- Nikki Gould as Grace Cardinal
- Ricardo Hoyos as Zig Novak
- Ehren Kassam as Jonah Haak
- Lyle Lettau as Tristan Milligan
- Eric Osborne as Miles Hollingsworth III
- Parham Rownaghi as Saad Al'Maliki
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- Sara Waisglass as Frankie Hollingsworth
- Dalia Yegavian as Rasha Zuabi
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Present and past memberships: VisitDallas Marketing Committee Member; Dallas Women's Foundation's XIX Society – Member; Digital Dallas and Social Media Club of Dallas – Member; Townview School of Business & Management in DISD, Mentor to marketing class; Dallas Independent School District (DISD), Community Relations Committee Member; American Marketing Association – Member; Urban League Of Greater Dallas Young Professionals – Board member, Head of the Public Relations Committee. She enjoys: Spending her days outdoors and traveling, working out, and being a mom to the 13-year-old Yuri. Some of her achievements: Increased ExxonMobil's online following by more than 400,000 across six social media channels; helped to achieve historic and award-winning results across all ExxonMobil corporate social media channels and within marketing campaigns, e.g. winning the 2015 Bulldog Reporter Silver CSR Award for the "Be An Engineer" initiative; leveraged influencer marketing, digital marketing & public relations to launch the Susan G. Komen for the Cure's Circle of Promise campaign & microsite resulting in more than 10,000 signups & 10 celebrity ambassadors in two years; spearheaded more than 20 U.S. Army lead generation marketing campaigns & events resulting in more than 1,000 recruitment leads and 400 influencer leads.
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Shenikwa Carr is a Dallas native who has lived all over the country. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Howard University in Washington, DC. The Magna Cum Laude graduate started her career as a journalist covering tax and budget issues on Capitol Hill for The Daily Tax Report. She then moved to New York City where she worked in media relations and account management for Weber Shandwick, before becoming a producer at FOX NEWS CHANNEL. Her on-air work took her to Amarillo, TX where she served as a reporter for KAMR-TV. She quickly moved onto become the morning anchor at WNWO-TV in Toledo, OH. She later became the first African-American female to serve as a main anchor in the market.
Shenikwa left journalism after ten years, to return to Weber Shandwick. This time to their Dallas offices. She was charged with media relations and influencer engagement for a variety of clients, including Verizon Wireless Omni Hotels, Bank of America, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Borden Milk, University of North Texas, Nespresso Coffee, Shock Top Beer, Travel Alberta and more. Every campaign resulted in phenomenal media results, including national placements in the New York Times, USA Today, NPR, The Daily Buzz, O Magazine and Men's Health. In 2012, Shenikwa established her own firm, Get Media PR, where she supported media relations, influencer engagement, business-to-business marketing, social media marketing, content creation, sponsorship agreements, and media training for Verizon Wireless, CheapCaribbean.com, Robson Ranch, Executive Leadership Counsel and Elevate Life Church. Shenikwa served as the lead contact between agency and clients while working with outside vendors to achieve company goals. She was credited with generating forward-thinking communications campaigns that entice media, engage consumers socially and experientially, and drive revenue sales. She is excited to bring her media relations background and innovative public relations ideas to the EJP Marketing Co. team. When not working, Shenikwa can be found cheering on her two daughters, Kennedy (12), and Kayla (10) at one of their All-Star cheer competitions.
Vice President of Multicultural Communications Gaby Romero is a multicultural and grassroots communications executive with over 15 years of agency experience in reputation management, strategic partnerships, stakeholder engagement, and branded content marketing. Gaby began her career with the Interpublic Group (IPG) of companies, gaining unparalleled experience with Weber Shandwick and the Axis Agency in multicultural communications and establishing herself as an expert in advocacy outreach while working on the U.S. Army Marketing and Research Group (AMRG) client from 2006 to 2017.
During her tenure on the Army account, Gaby was lead Program Manager for Hispanic and African-American partnerships where she developed and implemented strategic engagement campaigns for the Army client that included diversity and inclusion awareness, executive positioning, prospect and influencer engagement, multicultural and general market media relations. Partnerships included non-government organizations (NGOs) in the general advocacy, education and STEM categories. Prior to her work with the Army, Gaby developed her grassroots, influencer and partnership development expertise with clients across the lifestyle, entertainment, automotive and public affairs categories for national and regional campaigns and in major Hispanic consumer markets including New York, California and Texas. Previous clients include the U.S Department of the Treasury for the Directo a su cuenta ("Go Direct") campaign and the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for the launch of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (LARAS) and the first official Latin Grammy Awards. Gaby is bilingual, fluent in English and Spanish. She holds a B.A. in communications with an emphasis in public relations from the College of Communications at California State University Fullerton. Her passion for advocacy is born of her experience as a first-generation U.S. Hispanic. She has lived and worked in major Hispanic markets on both coasts and now resides in the great state of Texas.
Globe-trotting Sanchez was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She joins EJP from the City of Arlington communications office where she provided media relations, story writing, social media and photography as their communications associate. Prior to this, she served as a news reporter for The Shorthorn, UT Arlington's award-winning weekly newspaper, and daily online publication. She and her media coverage have been featured on ArlingtonTX.gov, My ArlingtonTV, the Arlington, Texas government cable channel, as well as The Shorthorn newspaper. Her skills in journalism, broadcast, photography, and writing will be instrumental in her public and media relations role at EJP, a top PR firm in Dallas 2017, 2018, and 2019.
She graduated from The University of Texas at Arlington with a Bachelor of Communication with a focus in Journalism and a minor in Broadcasting. Sanchez also has a new photography business "Upon Grace Photography" where she specializes in portraits, couples, and lifestyle photos in natural lighting. Through her experiences, she has learned to be a storyteller whether it be through writing or through lenses. Communicating with others has always been a major source of joy in her life. She is thrilled to bring her news reporting and social media skills to EJP Marketing Co. A few of Valeria favorites: Taking pictures during golden hour, sipping on Korean coffee, and taking spontaneous trips with friends and family.
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Almond Butter Cookies
1/2 cup Jif® Creamy Almond Butter
1/4 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 large egg
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon almond extract
1/4 cup sliced almonds
- HEAT oven to 375°F.
- BEAT almond butter, butter and sugar in medium bowl with electric mixer on medium-high speed until creamy. Beat in egg. Add flour, baking soda, salt, vanilla and almond extract. Beat until smooth. Form balls using 1 tablespoon dough. Place 2 inches apart on baking sheet. Press 4 or 5 almond slices on top of each cookie.
- BAKE 7 to 9 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool on pan 1 minute. Remove to wire rack to cool completely.
Serving Size (1 of 30 cookies), Calories 80 (Calories from Fat 40), Total Fat 4g (Saturated Fat 1.5g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 10mg, Sodium 60mg, Total Carbohydrate 9g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 5g), Protein 2g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 2%, Iron 2%.


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I assume a lot of people are preparing or are on their way to Steemfest in Bangkok. For me a no go this year. Last weekend I had a new health test monitoring my heart rate etc. for 48 hours. During the test I was allowed to do my normal activities but no activities where this device could get wet. This would mean no surfing, swimming, showering (iiieeeew) or going out during heavy rain. Well to bad it rained a lot during the weekend and there was a storm coming over.
During the Saturday we had a moment with a bit of sunshine, so I went outside for some pictures, but the clouds came back pretty soon so I decided to create a short movie to keep my film skills alive after my wedding edit. The short film gives you a little insight at the walk I had.
The edit work
I decided to try out another video edit program as well, this time I tried to edit in Final Cut Pro (FCP) from Apple. After the wedding edit, I got a bit used to Premiere Pro (PP), but I don't want to deep dive in this program before I tried some others. So FCP it is. During my short edit work, I did miss some things I found pretty useful in PP, like adjustment layers or editable shortcuts. On the other hand, the whole UI did work more intuitive for me. Difficult to explain but FCP does work pretty smooth while (re)arranging video, audio and titles at the timeline. Cutting video does work more intuitive for me to working on the timeline. Adobe loses this game with their Nonlinear editor timeline.
FCP does also run smoother (but I assume that is because Apple doesn't have to work with other systems than macOS) on my Macbook Pro when compared to PP. Even exporting files is way faster. Talking about export, during this you can continue working at your project. Didn't find this trick to work in PP?
Organizing the files needed for the project was a bit though to find out how it did work. But once you find out how the library is working with all the files, other libraries, keywords you will love this one.
Thing's I've learned during this small project
I learned that creating a photography self-portrait is way easier than filming yourself, because moving images get more attractive when the background isn't to static. Actually, you want that your camera follows you while you're moving. Does anyone know a solution for this?
Also learned that I need to try and use both editing programs more often because I can't choose at the moment between them. So I need to create some more short movies I guess…🤔
You don't need much of a story to tell a little story in your video. Just started filming during my walk and the story created itself during the edit. Of course, the storyline is thin very thin but there is a small story. Knowing this, when the light conditions aren't perfect, I can always start filming a bit. Yes, I do think I've found a new hobby here.
I hope you will like this short edit, if not I would love to hear some tips to improve!
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We're a group of players who love the game and are waiting for the upcoming feature the guild wars. Surfingnomad is a guild where you decide how much you play and donate. Why donate? To grow our guild we need to raise a certain amount of DEC and Daily Quests to reach higher levels. When we reach the higher levels you will earn extra DEC rewards in ranked play but also get discounts in the shop. These discounts and extra DEC rewards depends on the level of the guild. Would you like to join us on the battlefields?
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Item Description: From Colonel George Logan's records. This report from one of his captains informs him of transportation trouble and new camp conditions. It also informs him of the Captains decisions.
Citation: In Folder 33, in the George William Logan Papers #1560, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Hd. Qrs. 2nd Battalion. Heavy Artillery
25. Sept 1864
C. C. D. W. La.
Capt. Commanding
Reports that he left an officer and ten men in charge of the baggage belonging to his Battalion.
Hd Qrs D.W. La.
26 Sept. 1864
Reply returned. Left the sick and baggage remain where they are.
By Command of Maj. Gen. McKlear
Gallagher A.A.G.
Rear Hd. Qrs. 2nd D. La. Sept. 26, 1864
Hd Qrs La. Battalion H. A. Chickasaw
Bayon, Sept 25th 1864
Lt. Col. J.T. Galligher A. A. G.
Col. On moving to this camp yesterday morning I found it impossible for want of transportation to move most of our baggage. I therefore left the camp with an officer + ten men unable to walk. Expecting to send for the Sick men + baggage today. I have Since concluded that it would be best perhaps to let the Sick men + baggage remain there for the present, as the Sick can be better taken care of there than here. There being nothing to Shelter them from the weather at this camp; if however you should wish the whole camp removed here, will you indicate it? So that I may order it at once.
Very Respectfully
Your Able Servant
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ELIZABETH II, Perth Mint, holey dollar and dump sets 1988-90; two ounce silver kookaburra, 1995, World Vision pm, one ounce silver kookaburra, 1996, Tricentennial Swan River/Rottnest Island pm. Also R.A.M. medallion 1988. All in cases of issue, uncirculated - FDC. (6)
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Who would have thought that Al "Ozone Man" Gore would have to worry about a challenge from the Green Party? And who would have thought that the United Auto Workers would be flirting with a presidential candidate who doesn't own a car? But, thanks to Ralph Nader, both are now realities.
Gore may be wondering what he did to deserve such a bizarre twist of fate. But the fact is that this kind of threat was foreseeable, and the Clinton administration could have done much to dampen it.
It has long been obvious that the Democratic Party, with its labor constituency, has at least as big an anti-globalization faction as the Republican Party. It was only through a fluke of history that in 1996 the only visible anti-globalization presidential candidate was a conservative, Pat Buchanan. Sooner or later a version of Buchanan without the conservatism and without the overtones of racism—a version that labor unions could stomach—was bound to gain prominence.
What could Clinton and Gore have done if they had seen this coming? One reason union members can contemplate voting for Nader even if it hurts Gore is their perception that, on economic policy, Gore isn't much different from George W. Bush anyway. Both men are free traders, so what's the dif? Gore would now have two plausible answers to that question if it weren't for some bad decisions on the part of the Clinton administration.
Plausible answer No. 1: Gore could in theory say, "Unlike George W. Bush, I will use the judicial machinery of the World Trade Organization to defend the interests of American workers." Unfortunately, the Clinton record suggests otherwise.
Granted, the administration has taken American grievances to the WTO. Indeed, in the most famous example, it pursued its cause with a vengeance: Having won a case against the European Union, the administration deemed the EU's compliance with the ruling unsatisfactory and imposed retaliatory tariffs, causing observers to fret about a trans-Atlantic trade war. And what American export was Clinton defending at such great cost? Bananas—an American product only in the sense that they're grown in Latin America. The U.S. workers Clinton was protecting were a few Chiquita executives who had steered campaign donations in his direction. This is the sort of thing Nader presumably has in mind when he says of Bush and Gore: "They're Tweedledum and Tweedledee. They're both tools of global corporations."
The banana escapade, though an extreme example, illustrates a larger pattern. If you look at cases that Clinton has brought before the WTO, you won't find many that centrally involve the interests of blue-collar workers. The administration has forcefully backed ranchers (who are pro-free-trade with or without such help), musicians and actors (on intellectual property issues), and pharmaceutical companies (whose manufacturing costs are a trivial fraction of their products' prices). Major support for old-fashioned assembly-line industries has been rare.
Plausible answer No. 2: Gore could in theory say, "Unlike George W. Bush, I favor trade agreements that set labor and environmental standards which developing nations must meet." In fact, Gore does now say roughly that. Unfortunately, Clinton's record doesn't back him up. In 1997, Clinton sought fast-track negotiating authority from Congress. As John Judis notes in his excellent book The Paradox of American Democracy, Clinton was initially receptive to labor's request that the fast-track bill give him the power to negotiate labor and environmental accords. But when Republican legislators and business lobbyists balked, he caved. The bill he sent to Congress, lacking this provision, so upset organized labor that it didn't pass. (Had he sent up the version that labor favored, it probably would have passed. When push came to shove, industrialists would have preferred lower tariffs with an asterisk to no lowered tariffs at all.)
For that matter, as Judis notes, Clinton had done much the same thing in his first term. He'd initially planned to put meaningful labor provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement, but he gutted them once business lobbyists started whining. (Myopic labor leaders share in the blame; they were more interested in derailing NAFTA than improving it.)
After the Seattle WTO protests, Clinton saw the light yet again. He said emphatically that the WTO should start addressing labor and environmental issues. And Gore agrees. Well, talk is cheap.
As globalization proceeds, the collective nationalist backlash—Buchanan voters plus Nader voters—could get big. The question facing Republicans and Democrats would then be which party can do a better job of keeping its nationalist-leaning factions on board. I hope the answer is Democrats. But that will mean showing environmentalists and union members that sovereignty-sapping supranational bodies needn't be right wing; there is such a thing as left-leaning world governance. (And it can assume a surprising variety of forms.) Those of us who have been preaching this sermon for years are glad that Clinton and Gore are now nominally on board. But, for purposes of hanging on to the White House, their conversion may have come too late.
Speaking of Clinton mistakes: On Sunday the New York Times Magazine had a spooky piece about Pakistan's thousands of madrasas, schools that immerse boys and young men in Islam and often have a militant bent. Reporter Jeffrey Goldberg, visiting one of them, asked the students, "Who wants to see Osama Bin Laden armed with nuclear weapons?" The reaction: "Every hand in the room shot up."
This is a reminder of what a bad idea it was for Clinton to launch that cruise missile attack on Bin Laden in retaliation for the African embassy bombings. As a wise man wrote six months ago in an influential periodical, "Even with a bunch of terrorists conveniently assembled in a single spot, the cruise-missile strike in Afghanistan was self-defeating: It no doubt guaranteed Osama Bin Laden 10 new recruits for every terrorist who was killed."


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Archive for October 3rd, 2013
Who cares about our planet anyway?
Posted by John, October 3rd, 2013 - under Wall Street.
Tags: Climate change, Ecosocialism, Environment
Comments: 3
We need to recognize the need to replace capitalism with a more rational, cooperative, democratic and humanistic system in sync with our "species being" and nature. If we don't, we will lose our only home, writes Chris Williams, the author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis and a participant in the ecosocialist coalition System Change Not Climate Change, in Socialist Worker US.


text: We are most excited to share with you the events of the Inaugural Conference of the American Society of Acupuncturists (ASA) held in Washington, D.C. last month. Asian Medicine Acupuncturists of Arizona (AMAAZ) nominated Della Estrada, LAc and Lloyd G. Wright, LAc to represent our Arizona community. The groundbreaking event opened with an organizational meeting on day one followed by a national conference on the second and third days. On the fourth and final day, 250 AOM practitioners had appointments at the Capitol where they lobbied congressional representatives. Della and Lloyd were joined by AMAAZ member Jason Caldwell, LAc who travelled to D.C. to support the profession and his AOM colleagues.


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Spring is sprung, or at least the snow has retreated again. Between the melting and rain, the pump is on in the cellar (thank goodness). It's still chilly, but I think that's to be expected. Spring seems to be like the rising tide, coming in and going out- but getting closer each time. The forecast doesn't seem to have us expecting freezing weather for the next week or so. Still, time to get the tiny garden beds ready- to decide what I'm going to plant this year. There are surviving piles of snow where it was piled up. We actually got about three inches Sunday night, but then it rained Monday and turned to nasty slush, and now it's pretty much gone again. We have croci, and the daffodils are sprouting, but not blooming yet. I have come to appreciate the hardy spring blooms. Actually, I have come to appreciate flowers more than I used to do. I think I'm more aware of the need for cheering up.
I can prove that spring is coming though- we had to open the window in the pantry to keep it down to 40º in there. And there's no snow, nor freezing weather in the forecast (not that this isn't New England and we don't put out the soft plants until Memorial Day).
This week Willow picked up a couple of mini chimes so now we have "cat door bells" on both sides of the door- good for when we can hear them. I think the cats preferred the giant hawk bells (jingle bells) they have been using before. We had some hanging from a ring at Christmas- I think it's an official Christmas Decor item, but Ambian taught us to open the door for him when he rang the bells. I'd already hung a string of bells on the outside doorknob in an attempt to teach them that trick, so we left it there. I added some mini chimes (easier for me to hear) although he doesn't like those as much. Now the round bells are destroyed (they hung from ribbon, which made them fragile, so we replaced them with the mini chimes. Ambian and Zoloft are fine with the system, although Zoloft uses her tail, but Pyewacket and Peripegelium think it's beneath their dignity.
I am afraid that the biggest thing I can think of that we did this week was Clean the Refrigerator. (I actually think that deserves caps.) All last week Willow was sick in that way where you feel-like-hell-but-keep-doing-what-you-need-to-do-anyway, maybe a little slower. She finally decided that she was well enough to tackle the refrigerator which was really heroic. I'm not saying that we haven't cleaned it since I came down with Lyme, because I know we've done the produce bins and done other spot cleaning, but still, this time we did the whole thing. She took the meat and put it in a cooler and sat a chair in front of the beast and kept emptying into a series of boxes. John ran the boxes over to me and and washed off every jar, emptied the Tupperware into the compost and washed those, and changed the water in the bucket Willow was using to was the interior. I also did the shelves. Let's just say it took the three of us three straight hours non-stop and another hour of jar washing after for me when it was mostly done. There is no longer a Cyberman on the refrigerator door. I'm not sure what it was doing there, but it's back up with the Dr. Who figurines in Kat's room now. We have three colors of olives (black, red and green), many peppers, condiments, 3 jars of sauerkraut, and many fewer jars of moldy jam. I have no idea how it all fit in there, because after throwing scads of stuff away, it was still hard to fit it in.
My feet had gotten mostly recovered from the fasciitis, but the four hours on my feet pushed me back again. I've tried to stay off them since, and today they seem mostly recovered again. I have been reminded. Keep off them well after I think they're better! Willow seems mostly recovered, but Kat has been having problems. We are looking up irritable bowel- I don't think that's it. I think it's just her reaction to stress, but I feel badly for her. I've been trying to make simple, comfort food like Mac and cheese and other pastas, chicken nuggets and fries, stew and biscuits, chicken and rice, etc. but what if it's starch that's doing it? I'd feel pretty dumb then. She did OK with simple meat and potatoes when Steve came up over the weekend.
Willow finished Steve's quilt. She says it will keep him warm- as two layers of fleece would do! It's two full widths of fleece, so 4 yards for each layer- about 4 times what one of her usual ones weigh. I hope he likes WEIGHT on him while he sleeps! It looks good though. I still prefer the theme music for Voyager, but prefer the Galaxy Class over the Intrepid starships, visually, but when you have something made for you, you get what you want.
I have come to the end of another journal (I use plain, blank books). I started the month after Mother died, and I have hers, so our family is chronicled pretty well as far as hers go back anyway. This one had the back page fall out- and it has my copy of my contract with my apprentice tucked in it as well. I should count them, I think I'm well over 20, but do I have 30? So if someone asks me what I had for dinner on some date in 97, I would probably be able to tell him. Breakfast, not so much. But I tracked when we bred the various animals, and anything I thought I might want to know about later. I use them to remember "a whole week back" when I'm writing the letter. Weeks like this don't take up much space.
The funniest story of the week is a bit embarrassing. I have been working on the book cover. I think I'm nearly done. But at some point I misplaced the cup I use for my Sansodor (like turpentine, only it doesn't stink up the kitchen), and found a shot glass and was using that. Thursday morning Willow came down to take a picture of Steve's blanket and discovered something pink and sticky scattered over the table. She found a bottle of Raspberry liqueur under the table- standing up, thank goodness, as it was (still) nearly full. Later she found the lid in the drawer of the hutch. It's a screw off cap, so it's unlikely that the cats got it off and knocked it down without knocking it over. Mysterious! Then I when I was picking up my painting that night I remembered. The shot glass I was using was one we'd often used to give offerings to the house spirits. And before we moved the altar to the secretary by the front door, it used to be attached to the kitchen windowsill. I was putting the cup of paint thinner on the windowsill (to keep it from being knocked over) in the cup we'd often put out for the housewights- in the place we'd put offerings. Can you imagine the poor hob who found what looked like an unanticipated offering only to discover that it wasn't booze, but was paint thinner? No wonder he'd go looking to help himself to a deserved treat, and to make his annoyance at our "bad joke" known! Some people don't believe in the good people, "but as for me and grandpa we believe". I hope I can convince the wight that it was a simple mistake, no discourtesy intended. At least I didn't lose a cow over it (like the woman who buried the butter in the Christmas porridge).
What else has happened this week? We got an invitation to my niece Kate's wedding this fall. Liz tells me that my aunt Amanda feel and is now recovering from a broken leg. I still am enjoying pictures of her tiny dog (who I think weighs less than any of our cats!). I finally got around to registering my car- having not been up and out but once since February. Well, I've been getting a lot of reading done.
I finished And the Rest is History, and the last book in the Chronicles of Saint Mary's: An Argumentation of Historians which came out on April 15th, and I'd pre-ordered it (Kindle). I have to admit that most of what I did on April 16th was read it. I do like the series, but now I have to wait until she writes another. That happens when one discovers a new series. Luckily, there are several I like, so it shouldn't take long until another comes out. I have got Doomsday Book to finish. I've requested the next Lindsey Davis book from the library, I'm looking forward to that. I found the Haunting Danielle series in January, about the same time as I discovered the Chronicles of St. Marys, but didn't really start that until I finished the Danielle books. I also read the last story in The Long and the Short of It. That's a collection of short stories about the St. Mary's folk. I'd left it unread as it started with a reference to a trip to Constantinople they hadn't gone on yet. So now I'm fairly well caught up with St. Mary's. (…and pretty desperate to find someone else who's read it so I can talk with them about it. I have not been able to bully any of the kids into it.)
Meanwhile I'll continue reading more than anyone wants to read about vampires, upirs, , (it's already getting rather repetitive). My major task is to sort out what SCAers will want to know (for Pennsic, and I'll probably do a dry run at GNEW again), and then for the CTCW folks. This week I started working on the map. I have to have a map. I'm sure most people don't know the difference between Transylvania and Carpathia, Bulgaria and Romania, Moravia and Lithuania, the Balkans and the Baltic. And it gets more confusing when empires take over other back and forth over the centuries. Heck I have trouble with it, and I'm pretty good with maps and history. I'm trying to decide what information is most important, and that can be hard. So far I've finished, Banes' the Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology, now I'm running through Melton's The Vampire Book, which is also an encyclopedia. I read How to Kill a Vampire; it was pretty much a run down on how literature has influenced what people think about vampires. For example, while vampires were primarily nocturnal, it was Murnau's Nosferatu (enjoying the "fade away" special effect) that came up with the Sunlight kills vampires rule. The bit about them being repelled by mirrors and crosses pretty much came from Stoker and the 1931 Lugosi movie. The "sleep in his native soil" thing was all from that. Actually, coffins were pretty rare for anyone not rich, and most vampires were from among the peasants who didn't have them. A great deal of Stoker's Dracula was playing on fear of foreigners and in the film there was a considerable social pressure around how dangerous it was for girls to get friendly with men from outside their immediate circles. I hadn't thought about where the word vamp came from, but it was based on the idea of a bad girl (Theda Bara) destroying a good man. But I could go on, and on…
I read a few chapters of The Vampire Diaries, since the book's apparently the inspiration for the TV show. It seemed fairly innocuous. I thought it was a bit better than the Princess Diaries. Having done that, I looked at the first disc of the TV show, and as expected, there's as much similarity between the book and TV show as existed in True Blood, or other adaptations. They used the names of the main characters. In the book Elena was blonde, but the actress reminded me so much of Sarah Michelle Geller (Buffy) that I think there would have been comments if she'd been blonde in the show. The Vampire love interest Stefan really looks a lot like David Borianis (Angel from Buffy). Her best friend seems to be turning into a witch (a subplot that hadn't started when I stopped reading), which of course, reminds one of Willow in Buffy. I think this is just Buffy 2.0 for the next generation of vampire fans. Nothing wrong with that I guess, but I don't know that it will be able to live up to its predecessor, as the Time Tunnel didn't become America's Doctor Who.
I finished American History Revised: 200 Startling Facts that Never Made it into the Textbooks,. and I can only say that using that in tandem would be a great high school history curriculum. The stories chosen are generally more interesting than the "memorize these facts" version they give you in text books. More importantly, the author is all about context, making connections, relating the past to the present in a meaningful manner. I'll admit I find his frequent description of a situation without names irritating because, yes, it does sound like what's going on now, and then he springs the names and dates on you and we can see where it happened before. (Darn it!) The book is heavily referenced and footnoted as he suggests people keep looking at it. In his afterward he suggest that "in-depth learning of one or two subjects is more valuable than scattershot familiarity", and then immediately suggests "making connections and seeing the large picture", which seem at least a bit contradictory. Still, I think it's a great book and highly recommend it. I took about two or three months reading a few sections a day. (Now I'm doing the same with the book The Scientists: a history of science told through the lives of its greatest Inventors. Clearly I'm of the make connections through scattershot familiarity school.) Another non-vamp book I'm reading is The Culture Code: the secrets of Highly successful Groups. Because of it I know why they are taking Steve's cubical away. In theory when people are working face to face on tables without walls they develop better connections, and do better work. I'm not sure this is the way to go in all systems. Certainly I doubt the management types are giving up their personal offices any more than the Republicans are divesting themselves of the money they're making through changing the laws to make their contributors richer. The one image I will probably take away from this book is of Navy Seals learning to carry around telephone poles together. I also think about how they are taking music out of the schools, and how better can you teach kids to be aware of each other and work together than with music?
I watched a movie I'd never heard of before last week: Valerian and the City if a Thousand Planets. It starts with a space station and astronauts from different countries greeting each other, then people from different planets doing the same as the technology gets better. They tell of how the space station has gotten so big that it's mass is endangering the earth, so send it off to be it's own city in space, something like Babylon 5 I guess. Only for reasons of "wow-look-what-we-can-do-with-special-effets" there are thousands of types of beings, all working together and sharing knowledge to everyone's benefit. Except that they are, of course, all like us. There's an idyllic planet full of peaceful blue people in tune with Mother Nature, and they get pretty much wiped out by humans (if other species are on the other side, it's not mentioned) fighting near enough to trash their ecology. The good guys look like a pair of pouty teenagers, (reminded me of Luke Skywalker in the first Star Wars) but are apparently the greatest fighters in the police/army. The "bad guy" is the dislikable commander who feels that death is better than humiliation, and innocent civilians dying is acceptable as long as they can't force the government to pay reparations. The coolest effect is a little beast that eats pearls and then seems to poop them out again- or they may leak out of it's scales, I couldn't tell. It's called a converter, and seems the key to restoring the Mül ecosystem, or making black-marketers really rich. That's where the plot goes. Basically it's an adventure with a romance, and a shipload of special effects. So worth watching if you like pretty fluff!
Other movies I watched this week were mostly vampire movies, that I'd become curious about from my reading (it may be too easy to request them from the library), the Horror of Dracula, was a Christopher Lee Hammer classic. The Curse of Frankenstein with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as the Creature was another. Are there any Frankenstein films where the creature is not pitiable? Lee's was the MOST pitiable I've seen so far. His expression is one of such confusion, and he is no where threatening, although many look at his "ugliness" and scream. The two earlier versions of Phantom of The Opera with Lon Chaney (1925) and with Claude Rains (1943) came. Lon Chaney did make a scary Phantom, an between his madness and his looks, you can understand him being called a monster. ( I watched the specials, and apparently his appliances frequently caused him to bleed.) Claude Rains phantom was far less scary; I found myself annoyed that the girl would shriek at his face. Indeed the extra material explained that they'd scaled back on the disfigurement in deference to men who'd come home from the war burned and feeling badly about themselves. Another thing they did was to remove the scene where it was explained that the phantom loved Christine because he was her father who'd deserted her and her mother in order to pursue his musical career. They said it was because at one point the fiancee says it's clear that the phantom is in love with Christine, and they worried about the audience thinking it was incestuous. I doubt they would have done. In an earlier scene (they inexplicably left in), the director of the company tells her that she has to choose between her fiancee and her career (which she seems to do at the end- deserting both the men who've been courting her). I have a feeling that that theme may have been directed at the women in the audience who may be considering careers. It's OK for men, but not women. I liked that they had a phantom with an incredible voice. I would watch almost anything with him in it. I was surprised to hear that was originally a cockney with a speech impediment. I wonder if he ever did any cockney roles? I was very impressed with the silent version, more than I'd expected. The sets were incredible, and I don't know if I was aware that they had a color process back in the 20s- not full color, but I'm sure it was impressive at the time. I also "re-watched" some other old vampire movies Innocent Blood, one of my favorites. The theme is about it's not whether you are a vampire that makes you bad, but what you do. Don Rickles as a vampire was about the scariest one I've ever seen! While overtly the theme of Fright Night is since a teenager can't convince anyone of anything hard to believe, he has to handle things on his own, I've always thought that the real story was that of Peter Vincent, who'd acted a hero, but had to force himself to actually be one (as in Galaxy Quest). They made a bigger deal of it in the remake, but had to add the revenge motivation too, which I think weakened it. This film has the trope (seen also in Lost Boys) that if you kill the maker, that unmakes the vampire (if they haven't killed anyone yet). This is another movie idea- probably because of the emotional need to "save the damsel". I also sort of watched Urban Legend, another cheesy 80s horror movie that was packaged with Fright Night. Since I had them on while I was painting, I really didn't catch enough of it to remember it well. When I'm painting what I need is radio plays – or movies I've seen enough that I no longer need to look at them.
Well, darn, sniffles, sore throat… I may be getting Willow's cold. I'll close up and try to do something more interesting next week.
"To have compassion for those who suffer is a human quality which everyone should possess, especially those who have required comfort themselves in the past and have managed to find it in others."
–from "The Decameron" (1350-1353) by Giovanni Boccaccio
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Friday 20 Pineapple Upside-down Cake Day, Cheddar Fries Day, Look Alike Day
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Sunday 22 Mother Earth Day, Jelly Bean Day, April Showers Day
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"DD Review: The Flatliners – Inviting Light."
Score: 7.5/10
If the Black Angels proved anything earlier this year with their masterpiece album Death Song, it's that new rock music can still be effective, if it's able to convey a mood which is somehow congruent to life in America in 2017. New project Inviting Light by Canadian Dirty Nil compadres The Flatliners seems at first to plot out this exact thing: a tense, seedy and dirty motif of boisterous but hesitant, arhythmic guitar strands. Somewhat disappointingly, Inviting Light soon devolves into a punk album very much in the vein of Beach Slang or Titus Andronicus (or The Dirty Nil, for that matter), but one with enough kinetic energy to warrant a full listen, Chris Cresswell's compelling, inflection-filled yowl a draw in its own right as well.
By "Hang My Head" we've moved from punk to power pop, ironically with an absurd screaming vocal belting out the words "Yeah I'll hang my head / For this legacy of embarrassment", begging the question of why, if they have the impetus to change things, they're going with a musical style of punk rock which by this point is so old, especially with the recent punk revival of Iceage, Plague Vendor and the bands I mentioned before. In bars, this music plays as Minor Threat-informed pointless sweat-swapping very much calling to mind Fu**ed up (also from Canada).
Also exactly like The Dirty Nil, Flatliners take it down a notch for track four, trading quirky pop though for Kevin Cadogan-style whirligig guitar riffs, subtly flanking the song's key phrasing points. Actually I feel like I just got jettisoned straight back to the late '90s: this song is indeed very much out of the playbook of Third Eye Blind or maybe Goldfinger, its penchant for avoiding overly poppy ploys like strings and cheesy choruses very much a feather in its cap. I must say that this song does a good job of almost like infusing some new life INTO the late '90s, like if the Stone Temple Pilots had been mellower and less misanthropic (slacker-style song title "Indoors" does anything but hinder their effort to enact this development: I wonder if it's actually an old song they're now finally releasing).
"Human Party Trick," sadly, is basically more palm-mute punk rock wheel spinning, Cresswell tending unfortunately toward the realm of overacting, with a fake provincial accent (sort of like how for a while every rapper in the world was imitating Drake's "dirty" drawl). "Unconditional Love" (da** these titles can be deceiving) comes in slow and grunge-y (I think this may be the one Canadian band in history influenced by the Stone Temple Pilots), stamping down a deliberate, riffy but ethereal verse before exploding into a climactic chorus buoyed nicely by drummer Paul Ramirez' hearty, thumping cymbal hits, placed perfectly going into it. Indeed, if this song were called "Plush pt. 2," I wouldn't even scratch my head a bit, but as any Brendan O'Brien fan knows (which I've hopefully brainwashed you into sufficiently being by this point by blogging on this site), this is a good thing.
"Burn out again" plays as more of an opener of side b than it does a followup to "Unconditional Love," hence in a sense earmarking "Love" as an ideal side-closeur. Along these lines, the song is actually about running out of ideas: "I burn out again / Run out of words to put in my head", and I don't think any of us should pretend like Cresswell's plaint here is unique to him: this music is PLAYABLE, but it's playable within this age of technology in which we live, catering to brief attention spans and an aversion to excessive exploration. This being said, it is genuine, if a bit favoring of the retro or tribute area (in this case, as I said, to late-'90s alternative). Luckily for Cresswell, his band mate comes in and croons out some well-played woo-woo background vocals, sending the song off into the night in style.
By "Infinite Wisdom" we're back to Fu**ed-up harkening punk, which undoubtedly seems to be the band's comfort zone. From here on out, the most intriguing song left is "Chamelon Skin," sounding very much out of the STP – "Army Ants" playbook (which intriguingly is the most popular STP song on Spotify, and which also intriguingly went on to lead to the intro to Rage against the Machine's "Born of a Broken Man." What I hear going on here is something similar to on AFI's "Sing the Sorrow" — the track positioned penultimately taking down the volume not so much as a ballad, as it's not the most DRAMATIC point on the album (that would probably go to side a closeur "Unconditional Love," but rather just a sort of invincible, but real, ode to staggering, undeniable melancholy. Then, The Flatliners aren't quite as memorable or forceful as the Smashing Pumpkins, although to be sure, one can't help but wonder how much of that would be just the result of relative lack of natural quirk.


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Court of Appeals of Indiana
May 23, 2018
American Consulting, Inc. d/b/a American Structurepoint, Inc., Appellant-Plaintiff/Cross-Appellee,v.Hannum Wagle & Cline Engineering, Inc. d/b/a HWC Engineering, Inc., Marlin A. Knowles, Jr., Jonathan A. Day, Tom Mobley, and David Lancet, Appellees-Defendants/Cross-Appellants.
from the Marion Superior Court The Honorable Heather A.
Welch, Special Judge Trial Court Cause No. 49D01-1503-PL-7463
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLANT David M. Mattingly Michael A. Wukmer
Mary Nold Larimore Mark R. Alson Robert A. Jorczak Ice
Miller, LLP Indianapolis, Indiana
ATTORNEYS FOR APPELLEES David L. Swider Andrew M. McNeil
Philip R. Zimmerly Bose McKinney & Evans, LLP
Indianapolis, Indiana
Summary and Issues
American Consulting, Inc., d/b/a American Structurepoint,
Inc. ("ASI"), appeals the trial court's partial
summary judgment in favor of Hannum Wagle & Cline
Engineering, Inc., d/b/a HWC Engineering, Inc.
("HWC"), Marlin A. Knowles, Jr., Jonathan A. Day,
Tom Mobley, and David Lancet (collectively, the "HWC
On appeal, ASI raises one issue, which we restate as whether
the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the HWC
Parties on ASI's claims for liquidated damages resulting
from alleged breaches in employment contracts by former ASI
employees. On cross-appeal, the HWC Parties raise two issues,
which we restate as: (1) whether the trial court should have
granted summary judgment to the HWC Parties on ASI's
claims regarding tortious interference with contractual
relationships; and (2) whether the trial court should have
granted summary judgment to the HWC Parties on ASI's
claims regarding breach of employment contracts by former ASI
On ASI's appeal, we conclude the trial court erred in
granting summary judgment to the HWC Parties on the issue of
liquidated damages, and we reverse that part of the trial
court's order. On the HWC Parties' cross-appeal, we
conclude the trial court properly denied the HWC Parties'
motion for summary judgment on ASI's claims of tortious
interference with a contractual relationship and breach of
contract, and we affirm as to those counts.
and Procedural History
ASI is a civil engineering, architecture, planning, and
design firm with offices in Indiana and several other states.
HWC is also a civil engineering, architecture, planning, and
design firm with offices in Indiana. ASI and HWC are
competitors, and both provide services to public and private
Employment at ASI
In 1994, Knowles began working for ASI as a construction
inspector. Over the years, he was promoted, and by
approximately 2004, his title was Vice President of Sales
Administration. In 2008, Knowles acquired an ownership
interest in ASI. On December 29, 2008, Knowles and ASI
executed an Employment, Non-Disclosure and Non-Competition
Agreement (the "Knowles Agreement"). Knowles agreed
to several restrictive covenants as a condition of his
employment with, and his equity interest in, ASI;
specifically, the Knowles Agreement included both a
non-compete provision and a non-recruitment clause. The
non-compete provision precluded Knowles for two years
following his termination of employment with ASI from
selling, providing, attempting to sell or provide, or
assisting any person in the sale or provision of competing
products or services to ASI's customers with whom Knowles
had contact on behalf of ASI in the two years preceding his
termination. The non-compete provision further precluded
Knowles from selling, providing, attempting to sell or
provide, or assisting any person in the sale or provision of
competing products or services to any of ASI's active
prospects. In addition, the non-recruitment clause precluded
Knowles for the same two-year period from directly or
indirectly soliciting, recruiting, hiring, or employing (or
attempting to do the same) any ASI employee or otherwise
inducing any ASI employee to terminate their employment at
The Knowles Agreement further stipulated that any breach of a
restrictive covenant would "give rise to irreparable
injury to [ASI]." Corrected Appendix to Amended
Appellant's Brief, Volume III at 205. Accordingly, the
Knowles Agreement provided for specific remedies in the event
of a breach. In part, in the event Knowles breached the
non-compete provisions relating to the provision of services
or solicitation of ASI clients, which resulted in the client
terminating, withdrawing, or reducing its business with ASI,
or purchasing any competing products or services from Knowles
or a company with which Knowles was affiliated at the time of
the breach, the Knowles Agreement mandated that Knowles
"shall pay to [ASI] liquidated damages in an amount
equal to forty five percent (45%) of all fees and other
amounts that [ASI] billed to such customer during the
[twelve]-month period immediately preceding such
breach[.]" Id. Similarly, in the event Knowles
violated the non-recruitment of ASI employees provision,
"which results in an employee terminating his/her
employment with [ASI], " the Knowles Agreement
stipulated that he "shall pay to [ASI] liquidated
damages in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of such
terminating employee's total compensation from [ASI] for
the twelve (12) months immediately preceding such
employee's termination of employment." Id.,
Vol. III at 205-06.
In 1998, Lancet was hired at ASI, and in 2004, he was
promoted to the position of field manager. As a result of his
promotion, on April 1, 2004, Lancet executed an Employment
Agreement with ASI, which contained non-recruitment and
non-compete clauses. In 2007, Lancet was demoted to a
resident project representative. At the time of the demotion,
Lancet believed that his employment agreement would be deemed
invalid. Nevertheless, on January 31, 2007, Lancet executed
certain Terms and Conditions of Employment with ASI (the
"Lancet Agreement"). This new agreement also
included a non-recruitment clause, providing that for a
period of two years following his termination of employment
with ASI, Lancet would not solicit or offer employment to any
ASI employee, or assist others to do the same. In the event
that Lancet "engage[d] in conduct that violates these
restrictions and causes an employee to terminate his/her
employment with [ASI], " Lancet agreed to "pay to
[ASI] liquidated damages in an amount equal to 100% of such
employee's annual salary for the preceding calendar
year." Id., Vol. III at 196. Lancet did not
recall signing the Lancet Agreement; he claimed that he did
not read it prior to signing and did not receive a copy of
In 2003, Mobley was hired at ASI as an inspector. It does not
appear that he was ever required to execute an employment
agreement. In 2004, Day was hired at ASI as an inspector as
well. He was eventually promoted to a resident project
representative. On January 3, 2005, Day executed Terms and
Conditions of Employment (the "Day Agreement") with
ASI. The Day Agreement, like the Knowles and Lancet
Agreements, included a non-recruitment clause, providing that
during his employment at ASI and for a period of two years
thereafter, he would not solicit or offer employment to any
ASI employee, or assist others to do the same. In the event
that Day breached his covenant, thereby "caus[ing] an
employee to terminate his/her employment with [ASI, ]"
Day agreed that he "shall pay to [ASI] liquidated
damages in an amount equal to 100% of such employee's
annual salary for the preceding calendar year."
Id., Vol. III at 121.
At ASI, Knowles was responsible for generating business and
developing the company's goodwill. His goal was to
"[b]uild a relationship with a client. Identify a
project. Help them figure out how to deliver that project or
get funding for that project." Id., Vol. VI at
76. Knowles was the "principal in charge" for
public clients that included the Town of Cicero, Delaware
County, the City of Fishers, Grant County, the City of
Greendale, Hamilton County, Hancock County, the Indiana
Department of Transportation ("INDOT"), LaGrange
County, the City of Lawrenceburg, Morgan County, the City of
Noblesville, Orange County, and Putnam County. Id.,
Vol. V at 152.
Move to HWC
At the end of 2013, Knowles became dissatisfied with his
employment at ASI and began searching for new opportunities.
Knowles met with HWC's President, Edward Jolliffe, and
HWC's Executive Vice President, Terry Baker. Jolliffe and
Baker were aware of Knowles' experience and
"stellar" reputation in the industry. Id.,
Vol. V at 218. They wanted to hire Knowles with the intent
that he would eventually take over the company. During their
initial meetings, Knowles discussed his ASI agreement with
Jolliffe and Baker, and they intended to honor the Knowles
Agreement "by putting him in operations rather than
running sales-being in the sales cycle." Id.,
Vol. V at 220. Jolliffe and Baker also desired for Knowles to
overhaul HWC's transportation division, which was headed
by Randy Hancock.
On May 5, 2014, Knowles resigned from ASI. In his resignation
letter, he informed ASI that he was "very aware of and
will honor my existing employment contract as I have such
respect for this great company and all the wonderful people
here." Id., Vol. III at 167. Knowles' last
day of work at ASI was May 14, 2014. On May 19, 2014, HWC
issued a press release announcing its hiring of Knowles as
its Vice President of Operations. HWC forwarded the
announcement to a list of "key clients" that
Knowles formulated. Id., Vol. VII at 99.
At the time Knowles left ASI, he had a list of clients with
whom he had worked; however, he did not share this list with
Jolliffe, Baker, or other HWC colleagues-believing that to do
so would have been a violation of the Knowles Agreement.
Ultimately, he threw the client list away "[b]ecause I
was not supposed to have material that was [ASI's]."
Id., Vol. VI at 74. Instead, he relied on his memory
and own personal judgment for determining whether he was
prohibited from contacting clients based on their status as
former, current, or prospective clients of ASI. Based on his
discussions with Jolliffe and Baker, it was clear that
Knowles understood that "[h]e was not to call on
[ASI's] customers. And he was not to recruit their
employees." Id., Vol. III at 16. Knowles was
responsible for "self-polic[ing]" his activity to
ensure compliance with his restrictive covenants.
Id., Vol. VI at 75.
Since joining HWC, it is undisputed that Knowles has been
involved in contract negotiations and contract signings with
at least the following ASI clients: City of Indianapolis,
City of Muncie, Hamilton County, INDOT, Hancock County, City
of Greenwood, City of Marion, City of Crawfordsville, Town of
Cicero, City of New Albany, and City of Seymour. Although
there is evidence indicating that Knowles was never directly
involved in working with these clients in order to secure the
projects for HWC, he did subsequently engage with the clients
in order to finalize details and ensure the provision of the
requested services. In addition, the undisputed evidence
establishes that Knowles has maintained communication with a
number of ASI clients since his departure for HWC. As a
result of his position in the civil engineering industry,
Knowles developed friendly relationships with many public
officials who have responsibility for selecting engineering
firms for public projects. Knowles has golfed, played poker,
attended fishing trips, attended charity events, and met for
meals and drinks with representatives of entities that ASI
services. He has interacted with numerous officials at
various industry events and conferences and has engaged in
phone or texting conversations with some. According to
Knowles, spending time with clients-be it through breakfast
meetings, playing golf, going fishing, etc.-is a necessary
part of building a relationship that will prompt "them
to want to do business with me." Id., Vol. VI
at 78. However, a plethora of individuals (i.e.,
representatives of ASI clients) with whom Knowles had
communicated submitted declarations, averring that none of
their interactions with Knowles included any attempt on his
part to solicit work on behalf of HWC.
Other ASI Employees
Following Knowles' departure from ASI, a number of other
ASI employees began exploring their options for new
employment as well. Shortly after Knowles' departure from
ASI, Clinton Sparks, an ASI employee, inquired with Knowles
about employment with HWC. When Knowles indicated that he
could not have such a discussion with Sparks, Sparks accessed
HWC's website and found a list of approximately fifteen
to twenty job openings. Accordingly, Sparks submitted his
resume through HWC's website. Hancock, as the director of
the transportation division for HWC, reports to Knowles and
is responsible for hiring all staff in the transportation
group. When Hancock received Sparks' resume, he forwarded
it to Knowles and Jolliffe and indicated that it was the
"[f]irst of perhaps many?" Id., Vol. VII
at 105. Hancock asked Knowles about Sparks'
qualifications, and Knowles also reported to Jolliffe that
Sparks is "a good engineer" who "knows how to
make money in our business." Id., Vol. VI at
92. Jolliffe subsequently interviewed Sparks and extended an
offer of employment. Instead of informing ASI that he was
transferring to HWC, Sparks announced his departure as a
On August 11, 2014, Sparks began his job at HWC. Thereafter,
he engaged in conversations with Hancock regarding
"potential engineers." Id., Vol. VI at
177. Sparks reached out to Lancet at ASI and asked if Lancet
"knew of anybody that was unhappy or had any potential
candidates." Id., Vol. VI at 59. In response,
Lancet suggested Amber Tolle, an ASI construction inspector
and road designer. Sparks advised Lancet to delete their
correspondence "because if the sharks [at ASI] smell the
blood who knows." Id., Vol. VI at 45. The
following month, Sparks met Tolle for lunch and discussed her
prospects at HWC. Tolle "had grown unhappy with ASI
during the last several years of [her] employment" and
"did not feel like [she] was being used to [her] full
potential." Id., Vol. IV at 3. Because Sparks
seemed so happy at HWC, Tolle applied. When Hancock received
Tolle's resume, he consulted with Knowles about her
potential employment. In October of 2014, Hancock interviewed
Tolle and advised her that HWC might have a position for her
in early 2015. Around that time, Sparks misdirected an email
with Tolle's application information to Knowles'
former ASI email address, which was still being monitored by
ASI, thereby alerting ASI to possible poaching efforts by HWC
and Knowles. On March 3, 2015, Tolle received an offer from
Also within a few weeks of Knowles moving to HWC, Day advised
Knowles that he, too, was "ready to leave [ASI] and that
he was going to submit a [resume] to HWC." Id.,
Vol. VI at 94. Upon receipt of Day's resume, Hancock
conferred with Knowles regarding Day's qualifications;
Knowles offered a favorable recommendation. Knowles also
informed Jolliffe that Day "was a good guy. He did a
good job at [ASI]." Id., Vol. VI at 97.
Jolliffe subsequently interviewed Day, and during the
interview, Day advised Jolliffe that Lancet was also
interested in leaving ASI for a career at HWC. On August 8,
2014, HWC sent an offer letter to Day. On August 11, 2014,
Day submitted his resignation to ASI. During his exit
interview, ASI did not remind Day that he had executed the
Day Agreement, and Day testified that he was unaware that he
was bound by any restrictive covenants. The next day, he
accepted HWC's offer of employment.
Within a month of beginning his job at HWC, Day compiled a
spreadsheet of potential recruits for HWC. Nine of the ten
potential recruits on the list were ASI employees, including,
in part: Lancet, Chris Holth, Mobley, Tim Conarroe, and
Melissa Walker. Day forwarded his list of potential recruits
to Knowles. Although Knowles instructed Day to send the list
to Hancock, Knowles conceded that he had regular meetings
with Hancock and Day as part of "identifying candidates
to fill the needs that [HWC] would have in [its] inspection
group." Id., Vol. VI at 10. Hancock relied on
Day's list of potential employees "as a point of
reference when I was trying to fill needs on our inspection
staff." Id., Vol. VI at 162. Furthermore,
Knowles also maintained two working lists of potential
recruits, which included ASI employees. Knowles forwarded
these lists to Hancock, Day, and HWC's human resources
Day contacted numerous ASI employees to gauge their interest
in an HWC employment opportunity and subsequently forwarded
the applications of his former ASI colleagues to HWC
management. As text messages reveal, Day kept Knowles
apprised of his efforts in recruiting ASI (and other)
employees, and Knowles commended Day for his leadership and
success in filling their team. In one conversation regarding
the issuance of offer letters, Knowles and Day laughed about
hearing a rumor that ASI executives had to hold an
"impromptu war room meeting" over staff retention
concerns. Id., Vol. VII at 14.
On August 22, 2014, Day advised Knowles that Holth had
submitted a resume to HWC, and a few days later, Day notified
Knowles that "[n]o one has reached out to Holth
yet." Id., Vol. VI at 232. Knowles instructed
Day to remind Hancock "to touch base with [Holth]."
Id., Vol. VI at 232. In March of 2015, HWC sent an
offer letter to Holth; however, it appears that Holth elected
to remain at ASI.
In the fall of 2014, Walker, an ASI construction inspector
and utility coordinator, was working on a project with
Mobley, at which time Mobley encouraged her to speak with
Day. After nearly eight years with ASI, Walker had
"grown unhappy"-believing that she had been
"pigeon-holed in an administrative assistant role"
despite her engineering degree. Id., Vol. IV at 10.
Day advised her that she could submit a resume to HWC. On
December 8, 2014, Walker emailed a copy of her resume to Day
for him to forward to the appropriate individual at HWC. The
following month, Hancock invited Walker for an interview and
offered her a job with HWC. She accepted on March 9, 2015,
and resigned from ASI on March 13, 2015.
Day, who had also been communicating with Mobley since his
departure from ASI, informed Knowles on September 24, 2014,
that Mobley "want[ed] out" at ASI. Id.,
Vol. VI at 235. At the end of 2014, Mobley submitted a resume
to Day, which Day forwarded to Hancock. On February 11, 2015,
HWC offered a job to Mobley, and Mobley accepted on February
21, 2015. At the time of his acceptance, Mobley did not have
a definite start date with HWC, so he continued to work at
ASI. During that time, Mobley engaged in discussions with
other ASI employees about his own opportunity at HWC and
encouraged others to submit their resumes.
Once Knowles left ASI, Lancet knew that it was time to
"[p]olish [his] [resume] and hang on."
Id., Vol. VI at 141. While Lancet was still at ASI,
he conversed with other employees regarding their
dissatisfaction with their ASI employment, and he forwarded a
list of names to Day. Lancet eventually applied to HWC, and
he met with Jolliffe in early 2015. On February 11, 2015,
Lancet received an offer of employment from HWC, which he
accepted on February 18, 2015.
In November of 2014, ASI employee Clinton Graham was at
Day's house when Day informed him that HWC "was
probably going to be hiring in the spring of 2015."
Id., Vol. III at 233. The next month, Graham, a
construction inspector, emailed his resume to Hancock via
HWC's website. According to Graham, he wanted better
wages than ASI paid, he felt neglected by ASI, and ASI was
"losing its family feel." Id., Vol. III at
234. Hancock offered a position to Graham in January of 2015,
which Graham accepted on March 2, 2015. However, at the time
Graham accepted the job, no position was technically
available at HWC, so he did not immediately resign from ASI.
In February of 2015, while still working at ASI, Mobley
contacted one of his ASI colleagues, Conarroe, to see whether
Conarroe would have any interest in applying to HWC. Mobley
indicated that at least four other ASI employees were ready
to jump ship to HWC. The next day, Conarroe alerted his
supervisor at ASI to the fact that Mobley was attempting to
recruit ASI employees for HWC. This, in addition to the
suspicions that were raised when Tolle's HWC application
was misdirected to an ASI email address, prompted an
investigation by ASI. On March 3, 2015, ASI executives and
attorneys interviewed Mobley and Lancet regarding their
reported recruitment activities. During his interview, Mobley
stated that Day had requested a list of potential ASI
employees, and although he did not provide such a list to
Day, he did talk to several employees and advised them that
they could contact Day directly about job opportunities.
Mobley identified Lancet as the ringleader in recruiting
activities. Mobley also informed ASI executives that Lancet,
Walker, Holth, Graham, and Tolle had all been offered
positions with HWC. Lancet admitted during his interview that
he had provided a list of potential employees to Day and had
also had conversations with other ASI employees regarding
their general interest in joining HWC.
ASI executives and attorneys also summoned Tolle, who had not
yet started at HWC, to a "very hostile" meeting,
during which they "interrogat[ed]" her as to who
had recruited her to HWC. Id., Vol. III at 107.
Tolle denied that anyone had persuaded her to join HWC;
rather, she stated that her decision to leave was based
"primarily on the unhappiness I had experienced at ASI
for a few years." Id., Vol. IV at 5. Similarly,
on March 4, 2015, Walker, also still working at ASI, was
subjected to an "investigation meeting."
Id., Vol. III at 12. Walker indicated that she
"chose to work for HWC because it was right for my
career. I did not come to HWC just because people I knew had
come to HWC." Id., Vol. IV at 12. Also in March
of 2015, ASI executives interviewed Graham, who confirmed
that he had discussed his move to HWC with both Day and
Mobley; however, Graham stated that Day "did not cause
me to leave ASI. My motivation in joining HWC was purely
financial." Id., Vol. III at 234. On March 6,
2015, ASI terminated Mobley's and Lancet's
The Present Case
On March 6, 2015, ASI filed a complaint against the HWC
Parties, alleging breach of contract by Knowles, Day, and
Lancet; breach of the duty of loyalty by Lancet and Mobley;
unfair competition against all defendants; civil conspiracy
against all defendants; tortious interference with ASI's
contractual relationships; tortious interference with
ASI's business relationships; and unjust enrichment
against all defendants. ASI sought a preliminary injunction
in addition to damages.
On September 29 and 30 and October 1, 2015, the trial court
held a hearing on ASI's motion for a preliminary
injunction. On December 11, 2015, the trial court granted
ASI's request for an injunction as to Knowles, Lancet,
and Day. The trial court denied ASI's request for a
preliminary injunction against Mobley.[2]
On March 8, 2016, the HWC Parties filed a Motion for Summary
Judgment, a brief in support of their motion, and a
designation of evidence in support of the motion pursuant to
Indiana Trial Rule 56. The HWC Parties claimed that
"there are no genuine issues of material fact with
respect to ASI's claims" and requested summary
judgment on all claims brought by ASI. Id., Vol. VII
at 86. The HWC Parties later filed a designation of
supplemental evidence to support their motion for summary
judgment. On June 9, 2016, ASI filed a response in opposition
to the HWC Parties' summary judgment motion, along with
its designation of evidence. On June 23, 2016, the HWC
Parties filed a reply brief in support of their summary
judgment motion, along with additional designated evidence.
On July 7, 2016, the trial court held a hearing on the
motion. During the hearing, ASI agreed to dismiss its claim
regarding unjust enrichment as against all defendants. On
September 13, 2016, the trial court issued its Order, denying
in part and granting in part the HWC Parties' motion for
summary judgment. The trial court determined that there were
genuine issues of material fact as to whether Knowles, Day,
and Lancet had breached their employment contracts and caused
damages to ASI. However, the trial court granted summary
judgment for the HWC Parties as to the issue of liquidated
damages from any breach, finding that the remedies clauses
contained in each of the Knowles, Day, and Lancet Agreements
were unenforceable as a matter of law. The trial court denied
the HWC Parties' motion for summary judgment on ASI's
claim that Lancet breached his duty of loyalty but granted
summary judgment as to Mobley. The trial court granted
summary judgment to the HWC Parties on ASI's claim for
unfair competition. The trial court denied the HWC
Parties' claim for summary judgment on ASI's claim of
civil conspiracy with respect to HWC, Knowles, Day, and
Lancet, but granted summary judgment on this count as to
Mobley. For ASI's claim that HWC had tortiously
interfered with contractual relationships, the trial court
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I can't help but notice that the references and language and spelling of the questions and answers indicate a US author. Seems to be more so than other sites. Any idea why so many users from these areas? Thanks! (please note that this was a light-hearted response to Why so many Canadians and Brits on this site?)
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asked 13 Nov '09, 14:15
Meg Stephenson
I understand this is a parody of the "Why so many Candadians and Brits" question, but neither of these questions has any relevance to discussing parenting.
(13 Nov '09, 15:00) Scottie T
hence the downvotes
(13 Nov '09, 15:24) JJJ
I'd like to know why there is a problem with American parents asking for advice?
(13 Nov '09, 15:27) mkcoehoorn
Yes it was a parody. @mkcoehoorn why is there a problem with Brit and Canadian parents asking for advice?
(13 Nov '09, 17:49) Meg Stephenson
I don't think it really matters where any of us are from. Our gender also doesn't really matter, what matters is are common ground, and that is being a parent. The greater the mix of nationalities the more varied answers will be. This just feels like a global community of parents sharing experiences and helping each other.
(13 Nov '09, 17:57) Emi
@Meg I didn't say there was a problem with Brits and Canadians asking for advice. I like hearing solutions from other cultures. I just happened to come across this question first and thought it was a rather snotty question.
(14 Nov '09, 18:15) mkcoehoorn
@mkcoehoorn ahh, that makes me feel better, because that's a bit like what I felt with finding the other question, hence asking this one.
(14 Nov '09, 18:32) Meg Stephenson
Sounds like we're all due for some "motherhood lessons" - great article on supporting each other and celebrating our differences, rather than attacking others http://www.yummymummyclub.ca/motherhoods_lessons
(14 Dec '09, 05:09) YMCbuzz
Just to help smooth the differences: http://moms4mom.com/questions/3620/english-to-english-translation
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I think it's because my husband works for Microsoft, USA and we have a lot of friends. ;) lol
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I was looking for downvotes so I can get my "peer pressure" badge...ah well.
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By Mark P. Yablon
One of the greatest movies of all time is Academy Award winning "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," starring Jimmy Stewart. Every American each year should view this inspirational movie.
Frank Capra produced/directed the 1939 movie at a time when socialists were covertly infiltrating American life and World War II was brewing in Europe. Jimmy Stewart is appointed to the U.S. Senate. He's the All-American guy – and very naive. The governor, senior U.S. Senator and their crooked financier want Stewart to vote their agenda to get along and enjoy the fruits of their clandestine gains.
However, Stewart stumbles onto their multi-million dollar plan to defraud taxpayers. He sets out to educate his fellow senators and the American public. Instead of truth prevailing easily, they run into roadblocks of thuggery, intimidation, political assassination and media manipulation
That movie reflects politics today.
That's why Texans must stay active after the general election. We can affect another critical statewide election, even though we can't vote directly. State reps are about to select the next Texas House of Representatives Speaker. The speaker controls the house agenda and appoints all committee chairmen. If he's against securing our borders, for instance, then it will never be addressed. Some claim the Speaker is the most powerful state political leader.
State Rep Ken Paxton's (R-McKinney) courageous effort to lead the Texas House as its newest speaker is akin to Mr. Smith – only Ken is not naive and has a proven record of success and political leadership. Texans just elected the largest Republican majority (99 to 51) in nearly 150 years, but there's no guarantee Paxton will prevail.
Two years ago, 65 House Democrats and 11 Republicans voted in Joe Straus (Rep-San Antonio) as speaker when Republicans barely controlled the house, 77 to 73. Some Republican blue-bloods aka RINO's falsely believe true conservatives are not electable. However, Reagan in 1980, Paxton in 2002, and this year prove voters want principled, conservative political leaders to stop government intrusion into our daily lives. We want government to protect us from danger, but otherwise, to leave us and our property alone.
Ken and I became friends when we served in Student Congress at Baylor University. I was elected Dorm Rep, and Ken was elected Student Body President. As teenagers, I observed Ken's ethical and genuine leadership skills. Today, he offices across the street from me in Historic Downtown McKinney, which could be in a Jimmy Stewart movie. Ken is the same principled person who has grown into a loving husband, father of four wonderful children and a speaker for today's conservative movement.
Ken wants to
1. Bring principled, conservative and ethical leadership to the House as mandated by Texas voters
2. Pass true immigration reform and voter ID;
3. Reduce property taxes permanently; and
4. Stop the feds from invading Texans' rights;
Those mainstream ideas are equally conservative, which all hard-working Texans support, but don't seem to be on the radar screen of the current House leadership. What to do?
Rep. Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) stated under oath in a hastily staged House investigation this week that Straus' supporters are threatening Republicans with writing them out of office in the upcoming redistricting process if they support his opponents. Besides the allegations, some reps are too comfortable and don't want to rock the boat aka their own House committee appointments. Complacency and self-preservation among politicians is bad policy, which conservative reps are starting to publicly address in their support of Ken Paxton.
"Nov. 2 sent a message to legislators that the citizens are done with go along get along politics," Rep. Jodie Laubenberg (R-Parker) told me Friday. "We … need a leader with integrity, vision and solid conservative principles. There is no one more qualified than Ken Paxton to lead us as Speaker of the House. Ken is brilliant, articulate and highly respected among his colleagues."
Texans can advise elected reps to vote for Ken to lead our Texas House. His common-sense conservative values are now prime-time.
Check out the following and safeguard our liberties and rights:
Phone number of state reps and suggested comments http://capwiz.com/libertyinstitute/callalert/index.tt?alertid=19405501
Flow chart of the players http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/texas-house-speaker-race-flowchart/
Rep. Chuck Hobson's (Chairman, General Investigating & Ethics Committee) ethics and legal warning to House Members about communicating with "private citizens" and improper influencing the speaker's race http://texaslegislativeupdate.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/hopson-letter1.pdf
Kelly Shackelford's (President/Chief Counsel of Liberty institute) letter to House members explaining legality for public to influence speaker's race pursuant to lawsuit his group won in 2008 http://texaslegislativeupdate.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/ltr-to-tx-house-of-representatives1.pdf
Thanks for sending a link of this letter about Ken to your friends.
Mark P. Yablon is an entrepreneur in Historic Downtown McKinney. He participates with and leadings his four beautiful daughters in various community and church activities, including pro-American, pro-family and pro-business causes. He was a delegate to Republican State Conventions from his hometown in Harris County, as a Baylor University student in McLennan County and last year from his adopted hometown in Collin County.
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I need a creative title for my 2019 calendar. The theme for this calendar if Train Depots/Train Stations. All the photos in the calendar are of depots/stations in Southwest Virginia. I would like to see what my customers can come up with. I will pick the title that best fits the calendar. The person who comes up with the title that is used will receive a FREE 2019 wall calendar. These calendars will be available to purchase next year.
TO ENTER: Comment on the post I have pinned to the top of my Facebook page (www.facebook.com/photosbywhitneyllc) with a creative title for the calendar. Enter as many times as you like (1 title = 1 entry).
CONTEST DEADLINE: December 31, 2017
The winner will be notifed in January 2018. The winner will be announced on my Facebook page once he/she has been notified.