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Twin Cities based online grocery delivery firm Simon Delivers is expanding to Des Moines, Iowa, as early as October. Josh Ott a Simon Delivers neighborhood service representative, makes a grocery delivery in Lakeville. SD 8/14/2003
By Gita Sitaramiah | gsitaramiah@pioneerpress.com |
PUBLISHED: July 15, 2008 at 11:01 pm | UPDATED: November 13, 2015 at 4:38 am
SimonDelivers survived the dot-com bust a few years ago but rising gas and food prices and nervous consumers proved to be too much. The New Hope-based online grocery delivery service, which employs about 300 workers, said Tuesday it's going out of business.
The company recently made changes in its delivery operation designed to offset rising gas prices. It told 19,000 customers in an e-mail Tuesday that it will be delivering its last orders over the next two weeks.
"SimonDelivers has enjoyed significant support in the community," said Liwanag Ojala, president of SimonDelivers, in a statement. "Unfortunately, that support was not enough to combat the current economic conditions, which have affected our costs and our customers' purchasing decisions."
Some of those decisions included saying goodbye to SimonDelivers in recent weeks.
John Baichtal of Minneapolis said he and his wife both work and, with three kids, hardly have time to grocery shop. But after using the online delivery service for two years, Baichtal's family quit SimonDelivers six weeks ago.
"There was no way we could justify it," he said Tuesday.
Now, his family strolls the aisles at Cub Foods, where he said prices are lower overall. Plus, they can save additional money by taking advantage of daily specials. For instance, he'll choose the soda pop that's on sale rather than his usual favorite brand. The result is an estimated 10 percent savings on their grocery bills.
SimonDelivers.com was born during the e-commerce boom of the late 1990s. Similar concepts elsewhere, like national player Webvan, quickly crashed and burned. SimonDelivers, nursed with venture capital financing, simply dropped the ".com" from its name and slowly expanded its service throughout the Twin Cities.
SimonDelivers last month made a number of changes in the way it operates, citing rising gas prices.
It told customers it no longer would offer delivery for orders less than $50. Other changes: Fuel surcharges starting at 50 cents applied when gas tops $4 a gallon. The delivery window was lengthened from two hours to four hours to optimize routing to improve fuel efficiency. The company notified the state last month of 16 layoffs. The changes weren't enough.
Bill Gorton, a former Supervalu executive and real estate consultant, said a combination of factors including rising gas and food prices as well as shakier consumers spelled the end for SimonDelivers.
"If paying for the privilege of having your groceries delivered is perceived as a frill, and I can save a few bucks trudging down to the store and cutting back on it, there are probably some folks cutting back on that," Gorton said.
On the other hand, Stillwater resident Chris Freichels believes her $125 SimonDelivers weekly grocery bill helped save her family $100 week. "I'm an impulse shopper. I go crazy," Freichels said.
She can't resist the junk food when in a store. Even the good stuff lures her into a buying frenzy. At a grocery store, she tends to overbuy fruits and vegetables for her family of four and the produce winds up rotting. Freichels also has been a fan of the convenience that SimonDelivers offered. "When we came back from vacation during spring break, I ordered the groceries ahead of time and they were waiting for us," she said.
Stacey Klein, a stay-at-home mom with three children in Apple Valley, is another loyal SimonDelivers customer who will miss the service.
She and her husband started using SimonDelivers before their two youngest children were born when they were both working. Back then, she liked coming home from work and finding the groceries in her garage. Now, she's happy to avoid dragging her 5-year-old and 2-year-old to the store. Her family spends $150 to $200 a month for delivered groceries.
"I knew they were struggling," Klein said. "But I am really, really shocked that they're going out of business."
Among the remaining delivery options for Twin Cities' shoppers is the 2-year-old service of Edina-based Lund Food Holdings Inc. and its upscale Byerly's and Lunds supermarkets. How and whether Lund manages to capitalize on the elimination of the competition remains to be seen. A Lund spokesman couldn't be reached Tuesday.
Gita Sitaramiah can be reached at 651-228-5472.
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Beyond the Axis of Evil: Additional Threats from Weapons of Mass Destruction
by John Bolton
Voltaire Network | Washington D. C. (États-Unis) | 6 May 2002
Thank you for asking me here to the Heritage Foundation. I'm pleased to be able to speak to you today about the Bush Administration's efforts to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The spread of weapons of mass destruction to state sponsors of terrorism and terrorist groups is, in my estimation, the gravest security threat we now face. States engaging in this behavior—some of them parties to international treaties prohibiting such activities—must be held accountable and must know that only by renouncing terrorism and verifiably forsaking WMD can they rejoin the community of nations.
The New Security Environment
Eight months into the war on terror, the United States and its partners have made great strides. We have helped the Afghan people overthrow an oppressive, terrorist-harboring regime in Afghanistan; foiled terrorist plots in places such as Germany, Yemen, Spain, and Singapore; and stanched the flow of funds that allowed al-Qaeda's schemes to come to fruition. We have captured the number three man in al-Qaeda and will bring him to justice. And this is just the beginning.
The attacks of September 11 reinforced with blinding clarity the need to be steadfast in the face of emerging threats to our security. The international security environment has changed, and our greatest threat comes not from the specter of nuclear war between two superpowers, as it did during the Cold War, but from transnational terrorist cells that will strike without warning using weapons of mass destruction. Every nation—not just the United States—has had to reassess its security situation and to decide where it stands on the war on terrorism.
In the context of this new international security situation, we are working hard to create a comprehensive security strategy with Russia, a plan President Bush calls the New Strategic Framework. The New Strategic Framework involves reducing offensive nuclear weapons, creating limited defensive systems that deter the threat of missile attacks, strengthening nonproliferation and counterproliferation measures, and cooperating with Russia to combat terrorism. It is based on the premise that the more cooperative post-Cold War relationship between Russia and the United States makes new approaches to these issues possible.
Accordingly, President Bush has announced that the United States will reduce its strategic nuclear force to a total of between 1,700 and 2,200 operationally deployed strategic nuclear warheads over the next 10 years. President Putin has made a similarly bold and historic decision with respect to Russian strategic nuclear forces.
In preparation for the summit meeting in Moscow and St. Petersburg later this month, we have been working closely with the Russians to embody the reductions in offensive warheads into a legally binding document that will outlast the administrations of both Presidents. We are also working to draft a political declaration on the New Strategic Framework that would cover the issues of strategic offensive and defensive systems, nonproliferation and counterproliferation. We are optimistic that we will have agreement in time for the summit in Moscow, May 23 to 25.
Strengthening the U.S.-Russian relationship has been a priority of the Bush Administration, even prior to the September 11 attacks. In the current security climate, cooperation with Russia becomes even more important so that we can work together to combat terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction, which threaten both our countries.
Preventing Terrorism's Next Wave
President Bush believes it is critical not to underestimate the threat from terrorist groups and rogue states intent on obtaining weapons of mass destruction. As he said on the six-month anniversary of the attacks, "Every nation in our coalition must take seriously the growing threat of terror on a catastrophic scale—terror armed with biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons." We must not doubt for a moment the possible catastrophic consequences of terrorists or their rogue state sponsors who are willing to use disease as a weapon to spread chemical agents to inflict pain and death, or to send suicide-bound adherents armed with radiological weapons on missions of mass murder.
Every nation must commit itself to preventing the acquisition of such weapons by state sponsors of terrorism or terrorist groups. As President Bush said:
Our lives, our way of life, and our every hope for the world depend on a single commitment: The authors of mass murder must be defeated, and never allowed to gain or use the weapons of mass destruction.
To this end, we use a variety of methods to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction, including export controls, missile defense, arms control, nonproliferation, and counter-proliferation measures.
In the past, the United States relied principally on passive measures to stem proliferation. Arms control and nonproliferation regimes, export controls, and diplomatic overtures were the primary tools used in this fight. But September 11, the subsequent anthrax attacks, and our discoveries regarding al-Qaeda and its WMD aspirations have required the U.S to complement these more traditional strategies with a new approach. The Bush Administration is committed to combating the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, missiles, and related equipment, and is determined to prevent the use of these deadly weapons against our citizens, troops, allies, and friends. While diplomatic efforts and multilateral regimes will remain important to our efforts, we also intend to complement this approach with other measures as we work both in concert with likeminded nations and on our own to prevent terrorists and terrorist regimes from acquiring or using WMD. In the past, we looked at proliferation and terrorism as entirely separate issues. As Secretary Powell said in his Senate testimony April 24,
There are terrorists in the world who would like nothing better than to get their hands on and use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. So there is a definite link between terrorism and WMD. Not to recognize that link would be foolhardy to the extreme.
America is determined to prevent the next wave of terror. States that sponsor terror and pursue WMD must stop. States that renounce terror and abandon WMD can become part of our effort. But those that do not can expect to become our targets. This means directing firm international condemnation toward states that shelter—and in some cases directly sponsor—terrorists within their borders. It means uncovering their activities that may be in violation of international treaties. It means having a direct dialogue with the rest of the world about what is at stake. It means taking action against proliferators, middlemen, and weapons brokers by exposing them, sanctioning their behavior, and working with other countries to prosecute them or otherwise bring a halt to their activities. It means taking law-enforcement action against suspect shipments, front companies, and financial institutions that launder proliferators' funds. And it requires, above all, effective use, improvement, and enforcement of the multilateral tools at our disposal—both arms control and nonproliferation treaties and export control regimes.
The Problem of Noncompliance
Multilateral agreements are important to our nonproliferation arsenal. This Administration strongly supports treaties such as the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the Biological Weapons Convention. But in order to be effective and provide the assurances they are designed to bring, they must be carefully and universally adhered to by all signatories. Therefore, strict compliance with existing treaties remains a major goal of our arms control policy.
This has been our aim in particular with the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). In 1969, President Nixon announced that the United States would unilaterally renounce biological weapons. The U.S. example was soon followed by other countries, and by 1972 the BWC was opened for signature. This international treaty, to which more than 140 countries are parties, prohibits the development, production, stockpiling, acquisition, or retention of biological and toxin weapons.
While the vast majority of the BWC's parties have conscientiously met their commitments, the United States is extremely concerned that several states are conducting offensive biological weapons programs while publicly avowing compliance with the agreement. To expose some of these violators to the international community, last November, I named publicly several states the U.S. government knows to be producing biological warfare agents in violation of the BWC.
Foremost is Iraq. Although it became a signatory to the BWC in 1972 and became a State Party in 1991, Iraq has developed, produced, and stockpiled biological warfare agents and weapons. The United States strongly suspects that Iraq has taken advantage of more than three years of no UN inspections to improve all phases of its offensive BW program. Iraq also has developed, produced, and stockpiled chemical weapons, and has shown a continuing interest in developing nuclear weapons and longer range missiles.
Next is North Korea. North Korea has a dedicated, national-level effort to achieve a BW capability and has developed and produced, and may have weaponized, BW agents in violation of the Convention. Despite the fact that its citizens are starving, the leadership in Pyongyang has spent large sums of money to acquire the resources, including a biotechnology infrastructure, capable of producing infectious agents, toxins, and other crude biological weapons. It likely has the capability to produce sufficient quantities of biological agents for military purposes within weeks of deciding to do so, and has a variety of means at its disposal for delivering these deadly weapons.
In January, I also named North Korea and Iraq for their covert nuclear weapons programs in violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. This year, North Korea did not meet congressional certification requirements because of its continued lack of cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency, its failure to make any progress toward implementing the North-South Joint Denuclearization Declaration as called for under the Agreed Framework, and for proliferating long-range ballistic missiles. Finally, we believe that North Korea has a sizeable stockpile of chemical weapons and can manufacture all manner of CW agents.
Then comes Iran. Iran's biological weapons program began during the Iran-Iraq war and accelerated after Tehran learned how far along Saddam Hussein had progressed in his own program. The Iranians have all of the necessary pharmaceutical expertise, as well as the commercial infrastructure needed to produce—and hide—a biological warfare program. The United States believes Iran probably has produced and weaponized BW agents in violation of the Convention. Again, Iran's BW program is complemented by an even more aggressive chemical warfare program, Iran's ongoing interest in nuclear weapons, and its aggressive ballistic missile research, development, and flight testing regimen.
President Bush named these three countries in his State of the Union address earlier this year as the world's most dangerous proliferators. "States like these, and their terrorist allies," he said, "constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger."
Beyond the axis of evil, there are other rogue states intent on acquiring weapons of mass destruction—particularly biological weapons. Given our vulnerability to attack from biological agents, as evidenced recently in the anthrax releases, it is important to carefully assess and respond to potential proliferators. Today, I want to discuss three other state sponsors of terrorism that are pursuing or that have the potential to pursue weapons of mass destruction or have the capability to do so in violation of their treaty obligations. While we will continue to use diplomatic efforts and multilateral regimes with these countries, it is important to review the challenges we face and to underline the issues that these states must address. As the President has said,
America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. We'll be deliberate. Yet time is not on our side. I will not wait on events while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer.
First, Libya. There is no doubt that Libya continues its longstanding pursuit of nuclear weapons. We believe that since the suspension of UN sanctions against Libya in 1999, Libya has been able to increase its access to dual use nuclear technologies. Although Libya would need significant foreign assistance to acquire a nuclear weapon, Tripoli's nuclear infrastructure enhancement remains of concern. Qaddafi hinted at this in a recent (25 March) interview with Al-Jazirah when he said, "We demanded the dismantling of the weapons of mass destruction that the Israelis have; we must continue to demand that. Otherwise, the Arabs will have the right to possess that weapon."
Among its weapons of mass destruction programs, Libya—which is not a party to the CWC—continues its goal of reestablishing its offensive chemical weapons ability, as well as pursuing an indigenous chemical warfare production capability. Libya has produced at least 100 tons of different kinds of chemical weapons, using its Rabta facility. That facility closed down after it was subject to media scrutiny, but then reopened as a pharmaceutical plant in 1995. Although production of chemical agents reportedly has been halted, CW production at Rabta cannot be ruled out. It remains heavily dependent on foreign suppliers for precursor chemicals, technical expertise, and other key chemical warfare-related equipment. Following the suspension of UN sanctions in April 1999, Libya has reestablished contacts with illicit foreign sources of expertise, parts, and precursor chemicals in the Middle East, Asia, and Western Europe.
Conversely, Libya has publicly indicated its intent to join the CWC. While our perceptions of Libya would not change overnight, such a move could be positive. Under the CWC, Libya would be required to declare and destroy all chemical weapons production facilities and stockpiles, make declarations about any dual use chemical industry, undertake not to research or produce any chemical weapons, and not to export certain chemicals to countries that have not signed the CWC. Libya would also be subject to challenge inspections of any facility, declared or not.
Significantly for predictive purposes, Libya became a State Party to the BWC in January 1982, but the U.S. believes that Libya has continued its biological warfare program. Although its program is in the research and development stage, Libya may be capable of producing small quantities of biological agent. Libya's BW program has been hindered, in part, by the country's poor scientific and technological base, equipment shortages, and a lack of skilled personnel, as well as by UN sanctions in place from 1992 to 1999.
Libya is also continuing its efforts to obtain ballistic missile-related equipment, materials, technology, and expertise from foreign sources. Outside assistance—particularly Serbian, Indian, North Korean, and Chinese—is critical to its ballistic missile development programs, and the suspension of UN sanctions in 1999 has allowed Tripoli to expand its procurement effort. Libya's current capability probably remains limited to its SCUD B missiles; but with continued foreign assistance, it may achieve an MRBM capability—a long desired goal—or extended-range SCUD capability.
Although Libya is one of seven countries on the State Department's list of state sponsors of terror,1 the U.S. has noted recent positive steps by the Libyan government that we hope indicate that Tripoli wishes to rejoin the community of civilized states. In 1999, Libya turned over two Libyans wanted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, for trial in the Netherlands. In 2001, it condemned the September 11 attacks publicly and signed the 12 terrorist conventions listed in UN Security Council Resolution 1273. And, as I have already mentioned, Libya has also announced its intention to accede to CWC.
However, as I have also said, words are not enough. The key is to see clear, hard evidence that Libya will, in fact, live up to the public standards it has set for itself. Libya can make a positive gesture in this regard by fulfilling its obligations under WMD treaties and becoming a party to the CWC. Moreover, Libya must honor the relevant UN Security Council Resolutions relating to the resolution of Pan Am 103, arguably the worst air terrorist disaster prior to September 11. Libya has yet to comply fully with these resolutions, which include accepting responsibility and paying compensation. It is past time that Libya did this.
The United States also knows that Syria has long had a chemical warfare program. It has a stockpile of the nerve agent sarin and is engaged in research and development of the more toxic and persistent nerve agent VX. Although Damascus currently is dependent on foreign sources for key elements of its chemical warfare program, including precursor chemicals and key production equipment, we are concerned about Syrian advances in its indigenous CW infrastructure which would significantly increase the independence of its CW program. We think that Syria has a variety of aerial bombs and SCUD warheads, which are potential means of delivery of deadly agents capable of striking neighboring countries.
Syria, which has signed but not ratified the BWC, is pursuing the development of biological weapons and is able to produce at least small amounts of biological warfare agents. While we believe Syria would need foreign assistance to launch a large-scale biological weapons program right now, it may obtain such assistance by the end of this decade.
Syria has a combined total of several hundred SCUD B, SCUD C and SS-21 SRBMs, It is pursuing both solid- and liquid-propellant missile programs and relies extensively on foreign assistance in these endeavors. North Korean and Russian entities have been involved in aiding Syria's ballistic missile development. All of Syria's missiles are mobile and can reach much of Israel, Jordan, and Turkey from launch sites well within the country.
In addition to Libya and Syria, there is a threat coming from another BWC signatory, and one that lies just 90 miles from the U.S. mainland—namely, Cuba. This totalitarian state has long been a violator of human rights. The State Department said last year in its Annual Report on Human Rights Practices that
the Government continued to violate systematically the fundamental civil and political rights of its citizens. Citizens do not have the right to change their government peacefully. Prisoners died in jail due to lack of medical care. Members of the security forces and prison officials continued to beat and otherwise abuse detainees and prisoners.... The Government denied its citizens the freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association.
Havana has long provided safe haven for terrorists, earning it a place on the State Department's list of terrorist-sponsoring states. The country is known to be harboring terrorists from Colombia, Spain, and fugitives from the United States. We know that Cuba is collaborating with other state sponsors of terror.
Castro has repeatedly denounced the U.S. war on terrorism. He continues to view terror as a legitimate tactic to further revolutionary objectives. Last year, Castro visited Iran, Syria, and Libya—all designees on the same list of terrorist-sponsoring states. At Tehran University, these were his words: "Iran and Cuba, in cooperation with each other, can bring America to its knees. The U.S. regime is very weak, and we are witnessing this weakness from close up."
But Cuba's threat to our security often has been underplayed. An official U.S. government report in 1998 concluded that Cuba did not represent a significant military threat to the United States or the region. It went only so far as to say that "Cuba has a limited capacity to engage in some military and intelligence activities which could pose a danger to U.S. citizens under some circumstances." However, then-Secretary of Defense William Cohen tried to add some balance to this report by expressing in the preface his serious concerns about Cuba's intelligence activities against the United States and its human rights practices. Most notably, he said, "I remain concerned about Cuba's potential to develop and produce biological agents, given its biotechnology infrastructure...."
Why was the 1998 report on Cuba so unbalanced? Why did it underplay the threat Cuba posed to the United States? A major reason is Cuba's aggressive intelligence operations against the United States, which included recruiting the Defense Intelligence Agency's senior Cuba analyst, Ana Belen Montes, to spy for Cuba. Montes not only had a hand in drafting the 1998 Cuba report, but also passed some of our most sensitive information about Cuba back to Havana. Montes was arrested last fall and pleaded guilty to espionage on March 19.
For four decades, Cuba has maintained a well-developed and sophisticated biomedical industry, supported until 1990 by the Soviet Union. This industry is one of the most advanced in Latin America and leads in the production of pharmaceuticals and vaccines that are sold worldwide. Analysts and Cuban defectors have long cast suspicion on the activities conducted in these biomedical facilities.
Here is what we now know: The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort. Cuba has provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states. We are concerned that such technology could support BW programs in those states. We call on Cuba to cease all BW-applicable cooperation with rogue states and to fully comply with all of its obligations under the Biological Weapons Convention.
America is leading in the fight to root out and destroy terror. Our goals are to stop the development of weapons of mass destruction and insure compliance with existing arms control and nonproliferation treaties and commitments, which the Bush Administration strongly supports, but experience has shown that treaties and agreements are an insufficient check against state sponsors of terrorism. Noncompliance can undermine the efficacy and legitimacy of these treaties and regimes. After all, any nation ready to violate one agreement is perfectly capable of violating another, denying its actual behavior all the while.
And so I close with four fundamental conclusions. First, that global terrorism has changed the nature of the threat we face. Keeping WMD out of terrorist hands must be a core element of our nonproliferation strategy.
Second, the Administration supports an international dialogue on weapons of mass destruction and encourages countries to educate their publics on the WMD threat. We must not shy away from truth telling.
Third, the Administration will not assume that because a country's formal subscription to UN counterterrorism conventions or its membership in multilateral regimes necessarily constitutes an accurate reading of its intentions. We call on Libya, Cuba, and Syria to live up to the agreements they have signed. We will watch closely their actions, not simply listen to their words. Working with our allies, we will expose those countries that do not live up to their commitments.
Finally, the United States will continue to exercise strong leadership in multilateral forums and will take whatever steps are necessary to protect and defend our interests and eliminate the terrorist threat.
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Christian Ludvig (Ludewig) Ernst Stemann (født 14. marts 1802 i Husum, død 14. marts 1876 på Frederiksberg) var en dansk retslærd og genealog, far til Gustav Stemann.

Stemann blev cand. jur. 1822, underretsadvokat i Husum, Dr. jur. i Kiel ved afhandlingen De veteris dotis actionum, rei uxoriæ atque ex stipulata, differentiis (1826), privatdocent sammesteds, 1827 på ny advokat i Husum, 1836 konstitueret landfoged på Pellworm, 1837 herredsfoged og kirkeskriver i Hviding og Nørre Rangstrup Herreder, 1844 landfoged og præses i Stad- og Landretten på Ærø, 1849 kommitteret i, 1850 fungerende chef for 1. slesvigske departement, 1852 direktør for den slesvigske overjustitskommission, samme år til 1864 præsident for appellationsretten for Slesvig, 1864 i nogen tid kongevalgt medlem af rigsrådets landsting.

Stemann var en retsindig og loyal embedsmand, højagtet både af danske og tyske. Bortset fra nogle excursioner på romerrettens område var det navnlig den slesvigske ret, som fængslede hans interesse, og som han gjorde til genstand for sin grundige og samvittighedsfulde forsken. 1855 udgav han Schleswigs Recht und Gerichtsverfassung im siebenzehnten Jahrhundert, der efterfulgtes, foruden af forskellige afhandlinger, aktstykker og lignende, af Das Güterrecht der Ehegatten im Gebiete des Jütschen Lovs (1857) og Geschichte des öffentlichen und Privat-Rechts des Herzogthums Schleswig (I—III 1866—67), arbejder af stor vigtighed for studiet af den slesvigske retshistorie.

Som afløser af J.L.A. Kolderup-Rosenvinges retshistorie skrev Stemann Den danske Retshistorie indtil Christian V's Lov (1871), et værk, der har hævdet sin plads, indtil det fik efterfølgere i Matzens og  Jørgensens fremstillinger; i en anmeldelse i "Ugeskrift for Retsvæsen" 1869 havde Stemann hilst den opdukkende stjerne Henning Matzen velkommen som retshistorisk forfatter. Efter Stemmans død udgav hans søn C.V. Stemann Urkundliche Beiträge zur Geschichte der Herzogthümer Schleswig und Holstein (1879).

Stemann var samtidig en kyndig genealog. I flere tidsskrifter offentliggjorde han udførlige monografier over forskellige adelsslægter, efter sagkyndiges udsagn de betydeligste bidrag til den slesvigske og holstenske adels slægtshistorie, der didtil var fremkomne.

Stemann blev Ridder af Dannebrogordenen 1852, Kommandør 1853, fik Storkorset 1854 og blev Dannebrogsmand 1867. Han blev kammerherre 1850 og gehejmekonferensråd 1876. Han er begravet på Frederiksberg Ældre Kirkegård.

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Thursday's (April 22) reports that showed improvements in the number of initial jobless claims and the number of existing home sales for March, along with a string of positive earnings reports this week have helped propel fuel prices over $84.
After rising to the $86 level, oil prices had dropped to around $81 earlier this week, but after gains Thursday and an additional 73 cent gain early Friday, benchmark crude oil scheduled for June delivery was at $84.43 in midday trade on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Thursday's report on unemployment showed a drop of 24,000 in the number of new jobless claims for a total of 456,000 claims. Sales of existing homes were up by 6.8 per cent during March. These reports were received generally well Thursday leading to gains in the dollar.
Later in the day Thursday and carrying into Friday, speculators on oil prices have shown their confidence that the improving economy is certain to drive oil and fuel consumption by businesses and consumers in the coming months.
Also adding to the speculation was the latest inventory report that showed a reduction in crude supplies.
Earnings reports this week have been generally strong as well, which adds to the expectation that business expansion could increase demand for business travel and adding of jobs. Business travel and more money in the hands of consumers would both contributing to demand for and spending on oil-based products.
Netflix, Apple, and Starbucks were among the top companies reporting this week. Netflix showed an addition of another 1.7 million subscribers during its first quarter, further solidifying the company as the current figurative leader in the home video rental market.
Another report on housing Friday showed a remarkable 27 per cent increase in sales of new homes during March, following a record low in February. This adds to the growing sentiments that the economy is becoming more and more grounded.
The dollar's firmness continues to pose some opposition to further growth in oil prices, but crude inventory levels are likely to have more near-term impact. A string of crude supply reports showing lower levels of inventory are sure to support the price of oil above $80.


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Trade Union Act 2016 and Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017
We published our summary guide to the Trade Union Act 2016, updated to include The Trade Union (Wales) Act. This came into force on 13th September and excludes certain provisions of the Trade Union Act 2016, from applying to 'devolved Welsh authorities' including the 40% threshold of support from members required for industrial action to be legal in important public services.
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General Data Protection Bill published
The Government has published the Data Protection Bill which has had its first reading in the House of Lords. The Bill sets out data protection reforms aimed at ensuring the UK is in line with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The Bill will replace the Data Protection Act 1998.
The Bill aligns itself with the GDPR, which means that for employers the GDPR will be enshrined in UK data protection law, irrespective of Brexit. The GDPR imposes substantial new obligations on organisations that process EU individuals' personal data on behalf of other organisations for routine business functions.
The Information Commissioner's Office is consulting on draft guidance on contracts and liabilities between controllers and processors under the GDPR. This draft guidance includes practical guidance for UK companies.
The ICO's Overview of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a useful, evolving document and includes updates on what has been published when.
Returning to work after a career break – GEO consultation and online response form
The Government Equalities Office (GEO) has issued a call for evidence about Returning to work after time out for caring . The purpose is to understand more about the specific barriers returners face in getting back to work, actions that are already in place to support returners and what the government can do to support employers in offering opportunities to returners.
There is an online form for responses at https://consult.education.gov.uk/government-equalities-office/returning-to-work-after-time-out-for-caring/
Acas report on Flexible Working for Parents and Carers Returning to Work
Meanwhile Acas has published a research paper on Flexible Working for Parents and Carers Returning to Work which includes a series of case studies with organisations offering best practice in managing flexible working arrangements.
http://www.acas.org.uk/media/pdf/k/7/Flexible-working-for-parents-returning-to-work-maintaining-career-development.pdf
Acas guidance for parents with premature or sick babies
Acas has published advice for parents with premature or sick babies, including returning to work and making requests for additional appointments following discharge from hospital.
http://www.acas.org.uk/index.aspx?articleid=6049
Presidential guidance on the statutory appeal procedure
The Employment Tribunal Presidents for England & Wales and Scotland have issued a Joint Presidential Guidance on making statutory appeals under section 37G of the Employment Tribunals Act 1996 (that is appeals against financial penalties such as a notice of underpayment issued under section 19 of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 and financial penalties for failure to pay sums ordered by the ET to be paid or settlement sums).
The guidance includes recommended but non mandatory Notice of Appeal forms
https://www.judiciary.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/presidential-guidance-statutory-appeals-20170911.pdf
Termination payments: removal of tax relief for periods of foreign service relief from April 2018
On 13 September 2017 draft legislation for some clauses in the Finance Bill 2018 were published, including clauses which will amend the Income Tax (Earnings and Pensions) Act 2003 to abolish foreign service relief on termination payments for UK resident employees. The measure is intended to have effect from 6 April 2018 and to apply to those who have their employment contract terminated on or after 6 April 2018.
The draft is subject to technical consultation until 25th October 2017 and the final contents of the Finance Bill 2017 to 2018 will be subject to confirmation at the autumn Budget 2017.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/termination-payments-removal-of-foreign-service-relief
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Calculation of holiday pay payments by the Insolvency Service Redundancy Payments Service (RPS) updated to include commission, reflecting belatedly the EAT decision in Lock v British Gas Trading
Where an employer is insolvent RPS pays holiday pay, as well as certain notice pay and redundancy pay to employees. It has recently announced that the way it calculates holiday pay will include contractual-based commission. Employees who have already received a payment and who indicated on their application that they were entitled to contractual commission may be eligible for an additional payment
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/employment-appeal-tribunal-changes-to-how-the-insolvency-service-calculates-holiday-pay-payments
The Addison Lee and Uber 'worker' cases- latest
On Monday this week, the London Central ET decided that three drivers for the minicab firm, Addison Lee, should have been classified as workers, rather than self-employed, and so were entitled to the national minimum wage and holiday pay.
Meanwhile the appeal against the ET decision that decided that two Uber drivers were workers is being heard by the EAT on Wednesday and Thursday 27th and 28th September.
UK position paper on data post-Brexit
The government has set out its plans for arrangements that could ensure personal data would continue to move back and forth between the EU in the future in a safe, properly regulated way. The proposed UK-EU model is aimed at protecting and exchanging personal data in a way which allows free flows of data to continue between the EU and the UK and provides for ongoing regulatory cooperation.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-exchange-and-protection-of-personal-data-a-future-partnership-paper
Tribunal Quarterly statistics
The Ministry of Justice has published tribunal and gender recognition certificate quarterly statistics for April-June 2017.
Compared with the same quarter in 2016 single claims are up by 2%, disposals decreased by 6%. Multiple claims increased by 19%.
The total ET caseload outstanding at end June 2017 was 274,468 (96% of which were multiple claims).
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/644443/tribunal-grc-statistics-q1-2017-18.pdf
Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017
The Trade Union (Wales) Act 2017 came into force on 13 September 2017. This Act amends TULR(C)A to disapply sections 3,13, 14 and 15 of the Trade Union Act 2016 in so far as they relate to certain public services provided by devolved Welsh public authorities, or relate more generally to the operations of such authorities. The Act also prohibits devolved Welsh public authorities from using workers supplied by an employment business (agency workers) to cover the duties of staff engaged in official industrial action. In essence, this Act achieves the following:
o Section 116B of TULR(C)A (inserted by section 15 of the Trade Union Act 2016) which restricts the circumstances in which union subscriptions may be deducted from the wages of workers in the public sector, does not apply to devolved Welsh public authorities
o Certain rules about facility time do not apply to Welsh public authorities. In particular, the rule requiring public sector employers to publish information about the amount of facility time allowed and the power to make regulations to cap the employer's total pay bill spent on paying union officials for facility time do not apply to Welsh public authorities
o The 40% ballot threshold for industrial action does not apply for important public services in relation to Welsh public services
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Nogueira and Others v Crewlink [2017] EUECJ C-168/16; Moreno Osacar v Ryanair C-169/16
Jurisdiction: Choice of forum clause in employment contract unenforceable - the Brussels I Regulation applies
Enforcement/jurisdiction
De Mota v ADR Network & Anor [2017] UKEAT 0305/16
Acas certificate granted where two respondents named on same conciliation form gave ET jurisdiction to hear case
Enforcement: Employment Tribunals etc.
Thomas Cook Airlines Ltd v BALPA [2017] EWHC 2253
High Court rules it is not necessary to specify dates for industrial action in ballot paper
In this case, Thomas Cook sought an injunction to restrain the pilots union BALPA from calling a strike.
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Asda Stores Ltd v Brierley UKEAT/0011/2017
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union applies in equal value cases so that claimant shop floor workers (mostly female) can compare themselves with depot workers (mostly male)
Equality Act 2010 and Discrimination
British Airways v Pinaud UKEAT/0291/16
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Regulation 5 of the Part Time Workers Regulations 2000 identifies the right of a part-time worker not to be treated less favourably than a full-time worker. It provides:
"(1) A part-time worker has the right not to be treated by his employer less favourably than the employer treats a comparable full-time worker -
(a) as regards the terms of his contract; or
Categories of Worker & Working Relationships
Barbulescu v Romania (Application no. 61496/08) [2017] ECHR 742
Employer's monitoring of emails, in the particular circumstances, was a breach of was European Convention on Human Rights
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SamHirst	Uncategorized	 October 29, 2018 October 29, 2018 22 Minutes
This is the third part in the Sam and Laura series. See the first part, second part, and prequel here (especially for fans of Critical Role) . Sam and Laura are currently inhabiting a certain Heyer novel…
Sam woke up, the early light of the short autumn day filtering through the window and resting on her face, and felt rested as she had not felt for days since their arrival here. Laura's arms lay around her waist, and she glanced at her face as she lay still sleeping, her breathing soft and deep and her expression relaxed. Sam's lips pulled upward in a smile. She reached over and brushed Laura's tangled fringe back. Laura murmured in her sleep but did not wake.
It took some getting used to, this need their bodies now had for the patterns and rhythms of life which they had only sometimes, and voluntarily, practised in the shop. There never seemed to be enough sleep and they had, neither of them, remembered what it was like to need food and to rarely have sufficient. Whatever kind of housekeeper Venetia had been, Mrs Scorrier was a pinchpenny…and most of the pennies she pinched she made sure never affected her but the effects spread outward in a ripple usually hitting the lowest in the pile first.
She knew that this moment of relative comfort would come with a price. It definitely shouldn't be happening and before she had really even had time to appreciate the feeling of warmth, comfort and well-being, there were footsteps on the stairs to their attic garret. The door burst open and an irate housekeeper, Mrs Gurnard, bustled in.
'Well, I never in all my days. You two lazy slugabeds! Good for nothing layabouts! Do you have any idea what time it is? You should have been up an hour ago. I have had to go and prepare Mrs Lanyon's tea myself, for I will not have nurse tell me that I can't even get a cup of tea ready on time…' pausing for breath in the middle of her paroxysm of rage, her eyes took in the sleeping arrangements and widened still further. 'And WHAT are you two girls doing in the same bed? Isn't there a perfectly good one for you, miss?'
Sam was about to answer (although what she was going to answer was beyond her) when she felt Laura's hand withdraw from around her waist, giving her a quick squeeze on the way. Laura sat up and impatiently brushed her fringe back.
'We're sorry, m'm. It was so cold in here last night. There are to be no fires in the servants' quarters as you know on Mrs Scorrier's orders. And we're sorry for this morning, m'm, as well. We were so tired after doing all of them gardening chores for Mrs Scorrier yesterday. She would have 'em done right, m'm, but me and Samantha, we've no knowledge really of them things and…'
The Housekeeper's face had changed during Laura's calculated excuses at the name of her arch-nemesis and her voice was somewhat softer as she interrupted now.
'Well, girls, it seems that they make girls softer than in my day when we wouldn't blink at twice the work you are expected to do…but it was mighty cold last night and you were doing work you are quite unsuited to yesterday. That woman…' here she drew herself up short, an inward struggling between maintaining a proper sense of distinction between herself and two lowly maids and an opposite desire to bring down her enemy from a distance warred in her bosom. Integrity won and she closed her lips with self-conscious righteousness over the criticism which had been about to escape them.
Sam volunteered, 'We are sorry, m'm, it won't happen again.'
'Make sure that it doesn't, girls. I will expect you downstairs in ten minutes,' was her parting shot as she turned through the door.
Waiting to be sure she'd left, Sam with an expression of simulated horror turned to Laura, 'Ten minutes! It takes me that long to get my stockings on. Petticoatless today, I think.'
'Hmm,' said Laura with a glint, 'you're always trying to get me out of my petticoats… Get on with you!' she said as she shoved Sam toward the edge of a bed. With an undignified 'whoomph', Sam slid off the edge and onto the floor.
'Oops,' giggled Laura, trying hard to keep a straight face.
'You'll pay for that, my girl!' whispered Sam, wiggling her eyebrows in a decent assumption of dastardly intent.
'We'll see about that,' laughed Laura. 'But come on…we really do need all of the remaining 9 minutes. I've never seen so many layers of fabric in my life.'
Taking the icy water from the jug on the stand, they quickly flannelled their faces in the frigid air before beginning the hurried process of layering up. Sam proceeded in an orderly fashion, cursing occasionally at buttons and laces. Almost finished, and ready to run a comb through her disordered red locks, she glanced across at Laura and had to stifle a laugh. She sat in the middle of the floor, one arm in her shift and dress, the other lost between the two in a cascade of fabric.
'Well,' she glared. 'Are you going to help me!?'
'Oh my God, woman, how did you get yourself caught between the layers! Alright, alright, keep your…what even are we wearing?… bloomers?…on.
A few minutes of tussle and Laura was decently dressed although she looked like she'd met a hedge going backwards at some point in the newly begun day and her fringe was a lost cause. They clattered downstairs and were grudgingly given some bread before being admonished to mind themselves today and make sure they did their work to a better standard than usual for she wasn't going to let standards slip in this house, and they shouldn't think it.
What ensued was a whirlwind day, sent from one place to another, they began to wonder if the massive house had an end of corners to clean, floors to wax, beds to make and chamber pots to empty. Mrs Gurnard kept them busy with one task after another, a punishment for their morning's indiscretion, and these were interlaced with often contrary commands from Mrs Scorrier. They had just been caught by her as they scrubbed the floor in the long gallery and were now being sent on a mission of 'mercy' to the library for 'that poor boy must be distracted with all the dust' and 'they simply must do something about the issue while he was out riding that he might come back to a little comfort'. Mrs Scorrier's sly smile was quite in evidence and as they finished the scrubbing, which they had insisted on in the dough-faced gormless obstinacy Mrs Scorrier expected from lower servants, they wondered aloud whether she knew that she was quite so transparent or whether she just thought they were too stupid to merit subtlety.
As they swapped their buckets and brushes for dusters, Laura turned to Sam, 'Well…this is taking our life in our hands!'
'Yes, rather, but I have to say…I do want to see the library.'
'My little bookseller… I think you have a librarian's soul really for if you could you'd never let them go.'
Sam smiled, 'Well, let's make the most of it before we get horse-whipped out of the room.'
Cautiously, they entered the library but it was empty. Aubrey's rides grew longer and longer and they knew it wouldn't be more than a matter of a few days before he moved to Damerel's estate. They couldn't blame him. Mrs Scorrier's shrill voice haunted their dreams and much though they might pity Charlotte, the sight of her dejected, spiritless form brought an urge to just the sort of encouraging pep-talk that would crush her spirits. Neither Laura nor Sam had a great deal of sympathy to waste on someone so universally incapable of decision or of insight. They recognised it as a fault in themselves but still found the gentle eyes of Charlotte almost as heavy a burden as the sharp tones of her mother.
Both Sam and Laura largely forgot about their dusters. Every few minutes a laconic hand would jerk out in simulation of a cleaning stroke before the arm fell again and they were absorbed by the books.
'Oh my God, look! An original copy of the Castle of Otranto! First edition,' cried Sam sotto voice.
'Ooh, let me see! You and your Gothic literature!'
'What have you found?'
'Well, he has an amazing range of books… His 'classics' section is to die for! Look at this! What a gorgeous copy of Asinus Aureus!'
'What…'
Sam didn't get to finish her sentence before a sharp voice broke in.
'Yes, quite an excellent copy and perhaps you can explain who you are and why you are touching it,' Aubrey's acerbic tone froze them both. He stood silhouetted in the doors which led out from the library to the lawn.
Sam and Laura glanced hurriedly at each other but received no inspiration.
'I'm…'
'We're…'
They both started at the same time. Sam gestured Laura forward with a grimace.
'We're just maids, sir,' said Laura, fighting desperately against the linguistic ticks which were so much harder to fight 'on stage.' Heyer had paid little if any attention to servants in their own world so the novels speech patterns were fairly easy to resist when they were on their own, out of the eye of the novel, novelist and reader. When they interacted with other characters, higher up… well, every other word would be 'ma'am', 'sir' or 'lawks' if they didn't concentrate and this seemed a sticky enough situation for decided concentration.
'Maids?' inquired Aubrey with a supercilious raise of his eyebrow.
'Maids,' said Sam flatly.
'Maids who read.'
'Yes,' returned Laura. 'Maids who read. It may not be quite within the normal run of things but it is certainly not the divine intervention in the running of the world that you appear to suggest.' She stared at Sam, surprised by her own coherent loquacity. They felt the story shift around them but did not have the time in mid-confrontation to trace the changes. Registering the change, they exchanged a nervous glance. Whatever change had come, sassing your employer wasn't the best continuation to a day which started with sleeping in.
'Well, raritas conciliat admirationem,' said Aubrey, 'You are certainly a rarity.'
'Parit enim conversation contemptum,' she replied, 'Where I come from it is not so rare.'
Sam's eyebrows attempted to fly off the top of her head and Aubrey's eyes opened wide.
'Loquerisne Latine?' he gaped.
'Sic, paululum linguae Latinae dico.'
'Well, I am amazed. Amazed. Come, sit here, I must speak with you,' already half in his other world, he gestured roughly to the table. Sam and Laura shared a look, both expressions managing to convey something along of the lines of 'well, that could have gone worse' before Sam gave a thumbs up behind Aubrey's back and Laura bit her lip to keep from laughing.
As the two of them conversed in Latin, from which Sam only remembered a couple of words from a long forgotten GCSE, Sam continued to browse the shelves, her fingers lingering lovingly on titles in passing.
'Oh my Lord,' she gasped, as her fingers caressed the spine of the volume. Unable to resist she pulled it out. 'The original Ossian translations!' She heard a sharp sigh behind her and turning she looked to Aubrey and his face of peevish discontent. 'I apologise, sir,' she said, 'but I have never seen a first edition. It's like holding history, before we knew… people believed this copy.'
'You hold to Mr O'Connor's view,' asked Aubrey, his eyes narrowed.
'Not entirely, I believe…and I forget when…', discretion being the better part of valour, Sam, failing to remember dates, avoided naming figures of the controversy. 'I mean certainly there are some earlier sources, it isn't complete invention. The Glenmason manuscript, for example,…'
And they were away, it was Laura now who sat back smiling interjecting a word here and there, while Sam, throwing caution somewhat to the winds, engaged in a debate on Ossian's debt to earlier ballads. Both Sam and Aubrey lost themselves in the argument and Laura couldn't help but smile at that identical passion. She volunteered a view now and again and soon all three were engaged in conversation. So much so that none heard the door open until a voice spoke from the door frame as a step entered the room.
'I've come to see where those maids have got to. I'm dreadfully sorry Aubrey dear, I know how you don't like to be bothered when you're reading your little books, so clever, such a shame…'
The three of them stopped their discussion, creating a tableau which Mrs Scorrier couldn't quite understand. Aubrey sat at his desk, his leg stretched out in front of him, one of the girls (who looked positively deranged with her hair no better than a tinker's mate's!) seated across from him and another stood between them with a book in her hand. Latching on to the few details which she could process, Mrs Scorrier began her harangue. 'Well, I did not expect to find you in here still! I will speak to the housekeeper about your work. I do not see why we need two idle girls…I gave you quite a simple task. And you… put that book down at once. I did not give you permission to touch it. You will not know how to hold it, I don't doubt. And Aubrey, you should not let these maids bother you. Your leg is obviously tiring you, would you like to lie down?'
Aubrey's face had turned to thunder at this speech but Sam and Laura's were both stoically blank. Looking at them, and clearly making some sort of decision, Aubrey speared Mrs Scorrier with his glance. 'These maids have been helping me. As it is I who am master of my brother's house in his and Venetia's absence, I believe my orders are to be followed. They have been assisting me in … arranging a number of my new works. I will send them to you when they can be spared.' He turned from her and Mrs Scorrier looked with loathing at his back before narrowing her eyes at Sam and Laura and turning to flounce out of the room with a sniff of tremendous dignity.
Their talk though had been interrupted and the threads were not picked up. Aubrey looked on them with a measuring glance. 'You are not maids,' he said authoritatively.
'Yes, we are,' Laura and Sam chorused defensively.
'No. Well, I suppose now you are. But you weren't.'
'We weren't born maids, no-one is,' Laura sallied.
Aubrey let out a short bark of laughter. 'Well, that gave me mine again, didn't it? It doesn't matter. If that's what you choose to be…although why on earth… But that's not my concern.' He looked at them assessingly and then haltingly continued, 'I have heard of such things as… I have read, of course, that it is not always… that some people do not need the other sex.'
'No. Some people don't,' replied Sam, her hand clasping Laura's, hidden behind their skirts.
'It doesn't matter to me,' said Aubrey. 'I don't think I need them, either,' he gulped slightly. 'But you must have to sacrifice a lot to make that choice.'
'Yes,' said Laura. 'And no.'
'Yes and no,' said Aubrey contemplatively. 'Well, you are the only sensible people that I have met since Venetia left. You will come tomorrow and assist me. I really do need assistance. This library is in a shocking state.'
'Of course, sir,' they replied.
'Well, run along then. I doubt not but the wrath of that execrable woman will be waiting for you.'
He was right and when Mrs Scorrier next found them, the words 'encroaching', 'uppity' and 'above their station' were all mixed together in a tirade that both of them ignored. She was able to make the next few days hellish though and Sam and Laura were hardly able to move by the end of each day, falling asleep exhausted with half-formed goodnights on their lips. That first evening though, before dropping into sleep, Sam looked at Laura's face inches from her own on the pillow. 'I didn't know you spoke Latin,' she said.
'There's lots you don't know about me. I'm a bundle of surprises.'
'The gift that keeps on giving!' Sam smiled and she thought she felt Laura's lips brush her own but her dreams were coming fast to take her and she passed away into darkness.
Each day, they had enjoyed a small oasis in their hours in the library. Aubrey usually engaged in a short conversation but turned away to his own private world, allowing them a few hours of relative leisure among the books and sporadic conversations with the irascible scholar. On the last day of the week, he had been absent when they entered the library. Mrs Gurnard had sent them up anyway at the usual time and they continued to sort through the pile that he had left them yesterday, teetering by the side of the great stone fireplace.
Suddenly, the door was thrown open and Aubrey stormed in. 'I can't live like this anymore,' he stated baldly. 'My dogs. My dogs, if you please, are dangerous beasts, my horse is an uncommon brute, I am a helpless cripple and I am worrying Mrs Lanyon with my reading and…' and here his voice rose to a higher octave, the words almost choking him with disbelief, 'and now I am corrupting 'her' staff! Do you know, she had the audacity to suggest that our afternoons were spent in wild orgies. The bacchanals of the Dionysians have nothing on us. She must thing I am inexhaustible… although the way she harks on about my leg, it's a wonder she thinks I'm able to move at all.'
Sam and Laura both looked at him, unsure of how to reply.
'Well, don't just stand there,' he said. 'I'm leaving and you're coming with me.'
'I don't think I caught your meaning,' said Laura.
'Well,' said Aubrey, somewhat shame-faced, 'I may have said something you wouldn't quite like. I told her, and I don't regret it, that I knew where to find much better bacchanals that were to be had under her parsimonious, sanctimonious roof… and I told her that I was going to stay at Damerel's because he had invited me, you know. And she turned around and crossed herself, she crossed herself! And she said I could take my two whores with me… And I said I would. And I'm sorry about that but you won't want to stay here. Who could stay here. She's the very devil.'
Sam and Laura exchanged glances. 'Closer to the action,' marked Sam. 'Closer to Mark,' mouthed Laura and they both nodded.
'Won't he object to two extra members of staff?' asked Laura.
'He won't notice. Can't keep staff, it seems. Terrible reputation, you know. But that won't put you off, I know, sensible girls, the pair of you.'
'Hmmm,' said Sam. 'Well, in for a penny…'
'In for a pound,' finished Laura. 'Lead the way, sir, we just need to collect our few belongings.'
The move to the wicked Baron's house was an improvement, that could not be denied. The hours were far more flexible. His Lordship didn't wake up until after noon after his night's carousing and the duties were comparatively light. There was no Mrs Scorrier here even though the low number of staff meant that they became jack of all trades. Although Aubrey's studies consumed him, they were able to continue their library afternoons in this new setting as he enjoyed at times their company and discussion and enjoyed presenting them as wonders to Mark who play-acted surprise and shock remarkably badly.
Finally they had the opportunity to talk to Mark and they learnt their first mistake of inter-textual travel. By 'desire your journey', he had meant that they should choose the role or place in the text that they desired. The books were usually accommodating and after a first uncomfortable role as a teacher of magical history at Hogwarts (a continual feat of fictionalised memory), he had been a librarian ever since. He laughed immoderately at their tales of landing in the Lanyon house under Mrs Scorrier's rule as chamber maids.
He taught them also how to see beyond the book. It was a matter of focusing, similar to the magic eye pictures of their youths. Focusing on the distance, with a great deal of patience and practice and a strange motion of the eyes allowed them to see beyond the fictional world and back into the real world. That, Mark explained, was how to choose your next home. You only got to live through the span of a book. When the novel ended, your time there ended and the book expelled you. You had to choose a new home and there was little time in the void to make your choice before you started to feel the pull of disintegration. Best to get in a choice beforehand. As they looked through the book, they could see the new home that their text had found and smiled at the well-stocked bookcase. Mark was shocked to know that so little time had passed outside the book when he had been gone for several years by his reckoning. His aging, however, appeared to match up to the time in the outside world as there were nothing more than a few added grey hairs to suggest the passing of time.
After their long explanation, the old habits of intercourse were resurrected and Sam and Laura could pass days without exchanging a word with Mark. All four sometimes shared the library, with Mark and Aubrey completely oblivious to the world around them.
'I wonder if I'd have been like that,' wondered Laura one day.
'I wonder if I would,' echoed Sam. 'But I don't think so. Not really. Maybe we saved each other from it but those two…I think they were born that way!'
'Probably,' said Laura, smiling. 'I can't imagine Mark without a book in his hand! He'd look like something had been amputated…
Outside the library, their other duties were not so much onerous as dispiriting. Cleaning and kitchen work was all that was expected and high standards of either cleanliness or cuisine were not demanded. Damerel had reached the stage of drowning his sorrows nightly in flagons of wine and sitting, a maudlin drunk, at his table till all hours. Sam and Laura weren't expected to wait upon his finishing. After the dinner things had been cleared, and as he gradually drank himself into oblivion, their duties concluded in the kitchen and they were free for the evening. Ribble or Marston had the unenviable task of dealing with broken bottles, wine stains and an incoherent master. They both agreed that they pitied Damerel, he was trying (rather stupidly and domineeringly) to be noble. Hard not to if you'd read the book and Sam found herself giving 'his side' to Laura when reality seemed to instinctively stir a different 'reading' in the mind of one who'd never read the ending. Sam couldn't help remembering Heyer's own dismissive comment on the appeal of Damerel – that he was a dark-hearted rake in form only on the page. His rakery was a thing of the past and the worst the reader saw was the hero in his cups. Well, close up … that was usually bad enough. Especially when you were up at the crack of dawn, trying to make the dining room look like it hadn't been the sight of a single-handed Dionysian feast.
This last evening, some weeks after their arrival, Damerel had hardly eaten. He looked like he hadn't shaved or seen a mirror in days. He had descended into little more than grunts and Aubrey had escaped early from the table. Sam and Laura had waited, urged on by Marston, to see if he couldn't be coaxed (by the sheer wordless pressure of a nearby feast) to eat something to soak up the wine he shouted for at irregular intervals. Now at last they had been allowed to go and clear the table. As they entered, Damerel let out a burp.
'Sexy,' Laura whispered into Sam's ear as they entered and Sam was hardly able to control the corners of her mouth from twitching into a wrath-inducing smile.
Ignored, they began to clear the table. Laura took away the used and unused crockery and Sam grabbed the chaffing dish. The rhythm of their movement was upset. Sam's load slowed her and by the time she was almost at the kitchen, Laura had passed her in the other direction.
When Laura reached the room, the door had closed and she wavered for a second before knocking. Who knew what was going on in his mind and whether he was demanding privacy. After a moment of waiting, however, she heard movement and then the door opened and his bleary face peered down at her somewhat owlishly.
'What do you want?' he said thickly.
'Just clearing the table, sir, begging your pardon,' said Laura. A flicker of distaste running through her mind at the linguistic patterns the interaction was forcing on her. Heyer's linguistic ticks were always most oppressive when Sam or Laura hooved into view of the storyline.
'Come in,' he glared, throwing the door back. 'You should have cleared this hours ago.'
'Yes, sir. Sorry, sir. Mr Marston said as how we should leave you to eat.'
'Damn him,' he uttered before turning away towards the decanter on the side.
Laura moved round him to the table and began to collect some of the damage he'd apparently done to the dishes and their contents in their short absence. She heard footsteps behind her and felt a body standing uncomfortably close. A hand closed around her wrist and pulled her round.
His face wasn't far from hers and his winey breath stung her nose. 'You have a fine figure,' he slurred. 'Perhaps, one is as good as another. And I have been so good but why? What's the point of it?' And in slow motion, as his arms reached out to pull her closer, his head lowered towards her. Before it reached her, however, he had the unwelcome experience of a knee directed sharply towards his groin and he staggered backwards gasping. Laura narrowed her eyes and was in the act of weighing up the situation when she heard Sam's footsteps approaching and she sighed in relief.
Sam entered the room in a bustle and was drawn up short by the evident signs of discomfort both physical and mental in the room.
'Laura, what's wrong?'
'Popular romance fiction.'
'What…' she began before comprehension and rage flashed across her face. Striding across the room, she placed herself in front of Laura grabbing her hand in passing and holding it firmly as she faced a slowly recovering Damerel.
'You won't touch her again,' she almost shouted and Laura gave her hand a squeeze whose meaning Sam couldn't quite interpret. Laura was looking at her in mild shock. This wasn't the easy-mannered, laughing Sam that she was used to. Damerel too looked up in surprise, his wine-pickled braining struggling to deal with the different sensory assaults from the raging pain in his groin to the sharp voiced command in his ear. Sam and Laura both stood tense as he straightened up but there was no belligerence on his face.
'What is … It doesn't matter. Don't fear, I won't kiss anyone again. It was a mistake,' and turning he staggered towards the decanter, poured himself and glass and cast himself in his chair. 'You cannot… you cannot go back, you know. She left. I made her leave and you cannot replace her.'
'No-one wants to,' said Sam.
He grunted.
'An apology would be appreciated,' said Laura, pulling Sam back to stand beside her.
'An apology? What is going on? A serving girl demands an apology of me!' he laughed, the slightly hysterical laughter of the lost. 'Well, why not, I apologise madam.'
'Not really what I was looking for,' said Laura into Sam's ear.
'Get out now,' he said, voice raising. 'Leave me in peace.'
Sam and Laura exchanged glances and turned as one to the door.
Outside, they looked again at each other and with wordless consent descended to the kitchen.
As they entered, Laura turned, 'Thank you, you know, I didn't know you could be so fierce.' She smiled but there was no response from Sam.
'I'm so sorry. God, are you alright what happened?'
'An abortive kiss. Don't worry about me. Unpleasant but it's not like I wasn't expecting something like it and I had my knee sharpened and waiting and my dress arranged for maximum efficiency.'
'Expecting it?'
'I mean, that's how he met Venetia, isn't it? It seems to be his style to believe that everyone beneath him will be fainting for his kisses. Dick.'
'Dick, indeed. I didn't even think about it.'
'That, my dear, is because you're so loathe to think the worst of people. I wouldn't change that sunny temperament for anything, although the dragon I met today was undoubtedly…pretty sexy if I'm honest.'
Sam smiled somewhat perfunctorily. 'It's not that you know. I just, I don't get those sort of things happening and so I don't think about it. I don't care what they say, it just doesn't happen that regularly to pudding-faced wenches like me.' With a wry smile she reached out to push a lock of hair out of Laura's face. 'But this face, this one I know to be irresistible.' She said bopping her nose with a light finger, smiling.
Laura narrowed her eyes and pursed her lips in disapproval. 'Don't. Don't do that. Your face is …well it's impossible for me to resist.' She drew Sam closer and placing her forehead on Sam's and whispered. 'I'm glad that not everyone sees it. It means that I get you and no-one stole you away before we met.'
'Not all the brooding heroes and feisty ladies in the world could do that.'
'I know,' said Laura, one hand resting on Sam's hip, the other at her waist pulling her closer. And then for a moment there was no air between them as Laura's lips brushed Sam's and there was only the two of them.
It was Sam who pushed back, breaking the hold and returning them to a world with mountains of cleaning waiting for them. 'But this isn't about me, you know, Laura. Are you alright? I'm sorry I wasn't there. I'm sorry I didn't think…'
'You know…I am very fine. There's something deeply empowering about kneeing someone's nuts to jelly.'
Sam laughed. 'Well, let's hope he doesn't make any similar mistakes again. He's full of repentance now but when he's in his cups again… I'm not leaving you alone with him in the future, that's for sure.'
'Nor I you. He seemed so much less obnoxious in his worst moments when he was a couple of centuries and a fictional world away.'
As they were finishing up, they heard footsteps rushing down the hall. 'Come quickly, you're needed,' cried Marston.
'What is it, sir?' asked Sam.
'Miss Venetia is here…and the master's blind drunk. Brew the coffee and then one of you come up to the dining room with me, we need to make it presentable. And the other of you will have to prepare a room for Miss Venetia…'
'Of course, sir, straight away,' Sam said, turning to being the process of heating the coffee while Laura went to get the laundry cupboard key.
Marston clucked in frustrated anxiety. 'Well, hurry along!' he said before disappearing.
Sam felt a hand on her arm and allowed herself to be pulled round. 'Looks like we're leaving,' said Laura smiling and Sam was sure she was relieved.
'Yes…where to next?'
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package com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem;

import com.intellij.openapi.Disposable;
import com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ex.AnActionListener;
import com.intellij.openapi.application.ApplicationManager;
import com.intellij.openapi.extensions.PluginId;
import com.intellij.openapi.util.ActionCallback;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NonNls;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;
import org.jetbrains.annotations.Nullable;

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.InputEvent;

/**
 * A manager for actions. Used to register and unregister actions, also
 * contains utility methods to easily fetch action by id and id by action.
 *
 * @see AnAction
 */
public abstract class ActionManager {
  /**
   * Fetches the instance of ActionManager implementation.
   */
  public static ActionManager getInstance(){
    return ApplicationManager.getApplication().getComponent(ActionManager.class);
  }

  /**
   * Factory method that creates an {@code ActionPopupMenu} from the
   * specified group. The specified place is associated with the created popup.
   *
   * @param place Determines the place that will be set for {@link AnActionEvent} passed
   *  when an action from the group is either performed or updated
   *  See {@link com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ActionPlaces}
   *
   * @param group Group from which the actions for the menu are taken.
   *
   * @return An instance of {@code ActionPopupMenu}
   */
  public abstract ActionPopupMenu createActionPopupMenu(@NonNls String place, @NotNull ActionGroup group);

  /**
   * Factory method that creates an {@code ActionToolbar} from the
   * specified group. The specified place is associated with the created toolbar.
   *
   * @param place Determines the place that will be set for {@link AnActionEvent} passed
   *  when an action from the group is either performed or updated.
   *  See {@link com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.ActionPlaces}
   *
   * @param group Group from which the actions for the toolbar are taken.
   *
   * @param horizontal The orientation of the toolbar (true - horizontal, false - vertical)
   *
   * @return An instance of {@code ActionToolbar}
   */
  public abstract ActionToolbar createActionToolbar(@NonNls String place, @NotNull ActionGroup group, boolean horizontal);

  /**
   * Returns action associated with the specified actionId.
   *
   * @param actionId Id of the registered action
   *
   * @return Action associated with the specified actionId, {@code null} if
   *  there is no actions associated with the specified actionId
   *
   * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if {@code actionId} is {@code null}
   *
   * @see com.intellij.openapi.actionSystem.IdeActions
   */
  public abstract AnAction getAction(@NonNls @NotNull String actionId);

  /**
   * Returns actionId associated with the specified action.
   *
   * @return id associated with the specified action, {@code null} if action
   *  is not registered
   *
   * @exception java.lang.IllegalArgumentException if {@code action} is {@code null}
   */
  public abstract String getId(@NotNull AnAction action);

  /**
   * Registers the specified action with the specified id. Note that IDEA's keymaps
   * processing deals only with registered actions.
   *
   * @param actionId Id to associate with the action
   * @param action Action to register
   */
  public abstract void registerAction(@NonNls @NotNull String actionId, @NotNull AnAction action);

  /**
   * Registers the specified action with the specified id.
   *
   * @param actionId Id to associate with the action
   * @param action   Action to register
   * @param pluginId Identifier of the plugin owning the action. Used to show the actions in the
   *                 correct place under the "Plugins" node in the "Keymap" settings pane and similar dialogs.
   */
  public abstract void registerAction(@NotNull String actionId, @NotNull AnAction action, @Nullable PluginId pluginId);

  /**
   * Unregisters the action with the specified actionId.
   *
   * @param actionId Id of the action to be unregistered
   */
  public abstract void unregisterAction(@NotNull String actionId);

  /**
   * Returns the list of all registered action IDs with the specified prefix.
   *
   * @return all action {@code id}s which have the specified prefix.
   * @since 5.1
   */
  public abstract String[] getActionIds(@NotNull String idPrefix);

  /**
   * Checks if the specified action ID represents an action group and not an individual action.
   * Calling this method does not cause instantiation of a specific action class corresponding
   * to the action ID.
   *
   * @param actionId the ID to check.
   * @return true if the ID represents an action group, false otherwise.
   * @since 5.1
   */
  public abstract boolean isGroup(@NotNull String actionId);

  /**
   * Creates a panel with buttons which invoke actions from the specified action group.
   *
   * @param actionPlace        the place where the panel will be used (see {@link ActionPlaces}).
   * @param messageActionGroup the action group from which the toolbar is created.
   * @return the created panel.
   * @since 5.1
   */
  public abstract JComponent createButtonToolbar(final String actionPlace, @NotNull ActionGroup messageActionGroup);

  @Nullable
  public abstract AnAction getActionOrStub(@NonNls String id);

  public abstract void addTimerListener(int delay, TimerListener listener);

  public abstract void removeTimerListener(TimerListener listener);

  public abstract void addTransparentTimerListener(int delay, TimerListener listener);

  public abstract void removeTransparentTimerListener(TimerListener listener);

  public abstract ActionCallback tryToExecute(@NotNull AnAction action, @NotNull InputEvent inputEvent, @Nullable Component contextComponent,
                                              @Nullable String place, boolean now);

  public abstract void addAnActionListener(AnActionListener listener);
  public abstract void addAnActionListener(AnActionListener listener, Disposable parentDisposable);

  public abstract void removeAnActionListener(AnActionListener listener);

  @Nullable
  public abstract KeyboardShortcut getKeyboardShortcut(@NonNls @NotNull String actionId);

  @NotNull
  public String getComponentName() {
    return "ActionManager";
  }
}

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Phillies take season opener behind Rhys Hoskins grand slam
Patrick Gordon, Managing Editor Thursday, March 28, 2019 Philadelphia Baseball, Phillies
By Patrick Gordon, Managing Editor , Thursday, March 28, 2019 Labels: Philadelphia Baseball, Phillies No comments
It took just seven innings on Thursday for the rest of baseball to witness why the Phillies offense should be considered one of the more dangerous in all of baseball, and Bryce Harper didn't even get a hit.
Nope, Harper instead was intentionally walked to load the bases in the seventh inning and Rhys Hoskins followed by depositing his first career grand slam deep into the seats in left field to highlight a Phillies 10-4 win over the Braves on Thursday in the season opener at Citizens Bank Park.
"It's scary good," Hoskins said of the Phils' lineup. "There's just not an easy breath of fresh air for the opposing pitcher."
Jean Segura collected a pair of hits while Maikel Franco delivered a three-run blast in the sixth.
On the mound, starter Aaron Nola struggled at times with his command, issuing a career-high five walks over six innings. Three of those walks came in a rough second frame but he was able to limit the damage to just one run. He collected eight strikeouts on the afternoon to notch the win.
Andrew McCutchen opened the game with a leadoff homer, becoming just the third player in Phillies' franchise history to hit a leadoff blast and the first to do it in Philadelphia since Heinie Mueller did it in 1938 at Shibe Park.
McCutchen's blast also ignited an already raucous sellout crowd, setting a high-energy tone for the entire afternoon.
"It felt very much like October out there," manager Gabe Kapler said. "It's quite a feeling to walk out onto that field and feel the support that we felt today. People have told me in the past what this place was like when the team is winning, and it felt like we had already won several ball games when we walked out onto that field."
The two clubs resume their three-game set on Saturday afternoon.