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In a time where there is a high cry for the increase of foreign investment in the country, an indigenous firm in the Niger Delta region, the RoboMicheal Limited , has disclosed signing a contract with a Chinese company to set up a phone manufacturing factory in Ogoni land. This is surely a welcome development at this point.
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According to the Managing Director of the firm, Ayobo Michael Ibrahim, the phone factory would empower over 500 people in the region. These people would be trained in technology and the presence of the factory would also address issues of unemployment in the region.
This was disclosed by Ibrahim Ayobo at Bori, in Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State , during the weekend, in a consultation meeting with the Conference of Ogoni Traditional rulers , women and youths. She made mention that the firm was granted licence by the Federal Government last month to operate the OML 11, while also to set up industries in the area.
According to the Managing Director, projects aimed at developing Ogoni land are underway while also disclosing that to sustain job creation in the area, virtually all youth would be empowered with skill. In her own words, a new global city would be built in the area , with shopping malls , health centres , and houses, adding about 25 non- governmental organisations would move into Ogoni after the completion of the project.
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It also seems that this development is very well received by youths in the area as the statement below was credited to a youth leader. "The youths are eager to work to improve our welfare, we need development in Ogoni land and not stories anymore."


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Watching the strongest, most competitive athletes from around the world compete in such a rich variety of intense sports creates a tantalizing feeling of exhilaration across each nation. Each athlete demonstrates incredible athleticism and we wanted to point out five honorable Eagle Scout traits we've noticed that have made for great Winter 2018 Olympians.
Cheerful: Lindsey Vonn, USA
Look for the bright side of life. Cheerfully do tasks that come your way. Try to help others be happy.
One of the most recognizable names of the Pyeongchang Olympics, Lindsey Vonn is one of the best female skiers in the world. However, the road to victory hasn't always come easily. After winning the gold in the downhill and a bronze in the super-G in the 2010 Olympics, Vonn had to sit out of the Sochi Olympics due to a serious knee injury. She then suffered an arm fracture and a back injury on two separate occasions. Despite all of the painful injuries and challenges to overcome, however, Lindsey always gets right back up with a smile on her face. Looking at each setback as just an opportunity to make herself stronger, Vonn has become an example of having a cheerful attitude in all circumstances.
Watch the incredibly inspiring Super Bowl Ad featuring Vonn below.
Brave: Pita Taufatofua, Tonga
Face difficult situations even when you feel afraid. Do what you think is right despite what others might be doing or saying.
Remember the shirtless, doused-in-oil flagbearer from the Rio 2016 Olympics? He has quite an amazing Olympic story. According to the Wall Street Journal, after losing his one and only taekwondo match in the Rio games, Taufatofua wanted to try to qualify for the Olympics in a new sport. The Tonga-native, taekwondo athlete chose to test his skills in cross-country skiing, of all sports. Since Tonga isn't too close to any snow, Taufatofua learned how to ski in just three months by training on roller skis— and ended up qualifying for Pyeongchang!
Taufatofua has truly shown how brave he is by fearlessly learning a new sport and competing at an Olympic level without worrying about failing or about what others think."I don't fear failure. I fear not trying," said Taufatofua in the same Wall Street Journal article.
Friendly: Kikkan Randall, Sadie Bjornsen, and Jessie Diggins, USA
Be a friend to everyone, even people who are very different from you.
Kikkan Randall, Sadie Bjornsen, and Jesse Diggins are all competing in cross-country skiing on behalf of the USA. Though they may represent the same nation, they are all competing against each other. However, the athletes are close friends who are cheering each other on. "It is an individual sport, and we are competitors against each other, but there is a very big team component," Randall said, according to People magazine. A little friendly competition is very much appreciated in Scouting, too!
OBEDIENT: Chloe Kim
Follow the rules of your family, school, and pack. Obey the laws of your community and country.
As the first women ever to land back-to-back 1080s last year, and as the gold medalist in this year's PyeongChang Olympics, Chloe Kim ranks as one of the top snowboarders in the world. Obviously, the 17-year-old has incredible raw talent, but we can also bet that Kim became successful by following the instruction and advice of her trainers. According to Time magazine, Kim's father was her first coach, quitting his engineering job to take Kim skiing. Kim also followed the advice of mentor Kelly Clark, who has been taking her under her wing since Kim was eight-years-old. Interestingly, Kim and Clark—a multi-medalist herself— competed against each other in the this year's Olympics. As Scouters, the Voice also knows how life-changing leaders and mentors can be to youth.
Clean: Shani Davis
Keep your body and mind fit.
Four-time Olympic medalist Shani Davis is one of the best athletes in track speedskating, being featured in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and recognized among the ranks of Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson. According to NBC news, Davis is from Chicago, and— after winning the gold at the 2006 Torino Olympics— received a congratulatory call from then-senator Barack Obama. A vital part of becoming one of the best athletes in the world is keeping mentally and physically strong, just like in the Scout Oath and Law. With the possibility of severe injuries and the temptation to consume illegal substances, athletes who train and compete honestly are the most admirable and respected heroes of the Olympics.
Cheerful, Friendly, Brave, Obedient, Clean— amongst hundreds of other amazing traits— thePyeongchang Winter 2018 Olympians are incredible!

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Hi Christian, all, Lieske, Christian wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Please find my comments below (starting with "CL>"). > > Best regards, > Christian > > -----Original Message----- > From: email@example.com > [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Yves Savourel > Sent: Sonntag, 12. Februar 2006 06:51 > To: email@example.com > Subject: RE: On conformance > > > Hi Christian, Felix, and all, > >> So I think you should provide all tests which you >> think which are necessary, not only the ones for >> "terminology". This might be a very complicated task, >> *if* you assume a lot of conformance levels, and >> even conformance specific conformance criteria to a >> single data category. > > Our data categories are quite divers: Ruby as little do to with > translatability for example. This means it probably make sense for > the applications that will implement ITS to provide support for only > some of the data categories. > > CL> Or only provide _limited_ support (cf. the discussion on > insitu/dislocated). sorry, this has nothing to do with conformance, but the terminology here would now be local (in instance documents) versus global (with documentRules). > > For example a translation tool would implement the translatability data > and localization information categories but completely > ignore terminology. > > CL> I am not sure that all translation tools would do that. > > Therefore I think we have to test the 6 data categories separately (I > think <its:span> is something different > and can be tested with along with all the in situ cases). > >>From the "rules location" viewpoint we have: in XML DTD, in XML Schema, > in RELAX NG, external dislocated, internal dislocated, and > in situ... 6 cases. In addition, I think it's important to also have > test cases for each data category where all the different > "rules locations" are combined. So 7 cases. > > This gives us the following matrix: > http://www.w3.org/International/its/tests/#Summary > > Which is ... 42 cases overall (although there maybe a few cases less as > not all types of rules location apply to all data > categories). > > I think it's important that we provide at least one standalone test case > for each of these combinations. It is quite a bit of work, > but it is probably the only way to ensure ITS is sound. > > As far as "processors" *compliance*. I think we don't have to define a > level for each case. Maybe we can say that an application is > ITS compliant when it implement sucessfully at least one of the data > categories(?) and that it should state which one(s) with any > compliance claim. > > CL> I like Yves' approach of distinguishing between test cases and > conformance/compliance. From > CL> my point of view test cases can help with the following: > CL> > CL> 1. verify that the framework adequately addresses an issue > CL> 2. possibly help with the definition of conformance > CL> 3. testing conformance > CL> > CL> I think that the design of the test suite (that is the collection of > test cases instrumented with > CL> input, output, id etc.) which Yves has drafted is very promising. > CL> > CL> I am still not sure about the granularity of conformance we should > be aiming at. I agree that it would be possible to disconnect the discussion on tests from conformance. But IMO it would be good to relate the one to the other as close as possible. Yves proposal to say "s.t. is conformance if it implements successfully at least one data category" is a very direct relation between tests and conformance. Possible pros and > CL> cons for a fine grained granularity could be the following: > CL> > CL> pro: may yield many conformant implementations since only a limited > number > CL> of features would have to be implemented and thus effort for > implementation might be low with the proposal from Yves to say "s.t. is conformance if it implements successfully at least one data category", you would have the same effect, without having the need for fine grained conformance levels. > CL> cons: may yield confusion amongst tool users/buyers since they > cannot easily know that a > CL> conformant tool really fits their i18n/l10n requirements > CL> > CL> One approach to come up with a more coarse grained granularity of > course could > CL> start from clustering/partioning features, and basing conformance on > clusters. Example: > CL> > CL> Definition for Cluster A > CL> > CL> - data categories 'ruby' and 'directionality' > CL> - only local rules > CL> > CL> Conformance Clause > CL> > CL> - An implementation of this standard is profile-1 conformant if > it implements all > CL> features defined in Cluster A Could you make a suggestion what clusters you would suppose for ITS? > CL> > CL> This seems to be an approach taken by other standards (they seem to > use terms like > CL> "level", or "profile"). CSS 1 from my understanding for example had > two clusters: > CL> core features and extended features (see > http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS1#css1-conformance). > CL> XSL-FO has three (called "basic", "extended" and "complete"; see > http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice8.html#conform) > CL> It defines for each feature (objects and properties), whether a > conformance level > CL> requires its implementation or not (see > http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/sliceB.html#FO-summary, > CL> http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/sliceC.html#property-index). looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice8.html#conform , I have the feeling the XSL conformance is very close to what is currently in the ITS draft. In XSL you have three levels basic, extended and complete, which subsume each other. In the current ITS draft, you have two levels, which subsume each other. > CL> > CL> Following this line of thinking, we would need to decide on two > things with regard to conformance: > CL> > CL> 1. Do we go for several different types of conformance? > CL> 2. How do we possibly partition data categories, support for > selection mechanisms etc. to arrive at different types? I would propose to go Yves path to say "s.t. is conformant if it implements just one data category. This would be one level of conformance, though. In addition (or rather 'below' that), I would propose to say s.t. about conformance of schemas, because we have to say s.t. to the audience "schema developers". In the ITS draft, currently schema conformance is mixed with data category conformance. I would propose to separate this. - Felix > > We still have to decide if we want to allow processors that implement > only in-situ rules to be compilant or not. We need to decide > this soon. > > For the test cases, based on Felix and Christian's ideas, maybe we could > have something for each data category that look like this: > > 1. In schema > 1.1 XML DTD > 1.2 XML Schema > 1.3 RELAX NG > 2. Dislocated > 2.2 External to the document > 2.3 Within the document > 3. In situ > 4. Combination of all cases > > For each of these lines we would have: > > - The description of the test. (With a reference to the clause in the > specification). > > At least one test set that would have: > > - An "Input files" entry with the list of all the input files required, > for example a source XML document and a document containing > dislocated rules. > > - An "Expected Result" entry with a document hand-made (or at least > hand-checked) that describes the expected output. > > - Zero, one or more result files generated from the various > implementations we will have. (and hopefully will will have at least one > example of for each case). > > See the translatability data category for an example: > http://www.w3.org/International/its/tests/#Trans_DislocatedExternal > (I'm missing still the clause references) > > It would probably be good to have several test sets in some cases, for > example; avec namespaces, without namespace, etc. > > In addition to decide if this is a good approach and how it can be > improved, we should also maybe make the general layout easier to > manipulate, for instance by having the Test Suite document broken down > in several files (one per data category) so several people > can work on different parts at the same time. Maybe the result document > should be integrated within the test suite document to make > it easier to look at, etc. > > For the test implementation we should try to make them generic enough so > they can be used regardless of the input files. > > ...I am sure you have plenty of ideas. > > Cheers, > -yves > > >Received on Wednesday, 15 February 2006 13:06:34 UTC
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Caring For Leather Shoes In A Winter Wonderland
It's The Most Wonderful Time of The Year
Unfortunately, during winter time, the rain, cold, sleet, and snow can wreak havoc on your leather goods and leather shoes. Leather shoe care is of prime importance when climates bring extremes - during the high heat of summer, and the frigid cold of winter. These temperatures, combined with moisture and precipitation - not to mention all the dirty slow you have to walk through on a daily basis - makes maintenance key.
With brutal blizzards on the way, and ice cold puddles a daily occurrence, we thought we'd run you through the top ways to care for your leather shoes in the winter.
Use Sunshine Whenever Possible
The best shoe care products can only build on what nature organically creates. Did you know that the sun delivers more energy in one hour than humans use in 7 years? That's a lot of energy!
Coincidently, this energy is, which comes to earth in the form of light and heat are just what soggy shoes need in order to dry as fast as possible. Natural light and heat are also good against fighting off bacteria - which can grow in leather shoes and sneakers when left unchecked.
Place shoes up on a windowsill, or leave them outside on a sunny afternoon, and your shoes will thank you!
Shoes wet? Be sure to check out this blog post titled 4 Ways to Protect Your Leather Shoes From the Rain.
2. Use a Waterproof Spray
Using a waterproof spray shields your shoes against the damage of the elements. They can leave a matte or glossy finish, but will always protect leather against moisture. We recommend Fiebing's Moisture Resistant Waterproof Finish or, if you prefer the spray, try J.T. Foote Rain & Stain Waterproof Spray.
Moisture, in case you didn't know, has a love-hate relationship with leather. Too little moisture and leather materials like handbags, gloves, and dress shoes can become dry, cakey, wrinkled, and crusted. You feel as though the leather may snap! Too much moisture, on the other hand, can lead to a breakdown of the molecular structures of leather. Constant pressure from water molecules wears down the molecular structures that make up leather. For more on this, read this interesting scientific study.
Leather boots, especially those lined with fur look stylish and will keep your feet warm, but they're not always water resistant. Give the best leather shoe care with Leather Care Waterproofing Spray.
3. Apply White Vinegar Solution to Wipe Away Excess Salt Stains
With the winter snow often comes white salt on shoes and boots. Salt from the road can soak into leather articles leaving large white stains. If not removed, the material can become permanently dried and cracked. It can also develop bubble marks.
To prevent this apply a white vinegar solution to the exterior of the shoe and turn back the time and also wipe away the grime. If you don't have white vinegar handy, or detest the smell, try a sweet smelling Canvas Cleaner. Use it to restore, rejuvenate, and wipe away the salt damage on your favorite leather jacket, car seat (if you just came from the beach), or leather upholstery.
If you ride your motorcycle by the seaside use it on your motorcycle seats and accessories in order to keep leather clean, supple, pliant, and naturally shiny.
4. Cycle Shoes, Reduce Sweat, and Freshen Shoes
Did you know that your feet sweat more than an ounce of sweat each day? Moisture buildup can cause unseen mold inside lined shoes. This damage is difficult to repair, and can even lead to bad smells.
To help mitigate this, cycle your shoes each day. Wear a different pair of shoes each day, allowing them time to rest, breathe, and re-mold back to their original shape.
If you must wear your work boots or leather business shoes more than one day in a row, reduce sweat levels by any means necessary. You can choose to wear socks with antimicrobial or moisture wicking properties. Add deodorizing insoles or throw some deodorizer balls into the shoe and let them do their magic. These products are a blessing for sports players, gym rats, and runners - who rely on their footwear on a daily basis. Deodorizer balls are perfect for taking the yucky smell out of locker rooms, small compartments, and other places where smells may pervade.
Final Thoughts
We hope these tips have been helpful as you go about your snowy day. Don't forget to bundle up and let your shoes enjoy the sunshine. Consider that investing in shoe care products can prolong the life of your shoe, and turn back the time when it comes to wear, tear, and environmental damage.
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Benefit: Whenever the magus uses a rod, he calculates the DC for any spell it contains using his Intelligence modifier (minimum 0) instead of the minimum modifier needed to cast a spell of that level.
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Concerned American Parents,
How did it take you 400 years to realise Romeo and Juliet has sexual undertones?
This is technically old news (from the 26th), but it's too funny to not get a mention on the good ole bloggy blog. For those of you who don't read / listen to / watch the news, quick recap:
Toronto theatre group (Classical Theatre Project) goes to perform their take of Romeo and Juliet in Nashville Tennessee. A group of angry self appointed censors try to halt the performance or at least wholesomeize it.
The show, however, went on. Within the crowd of cheering students and teachers were some unhappy campers. A home-schooling mother (SHOCK) had this to say:
"struggled being here with my son. The sexuality was too much. Our children need to be more pure."
What is this, the town in Footloose??? No wonder 49% of Americans consider Fox News to be the most trusted news source.
But wait, it gets better.
Let's take our magical republican school bus to the South West corner of the United States where a Southern California school is BANNING THE DICTIONARY. The Merriam-Webster dictionary is not permitted because a parent complained about the presence of "Oral sex". The school is currently scanning the whole dictionary for other 'dirty' words. Soon, I'm sure all dictionaries will be banned, or they can redact the hell out of them ('hell' being one of the words taken out, along with 'atheism', 'homosexual', 'premarital', and 'democracy').
Ah, long live America.


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I bought the Firefly DVD set a week ago, and my girlfriend and I chewed through them in three nights flat. I'm typically quite critical when it comes to TV shows, but Firefly won me instantly with its charm, intelligence, character and the fact that there was no sound in space (that's not to say that the physics etc are perfect, but boy, did they ever try). The series visual effects still look better than most CG done today, and they were done three years ago. It's amazing. It's compelling. I love it.
This Thursday night, Serenity opens in cinemas nationally, and I can't wait. Well, I can perhaps wait until Friday night, and try to book a Gold Class session with as many warm bodies as I can drag in. If it's good, I imagine I'll be watching it again shortly thereafter too…
If you haven't seen the series, go get it on DVD – whether the movie is any good, the series is fantastic (and very reasonably priced – $38 AUD in JB HiFi for all 14 episodes).
After the good-but-only-so-good Revenge of the Sith, it's the movie I'm pinning my "Sci Fi Movie of the Year" hopes on. Should be something very special. Shiny.


text: Picking up where "Separation" left off, Balance And Composure return once again to push the boundaries of their music with driving riffs and intensely passionate vocals on the band's long-awaited second studio album, "The Things We Think We're Missing." It's the type of record that makes listeners pause and reflect, evoking moments of happiness and sadness over the course of thirteen songs. Red / Pink Haze coloured vinyl includes free digital download.


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We are pleased to announce the upcoming wedding of Ryan Tobin and Lindsay Gottwald!
Date, Time and Location
The marriage ceremony will take place at St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral in Harrisburg on February 9, 2019 at 5:00 pm. We advise that you allow a few extra minutes for parking.
Immediately following the ceremony, there will be a light reception (wine & cheese) in the Undercroft of the Cathedral.
All are welcome to attend, including children of all ages. In order to help us plan for the reception, we would appreciate that you RSVP by sending an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, listing the number of people attending. We ask that you please RSVP by January 31st so that we can adjust orders for the reception if necessary. Also, please include a note if you are planning on bringing young children so that our nursery staff can plan ahead.
About the Service
The solemnization of the marriage will take place within a Celtic Eucharist service. Music will be provided by Seasons, a local Celtic Nu-Folk band. The service will include readings from Holy Scripture, the singing of hymns and Holy Communion (the Lord's Supper). Everyone is welcome to receive communion if they wish; the priest will provide instructions at the service.
In lieu of gifts, we ask that you consider making a donation to support the work of The Sycamore House. The Sycamore House provides young adults with a chance to participate in a year-long service opportunity in or around the City of Harrisburg while living in an intentional community. If you would like to make a gift in honor of our wedding, a collection for this purpose will be taken up during the wedding service. (Checks should be made out to "St. Stephen's Episcopal Cathedral" with "Sycamore House – Wedding Gift" in the memo line.)
Parents with Small Children
Your children are also invited to attend! Children are welcome to be present for the ceremony, and our nursery will also be available and staffed.
We will have free garage parking available in the PHFA Garage on River Street in Harrisburg. A parking attendant will be on site to assist you.
- If navigating by GPS, set your destination as "N River St & Cranberry St, Harrisburg, PA 17101".
- From Front Street in Harrisburg: Continue on Front Street until you reach Market Street. Turn Left onto Market Street, then turn left onto Second Street. Follow directions in next bullet point.
- From Second Street in Harrisburg: Follow Second Street to Walnut. Turn Left onto Walnut Street. After 1/2 block, turn Right onto River Street. The parking garage will be on your left after 150 feet.
- Persons With Disability Parking: For those who have a Person With Disability Parking Placard or Plate, reserved spaces are adjacent to the Cathedral on Cranberry Street. Persons with limited mobility can ask the parking attendant about availability of surface (non-garage) parking spaces near the Cathedral.
If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email us at email@example.com, or contact the church office.


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Did you know you could use Jupyter notebooks to create and autograding assignments? The community developed tool nbgrader provides a low level API that can be used to create assignment notebooks that can be distributed to students. After the students submit the completed assignments, they can be graded automatically! Without further ado, to see how this works, let's create an assignment with a few simple problems along with automatic tests.
We create a notebook, Python 2 in this case, and then enable the "Create Assignment" cell toolbar:
Enabling this will allow us to mark cells as several types such as:
We can now start creating the assignment. First, we should include some functions from the
nose library for writing tests:
from nose.tools import assert_equal, assert_raises
Problem: Write a function
average() that accepts a list of numbers and returns the average. If an empty list is supplied, return 0 and if the input is not a list, raise a
We write our solution in a cell marked as Autograded answer:
def average(numbers):
if type(numbers) is not list:
raise TypeError('Input must be a list!')
if len(numbers) == 0:
return 0
sum = 0
for n in numbers:
sum += n
average = sum/float(len(numbers))
return average
Note the
### BEGIN SOLUTION and
### BEGIN SOLUTION markers in our solution code. These indicate that the solution code is contained between them. When we release the assignment, code between these markers will be removed and replaced by
raise NotImplementedError().
We can write tests for this problem in a cell marked as Autograded tests and assign 10 points to it:
assert_equal(average([2, 3, 4]), 3.0)
assert_equal(average([]), 0)
assert_raises(TypeError, average, 2)
Problem: Write a function
factorial() that returns the factorial of a number. If the input number is 0, return 0. If the input number is a list or not an integer, raise a
Again, we write our solution in a cell marked as Autograded answer:
def factorial(n):
if type(n) == list:
raise TypeError('Input cannot be a list!')
elif type(n) == float:
raise TypeError('Input cannot be a float!')
if n == 0:
return 0
if n==1:
return 1
return n*factorial(n-1)
and tests in a cell marked as Autograded tests and assign 10 points to it:
assert_equal(factorial(1), 1)
assert_equal(factorial(4), 24)
assert_raises(TypeError, factorial, [1, 2, 3])
In addition to the tests already written, we also add some hidden tests in the last cell and assign an additional 10 points to it:
assert_equal(average([2, 2, 4.5, 5, 50]), 12.7)
assert_equal(factorial(0), 0)
assert_raises(TypeError, factorial, 1.5)
To make sure the solutions we have written pass all our tests, we validate the assignment using the "Validate" button in the toolbar at the top:
When we release this assignment to students, here is what the student version looks like:
Note that the solution code has been removed in both functions and the hidden tests (that were in the last cell) have been removed. This last cell which contained the hidden tests will be a read-only cell that students will not be able to modify.
Once the student completes the assignment and submits it, the instructor can simply autograde the assignment as shown here.
You revealed it superbly.
Perfect ! Wonderful idea / work guys !
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The power to read is a beautiful thing. With it, my favorite living room chair (the frumpy one with the elbow imprints on the arms) can become a time capsule, a Viking ship, a hammock in the Caribbean, a submarine or a flying car. I can travel without a passport and I can dine with royalty in my pajamas.
Last week, I discovered my 8 year old reading under the covers at 10:30 p.m. Way. Past. Bedtime. And although I had to feign sternness and put on my best parenting face, my heart was full of love for this kid who couldn't wait to figure out how they would catch the bad guy in his library book.
Teachers make this all possible. From A is for Aardvark to diagramming sentences and discussing Shakespeare, they inspire us to learn, ask questions, solve problems and stand in line without punching our neighbors.
Do you have a favorite teacher? That one who encouraged you to fly on the wings of literacy? WriteLife Author Becky Breed (co-author of Writing for Community) has a beautiful blog about Mrs. Eddy, her third grade teacher who inspired her to dream and to write and never stop. You can read it here, and you might even be inclined to write your own teacher tribute after you read it!
Here are a few gorgeous picture books from BQB Publishing that are a great place to start if you have young readers you are trying to inspire. Click here to see even more picture books!
** All books by BQB and WriteLife Publishing are available on Amazon, B&N or can be ordered from your favorite local bookstore. **


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Hello Tychos Users,
Its been a busy April! We have been working on some new features and fixing a few minor bugs.
What's New
Block Rotation:
We added the ability to rotate blocks! You can now easily rotate any block using the
rotate() function. This can be used to model rotational dynamics, or to simply make your simulations look more realistic. Take a look at this Physical Pendulum of a physical pendulum that demonstrates how to use this new feature:
Settings Improvements:
We have made some significant changes to the Settings pane. This includes the ability to change the background and the grid colors. We have also organized and cleaned up the interface to make it easier to use and understand.
Graph Plot Rate:
Also in the Settings pane, we added the ability to change the rate at which you plot points on your graphs. This allows you to set a rate that might match an experiment in your classroom.
Settings Not Saving Bug – Fixed:
Some settings were not saving, so we fixed that.
BETA: Images
We are testing the ability to represent Particles and Blocks with images:
rocket = Block([0, 0], [20, 20])
rocket.image = "http://soomewebsite.org/someimage.png"
Currently this feature works in only the newer Chrome and Firefox browsers, but we will be porting this to other browsers soon. I have noticed that students really enjoy adding images so that their simulations look more realistic and they can have some fun creating some pretty hilarious scenarios!
Draw Lines:
We added a new function called
drawLine which allows you to…well, draw a line!
drawLine([x1, y1], [x2, y2], "color", strokeValue)
This is helpful for representing visual elements like strings and ropes.
What's Next
Here are some things that we will be working on next…
Coding Interface
Based on some feedback from our users, we are beginning work on a major upgrade to the app that will improve a student's ability to write code. This will include:
- Color coding
- Better error reporting
- Code output sidebar aligned with correct line of code (it currently can get misaligned)
- The possibility of using different languages.
This might take us some time, but its a project that we have wanted to tackle for awhile. We will keep you updated as to our progress.
Your Suggestions
Once again, we would really like your feedback on what you would like to see in Tychos next. We appreciate any feedback or guidance that you can offer.
Happy Coding!


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Somebody find a plumber with a golden plunger!
Serious technical issues are holding up production of Maurizio Cattelan's 18-karat gold toilet, a sculpture he created that was set for installation at the Guggenheim Museum on Wednesday, according to a spokeswoman there. On Tuesday, the museum announced that the exhibition of "Maurizio Cattelan: America," as the sculpture is called, would be delayed and that no new opening date had been set. "It's not days, but I can't be more specific than that right now," a spokeswoman said.
The piece is an ambitious tour de force to have been installed in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed bathroom along the museum's curving ramp. The solid-gold toilet, a working replica of one by Kohler, was being made in the artist's studio in Italy when "the foundry encountered technical difficulties which they are working to resolve," a museum spokeswoman said. "To the museum's knowledge, this kind of casting process has never been done before."
And no, the Guggenheim insists this is not another prank by Mr. Cattelan, who retired from art-making in 2011 but recently found himself eager to get back in the game. "Actually, it's even more of a torture not to work than to work," he told Randy Kennedy in announcing the end of retirement last month in The New York Times. The sculpture is a punning extension of his work on a magazine called Toilet Paper and also a wry tip of his hat to Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" urinal.
Neither the Guggenheim, the toilet's host, nor the artist would give a cost for the toilet, saying only that it was a loan and would be paid for with private funds. Creating the toilet, Mr. Cattelan said, gave him a way "to get around the wall I had hit."
"Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back," a documentary, recently made its debut at the Guggenheim as part of the Tribeca Film Festival.
For the Guggenheim, Mr. Cattelan's return is probably not soon enough.


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Agreeing not to pursue a relationship after one date, unlikely lovers Min Dobbs and Cal Morrisey find themselves unwittingly thrown together again in the wake of such factors as a jealous ex-boyfriend, a determined psychologist, and a preternaturally intelligent cat. Reprint.
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Once upon a time, Minerva Dobbs thought as she stood in the middle of a loud yuppie bar, the world was full of good men. She looked into the handsome face of the man she'd planned on taking to her sister's wedding and thought, Those days are gone.
"This relationship is not working for me," David said.
I could shove this swizzle stick through his heart, Min thought. She wouldn't do it, of course. The stick was plastic and not nearly pointed enough on the end. Also, people didn't do things like that in southern Ohio. A sawed-off shotgun, that was the ticket.
"And we both know why," David went on.
He probably didn't even know he was mad; he probably thought he was being calm and adult. At least I know I'm furious, Min thought. She let her anger settle around her, and it made her warm all over, which was more than David had ever done.
Across the room, somebody at the big roulette wheel-shaped bar rang a bell. Another point against David: He was dumping her in a theme bar. The Long Shot. The name alone should have tipped her off.
"I'm sorry, Min," David said, clearly not.
Min crossed her arms over her gray-checked suit jacket so she couldn't smack him. "This is because I won't go home with you tonight? It's Wednesday. I have to work tomorrow. You have to work tomorrow. I paid for my own drink."
"It's not that." David looked noble and wounded as only the tall, dark, and self-righteous could. "You're not making any effort to make our relationship work, which means . . ."
Which means we've been dating for two months and I still won't sleep with you. Min tuned him out and looked around at the babbling crowd. If I had an untraceable poison, I could drop it in his drink now and not one of these suits would notice.
". . . and I do think, if we have any future, that you should contribute, too," David said.
Oh, I don't, Min thought, which meant that David had a point. Still, lack of sex was no excuse for dumping her three weeks before she had to wear a maid-of-honor dress that made her look like a fat, demented shepherdess. "Of course we have a future, David," she said, trying to put her anger on ice. "We have plans. Diana is getting married in three weeks. You're invited to the wedding. To the rehearsal dinner. To the bachelor party. You're going to miss the stripper, David."
"Is that all you think of me?" David's voice went up. "I'm just a date to your sister's wedding?"
"Of course not," Min said. "Just as I'm sure I'm more to you than somebody to sleep with."
David opened his mouth and closed it again. "Well, of course. I don't want you to think this is a reflection on you. You're intelligent, you're successful, you're mature. . . ."
Min listened, knowing that You're beautiful, you're thin were not coming. If only he'd have a heart attack. Only four percent of heart attacks in men happened before forty, but it could happen. And if he died, not even her mother could expect her to bring him to the wedding.
". . . and you'd make a wonderful mother," David finished up.
"Thank you," Min said. "That's so not romantic."
"I thought we were going places, Min," David said.
"Yeah," Min said, looking around the gaudy bar. "Like here."
David sighed and took her hand. "I wish you the best, Min. Let's keep in touch."
Min took her hand back. "You're not feeling any pain in your left arm, are you?"
"No," David said, frowning at her.
"Pity," Min said, and went back to her friends, who were watching them from the far end of the room.
"He was looking even more uptight than usual," Liza said, looking even taller and hotter than usual as she leaned on the jukebox, her hair flaming under the lights.
David wouldn't have treated Liza so callously. He'd have been afraid to; she'd have dismembered him. Gotta be more like Liza, Min thought and started to flip through the song cards on the box.
"Are you upset with him?" Bonnie said from Min's other side, her blond head tilted up in concern. David wouldn't have left Bonnie, either. Nobody was mean to sweet, little Bonnie.
"Yes. He dumped me." Min stopped flipping. Wonder of wonders, the box had Elvis. Immediately, the bar seemed a better place. She fed in coins and then punched the keys for "Hound Dog." Too bad Elvis had never recorded one called "Dickhead."
"I knew I didn't like him," Bonnie said.
Min went over to the roulette bar and smiled tightly at the slender bartender dressed like a croupier. She had beautiful long, soft, kinky brown hair, and Min thought, That's another reason I couldn't have slept with David. Her hair always frizzed when she let it down, and he was the type who would have noticed.
"Rum and Coke, please," she told the bartender.
Maybe that was why Liza and Bonnie never had man trouble: great hair. She looked at Liza, racehorse-thin in purple zippered leather, shaking her head at David with naked contempt. Okay, it wasn't just the hair. If she jammed herself into Liza's dress, she'd look like Barney's slut cousin. "Diet Coke," she told the bartender.
"He wasn't the one," Bonnie said from below Min's shoulder, her hands on her tiny hips.
"Diet rum, too," Min told the bartender, who smiled at her and went to get her drink.
Liza frowned. "Why were you dating him anyway?"
"Because I thought he might be the one," Min said, exasperated. "He was intelligent and successful and very nice at first. He seemed like a sensible choice. And then all of sudden he went snotty on me."
Bonnie patted Min's arm. "It's a good thing he broke up with you because now you're free for when the right man finds you. Your prince is on his way."
"Right," Min said. "I'm sure he was on his way but a truck hit him."
"That's not how it works." Bonnie leaned on the bar, looking like an R-rated pixie. "If it's meant to be, he'll make it. No matter how many things go wrong, he'll come to you and you'll be together forever."
n0 "What is this?" Liza said, looking at her in disbelief. "Barbie's Field of Dreams?"
"That's sweet, Bonnie," Min said. "But as far as I'm concerned, the last good man died when Elvis went."
"Maybe we should rethink keeping Bon as our broker," Liza said to Min. "We could be major stockholders in the Magic Kingdom by now."
Min tapped her fingers on the bar, trying to vent some tension. "I should have known David was a mistake when I couldn't bring myself to sleep with him. We were on our third date, and the waiter brought the dessert menu, and David said, 'No, thank you, we're on a diet,' and of course, he isn't because there's not an ounce of fat on him, and I thought, 'I'm not taking off my clothes with you' and I paid my half of the check and went home early. And after that, whenever he made his move, I thought of the waiter and crossed my legs."
"He wasn't the one," Bonnie said with conviction.
"You think?" Min said, and Bonnie looked wounded. Min closed her eyes. "Sorry. Sorry. Really sorry. It's just not a good time for that stuff, Bon. I'm mad. I want to savage somebody, not look to the horizon for the next jerk who's coming my way."
"Sure," Bonnie said. "I understand."
Liza shook her head at Min. "Look, you didn't care about David, so you haven't lost anything except a date to Di's wedding. And I vote we skip the wedding. It has 'disaster' written all over it, even without the fact that she's marrying her best friend's boyfriend."
"Her best friend's ex-boyfriend. And I can't skip it. I'm the maid of honor." Min gritted her teeth. "It's going to be hell. It's not just that I'm dateless, which fulfills every prophecy my mother has ever made, it's that she's crazy about David."
"We know," Bonnie said.
"She tells everybody about David," Min said, thinking of her mother's avid little face. "Dating David is the only thing I've done that she's liked about me since I got the flu freshman year and lost ten pounds. And now I have no David." She took her diet rum from the bartender, said, "Thank you," and tipped her lavishly. There wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept the drinks coming at a time like this. "Most of the time it doesn't matter what my mother thinks of me because I can avoid her, but for the wedding? No."
"So you'll find another date," Bonnie said.
"No, she won't," Liza said.
"Oh, thank you," Min said, turning away from the over-designed bar. The roulette pattern was making her dizzy. Or maybe that was the rage.
"Well, it's your own fault," Liza said. "If you'd quit assigning statistical probability to the fate of a union with every guy you meet and just go out with somebody who turns you on, you might have a good time now and then."
"I'd be a puddle of damaged ego," Min said. "There's nothing wrong with dating sensibly. That's how I found David." Too late, she realized that wasn't evidence in her favor and knocked back some of her drink to ward off comments.
Liza wasn't listening. "We'll have to find a guy for you." She began to scan the bar, which was only fair since most of the bar had been scanning her. "Not him. Not him. Not him. Nope. Nope. Nope. All these guys would try to sell you mutual funds." Then she straightened. "Hello. We have a winner."
Bonnie followed her eyes. "Who? Where?"
"The dark-haired guy in the navy blue suit. In the middle on the landing up by the door."
"Middle?" Min squinted at the raised landing at the entry to the bar. It was wide enough for a row of faux poker tables, and four men were at one talking to a brunette in red. One of the four was David, now surveying his domain over the dice-studded wrought-iron rail. The landing was only about five feet higher than the rest of the room, but David contrived to make it look like a balcony. It was probably requiring all his self-control to keep from doing the Queen Elizabeth Wave. "That's David," Min said, turning away. "And some brunette. Good Lord, he's dating somebody else already." Get out now, she told the brunette silently.
"Forget the brunette," Liza said. "Look at the guy in the middle. Wait a minute, he'll turn back this way again. He doesn't seem to be finding David that interesting."
Min squinted back at the entry again. The navy suit was taller than David, and his hair was darker and thicker, but otherwise, from behind, he was pretty much David II. "I did that movie," Min said, and then he turned.
Dark eyes, strong cheekbones, classic chin, broad shoulders, chiseled everything, and all of it at ease as he stared out over the bar, ignoring David, who suddenly looked a little inbred.
Min sucked in her breath as every cell she had came alive and whispered, This one.
Then she turned away before anybody caught her slack-jawed with admiration. He was not the one, that was her DNA talking, looking for a high-class sperm donor. Every woman in the room with a working ovary probably looked at him and thought, This one. Well, biology was not destiny. The amount of damage somebody that beautiful could do to a woman like her was too much to contemplate. She took another drink to cushion the thought, and said, "He's pretty."
"No," Liza said. "That's the point. He's not pretty. David is pretty. That guy looks like an adult."
"Okay, he's full of testosterone," Min said.
"No, that's the guy on his right," Liza said. "The one with the head like a bullet. I bet that one talks sports and slaps people on the back. The navy suit looks civilized with edge. Tell her, Bonnie."
"I don't think so," Bonnie said, her pixie face looking grim. "I know him."
"In the biblical sense?" Liza said.
"No. He dated my cousin Wendy. But-"
"Then he's fair game," Liza said.
"-he's a hit and run player," Bonnie finished. "From what Wendy said, he dazzles whoever he's with for a couple of months and then drops her and moves on. And she never sees it coming."
"The beast," Liza said without heat. "You know, men are allowed to leave women they're dating."
"Well, he makes them love him and then he leaves them," Bonnie said. "That is beastly."
"Like David," Min said, her instinctive distrust of the navy suit confirmed.
Liza snorted. "Oh, like you ever loved David."
"I was trying to," Min snapped.
Liza shook her head. "Okay, none of this matters. All you want is a date to the wedding. If it takes the beast a couple of months to dump you, you're covered. So just go over there-"
0"No." Min turned her back on everybody to concentrate on the black and white posters over the bar: Paul Newman shooting pool in The Hustler, Marlon Brando throwing dice in Guys and Dolls, W. C. Fields scowling over his cards in My Little Chickadee. Where were all the women gamblers? It wasn't as if being a woman wasn't a huge risk all by itself. Twenty-eight percent of female homicide victims were killed by husbands or lovers.
Which, come to think of it, was probably why there weren't any women gamblers. Living with men was enough of a gamble. She fought the urge to turn around and look at the beast on the landing again. Really, the smart thing to do was stop dating and get a cat.
"You know she won't go talk to him," Bonnie was saying to Liza. "Statistically speaking, the probable outcome is not favorable."
"Screw that." Liza nudged Min and sloshed the Coke in her glass. "Imagine your mother if you brought that to the wedding. She might even let you eat carbs." She looked at Bonnie. "What's his name?"
"Calvin Morrisey," Bonnie said. "Wendy was buying wedding magazines when he left her. She was writing 'Wendy Sue Morrisey' on scrap paper."
Liza looked appalled. "That's probably why he left."
"Calvin Morrisey." Against her better judgment, Min turned back to watch him again.
"Go over there," Liza said, prodding her with one long fingernail, "and tell David you hope his rash clears up soon. Then introduce yourself to the beast, smile, and don't talk statistics."
"That would be shallow," Min said. "I'm thirty-three. I'm mature. I don't care if I have a date to my sister's wedding. I'm a better person than that." She thought about her mother's face when she got the news that David was history. No, I'm not.
"No, you're not," Liza said. "You're just too chicken to cross the room."
"I suppose it might work." Bonnie frowned across the room. "And you can dump him after the wedding and give him a taste of his own medicine."
"Yeah, that's the ticket." Liza rolled her eyes. "Do it for Wendy and the rest of the girls."
He was in profile now, talking to David. The man should be on coins, Min thought. Of course, looking that beautiful, he probably never dated the terminally chubby. At least, not without sneering. And she'd been sneered at enough for one night.
"No," Min said and turned back to the bar. Really, a cat was a good idea.
"Look, Stats," Liza said, exasperated, "I know you're conservative, but you're damn near solidifying lately. Dating David must have been like dating concrete. And then there's your apartment. Even your furniture is stagnant."
"My furniture is my grandmother's," Min said stiffly.
"Exactly. Your butt's been on it since you were born. You need a change. And if you don't make that change on your own, I will have to help you."
Min's blood ran cold. "No."
"Don't threaten her," Bonnie said to Liza. "She'll change, she'll grow. Won't you, Min?"
Min looked back at the landing, and suddenly going over there seemed like a good idea. She could stand under that ugly wrought-iron railing and eavesdrop, and then if Calvin Morrisey sounded even remotely nice-ha, what were the chances?-she could go up and say something sweet to David and get an intro, and Liza would not have movers come in while she was at work and throw out her furniture.
"Don't make me do this for you," Liza said.
Standing at a roulette wheel bar sulking wasn't doing anything for her. And with all she knew ahead of time, it wasn't likely that he could inflict much damage. Min squared her shoulders and took a deep breath. "I'm going in, coach."
"Do not say 'percent' at any time for the rest of the night," Liza said, and Min straightened her gray-checked jacket and said a short prayer that she'd think of a great pick-up line before she got to the landing and made a fool of herself. In which case, she'd just spit on the beast, push David over the railing, and go get that cat.
"Just so there's a plan," she said to herself and started across the floor.
Up on the landing, Cal Morrisey was thinking seriously about pushing David Fisk over the railing. I should have moved faster when I saw them coming, he thought. It was Tony's fault.
"You know, that redhead has great legs," Tony had said. "See her? At the bar, in the purple with the zippers? You suppose she likes football players?"
"You haven't played football in fifteen years." Cal had sipped his drink, easing into an alcohol-
tinged peace that was broken only slightly when somebody with no taste in music played "Hound Dog." As far as he was concerned the only two drawbacks to the place were the stupid décor and the fact that Elvis Presley was on the jukebox.
"All right, it's been a while since I played, but she doesn't know that." Tony looked back at the redhead. "I got ten bucks says she'll leave with me. I'll use my chaos theory line."
"No bet," Cal said. "Although that is a terrible line, so that would shorten the odds." He squinted across the room to the roulette wheel bar. The redhead was flashy, which meant she was Tony's type. There was a little blonde there, too, the perky kind, their friend Roger's dream date. Behind the bar, Shanna saw him watching and waved, but she didn't smile, and Cal wondered what was up as he nodded to her.
Tony put his arm around Cal. "Help me out here, she's in a group. You go over and pick up her chubby friend in the gray-checked suit, and Roger can hit on the short blonde. I'd give you the short blonde, but you know Roger and midget women."
Roger jerked to attention at Cal's elbow. "What? What short blonde?" He peered across the room at the bar. "Oh. Oh."
"Suit?" Cal looked back at the bar.
"The one in gray." Tony nodded toward the bar. "Between the redhead and the mini-blonde. She's hard to see because the redhead sort of dazzles you. I bet you-"
"Oh." Cal squinted to see the medium-height woman between the redhead and the blonde. She was dressed in a dull, boxy, gray-checked suit, and her round face scowled under brown hair yanked back into a knot on the top of her head. "Nope," he said and took another drink.
Tony smacked him on the back and made him choke. "Come on, live a little. Don't tell me you're still pining for Cynthie."
"I never pined for Cynthie." Cal glanced around the crowd. "Keep an eye out for her, will you? She's in that red thing she wears when she's trying to get something."
"She can get it from me," Tony said.
"Great." Cal's voice was fervent. "I'll even go pick up that suit if you'll marry Cyn."
Tony choked on his drink. "Marry?"
"Yes," Cal said. "She wants to get married. Surprised the hell out of me." He thought for a moment of Cynthie, a sweetheart with a spine of steel. "I don't know where she got the idea we were that close."
"There she is." Roger was looking over Cal's shoulder. "She's coming up the stairs now."
Cal got up and tried to move past Tony to the door. "Out of my way."
Tony stayed in his chair. "You can't leave, I want the redhead."
"So go get her," Cal said, trying to get around him.
"Cynthie's got David with her," Roger said, and there was great sympathy in his voice.
"Cal!" David's voice grated over Cal's shoulder. "Just who we were looking for." He sounded mad as hell, but when Cal turned, David was smiling.
Trouble, Cal thought and smiled back with equal insincerity. "David. Cynthie. Great to see you."
"Hello, Cal." Cynthie smiled up at him, her heart-shaped face lethally lovely.
"How've you been?"
"Great. Couldn't be better. You, too, looking great." Cal looked past her to David, and thought, Take her, please. "You're a lucky man, David."
"I am?"
"Dating Cynthie," Cal said, putting all the encouragement he could into his voice.
Cynthie took David's arm. "We just ran into each other." She turned her shoulder to Cal and glowed up at David. "But it is nice seeing him again." Her eyes slid back to Cal's face, and he smiled past her ear again, radiating no jealousy at all as hard as he could.
David looked down into her beautiful face and blinked, and Cal felt a stab of sympathy for him. Cynthie was enchanting up close. And from far away. From everywhere, really, which was how he'd ended up saying yes to her all the time. Cal glanced at her impeccably tight little body in her impeccably tight little red dress and then took a step back as he jerked his eyes away, reminding himself of how peaceful life was without her. Distance, that was the key. Maybe a cross and some garlic, too.
"Of course," David was saying. "Maybe we can do dinner later." He glanced at Cal, looking triumphant.
"Well, don't let us keep you." Cal took another step back and bumped into the railing.
Cynthie let go of David's arm, her glow diminished. "I'll just freshen up before we go." Tony and David watched as her perfect rear end swung away from them, while Roger ignored her to peer across the room at the pixie blonde, and Cal took another healthy swallow of his drink and wished he were somewhere else. Anywhere else. Dinner, for example. Maybe he'd stop by Emilio's and eat in the kitchen. There were no women in Emilio's kitchen.
"So, David," Tony was saying. "How'd our seminar work out for you?"
"It was terrific," David said. "I didn't think anybody could teach some of those morons that new program, but everybody at the firm is now up to speed. We've even . . ."
He went on and Cal nodded, thinking that one of the many reasons he didn't like David was his tendency to refer to his employees as morons. Still, David paid his bills on time and gave credit where it was due; there were much worse clients. And if he took over Cynthie, Cal was prepared to feel downright warm toward him.
David wound down on whatever it was he'd been saying and looked toward the stairs. "About Cynthie. I thought that you and she-"
"No." Cal shook his head with enthusiasm. "She left me a couple of months ago."
"Isn't it usually the other way around?"
David arched an eyebrow and looked ridiculous. And still women went out with him. Life was a mystery. So were women.
"Aren't you supposed to be the guy who never strikes out?" David said.
"No," Cal said.
"He's losing his edge," Tony said. "I found an easy pickup for him, and he said no."
"Which one?" David said.
"The gray-checked suit at the bar." Tony motioned with his glass, and David looked at the bar and then turned back to Cal, smooth as ever.
"Maybe you are losing it." David smiled at him. "She shouldn't be that hard to get. It's not like she's a Cynthie."
"She's all right," Cal said, cautiously.
David leaned in. "After all, nobody says no to you, right?"
"What?" Cal said.
"I'm willing to bet you that you can't get her," David said. "A hundred bucks says you can't nail her."
Cal pulled back. "What?"
David laughed, but there was an edge to his voice when he spoke.
"It's just a bet, Cal. You guys love risk, I've seen you bet on damn near everything. This isn't even that big a bet. We should make it two hundred."
That was when Cal had contemplated giving David a healthy push. Tony turned his back to David and mouthed, Humor him, and Cal sighed. There must be something he could ask for that would make David back down. "That baseball in your office," he said. "The one in the case."
"My Pete Rose baseball?" David's voice went up an octave.
"Yeah, that one. That's my price." Cal slugged back the rest of his scotch and looked around for a waitress.
David shook his head. "Not a chance. My dad caught that pop-up for me in seventy-five. But I like your style, upping the stakes like that." He leaned in closer. "Tell you what. The last refresher seminar you ran for us set me back ten grand. I'll bet you ten thousand in cash against a free seminar-"
Cal forced a smile. "David, I was kidding-"
"But for ten thou, you have to get her into bed. I'll play fair. I'll give you a month to get her out of that gray-checked suit."
"Piece of cake," Tony said.
Cal glared at Tony. "David, this isn't my kind of bet."
"It's my kind," David said, drawing his brows together, and Cal thought, Hell, he's going to 0 push this, and we need his business.
Okay, clearly booze had shut down David's brain. But once it was back up and working again, David would back down on the ten thousand, that was insane, and David was never insane about money. So all he had to do was stall until David sobered up and then pretend the whole thing never happened. He stole a glance across the room to the bar and was delighted to see that the gray suit had disappeared some time during their conversation.
Cal turned back to David and said, "Well, I would, David, but she's gone." And God bless you, gray suit, for leaving, he thought and picked up his drink again.
Things were finally going his way.
Min had walked across the room, telling herself that it was a real toss-up as to which would be worse, trying to talk to this guy or enduring Di's wedding unescorted. When she neared the landing, she edged her way under the rail, catching faint snatches of conversations as she went, not stopping until she heard David's voice faintly above her, saying, "But for ten, though, you have to get her into bed."
What? Min thought. It was noisy up there by the door, maybe she hadn't heard him-
"I'll play fair," David went on. "I'll give you a month to get her out of that gray-checked suit."
Min looked down at her gray-checked suit.
"Piece of cake," somebody said to David, and Min thought, Son of a bitch, the world is full of sex-crazed bastards, and forced herself to move on before she climbed the railing and killed them both.
She headed back to Liza and Bonnie, fuming. She knew exactly what David was up to. He assumed she wouldn't sleep with anybody because she'd turned him down. She'd warned him about that, about the rash assumptions he made, but instead of taking her advice, he'd kept asking her out.
Because he thought I was a sure thing, she realized. Because he'd looked at her and thought, Overweight smart woman who'll never cheat on me and will be grateful I sleep with her. "Bastard," she said out loud. She should have sex with Calvin Morrisey just to pay David back. But then she'd have no way of getting even with Calvin Morrisey. God, she was dumb. Fat and dumb, there was a winning combo.
"What's wrong?" Liza said when she was back at the bar. "Did you ask him?"
"No. As soon as you finish your drinks, I'm ready to go." Min turned back to the balcony and caught sight of them, just as they caught sight of her.
David's face was smug, but Calvin Morrisey clutched his drink and looked like he'd just seen Death.
"There she is," David crowed. "I told you she'd be back. Go get her, champ."
"Uh, David," Cal began, consigning the gray-checked suit to the lowest circle of hell.
"A bet's a bet."
Cal put his empty glass down on the rail and thought fast. The suit did not look happy, so the odds weren't impossible that she'd go for a chance to get out of the bar if he offered dinner. "Look, David, sex is not in the cards. I'm cheap, but I'm not slimy. You want to bet ten bucks on a pickup, fine, but that's it. Nothing with a future."
David shook his head. "Oh, no, I'll bet on the pickup, too, ten bucks if you leave with her. But the ten thousand is still on. If you lose . . ." He smiled at Cal, drawing out the 'lose,' "you do a seminar for me for free."
"David, I can't make that bet," Cal said, trying another tack. "I have two partners who-"
"I'm good for it," Tony said. "Cal never misses."
Cal glared at him. "Well, Roger isn't good for it."
"Hey, Roger, you in?" Tony said, and Roger said, "Sure," without looking away from the blonde at the bar.
"Roger," Cal said.
"She's the prettiest little thing I've ever seen," Roger said.
"Roger, you just bet that I could get a woman into bed," Cal said with great patience. "Now tell David you don't want to bet a ten-thousand-dollar refresher seminar on sex."
"What?" Roger said, finally looking away from the blonde.
"I said-" Cal began.
"Why would you bet on something like that?" Roger said.
"That's not the question," Tony said. "The question is, can he do it?"
"Sure," Roger said. "But-"
"Then we have a bet," David said.
"No, we do not," Cal said.
"You don't think you can do it," David said. "You're losing it."
"This is not about me," Cal said, and then Cynthie slid back into the group and put her hand on his arm. She leaned into him, and he felt his blood heat right on cue.
"She's over there waiting for you," David said, an edge in his voice.
"She?" Cynthie's glow dimmed. "Are you seeing somebody?"
Oh, hell, Cal thought.
"Cal?" David said.
"Cal?" Cynthie said.
"I ove this," Tony said.
"What?" Roger said.
Cal sighed. It was the suit or Cynthie, the rock or the soft place who wanted to get married. He detached her hand from his arm. "Yes, I'm seeing somebody. Excuse me."
He pushed past Cynthie and David and headed for the bar, wishing them both the worst fate he could think of, that they'd end up together.
Min watched Calvin Morrisey move toward the stairs. The beast. He thought that he could get her in a month, that she was so pathetic she'd just-
Her brain caught up with her train of thought, and she straightened.
"Will you tell us what's wrong?" Liza said.
"A month," Min said.
He walked down the steps and made his way through the crowd, ignoring the come-hither looks of the women he passed.
He was coming to pick her up.
Suppose she let him.
hSuppose for the next three weeks she made him pay by stringing him along and then took him to Di's wedding. He wouldn't leave her; he had to stick for a month to win his damn bet. All she had to do was say no to sex for three weeks, drag him to her sister's wedding, and then leave his ass cold.
Min settled back against the bar and examined the idea from all sides. He more than deserved to be tortured for three weeks. And in that three weeks she could figure out a way to make David suffer, too. And her mother would have somebody beautiful to point out to people at the wedding as her date. It was a plan, and as far as she could see, it was all good.
The bartender came back and Min said, "Rum and Diet Coke, please. A double."
"That's your third," Liza said. "And fourth. The aspartame alone will make you insane. What are you doing?"
"Was he mean to you?" Bonnie said. "What happened?"
"I didn't talk to him." Min waved them away. "Move down the bar a couple of feet will you. I'm about to get hit on and you're cramping my style."
"We missed something," Liza said to Bonnie.
"Move," Bonnie said, and pushed Liza down the bar.
Min turned away when the bartender brought her drink, so when The Beast spoke from beside her, she jerked her head up and caught the full force of him unprepared: hot dark eyes, perfect cheekbones, and a mouth a woman would betray her moral fiber to bite into. Her heart kicked up into her throat, and she swallowed hard to get it back where it belonged.
"I have a problem," he said, and his voice was low and smooth, warm enough to be charming, rich enough to clog arteries.
Dark chocolate, Min thought and looked at him blankly, keeping her breathing slow. "Problem?"
"Well, usually my line is 'Can I buy you a drink?' but you have one." He smiled at her, radiating testosterone through his expensive suit.
"Well, that is a problem." She started to turn away.
"So what I thought," he said, his voice dropping even lower as he leaned closer to her and made her heart pound, "was that we could go somewhere else, and I could buy you dinner."
The closer he got, the better he looked. He was the used car salesman of seducers, Min decided, trying to get her distance back. You could never get a good deal from a used car salesman; they sold cars all the time and you only bought a couple in a lifetime so they always won. Statistically speaking, you were toast before you walked on the lot. She could only imagine how many women this guy had mutilated in his lifetime. The mind boggled.
His smile had disappeared while he waited for her answer, and he looked vulnerable now, taking a chance on asking her out. He faked vulnerable very well. Remember, she told herself, the son of a bitch is doing this for ten bucks. Actually, he was trying to do her for ten bucks. Cheapskate. Suddenly, breathing normally was not a problem.
"Dinner?" she said.
"Yes." He bent still closer. "Somewhere quiet where we can talk. You look like someone with interesting things to say. And I'm somebody who'd like to hear them."
Min smiled at him. "That's a terrible line. Does it usually work for you?"
He froze for a second, and then he segued from sincere to boyish again. "Well, it has up till now."
"It must be your voice," Min said. "You deliver it beautifully."
"Thank you." He straightened. "Let's try this again." He held out his hand. "I'm Calvin Morrisey, but my friends call me Cal."
"Min Dobbs." She shook his hand and dropped it before it could feel warm in her grasp. "And my friends would call me foolhardy if I left this bar with a stranger."
"Wait." He got out his wallet and pulled out a twenty. "This is cab fare. If I get fresh, you get a cab."
Liza would take the twenty and then dump him. There was a plan, but Liza didn't need a wedding date. What else would Liza do? Min plucked the twenty from his fingers. "If you get fresh, I'll break your nose." She folded the twenty, unbuttoned her top two blouse buttons, and tucked the bill into the V of her sensible cotton bra so that only a thin green edge showed. That was one good thing about packing extra pounds, you got cleavage to burn.
She looked up and caught his eyes looking down, and she waited for him to make some comment, but he smiled again. "Fair enough," he said, "let's go eat," and she reminded herself to ignore what a beautiful mouth he had since it was full of forked tongue.
"First, promise me no more lame lines," she said, and watched his jaw clench.
"Anything you want," he said.
Min shook her head. "Another line. I suppose you can't help it. And free food is always good." She picked up her purse from the bar. "Let's go."
She walked away before he could say anything else, and he followed her, past a dumbfounded Liza and a delighted Bonnie, across the floor and up onto the landing by the door, and the last thing she saw as they left was David looking outraged.
The evening was turning out much better than she'd expected.
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Aren't farm tasks supposed to slow down in summer? Here's are random thoughts about how our summer has progressed:
• Tomatoes
We decided after last year that we wouldn't grow tomatoes in the outside market gardens again – we had about 20% of the production outside that we had in the high tunnel due to pathogen pressures. But what's a farmer to do when the high tunnel is only 35' wide x 78' long and we grew tomatoes in most of its beds last summer? The answer we came upon was to purchase grafted heirloom tomatoes from an NC organic greenhouse. Brandywine, Cherokee Purple, and German Johnson were grafted on to disease resistant root stock, and with a couple of inches of compost added to the beds following winter lettuce and spinach, we planted 48 plant trays in each of three beds. According to research at NC State, grafted heirloom tomatoes grown in high tunnels should yield 50% more than non-grafted heirlooms. Heirlooms have the taste that you remember from your grandparents' garden, but because they are so big and juicy, they are prone to splitting. We have found with this year's crop that we have fewer culls than last year, and we still have green foliage with good though slower flower and fruit set than earlier in the season (temperatures reach 110 degrees F on really hot days). So, so far, so good. Lee has processed most of the culls roasting them overnight on a low temperature and then peeled and cored to freeze for use in her healthy cooking classes. The demand for heirlooms far exceeds hybrid varieties, and the profit margins are significantly better as well.
• Cucumbers
Last year we were growing "Straight 8" cucumbers on the north bed of the high tunnel and were producing an abundance of very straight and long cucumbers. About the first of July, the plants looked like they had the measles – large yellow lesions on the leaves and a powdery edge. In a few days the entire plant declined, and we had to rip out the plants at the peak of their production. The culprit was a nasty disease, powdery mildew, which used to creep up from Florida around August but has been coming earlier and earlier due to warmer weather.
After hearing a talk about Cornell/NC State research trials on downy mildew resistant cucurbits, we bought seeds of the trial winner for disease resistance. It is an unnamed variety from Cornell – PMR 264 – it's a cucumber not a Star Wars robot. Commonwealth Seeds near Charlottesville, VA is the grower and offers an excellent selection of seeds adapted to the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic which are open pollinated and organic. The results from our two beds in the high tunnel has been excellent from a disease resistance perspective with vigorous plant growth even into August, but the production has been spotty. A plethora of blooms have largely fallen off unpollinated – perhaps due to the heat inside the high tunnel but more likely due to poor pollination as bees are sparse inside on these hot days. We are still averaging harvests of over 40 pounds per every other day, though some of the cukes are short or misshapen from inadequate pollination.
According to research at West Virginia University by high tunnel guru, Lewis Jett, cucumbers are the number one most profitable high tunnel crop. Nevertheless, we are likely to experiment with this variety outside next summer for improved pollination. It will mean a slower start to the season but hopefully greater yield. The cucurbit trial continues this summer (see our participation in melons below), and we'll be anxious for updates to see if there is any experience in growing other downy mildew resistant varieties successfully in a high tunnel. Otherwise, we'll select a greenhouse variety or two that needs little or no pollination from Lewis Jett's list of recommended varieties and take our chances on downy mildew.
• Muskmelon Trial
We have participated in a cantaloupe trial sponsored by Cornell, NC State, and Auburn Universities to test the downy mildew resistance of eight varieties. Only one of the eight is recommended for North Carolina: "Athena", which accounts for 70 percent of the cantaloupes produced commercially in the state. All 8 varieties we tested developed alternaria leaf spot early in the season, but all but one of the varieties survived. None of the varieties grew vigorously, and all experienced fruit rotting problems. We use a refractometer to test the sweetness of the different varieties, and Athena scored the optimal 12 early in the harvest season. None of the varieties have been prolific producers. We are not experienced cantaloupe growers, and this research experience does not heighten our interest in growing cantaloupes in the future. The good news is that none of the varieties developed downy mildew.
• Other Summer Happenings:
- We have just completed grading for our second high tunnel which is supported by a "cost share" from the Natural Resources and Conservation Service/USDA. The high tunnel will be constructed in early September and will be located directly to the south of our first tunnel with the same dimensions and design.
- We have also received NRCS assistance to conduct a Conservation Assistance Program organic transition whole farm plan. The plan is being conducted by former Chatham/Orange County Extension Service agent and NC A&T State University researcher, Keith Baldwin, PhD. Keith is highly regarded and was awarded Carolina Farm Stewardship's 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award. Keith is currently the Farm Services Coordinator for CFSA.
- We have recently begun providing produce to a group of independent restaurants in the Triangle through a collaboration with other farmers. We are one of a select group that pool our resources to serve this growing restaurant group.
- It seems early to be planting cabbage, bok choy, kale, broccoli, and collards in this heat, but with 60 to 85 days to maturity, it is important to get them in the ground to avoid freezing weather (especially for the broccoli and bok choy). We are using the written advice from sustainable farming guru, Pamela Dawling of Twin Oaks Farm near Charlottesville, author of Sustainable Market Farming. Pam suggests sowing rows of red or crimson clover about a month after planting around cabbage and broccoli to help crowd out winter weeds and to have a nitrogen fixing cover crop in place through the winter once harvest is complete.
The cooler mornings are enjoyable and we try to get most of the heavier work done before the heat sets in. Tomatoes and cucumbers are still producing in the high tunnel, Asian pears have just been harvested, the summer squash and winter squash are producing fewer fruit, and we are beginning to harvest recently sown arugula.
The bounty of fall will soon approach, and we can't wait!
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FINAL SCORE: MIT 11, Apprentice School 3
RECORDS: MIT 1-0, Apprentice School 15-8
LOCATION: War Memorial Stadium/Hampton, VA
IN BRIEF: The visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology Engineers exploded for 20 hits and topped the Apprentice School 11-3 on Friday afternoon.
- After giving up a run in the top of the first, the Builders bounced back with a run in the bottom of the inning as walks to Brock Harris and Christian Burton before a single by Chris Aldridge loaded the bases. Lee Rossi hit a sacrifice fly to right field to plate Harris to tie the game.
- The Engineers put up a single run in the second on a Kendall Helbert leadoff home run and then put three up in the fourth to lead 5-1.
- Apprentice School smashed a run across in the bottom of the fourth on a leadoff home run from Brian Belvin.
- Each team scored a run in the sixth, before the Engineers broke the game open with a single run in the seventh and four more in the eighth.
- Aldridge was the lone Builders with a multi-hit game going 3-for-4 as the Builders had eight hits in the game.
- Creed Mangrum and Parker Tew had four hits each to lead MIT in its season opening win. Both of them also drove in three runs.
- MIT qualified for the NCAA Division III Baseball Championships last season and is pre-season picked second in its conference this year.
The Builders have a rematch with Castleton State on Saturday afternoon at noon at War Memorial Stadium. These teams played on Thursday night with Castleton taking a 5-3 win.


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I love any kind of chili, and this one is very easy and more healthy than most. I know that Super Bowl Sunday is coming up, so I figure some of you might be interested in a good, easy to make meal for the game. I was going to post this as "Lowfat white bean chicken chili", but I didn't want to turn anyone off of it! It is an almost no-fat chili that is so lean and good for you. I made a crockpot full and it's entirely gone after feeding my husband and I, and three roving teenage boys.
After years of trying to cook dry beans without success, I finally found a foolproof way to cook them in the crockpot. You can use canned beans, they are super convenient, but they do cost about 3-4 times more than using the dry beans, so why not give this a try. You can cook any kind of beans like this in a crockpot.
1 1-lb bag of small white beans, great northern are good
1 16oz. chunky green salsa
8 cups of water
1 medium onion, chopped
1 6oz. can of diced green chilies
1 jalapeno, minced (optional)
1 Anaheim chili, minced (optional)
1 Tbsp chicken bouillon paste, or 2 cubes
1 Tbsp minced garlic
1 Tbsp cumin
Juice of one lime
Salt to taste, but probably about 1-2 Tbsp
2-4 cups of chicken, cooked and chopped.
1/2 cup cilantro, chopped
Plan ahead - You need to start this recipe about 6 hours before you want to serve your chili.
Add the dry beans to your crockpot, add the 8 cups of water, the jar of salsa and the chopped onion. Cover and cook on high for about 4-5 hours, testing a bean to see if they are cooked enough. Add the garlic, minced chilies, lime juice, the seasoning and the chicken and let it cook another 45-60 minutes. If the chili seems too watery at this point and you want it to be thicker, you can chop up some corn tortillas and add to the last hour of cooking. These tortillas break down entirely and will add some thickness and flavor. Add the cilantro right before you serve it, so you you get a bit of nice bright green to add a little zip to your bowl. This is great served with corn bread, or tortilla chips. You could add grated cheese and sour cream, if you wanted to make it richer.
Chicken Note:
I've used a rotisserie roasted chicken for the meat in this recipe, it makes it very easy and I love to be able to make chicken stock out of the chicken bones. The roasted bones from the rotisserie chicken make an excellent stock. Just throw the bones into a stock pot, cover with water and add a couple carrots, celery stalks and a onion, quartered, skins an all. Bring to a boil, turn down to simmer and cook for about 2 hours. Let it cool and strain. Refrigerate and use within the week. It makes the best soup...
Side Dish Inspirations
This a main course kind of meal, but here are some ideas to serve with the chili:
- Cornbread
- Green Salad
- Tortilla chips... you could even serve this as a dip with your chips.
Round Two cooking… make more and use it for:
If you plan it right, you could make some extras for another meal.
Here's some ideas:
- This freezes very well, so if you have enough leftovers, freeze for another meal. Otherwise, use for lunches.
What else would this technique work on???
You could easily use this technique on:
- Pork instead of chicken, you could add cubed raw pork and cook it alongside the beans,
- Black beans with beef is nice, and you could add canned tomatoes instead of the salsa. I'd also add chili powder too.
- Vegetarian chili, omit the chicken and the bouillon and add chopped carrots, bell peppers and other veggies. Beans make a complete protein when combined with rice, so if you're worried about getting enough protein, add the rice.


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1. Place the beans in a bowl or pot, cover with cold water and allow to soak overnight. Drain and rinse before proceeding. (Alternatively, add the beans to a medium pot and cover with hot water. Bring to a boil, and then boil for 2 minutes. Turn off the heat, cover the pot and allow the beans to sit for 1 hour. Drain the beans and rinse them with cold water before proceeding.)
2. In a medium pot, add the soaked beans, chicken broth, 2 cups water, the garlic, onions and green, red and yellow bell peppers. Bring to a boil, reduce the heat to low, cover and simmer for 1 1/2 hours.
3. Then add the chilli powder, cumin and salt and stir. Cover and continue simmering until the liquid level is to your liking, about another hour. Taste for seasoning and add more of what it needs.
4. Serve in a bowl with sour cream, coriander, lime wedges and diced bell peppers on the side.


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Security Finance v. Kirsch
The Supreme Court affirmed the decision of the court of appeals affirming the circuit court's order granting Security Finance's (Security) motion to dismiss Brian Kirsch's (Kirsch) counterclaims against Security under Wis. Stat. Chapters 425 and 427, holding that Kirsch's counterclaims were properly dismissed. Security and Kirsch entered into a loan agreement. Kirsch later defaulted on the payment obligation. Security subsequently filed a small claims lawsuit against Kirsch to enforce the agreement and collect the alleged debt. Kirsch counterclaimed for damages under chapter 427, the Wisconsin Consumer Act, on the grounds that Security filed this action before serving Kirsch with a notice of right to cure default satisfying the requirements set forth in chapter 425. The circuit court dismissed the counterclaim relating to the notice of right to cure default. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that a creditor's failure to provide a notice of right to cure default does not constitute a sufficient basis for relief under chapter 427. View "Security Finance v. Kirsch" on Justia Law
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Marquez v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC
Marco Marquez, the consumer, brought this action against Mercedes-Benz USA, alleging that his new car was a "lemon" under the state's Lemon Law, that he requested a refund and provided Mercedes-Benz with the required notice and information, and that Mercedez-Benz failed to provide a refund within the thirty-day period as required under the Lemon Law. At issue in this case was whether Marquez intentionally thwarted Mercedes-Benz's attempt to provide a refund within the thirty-day statutory period by failing to provide necessary information. On remand, the jury found in favor of Mercedes-Benz, but the circuit court entered a directed verdict in favor of Marquez, finding no credible evidence that Marquez intentionally thwarted Mercedes-Benz's efforts to provide a refund. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that no credible evidence supported the jury's verdict, and therefore, the circuit court was not clearly wrong in directing the verdict in favor of Marquez. View "Marquez v. Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC" on Justia Law
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MBS-Certified Pub. Accountants, LLC v. Wis. Bell Inc.
An accountant and the company he owned (collectively, MBS), filed suit against Defendants, telecommunications companies, asserting claims for damages under Wis. Stat. 100.207 and other statutes, arguing that Defendants' telephone bills contained unauthorized charges. The circuit court dismissed MBS's claims for relief, determining that although the complaint properly alleged violations of section 100.207, the voluntary payment doctrine barred any entitlement to monetary relief. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court reversed and remanded, holding (1) the Supreme Court had not decided whether the legislature intended the voluntary payment doctrine to be a viable defense against any cause of action created by a statute; and (2) under the circumstances, the conflict between the manifest purpose of section 100.207 and the common law defense left no doubt that the legislature intended that the common law defense should not be applied to bar claims under the statute. Remanded. View "MBS-Certified Pub. Accountants, LLC v. Wis. Bell Inc." on Justia Law
Kilian v. Mercedes-Benz USA, L.L.C.
Steven Kilian leased a Mercedes-Benz vehicle with financing by Mercedes-Benz Financial. After the car required numerous repairs, Kilian returned the car to Mercedes-Benz USA and sought a refund under Wisconsin's Lemon Law. Mercedes-Benz USA accepted the returned vehicle and refunded $20,847 to Kilian. Because Mercedes-Benz USA did not immediately pay off the lease with Mercedes-Benz Financial, Mercedes-Benz Financial commenced collection actions to obtain payment from Kilian. Kilian filed suit under the Lemon Law to stop enforcement of the lease. While Kilian's action was pending in circuit court, Mercedes-Benz paid off the lease to Mercedes-Benz Financial. The circuit court granted summary judgment in favor of Mercedes-Benz Financial, finding that Kilian did not suffer a pecuniary loss when Mercedes-Benz Financial continued to enforce the lease after the vehicle was returned. The court of appeals affirmed. The Supreme Court reversed, holding (1) Kilian could maintain an action for equitable relief under the Lemon Law and Mercedes-Benz Financial's actions violated the Lemon Law; and (2) Kilian prevailed in his action when Mercedes-Benz Financial voluntarily ceased enforcement of the lease after Kilian filed suit, and as the prevailing party, Kilian was entitled to attorney fees, disbursements, and costs. Remanded.
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Suggestion...when the poll thread is made we (all participants) should have a url to it and some text on it so more ppl will hopefully vote.
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Yea, his was really good. Hey why did you change your signature?
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Thanks to all who have voted so far. I posted this in the admin section and nobody really said anything but, anyways, what do you guys of think of having a thread in the GFX Battle Arena where we can display all showdown winners?
Yea, I was thinking we can have the thread and we can create a trophy but like a wu trophy or watever and we have stylemasterr make the trophy to a 3d image and make it spin very slow and display it next to the winner of the showdown (if that's possible). And, the banner idea is good too, i'd use it if I were to win. I'll make the thread but all of us should try to pitch in and come up with ideas of how to display the winners.


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Iceland Gulls breed on narrow cliff ledges in the Arctic and forage gracefully over the water, often plucking fish from the surface without landing. Many winter in ice-choked Arctic waters, but some come south to the Northeast, Great Lakes, and West Coast. Their plumage is variable, especially the adults' wingtips, which can range from pure white in the east to black in the west. The darker-winged "Thayer's" gull of the west used to be considered a different species; the two were lumped in 2017.More ID Info
Gull watching takes patience, but it can be rewarding. Unless you plan to explore the Arctic, you'll want to look for Iceland Gulls in winter along Atlantic or Pacific coasts or around the Great Lakes. Iceland Gulls are fairly regular but they're not numerous, so look for large groups of resting gulls and look through them for a medium-sized gull with very pale upperparts. On the East Coast, your task is a bit easier: you can look for a gull with white or pale gray wingtips (the "Kumlien's" form). On the West Coast, look for the Thayer's form: a bit smaller than a Herring Gull, with a more slender bill, heavily smudged neck, and sometimes a dark eye.
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