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The native of North Vancouver, B.C., caught 34 passes for 424 yards in 17 games last season. In three seasons in Toronto Watt has 77 receptions for 970 yards and three touchdowns.
"Spencer just finished his third CFL season and he's still only 24 years old. He is an athletic, young Canadian receiver and we believe he played his best football during the second half of last season," Argos general manager Jim Barker said in a statement. "We expect that he'll continue to grow and develop into a top receiver in this league and we're excited to have him in Toronto for the future."
Watt was drafted in the third round (18th overall) of the 2010 CFL Canadian draft out of Simon Fraser University. During his rookie season, Watt earned CFL Canadian player of the week honours for his Week 19 performance against the Montreal Alouettes, where he had 140 yards and two touchdowns on six receptions.
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It's always dangerous jumping to conclusions about an airliner crash within hours or days after an accident, but the speculation began very quickly after the Sukhoi Superjet went missing yesterday in Indonesia.
Despite the demographic of the passengers on board, Russia floated the possibility the aircraft had been hijacked. This seemed an incredible possibility given the passengers were made up of airline executives, journalists and members of the Indonesian aerospace industry.
The facts, though sparse, seemed to parallel other accidents throughout aviation industry over the decades. The captain of the flight asked for clearance to descend to 6,000 ft from 10,000 ft in a mountainous area where peaks were 6,200 to 7,000 ft (reports varied). It wasn't clear what the weather was at the time the airplane disappeared, but searches were suspended later in part because of fog.
Descending to an altitude below the mountain tops suggests that CFIT (and pilot error) might be involved. CFIT stands for Controlled Flight Into Terrain.
But the altitude of the crash site was reported to be around 5,800 feet, slightly below the clearance. Does this suggest equipment malfunction? Or did the pilot "break" altitude, a not unknown occurrence.
If weather was a factor, might there have been wind shears at play?
What does this accident do to Sukhoi's reputation? This column concludes it is destroyed. We aren't ready to agree with that.(Update, 9:30am PDT: The headline on the column has been changed to suggest there is now an "operational risk" to the program as opposed to the program being "destroyed.") (Update, 3:30pm PDT: Now the headline is about "reputational risk….")
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The Jackson Health System announced Wednesday something that has eluded Miami-Dade County government for months: It reached a tentative deal with labor unions.
The public hospital network and two unions that represent more than 10,000 workers announced agreements to phase out an unpopular pay concession and award employees one-time bonuses.
Jackson would reduce the pay contribution, which goes toward group healthcare costs, to 2 percent from 5 percent, retroactive to Jan. 1. The remaining 2 percent would go away at the end of the fiscal year on Sept. 30.
Executives who have not been making the contribution would begin to pay the 2 percent, also retroactive to Jan. 1. Rank-and-file employees had said it was unfair to exempt executives, who had seen pay cuts and other benefit suspensions, though not always equal to a 5 percent pay contribution.
The unions also agreed to end discussions on pay raises through Sept. 30, marking the fourth consecutive year that Jackson employees forgo such increases.
In addition, because the hospital system closed its last fiscal year with a better-than-expected $45 million surplus, Jackson would award one-time bonuses to employees amounting to 3 percent of their base pay.
Jackson's two unions were among seven at impasse with the county over the disputed healthcare contribution.
"It's great that we found a way to resolve this," Jackson Chief Executive Carlos Migoya said. "We're hoping this excites our employees and continues to help us in the transformation and improvements to the system."
He referred to the bonuses as "one-time, gain-sharing payments."
The agreements engendered talk of teamwork between management and employees, and predictions of a more secure financial future for the county's public hospital network.
Martha Baker, president of the Service Employees International Union Local 1991, which represents physicians, registered nurses and other healthcare workers, said the deal recognizes the contributions of employees in helping turn around the hospital system's finances over the past three years.
"This is a financial acknowledgment that we're on our way up," Baker said. "This is symbolic of Jackson betting on its future under Mr. Migoya's leadership.... We can now focus on delivering quality healthcare instead of financially saving our hospital."
She called the return of the healthcare contribution to Jackson employees "a morale booster."
"Our employees put so much passion, energy and love into their work at Jackson," Viviene Dixon-Shim, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1363, which represents hospital support staff, said in a statement. "These agreements let us keep our focus exactly where it belongs: on the patients and families who need us."
The compromise adds a wrinkle to county government's ongoing contract disputes with unions over the healthcare contribution, which had been scheduled to end this year.
By the end of the week, Mayor Carlos Gimenez is expected to veto, for the second time, county commissioners' decision to restore county and Jackson workers' pay in full.
The veto needs to take place in order for Jackson's compromise agreements to go to union members, the Public Health Trust and the county commission for approval. Without a veto, Jackson would have to adhere to commissioners' last vote and eliminate the entire healthcare contribution immediately, making the negotiated deal moot.
The Public Health Trust, which oversees Jackson, meets Monday.
One of the six trust members (a seventh seat is vacant) fired off an explosive email to Migoya 71 minutes after the deal was announced Wednesday, notifying the chief executive that he plans to vote against the tentative deal.
"This is BS," Joe Arriola wrote, telling Migoya he had "no right to make a deal without consulting or approval of our Board."
"If you think that a phone call with a 3 min explanation of the contract without giving us details is enough you are wrong and I intend to vote against it," he concluded.
Support for the deal from the Public Health Trust could give commissioners a model to work out the remaining impasses with five other unions that represent county employees who don't work at Jackson. Those unions represent police officers; general professionals and supervisors; water and sewer workers; general employees, and transit workers.
Commissioners and the administration have said they don't like to treat one union differently from another. They have already restored the pay for aviation and sanitation workers; a similar deal at Jackson would put more pressure on the county to end or phase out the healthcare contribution.
The relationship between Gimenez's administration and the unions has deteriorated so much, however, that it appears unlikely that both sides would negotiate an agreement as occurred at the hospital. Any deal would likely have to originate from the commission, where several board members who support restoring workers' pay have appeared willing to compromise.
Gimenez said he expects commissioners to resolve the impasses with the remaining unions with a similar deal to Jackson's. Commissioner Sally Heyman floated a potential phase-out plan last week.
"It's inevitable that we reach a compromise," Gimenez said, "and it seems that what they've done here is pretty close to how things could go."
His administration has said eliminating the healthcare contribution all at once would open a $56 million hole this year in the county's $4.4 billion operating budget, though a phased-out elimination would cost somewhat less.
Migoya said the agreements will create an additional $10.8 million expense in Jackson's $1.5 billion operating budget, but that hospital administrators will close that gap through cost savings and new revenues.
His staff projected an $11 million surplus for the current fiscal year, and Migoya said the team is sticking to that promise.
In a memo to county commissioners, who must ultimately sign off on the deal, Migoya said restoring the healthcare contribution to employees would not create a budget deficit, contradicting a statement he made to the board last year.
Among the hospital system's ideas for bringing in more money and controlling costs: reducing the length of stay for admitted patients, particularly among the uninsured, whose numbers have been increasing at Jackson since October; and refurbishing patient rooms and other facilities to attract more insured patients.
"A motivated workforce will help us to achieve those goals," Migoya said.
Jackson administrators will need greater cooperation from physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers as hospital reimbursements from government programs and private insurers change under the Affordable Care Act to reward positive patient outcomes and other quality indicators, as opposed to simply paying for volume of services.


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Stevie Cohen's bed of nails
The hedge fund legend recently stuffed $77 million into a mattress stock that has continued to sag. He's likely to come out ahead sooner rather than later.
By Igor Greenwald, MoneyShow.com
Spare some sympathy for billionaire hedge-fund manager Steven Cohen. First, the founder of SAC Capital Advisors failed in his bid to buy the Los Angeles Dodgers. Then rival mastermind David Einhorn stole the spotlight.
And now a prescient small bet of Cohen's has suddenly turned into a much bigger loser.
Until the end of last month, SAC held fewer than 200,000 shares of Select Comfort (SCSS), the maker of high-end Sleep Number adjustable mattresses. According to GuruFocus, he initiated the position in the second half of 2010, paying $6.90 a share. That was well off the stock's March 2009 low of 20 cents a share, but well-timed in light of its record close above $35 three weeks ago.
Cohen could have slept easy on a mattress laced with remotely controlled air chambers after quadrupling his money. Instead, with the stock already down 18% from its cushiest close ever, he bought in big time, spending $77.5 million on an additional 2.7 million shares at an average price of $29, boosting his stake to 5% of the company.
That was nine days ago. As of yesterday, assuming SAC still owns all those shares, what had been a 320% gain on Select Comfort has turned into a double-digit loss. The intra-day low was below $25, down more than 30% from that record three weeks ago.
So what happened? Is the mattress-buying frenzy dead? Or is Europe distracting everyone from Select Comfort's pledge to grow earnings at least 20% a year indefinitely? Is Cohen tossing and turning after stuffing his cash into a broken stock, or is he instead dreaming about the next rally?
The earnings that followed that record share price last month were certainly dreamy enough. Sales and earnings were up more than 35% in a year's time, comfortably exceeding expectations.
But gross margin slipped year-over-year, and the company kept its prior annual guidance in place. A day later, rival Tempur-Pedic (TPX) provided disappointing profit guidance, and it's been all downhill for both stocks ever since.
This week, the selling picked up steam after Tempur-Pedic owned up to planning near-term discounts of up to 17% on a key mattress model, a tactic it has previously eschewed.
At least today, the mattress makers have plenty of company in their misery. Other high-end discretionary consumer stocks are seeing red after a disappointing report by designer watch marketer Fossil (FOSL), which is down 38% in the wake of disappointing sales in Europe. Fashion trend setters like Lululemon (LULU), Michael Kors (KORS), Polo Ralph Lauren (RL), and Coach (COH) are all seeing red as a result.
The fashionable thing to do would be to predict that Europe will burn while luxury buyers in the U.S. go into hiding to escape rising taxes and general ennui with the good life. With stocks seemingly reverting to the bearish form of the past two summers, there is temptation to stuff cash into a mattress or else into Treasury bonds earning less than the rate of inflation. Hey, everyone else is doing it.
But I think the temptation is wrong, and in fact Wednesday's sell-off presents… wait for it… a buying opportunity.
I know that's not fashionably skeptical at all. I realize the only thing that matters for the moment is the market flush below the 50-day moving average. But I believe that this short-term concern will be proved wrong as consumers stay the course, and as institutional investors hungry for growth snap up the freshly discounted outperformers.
Sales of mattresses are likely to stay strong, and the premium category led by Select Comfort has been gaining market share from its inner-spring competitors. The company enjoys an enviable growth momentum that will outlast Tempur-Pedic's summer sale, and its current 2% unit market share leaves plenty of runway.
The stock is priced at 17 times 2012 earnings estimates that have continued to rise in the wake of last month's results, but may yet prove conservative. Yet those earnings are likely to increase at least 20% and likely closer to 25% next year. Investors have recently been willing to pay much more for consistent high growers.
Wednesday's selloff seems likelier to punctuate the recent bout of market weakness than to initiate another downturn. As of Tuesday, Raymond James strategist Jeff Saut was looking for one more downside flush to leave stocks heavily oversold "as well as finally raise my daily and weekly stock market internal energy indicators back to levels that would register a full load of energy, something I have been waiting for the past eight weeks."
It looks like we might have gotten that flush Tuesday. And I would bet that Stevie Cohen's sleeping pretty soundly.
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Redboxes to Rib'boxes? Stick with the Food Trucks
Nick is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.
"Whether it's the restaurant or the supermarket or the kitchen supply shop, it's hard to think of sector that is more commercialized and more replete with entrepreneurship and innovation. It is all monetized. … Quality customers are often more important to a restaurant than a quality chef."
Professor Tyler Cowen's recent book, An Economist Gets Lunch, is his latest success at illustrating "markets in everything" – and like his wildly popular blog, Marginal Revolution, the engaging read's ideas and insights are also directly applicable to making discerning choices in stocks, partnerships, and other investments.
[continued from "The Dining Game"]
Slepko: You write a little about vending machines and how even in Japan – the vending machine capital of the world – even their noodle dispensaries aren't very good. Any hope for food in vending machines in America? Any chance as DVDs begin to fade away, Coinstar (NASDAQ: OUTR) will start converting their Redboxes into Rib'boxes?
Cowen: When you have big homes, big refrigerators, a lot of space, will vending machines dominate for things other than impulse buys? I don't think so. In Japan, it's clear. Your home, your fridge is so tiny that the vending machine is your refrigerator. I don't see people in Kansas seeing it in the same way.
Slepko: For me the most revelatory passages in your book were about food trucks and reservations. You write that the future will be a mobile one – a deregulated food truck revolution. In many ways the migration of lunch preferences to food truck offerings and the jockeying for reservations in places like Paris have a lot of insights that would help explain the economics behind Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) and similar social media IPOs. What does this food truck phenomenon tell us about dining and technology? How do Twitter, Facebook, and others play into this?
Cowen: Food trucks would do much better if they weren't regulated out of existence in a lot of places. The main issues is a legal one – like will it be allowed. If they are allowed, they will flourish (or flourish much more). Obviously, restaurateurs don't like them, and when it comes to influence on city councils, we know who usually wins that battle. So it's all about legal risk. But, we see more of it. They're here in northern Virginia. I don't even know if they are legal, but they are here.
Social media has been a big help in assisting them in advertising when and where they are. It's huge. Also more sophisticated immigrants has helped too.
Slepko: Why have food trucks not been replicated by Wendy's (NASDAQ: WEN) or incorporated into Darden Restaurants' (NYSE: DRI) strategy?
Cowen: It's a lot of legal risk. So, if you are going to put a lot of corporate capital into this new strategy and you could be shut down at any time, then why do it? It's a lot of upfront. However, if you are a Bolivian immigrant and your investment is a year's worth of savings with some real payoff, you might consider it.
Slepko: Do you think it's more likely as the food truck companies get bigger they will be acquired by traditional fast food providers (or will they acquire the fast food providers)?
Cowen: I think they'll be autonomous for a quite a while. They require a lot of local knowledge, and what they're cooking could be fairly idiosyncratic. Also, I don't think they are high margin, so the idea that one of those big companies (which is awesome at logistics) is going to move in, compose some tweets, and figure out where the crowds might be that day just doesn't seem worth it. But if you are an immigrant with family help and friends, and buy a truck so you can make a fairly good living, then I think that's where it's at.
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We Are Calvin: Rachel Wahl
This summer, Calvin students are keeping us informed on where they are and what they're doing—from working the Google HelpDesk in Seattle to engineering a bridge in Kenya.
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Goldwater tradition continues: Students earn top research award
Since 2008, Calvin College has had more Goldwater Scholars than any other liberal arts college in the nation.
April 05, 2013 | Matt Kucinski
A $230,000 NSF grant to discover chemical reactions
Chemistry professor Carolyn Anderson is extending her research while developing a new generation of researchers.
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Student senate launches #Wearecalvin
Students are giving their feedback in Calvin's prioritization and strategic planning processes.
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Students of the sky
"After an introduction to variable stars and the modeling that is being done to understand their behavior, students were put in groups with Calvin students and allowed to examine the data with sophisticated software in order to look for trace patterns."
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Rangeela 2013: Study Abroad
This year's Rangeela directors reflect on mastering footwork, dancing with fans and leading the show.
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uKnight: Sem Pond Jump
Can three alums persuade President Le Roy to take the plunge?
February 08, 2013 | Matt Kucinski , Steven Niedzielski , Myrna Anderson
Celebrating black history
Throughout February, the Calvin community will feature four events in celebration of Black History Month.
January 31, 2013 | Myrna Anderson
In excelsis Deo
In the annual Christmas video, the Calvin community sings "Gloria."
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Calvin's student newspaper partners with 'The Rapidian'
Through a local partnership, Calvin's student newspaper gives its writers more experience and a bigger platform for their writing.
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November 16, 2012 | Myrna Anderson
Calvin's enrollment up; first-year class shows academic strength
Calvin College is seeing a boost in first-year enrollment, a strong academic profile and an increase in international students in its 2012 incoming class.
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Wadlopen: students take up the Dutch national pastime.
A geography professor writes about walking the mudflats of the Wadden Sea during last spring's Semester in the Netherlands.
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A student reflects on Streetfest
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Fulbright to teach English in Turkey
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Biographies from another era
Part of the homework in psychology 209 is creating the life histories of older adults.
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BulletzBill said...
ah, fascists, you guys are great. you have your rules and every single person has to live according to your standards. and if they don't? you get rid of them. freedom of speech unfortunately doesn't mean you have a right to censor and ban whatever you feel is inappropriate.
Feedom of speech was installed by the founders not as a way to harass other citizens, but as a way to ensure that citizens could speak freely about the government. Remember that the Bill of Rights is made up of things to protect the people from their own government. Has nothing to do with being able to say what you want to another citizen. In fact, if you do so today, you will can still be punished for harassment or threats or "fighting words" that instigate others to violence against you or anybody else. Freedom of speech is our freedom to speak against government, nothing more, and anyone who doesn't understand that is sorely ignorant of both history and (to a lesser degree) the legal body since then. My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins, and that is no less applicable in speech.
Luckily, WoW is a private enterprise, and can allow whatever it wants on its own servers (as long as it is not illegal). I think what irks people is that they have these TOS rules, and it seems like they're not enforced. Either they should remove such things from the TOS, or enforce it. Otherwise you have rules that seem arbitrary and leave much room for favoritism and apparent persecution. For example, if nobody gets punished for a certain TOS violation, but then a GM sees a player that he thinks is annoying doing it, he could then use the TOS as a weapon against that one player, while he/she was doing nothing different from anyone else. That is certainly Blizzard's right, but that's why people complain. If Blizz either enforced its TOS aggressively OR removed those items from the TOS completely, I think we'd see complaints about it go away completely.
And as for fascists... since Blizz is not a government, there can be no fascists. Private companies may ban what they wish (long as they stay legal), and doing is is capitalist by nature.


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Roanoke City and Haley Toyota have struck a deal for land near the civic center.
The dealership made a proposal to buy more than 17 acres of land on Courtland Road near Interstate 581. It would be used for a full service sales and repair facility.
Haley Toyota's general manager Chuck Baker says they have seen business grow and they need more than the current five acres they have now.
"The main reason we're doing this is so we can properly take care of our customers. The great thing about doing this is when you build a new facility, the manufacturer gives you more product" said Baker, adding that means they'll have to hire more staff. Baker said they still have a lot of site work, re-zoning proposals and approvals to get through before building can begin and they're unsure if they will move locations completely or keep the current location open too.
The city says property is worth $1,728,155 but it's being sold for $1,035,000 because of the work required for the conversion.
Roanoke City manager Chris Morrill says the area would be similar to Shelor Motor Mile in Christiansburg.
"Many car dealerships move out to larger suburban tracks and the fact that they're staying right there in the city and they'll be right near the Ford and Chevrolet dealer, it really creates a regional draw for anyone who's car shopping," said Morrill.
A routine public hearing is scheduled for April 15, before the city can approve the contract.
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Redfoo and his girlfriend, Victoria Azarenka , the world's second-ranked female tennis player, could both compete in the U.S. Open in New York this summer.
The LMFAO member has entered the U.S. Open National Playoffs -- a series of tournaments that ultimately grants its champions spots in the U.S. Open. He will compete under his birth name, Stefan Gordy .
Redfoo will compete in both men's singles and mixed doubles, the latter of which will allow him to pair up with a 17-year-old he coaches, Ayaka Okuno .
The U.S. Open National Playoffs awards the men's and women's singles champions with spots in the U.S. Open Qualifying Tournament, and the mixed doubles champions with a spot in the U.S. Open main draw.
Redfoo says in a statement , "As a kid, it's always been a dream of mine to play professional tennis." He adds, "Thanks to the U.S. Open National Playoffs for giving good players with a dream the chance to qualify for one of the biggest tournaments -- the U.S. Open. Every day I see my dream!"
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Portal 2 Review [Video] (PC Steam Version)
Posted by Michael Oliver, Apr 20, 2011 12:10
Coupled with the Orange Box in 2007, Portal was a surprise hit. It was a revolutionary concept where the player used a gun in the first person view to create portals and travel any distance instantly. With the two portals being both an entrance or exit, they are used to complete test stages that get progressively more complex. The eerily clean testing environment offered a crisp story pitting you against a female Machiavellian A.I. named GLaDOS (Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System). As she most eloquently puts it, the portals even translate mass and velocity properly: "speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out." The only disappointing feature of Portal was its length; it lasted around three hours at most since it was not a full game. However, the game had a defining ability to reward you with those 'A-HA!' moments when you finally figure out how to solve a puzzle that's been plaguing you for what seemed like days. This great game earned critical acclaim and countless Game of the Year awards. Portal 2 will continue this trend.
|The amount of time between P1 & P2 is hundreds of years (gameplay screens)
Several hundred years after Portal ended, Portal 2 has an excellent continuing story, new and superb voice acting, new art and graphics, numerous refreshing puzzle testing elements and a new cooperative multiplayer feature. It's everything you'd expect in the sequel to one of the best single player experiences this decade. Portal 2 proves that Portal isn't just an add-on, but it can stand alone as a complete game, a series that everyone should expect to eventually have a third entry for it. I tried not to reveal much in terms of spoilers, nothing beyond anything you might have seen in the Portal 2 commercials. If you're here just to find out if Portal 2 is worth the money: Yes.
Once again you are Chell, the voiceless portal gun wielding test subject who can fall from insane heights and live. You'll traverse behind the scenes, deciphering how to navigate the ruined innards of Aperture Science laboratories, and of course through diabolically engineered test stages designed to frustrate and murder you. Like the first game you occasionally encounter the mad ramblings of those previous test subjects who came before you, scrawled on the walls, depicting impending doom or incomprehensible phrases.
"They told me that if I ever turned this flashlight on, that I would die!" - Wheatley
One of the best new properties in Portal 2 is voice acting from The Office UK co-creator Stephen Merchant, who plays the independent personality core called "Wheatley." With an English West Country accent, he introduces you to the new world of science. The beginning part of the game sees Wheatley as your sidekick, showing you around the destroyed labyrinthine that is the Aperture Science facilities resulting from your actions in the first game. He is a contrasting personality to GlaDOS, and a refreshing one at that.
"I think we can put our differences behind us... for science... you monster." - GLaDOS
Although initially dormant, we all know the benevolent A.I. GLaDOS from the first game returns, voiced again by the marvelous Ellen McLain. The comedy she provides is genius, serving as a perfect backdrop during portal testing. While not nearly as passive-aggressive as the first game, she is still up to her old ways; being constantly chided that you are a horrible, smelly, slow, mute, fat lunatic is charming. These comments are especially effective if you find yourself over-analyzing a puzzle, one where the answer might just be a simple or common action, one where you wonder if the insults might be at least be based in truth at that moment.
Rating: 4.6, votes: 11