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That's a problem if you're a national of China who was hoping to obtain a U.S. green card (lawful permanent residence) by making a minimum $500,000 investment in a U.S. company (category EB-5).
But as explained by attorney Jim Butler in his article in the San Francisco Daily Journal, "Immigrant investor visas threatened," the fact that China hit the limit this year could also be a problem for the U.S. economy.
EB-5 visa applicants don't typically start their own little businesses. Instead, they look to streamline the process by going through agents and middlemen who arrange investments in large projects, most commonly real-estate developments. Hotels, restaurants, night clubs, and senior living facilities in the U.S. have all been major recipients of Chinese investment money. The last Marriott or Hilton you stayed in may have been the result of a Chinese citizen's wish to obtain a U.S. green card.
Will other countries take up the slack? Not much, if they haven't so far. Butler says, "China is where the program is best understood, where a sophisticated system of marketing agents is available to help American developers find investors, and where the population has the largest interest in U.S. immigration and the willingness to pay for it."
So, the next Marriott or Hilton you were hoping to stay in may just be a hole in the ground until and unless someone takes steps to fix this! And why shouldn't they fix it, given the shot in the economic arm such investments provide? But the State Department's policy reversal seems to indicate that someone up there is thinking more about the letter of the law than economic common sense.]]>
The first question then becomes, "Where are they?"
Back when I was actively practicing immigration law, this question could take days of calling detention centers and desperately begging information out of disinterested guards and officials. But now there's an "Online Detainee Locator" provided by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Would it work?
At first, no. (Probably not too surprising — data entry may not be the first thing on the to-do list after an immigrant is arrested.) But within about 15 hours, voila — we entered a name and birth date and received the name of the detention facility where one sister was being held, as well as a phone number for reaching that facility. The U.S.-based sister was able to call the facility and get more information about the status of her sister's case.
Whether the online system is always this workable, I can't say. It's easy to imagine situations where the name might be misspelled, or a birth date taken down inaccurately, leading to a complete info void.
And an even more difficult aspect of the system is that it's mostly in English. Yes, you can choose other languages from a dropdown menu when you first perform the search, but as far as I could tell, this doesn't lead to any different screens when it's time for the results.
Still, it was immensely satisfying to see the name pop up and know that, as alarming as the news of the arrest was, the sister hadn't just disappeared into the system. Now, if Congress would only come up with an intelligent and humane way to deal with this influx.]]>
The report supplies demographic information about people who requested DACA between August 2012 to September 2013 and were approved by January 2014, in these categories:
Citizens of Mexico are, to no one's surprise, the largest pool of applicants by far, followed by El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. But plenty of other countries' citizens applied, as well. Even the bottom four countries on the list Poland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, and Guyana, had over 1,000 applicants each.
As for age, the majority are 19 and under, followed closely by the 20 to 24 age group. This isn't too surprising either, given the age-related requirements for DACA (see Nolo's article on, "Who Qualifies for Deferred Action as an Immigrant Student or Graduate (DACA).") There was no clear winner between number of male and female applicants and DACA recipients.
And you get no points for guessing which state most applicants applied from: California, of course! Texas a close second.
For details on how to renew, see Nolo's update, "DACA Program Now Open for Renewals; Plus New Form I-821D."
Timing is crucial. If you apply more than 150 days before your status expires, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will reject and return the application to you. But if apply fewer than 120 days before your status expires, USCIS may not have time to process and make a decision on your application, and you could lose your job and end up with a gap in status (assuming you're eventually approved).
Have you ever tried counting out days on a calendar? It's a pain. That's why applicants might be grateful to see that the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) has come up with a handy calculator that figures out exactly the best window of time in which to apply. Just click the "THIS TOOL" link, enter the expiration date on your work permit (EAD), and the appropriate dates will pop up.
But guess what: They get a little fuzzier on the question of whether that duty extends to the clients on the other side of a case, for example in a divorce or other civil case, or in a criminal case.
And in a particularly ugly example of how this can play out, the State of Washington's Latino/a Bar Association (LBAW) has been investigating cases of "immigration retaliation" — in which an attorney "harasses, coerces, or intimidates another person using that person's actual or perceived immigration status."
This comes from an article called, "The Unethical Use of Immigration Status in Civil Matters," by M. Lorena Gonzales and Daniel Ford, in the March, 2014 issue of NYLawyer.
Put in starker terms, immigration retaliation encompasses actions like notifying immigration enforcement authorities that an undocumented person is expected to arrive at a certain courthouse on a certain date; or that a woman participating in the prosecution of a domestic violence case may have no legal status. ("May" being the operative term here — the article discusses cases where the U.S. authorities, after being "tipped off," wrongly detain the immigrant.)
Thankfully for immigrants in the State of Washington, the state bar association issued a formal ethics opinion several years ago prohibiting lawyers from threatening to report someone to the immigration authorities in order to "gain an advantage in a civil matter."
A fat lot of good that opinion seems to have done since then, but to drive the point home, the LBAW got the Washington State Supreme Court to issue a formal comment in 2013. That comment prohibits lawyers from making inquiries into or assertions about someone's immigration status for purposes of intimidation, coercion, or obstruction of justice.
I wonder what's going on in the other 49 states?
In the meantime, this is a good opportunity to remind immigrants and their counsel of the availability of the U visa, which can provide temporary lawful immigration status to non-citizens assisting law enforcement.]]>
I say that not because I'm in a moralizing mood, and not because I'm worried about what kind of example you're setting for your fresh-faced, adoring fans.
No, I say that for one, much simpler reason.
I thought I was done writing about whether your various run-ins with U.S. law enforcement make you, as a non-citizen visa holder, deportable. Intellectually and emotionally, I am over it.
But now readers are asking, "So, is he deportable this time? The LAPD are going after him for attempted robbery! How 'bout it? "
Alright, here goes.
Justin's latest "oops" was apparently grabbing a woman's cell phone in order to erase photos that he suspected she had taken of him. ('Cause who wouldn't want to snap photos of the Biebs?)
If that doesn't sound like robbery to you, read Nolo editor Micah Schwartzach's analysis, "Breaking Down Bieber's Alleged Attempted Robbery."
Noncitizens of the U.S. can be deported if they commit certain types of crimes, found in Section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (I.N.A.). Although some crimes are named on that list, attempted robbery isn't one of them (nor is regular robbery.)
However, his lawyers would also want to look at whether the robbery conviction (if it indeed happens, and depending on the details) meets any of the following criteria for deportability found in the I.N.A.:
As explained further in the links provided above, the short answer is that, once again, he's probably not deportable. Unless, that is, he gets a one-year sentence for grabbing a cell phone. Stay tuned!
Wait, no, don't stay tuned to hear it from me. That's it. My last blog on Justin Bieber. I swear it.]]>
The designers were, in essence, tasked with creating a card that would be distinctly different from the drivers' license carried by ordinary residents—which, in the absence of a national identity document, is often seen as the practical equivalent to a national identity document—but not a card that screams, "Illegal alien!" to anyone who might then be prompted toward discrimination and harassment.
The first try unfortunately failed to pass muster with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The feds deemed California's card design, which had the code "DP" (for "driver's privilege" rather than "driver's license") on the front, and the words "This card is not acceptable for official federal purposes" on the back, to be too subtle. They want the latter wording moved to the front.
So, it's back to the drawing board for the designers. I don't envy them this task. They're creating a card that represents layers of possible meaning, including, "I have an acknowledged place in this state, I have passed the driving exam, my rights have been recognized in other ways (such as that to attend public schools and be fairly treated by employers), but by the way, I don't have lawful immigration status."
Immigration reform, anyone?]]>
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are not only questioning people coming into the U.S., but addressing questions in Spanish to those driving or riding buses out of the U.S. into Mexico.
Their main goal is apparently to check for evidence of drug trafficking, such as transporting large sums of illegally obtained money. But apparently CBP officials have decided that, while they're at it, they might as well arrest a few folks who were living in the U.S. without documents — even ones who'd committed no crimes and were minutes away from returning to Mexico anyway!
No one interviewed for the report, regardless of political affiliation, thought this was anything more than a waste of money and time. It's especially bizarre at a time when — due to the government's limited resources — the administration has specifically instructed immigration officials to follow a policy of "prosecutorial discretion," focusing on deporting only those people who present the greatest risk to U.S. society.
And there's been plenty of political talk of promoting "self-deportation," too, which it appears some of the departing Mexicans were in the very process of doing.
Hard to say whether this new arrest pattern is misguided, mean-spirited, or simply motivated by some local CBP officers' wish to get their arrest numbers up and then call it a day.]]>
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According to the Washington Post article on the topic by Helena Andrews, the bottom line here is that "the buck has officially been passed."
No, the buck has not been passed. The buck was never with the White House in the first place. There is simply nothing in U.S. immigration law that allows the White House (or any other law enforcement authority for that matter), to deport a non-citizen simply because that person "is . . . a terrible influence on our nations [sic.] youth" and the "people" of the U.S. "would like to remove [him] from our society."
Before the U.S. deports someone, that person has to have done something that matches one of the grounds of deportability set out in the Immigration and Nationality Act. Just a little something called the "rule of law" in our democracy.
And the White House itself wouldn't be the one to initiate the removal proceedings — that's the job of the Department of Homeland Security. DHS is, to be sure, an Executive Branch agency — but again, the White House's basic policy is to not go meddling in the jurisdiction of such departments merely because a tiny portion of the U.S. population put their names on a petition.
That's not to say that Bieber's recent antics and run-ins with the police and U.S. border officials haven't skated dangerously close to making him deportable. (For more on that, see my earlier blogs, "Justin Bieber: "Stuck in the Moment" of a Pending Removal Proceeding," "Oh, and Justin Bieber's Alleged Assault on a Limo Driver Probably Won't Get Him Deported, Either," and "The Justin Bieber Immigration Chronicles, Continued.")
But if non-Beliebers feel that Justin should be deported for those actions, then putting pressure on Congress to make the immigration laws even harsher than they already are would be the appropriate route. The idea that a petition to the White House could result in someone's deportation, however, without reference to the legal grounds for it, is just plain scary.]]>
Now, some parents are avoiding that nerve-wracking plane ride while pregnant, and simply arranging to have surrogate women in the U.S. give birth and cede their parental rights to them. For real. You can read about it in California Lawyer magazine.
This strategy doesn't work in every U.S. state (because many state legislatures have made surrogacy contracts illegal or unenforceable), but it works in California, which is plenty convenient for the many Asian couples going this route.
I do need to take issue with one statement in the article on "Having a Citizen Baby," however. It says that, "At $100,000 to $200,000–which includes legal fees, insurance, medical care, and $30,000 to $45,000 for the surrogate–hiring a surrogate is still much cheaper than taking another fast track to legal residency: paying $500,000 or more for an entrepreneur visa."
The surrogacy route is no "fast track" to legal residency, other than for the baby, who wasn't exactly worried about immigrating to the U.S. in the first place. Mom and dad still must wait 21 years outside the U.S. before gaining any rights here (also described in my earlier blog post). The entrepreneur or investor visa, by contrast, allows parents and children to enter the U.S. right away.
But the surrogacy route offers certainty for at least one member of the family, and doesn't carry the risk that the business upon which the investor visa was based will fail within the first two years–in which case green card eligibility is lost.]]>


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Chippewa is like all schools, where you can't keep all bad out, like pot. But the majority are great kids and they have great education. Both my girls went there and are now Doctors. They are a BLUE RIBBON school, meaning great programs. They have a great medical and IT program, great college prep and advanced courses. Wonderful teachers, and great security (cameras and great police and fire response close.) I find it hard to believe this high school is not rated 8 or higher too...you were wrong to rate lower! This school is also located around a growing community with new homes, no slums, and middle class life style. It should be rated at least a 8.
Before I begin, I would like to point out that parents who think they know what they are talking about because they are adults are wrong(I'm referring,to the ones with bad things to say). To say that this school has a HUGE drug problem is completely false. However, there are people who smoke, but it doesn't affect my education or anyone else's, which I would hope is the main concern. The second problem parents addressed was about the staff. This kind of stuff bothers me. I guarentee the kids that go home and complain to their so easily deceived parents about how they don't understand any of the homework were on their phones the entire class period. The teachers that I have do an excellent job of teaching, however I have more excellerated classes which require more independent work, especially my AP college course class. Students that are convinced their teachers hate them and aren't good at teaching usually approach their education as if it were a punishment and put forth little to no effort. The whole expensive sports thing, that might be true, I dont know, but that can be easily looked up. I recommend taking challenging classes to achieve the best education at Chippewa.
Eminem's daughter goes here. That is soooo coool !! Saw him at parent-teacher conferences and nearly sh*t my pants.
I go there and I absolutely love it. For patents say that teachers don't teach or care, then don't take the stupid classes. If your child wants to be there you'll realize that most teachers care. Take difficult classes and get involved. As for students starting the 9th grade center it's great because I would have been so lost without it. I love it there's lots of activities and things to be involved in.
I was surprised to see this was rated 7 out of 10. My daughter has gone to CV for one year and we are really happy. It is a big school so your child can feel quite lost if they don't get involved. I think they could work a bit harder to make the school more welcoming because it is so big. I was also surprised how few parents are directly involved considering its size.
My child has not even gone to this school yet, the child will start at the 9th grade center in the fall of 2012 and I already cringe at the thought of her going there. I've tried to talk my child into going to a different school but the child doesn't want to because of friends. Had contact with counselor and social worker already, boy did they definitely rub me the wrong way on first meeting. I want to stay away from them as far as possible. I read the reviews below and can tell the teachers don't teach just like at Wyandot MS, no communication, all responsibility on child and parent. If something goes wrong, OH WELL, not their fault. Gut feeling tells me to just run away from this district...................As for sports, yeah well if you can afford the high fees and everything that goes with it, good for you, you must be in one of those "cliques" then because that seems to be the only thing that helps a student get along well with the staff, the pets, otherwise you're a looser and not worth the staffs time, priorities are definitely in place all over Chippewa Valley.
Chippewa is a very good school for athletics and sports. You will receive about 4-5 hours of homework a night including studying for tests. I currently have a 3.0 gpa
CVHS is Actually not anywhere close to being one of the best schools in the state, it is actually ranked at 168 in the state, just so the facts are known, and are correct.
Terrible school with a huge drug problem and principal could care less about student safety!
Chippewa (9th grade center) is terrible! Straight-up. Most of the teachers DO NOT teach you. They give you an assignment and expect YOU to figure out everything for yourself. Finals and mid-terms count for too much of your overall grade. There is an OVERWHELMING amount of homework in every class (every day!). I have personally stayed up until 3am many-a-night, and I know other students who have done the same. This is an UNWELCOMING, unfriendly school. The students are overly preoccupied with sex. I was a victim of CONSTANT sexual harassment, and the administration did NOTHING about it. The male students definitely objectify certain females. If this sounds good to you, then CVHS/Chippewa Valley is your school.
I'm a former CVHS student and I'm happy with the education I received. I never realized how ahead of the game Chippewa put us until I got to college, and I was so grateful for that. I always excelled at CVHS, but it can be a hard school for students who are doing poorly because they are always dismissed because all that matters at CVHS is being the best. However, some of the teachers at CVHS are great to all students and truly make the experience worthwhile. I am now in college with people from other schools in the area and they talk about CVHS and how they were constantly told how amazing it was by the teachers in their home schools. This place is just doing a lot of things right.
I'm a former student. I had some fantastic teachers that I still keep up with, but also some terrible ones. Overall though, it was a decent place.
Nothing spectacular here, I felt lost in the crowd. I was a former honor role student who dropped off the radar when attending CVHS. I did have a few teachers who made a difference, but the rest were just there to collect paychecks.
As others have said, the school is pretty 'clicky'. But, however, it is easy to make friends because the students are very nice. As with every school, we have our share of bad teachers but about 95% of our teachers are very helpful and will also help if you are having troubles. Its unfair to say that the school is too 'clicky' because personally, I have found that if you at least TRY to make friends, you are almost guaranteed to. Our sports and outside activities are great, and about everybody can find some activity that they are interested in
Students at CVHS are just like any other high-school kids- they're clicky, they're abusive, and many of them are just not good people. It is safer, and less fights have broken out, than in Sakota, but it is stuill just a high school. I'd like to also invite all CVHS students to participate in the Day of Silence. Please visit studentorginazation.org to learn more.but
I think Chippewa is an excellent school, the teachers are amazing and the students are awesome. No other high school will welcome you like Chippewa.
I, too, found CVHS 'clicky'. This interferred with my daughter's appropriate learning. Since changing schools she is back on the honor roll.
As a college-bound graduate of CVHS, I have found that the programs that CVHS had to offer did not allow myself or many others to have the appropriate tools to succeed at college. The school is extremely 'clicky,' and only those who are rich or have power within the community are treated properly.
I think this school is wonderful learning environment for kids, has a well known reputation for being one of the best schools in the state. The teaching skills used here are very well developed. I have known a major change in my three childrens learning capabilities since moving to this district. They are more able to flow freely with their work with no hassles and frustration.
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Before & After: Another Thrift Store Find Color Makeover
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Two weeks ago I posted this Before & After: Thrift Store Find Color Makeover and this week I've found another! One of my favorite bloggers, Young House Love, posted this thrifty makeover…
These metal cups were found at Goodwill for $1.50 each and were easily up-cycled into candleholders with an added surprise pop of color on the inside. See more pictures, and read the full Young House Love DIY post here.
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nice!! like the yellow and white look
I love this! I was not expecting the 2-tone and it's perfect!
Nice patina on the old things, no matter how cheaply they were acquired. I'm a little sad that they were overpainted. Fresh and bright isn't my favorite vibe for the long haul... I could see living with the original material surfaces, though.
I want! Nice.
Wow! Incredible! I want those now!
I love it.
But even more than I love it, I hate the comments from people every single time someone does a before and after.
Just because YOU want to keep something in its original condition and find that to be valuable and beautiful doesn't mean EVERYONE ELSE wants that. It may be a super fancy antique cup holder but if the owner of that super fancy antique cup holder doesn't like the look of it, but loves it's bones, what is so horrible about changing it slightly so he or she absolutely LOVES it now?
I would have taken it a step further and turned those into pendant lamps!
I own an exact set of these, inherited from my grandparents. They are stamped 925 on the bottom. What the DIYer has is very tarnished vintage sterling glass holders from Mexico in a rose and vine pattern, now covered in paint.
Why should they look before they paint? She very obviously doesn't care about who made the cup holders or what the ridiculous "worth" of it is. The worth of this cup is completely dependent on who owns it and how they personally feel about it.
OK. I read the actual blog entry, and the person who painted these does indeed know they are solid sterling silver but "... they were so scratched and tarnished we liked giving them some new life with paint!"
birdablaze, if Apartment Therapy didn't want comments, they wouldn't have this section, would they?
Not that these cups would have tremendous value, but Antiques Roadshow always has people who rue the day they refinished the antique piece they bought, reducing its value by 90 percent.
When valuable antiques are ruined, it just makes the surviving antiques that much more rare and valuable.
BTW, I once bought a sterling silver Tiffany ashtray at a rummage sale for $2.
I don't understand the fighting in the comments. We all have our own opinions and we are responding to the original post, why should we respond to each other and ignite fights?
That said, I think the DIY was done well, but personally I would just buy something new that way if I wanted that look.
They look okay, but in general, I'm really tired of spray painted stuff. Leaving the interior to reflect the candle light would have been nice.
So many of these DIY projects chosen by the AT team are a matter of taste, and some AT:LA bloggers have a really low taste level.
The after is very pretty but I actually prefer the before. But that's because I love vintage looking stuff with character for accent pieces. I actually get a high from finding antique/vintage pieces with scratches and scuff marks and rust! Either way it was the owner's choice to refinish as she pleases and she did a nice job.
"Last year on a DIY blog, I saw a glossy white paint job on an antique dresser that was very similar to ones I'd seen in antique stores for $4K to $6K. The "after" looked like a brand-new $399 Pottery Barn piece. She could have furnished her whole house if she'd realized the bargain she'd scored."
Indeed - I just recently came upon a fabulous and rare 1970's Paul Evans credenza in the Brutalist style that had been painted white and green.
In original or restored condition, it could have been worth @ $4000...
...but painted - The owner will be lucky to get $250.
I love them. They were a $1.50 each plus the cost of paint. Something new would have cost much more and would have robbed them of exercising their creative outlets. Well played YHL. Well played.
Moreover, I'm soooo verrry tirrred of all the bemoaning regarding painted objects/furniture. Go rescue a bunch of treasures at Salvation Army if you so devastated by imbeciles who dare to defile them. Seriously.
Personally, I am very pro-choice when it comes to these matters of home decor. Your object? Your choice.
Palmetto -- please, take your toys and go home. Based on your 'contributions' to the AT comments over the last 3 years, I'm surprised your still a reader. Honestly, take a look at the comments you've posted...NOTHING but negativity about the many great posts and contributors in the AT community. It's almost comical, really. Think it may be time for you to delete the AT bookmark and find a new place to play. you seem most unhappy here.
They look lovely and if she decides to take the paint off down the road, then she has a hidden gem.
Ditto to Black is the new Black.
Taste when it comes to decor/style = preference. Saying someone has no taste in these areas is indecorous at best, just plain mean at worst.
On Old Stuff--stuff that no one cares about and sends to the Salvation Army deserves a second chance at life--even if that requires a makeover! It beats the landfill.
This style of Mexican silver is quite collectible. I have a wonderful pair in this style that were made over a pair of Nestle chocolate bottles. One has a shaker top; the other has a spout top with the original sterling cap -- not attached -- it's miraculous that it wasn't lost long ago.
It's not impossible to remove the paint from the metal. If the owner wants to restore them to their silver finish and even have the cups professionally polished to restore their condition, that's still an option.
I say, enjoy as you will. I love my antique Mexican folk art silver as folk art. Young House Love likes it as vases. Chacun a son gout (sorry I can't make the appropriate french accents.)
When I saw the before, I knew I was going to open the page to find them spraypainted white...it's been done to death.
But, the yellow was a nice touch and I love them. I'm inspired.
Well said mattster. One definition for the noun "comment": A statement of fact or opinion, especially a remark that expresses a personal reaction or attitude...
I like raw metal; have a whole collection of silver things. Pain in the a$$ to keep polished. Love the new look of these. Well done!
@princessavi -- Don't polish! It's way too much work and besides it wears away the silver. Use the easy method: Wrap each silver piece with a band of aluminum foil, put it in a sink or bowl (not plastic) and sprinkle salt and baking soda over it all. Then pour boiling water over it. Search the web for more detailed instructions. The chemical reaction this sets up extracts the silver molecules from the tarnish and redeposits the silver molecules on the silver piece. The tarnish gets deposited on the aluminum foil. When it's over, you simply rinse off the silver and dry it. Voila!
Thanks AT for sharing so many wonderful ideas, photos and articles with your readers.
I absolutely think a few take themselves way to seriously here...what others do with THEIR property is really not the business of bystanders.
"Beauty is in the eye of the .....", and you are not required to criticize others ideas or creativity.
I am so amazed at the things readers and contributors have shown me through this site. I might not have the same taste, but I can appreciate the efforts of others to make something better out of something old and tarnished.
Leave your criticisms out of the comments, (so negative), but please add constructive observations and words of appreciation or acknowledgment.
I personally like the change and really liked the idea of using them as pendant lights...I think I'll try to find some of these and use them that way! Thanks for the idea!
I was another who thought they would make cool pendant lights. I'd have trouble painting sterling, though -- as someone who has purchased metals to make jewelry, I'd either polish it or (gasp!) melt it down!!! But that's me. But I have seen similar things that are base metal, and THOSE are obvious candidates for paint!
Quick blast with some paint stripper and you have the silver back if their tastes change. Its not like they are putting a hole in it, and it means that something that would have probably sat around unused is now being used and being looked at.
These are clearly sterling silver cup holders. They look to be a larger tumbler size (?) which would make their scrap-value alone upwards of $50 each.
It seems kinda backward to spray paint precious metal, but I suppose it's a good way to camouflage them from burglars.
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Should we teach copyright laws to children? Do you think that would succeed as a piracy-fighting plan?
Teaching Copyright Laws to Little Kids
Doing that could backfire since there is a general consensus that copyright laws are crazy and deceptive.
Why MPAA is backing anti-piracy curriculum for elementary school students:
'Groups representing Hollywood studios, music labels and Internet service providers are supporting a push to educate elementary school students about the evils of piracy and the value of copyrights...'
Topics: copyright laws education
Nov 17 2013: we should be teaching them that the concept of intellectual property is fundamentally wrong.
i always wonder why mcdonalds has the IP rights to their logos and trade marks but take no responsibility for the waste their packaging creates once it passes beyond their doors. some serious holes in modern producer/consumer laws..
Nov 25 2013: Theft of intellectual property in the sciences is called plagiarism. Einstein believed in the theft of intellectual property as the most identifiable plagiarist of the 20th Century. So if you believe in the theft of intellectual property, you are in good company!
Most scientist relish going where "no one has gone before". If you get there and your ideas are stolen, you get no credit, no stature in the field and you don't get funding. Destroy intellectual property through plagiarism and the trust scientists have for their peers is diminished, they will share less due to fear of theft and this will have a chilling effect on science. There is nothing prized more as coin of the realm in science as stature in a field; take that away through plagiarism and you will drive many scientists out of the discipline which will be viewed not as a "noble" endeavor, but just as a job.
Nov 25 2013: 'There is nothing prized more as coin of the realm in science as stature in a field; take that away through plagiarism and you will drive many scientists out of the discipline which will be viewed not as a "noble" endeavor, but just as a job.'
That will surely hurt noble scientists who are not merely workers but have some rare ideas to give the
world. Plagiarism in scientific journals continues to be a viral issue. More and more scientists are
complaining about it and I say it should be considered a major crime. It's high time something stops it.
Thank you Richard.
william clegg 10+Nov 17 2013: I have long advocated teaching the principles of Law to students and scaling that knowledge to them throughout their whole educational process. It is only by understanding why laws exist and how they impact our lives can we finally avoid the sort of problems that others have been identifying in this discussion.
Knowledge is empowerment and we, the citizenry, must have direct input into any law that impacts our lives. And all laws impact our lives at some time or another. To paraphrase an old saying.... there is no legal problem without first a law to define it as such.
Nov 16 2013: Intellectual rights, piracy, and all of the other areas that they want to teach to kids are for the sole purpose of ensuring they get their money ... period.
Kids are big money. They buy the sound tracks, dolls, t-shirts, lunchboxes, backpacks, lamps, candy with the name on it, etc ... and the younger ones tell their parents what they want. At the elementary age they are spending allowance or parents buy it ... I'm guessing there is not a lot of piracy from those less than 12..
So the logic is to indoctrinate the very young. The element that does these things are not overly concerned with the law or rules. The money spent on enforcement would be better put into a safeguard being implemented into the disc.
Some do it to prove they can, some do it for fun, some do it for profit .... but they will continue. The Bible speaks of murders, drunks, thieves, prostitutes ... they are still with us. Parents, schools, churches, etc ... all teach us those are wrong actions ... yet they prevail.
No I think not. Develop technology to resolve the issue.
Nov 16 2013: Yeah ... the common good .... the people who do this are interested in their good and to heck with the rest of us.
I think it would be nice to make school fun ... make learning fun ... let kids be kids a while longer before we start to exploit and use them for political, personal, and financial gain.
Just a thought. ..... Bob.
Nov 16 2013: Ahh... I didn't pay attention to that part of Lejan's suggestion. I concentrated on
the first half:
'What we should teach our children is to sense and debunk those modern agendas...'
I am an activist so I'm also as suspicious as you when it comes to people who are
interested in their own good.
I definitely agree with you on letting the kids be kids a while longer because I lost
most of my childhood due to various circumstances.
You are frank but the likeable kind Bob :-) Thanks.
Nov 17 2013: No copyright is completely wrong, we stand infront of this huge technology that suddenly allowes us to reproduce usefull applications / worth out of nothing but the energy required to rearrange a few bits worth of data... we should make use of it. Copy what you can guys!
And we should in no way pay people for the product but pay them to create the product so everyone can make use of it.
Not everyone can make use of a single chair right at the same time? But everyone could make use of data at the same time... lets get over this intellectual property, things without physical value (by physical value i mean things like a chair) could never be contained and thats what made us as humans progress, learn and understand faster then any other race, because the basic trick to humans as a species is the fact we can communicate information with an efficiency which no other species is able o, lets not try contain that information but support people who create it so EVERYONE can progress.
Change the businessmodel, let people fund companys they trust will create great value for everyone, but not charge people to use the final product thats idiocy at its fines... BULLSHIT.
Besides when you go out on the street and ask around why people buy the cd of an artist, youll not hear inorder to listen to his music but "inorder to support the artist"... because they want him to keep making music e.g. produce many more songs they can listen to in the future. -THATS THE POINT, those people got it even though they didnt abstract it as i did here.
Oh and btw i dont see people who want to record 2 or 3 songs and be millionaires as artists, as such i dont support them in their doings, if your an artist you will be happy aslong as you can make your music and live a good life and thats perfectly possible and reasonable if you like what you do! Small artists wont die because they are seen as people and as such will always find support from their fans.
Nov 25 2013: Hey Max, As a musician, and an electronic musician at that, I have to admit I see both sides of the argument. I give plenty of my music away. You can pretty much download any score I have ever digitized for free at Scribd and the Petrucci Library, and the majority of my music is online somewhere, either because I am selling it or because someone stole it and they are setting up as a free download. Or maybe I set it up as a free download and then someone else sets it up as such, and away we go! Fine with me, thousands of folks, maybe even a million by now, have accessed my music and writing (I write about music, go figure).
I do have to argue against the notion that those that try to make money with their music aren't real artists, though (and we are excluding the Miley Cyrus variety...that's a whole different animal). I'm talking about your average musician, of which I personally know hundreds. I mean, we don't expect a surgeon or an engineer or a teacher or even a taxi driver to work for free, right? I mean, anyone can drive a car, so anyone can be a taxi driver. So taxi drivers should just be happy that someone is willing to LET them drive them around for free, right? Or maybe we just discard all the training a dentist has, teach someone how to do a basic cleaning without going to school, doesn't look that difficult right, I mean, really, it's gross, but how hard can it possibly be to wash out someone's mouth and notice that they haven't brushed in a decade? So the dentist should be happy that anyone is just willing to have them look in their mouth...?
Anyway, you see where I am getting, I hope. So yeah, I like the open source thing, and people have at it at my music, they do anyway, but don't expect that artists have a lower economic standard than doctors or teachers or taxi drivers. We eat too. Just a thought next time you rip away. :)
Nov 14 2013: Copyright Laws as well as its new ridiculous sibling 'intellectual Property Rights' have been distorted beyond recognition and does not serve its original purpose anymore.
What we should teach our children is to sense and debunk those modern agendas to find their ways back to the idea of the common good, which serves them all.


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Going on Parker's one. The "maybe" in "maybe today I'll get drunk" is turning a "probably" .
Ingredients: Absinthe, kiwi (liquor, juice, non-alcohol thing… what you prefer), a green cherry, a lime twist (you can make another Caiperin with the rests of the lime xD), liquid saccharin, ice.
Steps: Prepare the decoration first. Put absinthe and kiwi (70/30) and saccharin in the cocktail shaker with ices. Shake, shake till it's cold (as him ¬¬). Serve with no ices.
Glass: Cocktail/Martini
Decoration: Lime twist (you, twisted reptile) and a green cherry. I'm a healthy girl (just drunkard) so no coke rimming xD
Notes: Looks a bit similar to my thesis cocktail (more transparent, different alcohol base). I thought to put a lot of sugar (in order to 'fascinate' Mark) but hey man, you're sooo false, so I finally pour saccharin. It has to be poisonous and green, so absinthe as base is a must. The problem is I don't like absinthe (it's OK, I don't like Parker). I mean, I like the ritual, the colour… but not the taste, too hard for me, even with the saccharin. All anisette liquors are very strong for me. That's the reason I finally used a non-alcoholic kiwi beverage, strong enough like that.
Arf, really, my throat is burning :-/
The fuckin' cocktail finally has been a tougher than the character, you can be sure xD
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Below is a summary of what is due to occur at this week's Council meeting. Santee Patch regularly livestreams video of Council meetings and reports on important happenings, so check back for the lowdown on the meeting.
The next meeting of the City Council begins Wed., October 10, 2012 at 7 pm:
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The meeting will be a adjourned in memory of Perry Thomas Shipman Sr., a longtime Santana teacher, WWII Marine veteran and a key figure that worked to incorporate Santee as a city more than 30 years ago. Read more about Perry Thomas Shipman Sr.
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Moffat: Capaldi is "Brilliant"
Perhaps the main reason to buy Doctor Who Magazine 464 this week (besides the comic strip) is to find out more about Peter Capaldi's casting.
Steven Moffat is at hand to introduce the new Doctor to readers of DWM (the magazine will probably use the expected "Peter Capaldi IS the Doctor" headline to herald the actor's first episode) and even he seems as excited as the rest of us.
"The moment you say his name, you go 'Of course!'. He's got the hair, he's got the look. He's brilliant. Of course it's him!
"The Doctor's always said he is thousands of years old and suddenly he is going to look closer to what we know he secretly is.He won't be the dashing young man he was a minute ago."
Want more? Go buy the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, out Thursday!
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I really, really want to read this article in DWM this Thursday. Could you send it to me? I live in the United States and we get DWM about 3 to 4 months after it hits the stands in the UK.
Is he calling Peter Capaldi 1000 years old?
No. But even if he was he is still brilliantly cast!
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A Night on Broadway opens on Friday, March 23, at 7:00 p.m. in the Tarter Student Activities Center on the campus of Trevecca Nazarene University. A second performance will take place March 24 at 7:00 p.m.
Tickets are $5, with a special $3 rate for students and seniors. For more information, contact the Trevecca Music Division at (615) 248-1288, or (615) 248-1339.
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Back to Iraq. At great cost to my own eyesight, I think I can read the postmark as 5th February 1927, which is in period for the stamp, and of course this was posted in Basra. Stamp is SG 47, and apparently depicts the Al-Kadhimiya Mosque in Baghdad. This stamp is from the first (and most attractive, IMO) set designed specifically for Iraq. Looking at the scan though it seems like the perspective on the minarets is a bit wonky, but it's still a very nice design.
Sherlock Holmes, the Final Problem
This English postage stamp depicts a scene from Conan Doyle's book "The Final Problem": Holmes and Moriarty struggling at Reichenbach Falls (in Switzerland).
Doyle had the intention to end the stories of the detective by suggesting the death of Sherlock Holmes.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle thought that he had gotten rid of Sherlock Holmes. He killed him off in The Final Problem, in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was tired of Holmes, and wanted to get on to serious writing. So, at Reichenbach Falls, Holmes had a final confrontation with Moriarty, they wrestled at the edge of the cliff, and they both fell to their deaths into the falls. Watson deduces that, since neither Holmes nor Moriarty came back down the only path from the falls, then both must have died. The end.
But, the public, and Doyle's publishers, had not had enough of Sherlock Holmes. And Doyle reluctantly brought him back to life. In The Adventure of the Empty House, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, we find that Holmes had survived the fight at Reichenbach Falls. He had rock-climbed up the cliff, and that is why he didn't come back down the path from the falls. Once Watson had left, he climbed down, and went on to explore the Himalayas, letting Watson (and therefore, the rest of the world) think that he was dead. He did this to avoid his many enemies, one or the other of whom, he says, would eventually kill him. Makes sense.
Mills & Millers, Chris Killip
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USA - 1939 World's Fair - April 1, 1939 - Scott #853
I was in New York this past week and it brought to mind these great Art Deco looking stamps from 1939 and the New York World's Fair. Shown are the Trylon and Perisphere from the fair.
This stamp made quite a visual impression on me when I began collecting stamps in the 1960's. Although it lacks the bright colors of today's stamps, I consider it one of the best. This 74 year old stamp is still a looker.
1950's and 1960's United Nations First Day Covers from Found Around on Etsy
Shakespeare USPS 5-cent stamp 1964 by fantomaster on Flickr.
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616) postal stamp released in Stratford, CT on August 14, 1964. 123,245,000 issued.
The 25 de Abril Bridge (Ponte 25 de Abril "25th of April Bridge") is a suspension bridge connecting the city of Lisbon, capital of Portugal, to the municipality of Almada on the left (south) bank of the Tejo river.
It was inaugurated on August 6, 1966 and a train platform was added in 1999.
Because it is a suspension bridge and has similar coloring, it is often compared to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, USA.
In fact, it was built by the same company (American Bridge Company) that constructed the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and not the Golden Gate, also explaining its similarity in design.
Until 1974, the bridge was named Salazar Bridge (Ponte Salazar).


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Happy Navratri…
N – nav
A – Arti
V – vandna
R – roshni
A – aradhna
T – tez
R – rakhnevali
A – Ambe ma aap ki mano kamnaye puri kare.
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Hi, beautiful room. What's the wall paint and trim? Thanks!
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The wall color is Benjamin Moore-Grant Beige, and the trim is Benjamin Moore-Linen White.
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Lovely! We are in the process of converting our living rm and family rm to one great rm. for watching tv and formal dining. We now have a flat ceiling but will open up the ceiling and haven't decided whether to open up the whole ceiling.....we are considering leaving the family rm area ceiling flat for budget reasons....and seeing this convinces me to do just that as it makes for a more dramatic effect. don't you think?
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Actor Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band will perform in Memphis Friday for a big benefit concert at the Cook Convention Center for Marine Cpl. Christian Brown, who was seriously injured from an improvised explosive device Dec. 13, 2011 in Afghanistan.Unlike most concerts this one has a special mission: To raise $500,000 to build a Smart Home for Cpl. Brown of Munford, Tenn.MORE: Gary Sinise FoundationMORE: Beale gets patriotic makeover before Lt. Dan concertMORE: Lt. Dan Band to perform benefit gig Nov. 1 for wounded Marine
You never know the impact something will have on your life. Take the movie, "Forrest Gump," which starred Sinise and Tom Hanks. In the movie Forrest, played by Hanks, saves Lt. Dan's life but Lt. Dan, played by Sinise, loses both his legs. In the end everything works out for the best.
Lt. Dan came to life in the form of the Lt. Dan Band with Sinise and a big group of his musician pals who travel the world doing USO shows and raising money to build Smart Homes for American heroes like Cpl. Brown.
Cpl. Brown, leading more than 163 combat missions, stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in December 2011 and sustained injuries to both arms and hands, and lost both legs. All proceeds from Friday's Lt. Dan Band concert will go directly to build Cpl. Brown's home in Munford.To help promote the event the Lt. Dan Band came to world famous Beale Street to put their brand up: the American flag. To show his support for Cpl. Brown and all returning veterans artist Scott Lobaido painted a 3D image of the American flag on the side of the Memphis Police precinct building on Beale Street."It's my patriotic fire is why I get to do this," Lobaido said. "Here I am at the news conference in front of this giant flag on this awesome iconic American street and I love it! I only have that because of guys like Christian.""To see someone come out and do something like this, it's inspiring," Cpl. Brown said. "You know, to see that flag has its value and means so much to other people that are like-minded like me. It just gives me hope for this country and our future."Throughout World War II, the Korean War and Vietnam War, Bob Hope was the man who brought entertainment to our troops around the world.Sinise and his Lt. Dan Band have taken up the standard and now do 50 USO shows a year for our troops around the world, including fundraisers like the one Friday at 7 p.m. in Downtown Memphis. "It's phenomenal. Could not ask for anything better than that to know somebody's out there looking out for me, that's got my back my 'six' when I wasn't able to," Cpl. Brown said.To think it all started with a movie called "Forrest Gump," and the most famous line from that movie, "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get." Still so true.
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Ugly Countertops: A Few Solutions
Maybe you have a rental kitchen. Maybe you don't have the resources to renovate a kitchen that you own. But you're stuck with ugly, cracked, or disfigured countertops. What to do? Here are a few creative ideas.
• Top with a big cutting board - If you have just a tiny swathe of countertop, like we have had in past apartments, try topping it with a big, handsome cutting board. Sure, it doesn't cover up all the countertop, but it's more functional and beautiful, and takes the eye away from the ugly. This cutting board pictured above is Sara Kate's, in her little apartment kitchen.
• Paint them! - Some laminate countertops can be painted and sealed to completely change their look. This is inexpensive, and not particularly difficult. Cheri, an entrant in this year's February Jumpstart Project, did this for about $60. (Her kitchen is pictured above.) Here are Cheri's instructions and purchase list for painting laminate countertops.
• Cover them up some other way - We were really intrigued by reader jblue's comment in this post. Jblue covered up kitchen countertop with vinyl tiles, sealed with grout. This sounds tricky, but it has creative possibilities!
• Replace on the cheap - If you have a little more money to spend, and you really hate your countertops, and you picture yourself in this place for a while (or some combination of all three!), then there are inexpensive ways to replace countertops entirely. This is especially true if you only have a few linear feet of space to cover, and also if you can do at least some of the work yourself.
Some inexpensive options for replacement:
• IKEA butcher block - Does anyone have feedback on IKEA wood countertops?
• Inexpensive laminate - From big box home stores
• Salvage - Old bar tops and even stone countertops can sometimes be had at architectural salvage places.
• Reface the laminate - If you have laminate countertops, some big box stores can just reface the laminate on your countertops, without replacing the countertops themselves.
Do you have any other suggestions for cleaning up, restoring, renovating, or replacing kitchen countertops?
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When planning to do a colourful, extravagant countertop we decided to paint first, to make sure we liked the colour and that it worked with the design idea. We loved the colour and never did bother getting them done... because the paint ended up lasting over 5 years!
We had a piece (approx. 2' x 2') of granite cut & polished to fit the offending counter area. It sits next to the stove and is great for putting hot things on it, kneading dough etc. It cost less than $100 and I can continue to use it no matter where I go. The rest of the counters are a 1950's laminate.
My wife and I love our new IKEA butcher block counter-top!
We have a really tiny (mostly) gallley style kitchen, and to create more counter space, we used a long butcher block from ikea and extended it over the back wall. We used some 'anti-sliding' cabinet liners to keep it in place and it is just perfect. You can see pics of it here
Great ideas here!
I plan on tiling my gross brown countertops as soon as I can get the tools, etc. from my mother. Seconds can be bought for a good price, and if my mother can tile her bathroom, anyone can do it!
I'd love to know where the cutting board in the 1st photo is from (Sara Kate's apartment, I believe!)! I'm shopping around and really like the look of that one-are you happy with it?
I have that same grey countertop in my apartment in downtown Brooklyn. I am not that happy with it, although it blends in well.
@DC Sarah....
I bought a huge amazing bamboo cutting board from Target.com 5 years ago and it is definitely one of the best kitchen purchases I've ever made, cannot recommend it enough. Target stopped carrying them but Bed Bath & Beyond carries the exact same item....
It glows and is easy on my knives, extremely heavy and easy to care for (mineral oil is worth the $2). Also, if you buy it online then bring the receipt into the store with one of those 20% off coupons, they'll give you the cash back. Yay!
Sarah Kate's cutting board looks like this one from Target:
It may not be the same one, but it's the same concept.
Oops, I was looking at the wrong picture!
We have the Ikea butcher block countertop in our newly remodeled kitchen. People walk in and the first thing they comment on is how beautiful it is--then I tell them how much we paid for it and they almost have a stroke! We found 2 slightly dinged boards in the "As-is" pile for $15 each. All they required was a little sanding.
Ikea often has various countertops in the As-is pile. Certainly the place to look for cheap countertop solutions.
A super-inexpensive method that I've used in the past is to pick up some large (12 to 16 inch square) tiles. They generally run from about $2 to $4 each at big hardware stores.
I have a couple of the Ikea cutting boards (just like the one in the above picture) covering up my very ugly countertop.
The only drawback is that despite oiling them often, the dratted things still warp every few months. I solve that particular problem by simply flipping them over, so the warp is hidden and there's no wobble.
I recently saw a post referring to a product called Skimstone. This is a concrete type product that can be applied over an existing counter surface (including laminate). Has any one tried this product? In this application?
IKEA also has ready sized laminate countertops in two or three sizes. If your space fits the counters then they are even cheaper than Lowe's or HD (I know, I priced them out). I replaced 4 counters of awful 20 year old formica in my kitchen for under $500.
You can also cover offensive tile counter tops and back splashes with a few coats of thinset and then do a distressed paint effect, and top with polyurethane. The apartment I just bought had hideous 3x3 pink tile around the kitchen, and needed a solution that would last a while until I tore them out and put in stone. It's not perfectly durable, but it's inexpensive and looks great!
Does anyone else have laminate countertops with a wood front and backsplash? It's horrible! I've thought about painting but not sure it would work with the two surfaces...
"I recently saw a post referring to a product called Skimstone. This is a concrete type product that can be applied over an existing counter surface (including laminate). Has any one tried this product? In this application?"
I work for Rudd Company that manufactures SkimStone and helped a co-worker with her countertop applications. It takes 3 days to finish but the countertops came out really good and she's happy with them.
Ugh, I have the worlds ugliest counters. They are brown, tan and white "Crazy Paving" tile. Which means some idiot broke a bunch of tiles and slapped them haphazardly on the counter leaving, in some places, a good inch of grout in between them. People wonder why I have three HUGE cutting boards. Another good source for cutting boards is to go to Ross, Marshalls, TJ Maxx, etc after Thanksgiving and grab the turkey carving boards. One of my boards is 18"x 24" and was only $10!


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I wish I had the time to make each of these more than just a gross, really quick thumbnail sketch kinda thing, and I don't, but these ideas needed to be put on (digital) paper. Okay, so I reused an existing Ryan Gosling sketch of mine for the 1st one, sue me.
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Bump, we still need a few more raiders, a moonkin and a disc priest would be great.
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We are still in need of a few more raiders for our 25 man team. You find more information about which classes we currently need on www.visionguild.nl.
1/8 HC 25 man now :)
We still need a few more for our raid team.
We are still looking for a few more for the raid team :D
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One, lower back
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On a recent episode of Wheel of Fortune - a show generally watched only by grandmas and invalids - one contestant's unlikely ability to solve a puzzle with very few clues scored him $45K in prize money and 15 minutes of Internet fame.
Emil had only two letters on the board and the not-at-all vague category designation of "Thing." He had 10 seconds to solve the puzzle. "New baby buggy?" he said right off the bat, stunning the audience, Pat Sajak, Vanna White, and a team of Maxim editors who couldn't solve a seven-letter Hangman puzzle to save their lives.
Why Emil's go-to guess would be "New baby buggy" defies all reason. Because, what is a new baby buggy, anyway? And is it even that much different from an old baby buggy? These are questions we may never know the answer to. But one thing's for sure: We hope it's a miniature old-timey horse and carriage for toddlers, because that would be great.
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