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Seattle's Trail-Running Renaissance
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How an original epicenter for ultrarunning elites became one of the world's best towns for the average runner
Brian Bauer enjoys the lushness at Tiger Mountain, Central Cascades, Washington. Photo by Stephen Matera.
The archetypal Seattle success story features an unassuming genius mastering a revolutionary craft in obscurity before exploding to international prominence and changing the world. It happened with a number of different Seattleites—when Jimi Hendrix released "Are You Experienced?", with Bill Gates and Microsoft and the personal computer and again when Nirvana released "Nevermind,"back when grunge was something other than fodder for BuzzFeed list topics.
In the world of ultrarunning, it also happened with Scott Jurek, who reached the peak of his ultrarunning career—winning everything from the 135-mile Badwater Ultramarathon to Greece's Spartathlon 245K to the Western States 100, seven times in a row—while living and training in Seattle from 1999 to 2010. Of course, talent never occurs in a vacuum and, just as Nirvana's success depended on a complex scene of talented musicians and promoters in Seattle, Jurek's success had a lot to do with the community he lived in. In fact, his individual brilliance peaked in a scene that was, according to ultrarunning legend Dr. David Horton, "the epicenter of the trail-running world" at the time.
Over the years, many trail-running cult celebrities have lived in the Seattle area and trained in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains just east of the city—Hal Koerner, who's won multiple 100-mile races from Hardrock to Western States to Javelina, former Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc record holder Krissy Moehl, Hardrock 100 record holder Kyle Skaggs, and four-time USA Track and Field (USATF) Mountain Runner of the Year Joe Gray. The list of races that Seattleites have won over the years covers the gamut of notable ultras, both locally and internationally—Western States, Hardrock, Badwater, Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc (UTMB), White River, JFK and Chuckanut, to name just a few—but most of those victories took place prior to 2009.
In light of these successes, it is almost as remarkable that today, Seattleites rarely win races of national or international importance. Few would consider Seattle today to be even a top-five center for elite ultrarunners, nor even the ultra-racing capital of the Pacific Northwest; runners from the region have notched victories at the Western States 100, for example, each of the last three years, but these runners were based in Oregon (Pam Smith and Tim Olson) and British Columbia (Ellie Greenwood).
Of Seattle's elite ultrarunning community in the 1990s and early 2000s, local masters elite Adam Hewey says "The 'scene' based out of there was a pivotal time in the sport and, like grunge, it changed and moved on."
Sam Thompson enjoys miles of singletrack along Puget Sound in Seattle's 534-acre Discovery Park. Photo by Michael Hanson/Aurora Photos.
Fertile Ground
In the late 1990s, Seattle was exactly the kind of place that could support the development of a fringe sport like ultrarunning. At a time when it was impossible for a trail runner to make a living from prize purses, Seattle was a major economic center with a booming outdoor recreation industry and culture. Runners could find employment at locally headquartered companies like Montrail, REI and Brooks.
Seattle also boasts one of the most extensive trail networks in the country, with hundreds of miles of cushy, pine-needle-covered trail accessible within a half-hour drive of the city. Within a few more hours' drive, an even wider variety of terrain is accessible, ranging from alpine ascents to high desert to coastal rainforest. The temperate weather—not actually that bad, no matter what you've heard—allows easy, year-round access to those trails.
"I have always run in the mountains since I was a young kid," says Joe Gray, who grew up in the suburbs of Seattle. Though some runners prefer training at altitude for the aerobic benefits produced by thin mountain air, Gray sees an advantage to Seattle's sea-level trails. "You can train hard and recover fast because of the low altitude…[When] I have been in Colorado, the hardest thing to deal with is the recovery. You can have a great workout one day and a week later the worst workout ever."
Saint McCoubrey and the Glory Years
Many locals point to Scott McCoubrey as the visionary who tapped into the city's potential to become the nation's trail-running capital. With his uniform of long, dirty-blond hair, old jeans and a T-shirt, McCoubrey gives off the air of a lifestyle runner—the type who, at any moment, might pick up to live in a van in the mountains. A former ski bum who grew up in the area, he started running to stay fit after an injury forced him off of the slopes.
After immersing himself in early trail and ultra culture, in 1999, McCoubrey and his wife, Leslie, opened the now-legendary Seattle Running Company (SRC). The store, a former FootZone franchise, quickly became a gathering place for trail runners—a sort of granola Cheers, where people would bring food, organize parties and hang out alongside making gear purchases. In his book Eat and Run, Jurek likened the scene to "the corner bar where all of the punk rockers or skateboarders or cops hang out, except the people hanging out at the shop wore running shoes and swapped stories about electrolyte consumption."
In Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood, Leslie and Scott McCoubrey, Leah Kangas and Scott Jurek stand outside the FootZone store, which they would transform into the Seattle Running Company. Photo by Martin Rudow.
The store flourished for several years and, with the presence of so many who shared a passion, a strong trail-running community developed. Local runner and well-known race photographer Glenn Tachiyama described it as a time of "get togethers, potlucks and game nights" as much as a time of intense training regimens or race strategizing.
The usually talkative McCoubrey was demure when asked about his role in developing such a trailblazing business. He has said that he and Leslie were intentional about creating "a home for wayward ultrarunners"—but he downplays his own importance and insists, "it was the community that drew people together."
The Seattle community, however, would not have been what it was without McCoubrey's efforts to establish a fervent trail culture in the area. He accomplished this partly by recruiting elite trail runners to work at the SRC. Jurek himself originally moved to Seattle after being offered a job at the store, and the employee alumni list reads like a race leader board from that time—Jurek, Moehl, Koerner, Ian Torrence, who in 2002 won the HURT 100 and finished on the podium at the JFK 50, Brian Morrison, who nearly won Western States at a legendary race in 2006 where he collapsed with hyponatremia 100 yards from the finish, and 2007 top-5 Western States finisher Phil Kochik, among many others. Dr. David Horton of Lynchburg, Virginia, visited the area frequently during that period and said that "going to his store and meeting all of the workers … was like a runner making a trip to Mecca."
Joe Bauer runs the Lake 22 trail, Mountain Loop Highway, Central Cascades, Washington. Photo by Stephen Matera.
While running the store, McCoubrey also worked for the shoe manufacturer, Montrail, when it was still a fledgling Seattle business. He was integral to shaping their focus as a trail-running brand; he helped develop the concept of trail-specific running shoes and, with his direction, Montrail pioneered the first sponsored team of trail runners. They supported up to 90 runners at a time, many of them locals signed personally by McCoubrey.
Shrewdly, McCoubrey also used his Montrail connection to draw runners to the area by establishing the national importance of a local, then relatively small, race—the White River 50—soon after taking over as race director in 2001. The race was a passion project for McCoubrey because he'd spent his childhood skiing in the area. Montrail, at the time, was offering $5,000 to the winner of the USATF Trail 50-Mile championship, so when McCoubrey took over as director for White River, he worked with USATF to establish it as the championship, hoping that the prize purse and "Champion" title would attract the most competitive runners.
Participation at the race doubled between 2000 and 2001, and competitors during its championship period from 2001 to 2010 included local elites like Adam Lint and long-time record holder Uli Steidl, as well as outside, international-level talent: Ann Trason, Dakota Jones, Anton Krupicka, Ellie Greenwood, Nikki Kimball and Timothy Olson.
In another testament to McCoubrey's humility, he offers sparse commentary on his own influence for this story, but says that establishing significant prize money for that race was pioneering at the time. Almost as a side note, he admits that his work in the Seattle area "really promoted the sport on a national level."
Part of that national impact involved attracting top runners to the still-fringe sport; two of the era's best trail runners—Uli Steidl and Kyle Skaggs—may not have entered the scene if not for the atmosphere that McCoubrey helped establish in the Seattle area.
German transplant Uli Steidl was perhaps the best 50 miler in the country for a time—holding the record at White River between 2003 and 2009, when it was the national championship race. An "unstoppable German Machine," in local runner Maxwell Ferguson's description, seemingly made entirely of quad and hamstring, Steidl is a 10-time Seattle Marathon winner who had raced on the mountain-running circuit in Europe as a teenager, but had focused on road racing during his time in the States. However, he says, "After I read the story about Scott [Jurek] winning Western States for the first time … I thought it would be fun to go on a training run and show this ultra guy that road/track runners can run fast in the mountains."
Steidl approached Jurek at the Seattle Running Company, and still remembers their first run together developing into a one-on-one race on a steep, rugged trail on Granite Mountain in the Central Cascades. The run essentially ended in a dead heat—Steidl beat Jurek by a minute on the ascent, and Jurek beat him by a minute on the way down.
"After that first run, we ended up going on many more long runs in the mountains," Steidl says. "Running with [Scott] helped me get into ultras."
When a young, local runner named Kyle Skaggs was first introduced to trail running, he was a scraggly, unknown cross-country athlete at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, whose biggest running achievement in college was a 74th-place finish at a regional championship. His coach was aware of the local ultra scene, and through his recommendation Skaggs was introduced to trail running. He immediately excelled. Brian Morrison first met Skaggs in 2005 at the Tiger Mountain Fatass 25k just outside of Seattle.
"He was wearing giant wool socks and the oldest Asics I'd ever seen," Morrison says, "but when we started running I could barely keep up with him." On their race, which ended in a tie: "We finished together, but it seemed a whole lot easier for him than it was for me."
In 2006, after Skaggs finished at Evergreen State, McCoubrey signed him to a Montrail sponsorship and he put together a streak of remarkable performances. He set the still-standing Fastest Known Time on the 96-mile Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier and, in 2008, shattered the record at Colorado's Hardrock 100-Mile Endurance Run—putting up a time that Andy Jones-Wilkins called "the greatest single race in trail ultramarathon history." No one has come close to rivaling his record in the years since.
Hal Koerner on his way to winning the 2005 White River 50, with Ian Torrence and race director Scott McCoubrey on his heels. Mount Rainier looms in the background. Photo by Glenn Tachiyama.
The End of Seattle's Elite Era
As Evergreen Trail Runs race director Roger Michel says, the period during which Seattle was the center of the world for fast ultrarunners seemed like a bubble for many locals: "It was like one day all of the elites were here, and then all of the sudden they weren't." There doesn't seem to be one clear reason that things changed, but it is true that many elite runners dispersed during a tumultuous period from 2008 through 2011, when the community in Seattle took a variety of only partially related hits.
Perhaps most importantly, in 2010, the Seattle Running Company closed. Morrison, who was an employee at the time, notes that the store had suffered substantial financial losses; shortly after an expensive remodel, a building closure forced it to move from its longtime location. Though it remained open for a few years in the new spot, unexpected debt from the move meant that it wasn't viable in the long run. The store was replaced by a Fleet Feet franchise, ownership changed and the focus shifted away from the trails.
At about the same time, financial support for the local ultrarunning scene took another major hit—in 2006, Columbia bought Montrail and moved its headquarters from Seattle to Portland. Two years later, Montrail greatly pared down the number of ultrarunners it provided sponsorship, reducing their ultra team from 90 to 12. Signaling the end of the SRC/Montrail era, in 2010, Scott McCoubrey moved to Idaho to work as the Footwear Manager for Scott Sports, a position he still holds.
At the same time, elite runners had been slowly moving away or shifting their focus. Former SRC employee Hal Koerner had moved to Ashland, Oregon, to start his store, Rogue Valley Runners. Kyle Skaggs moved to Colorado before retiring from running to a farm in New Mexico. Scott Jurek and Krissy Moehl both moved to Boulder to train at altitude and chart new directions. Uli Steidl refocused on his road-racing career. Brian Morrison began developing a business and raising a family. And so, as quickly as they had gathered, many of the most influential and competitive members of the trail-running community dispersed.
"Once the momentum starts to build elsewhere, all the top runners want to be where all the other top runners are," says James Varner—race director at Rainshadow Running, and the runner who introduced Kyle Skaggs to McCoubrey.
"What was lost was the sense of family," says Tachiyama. "[Jurek, Moehl, Koerner and the others] are foremost friends, not idols."
While Washington State still produces fast runners, today it has become difficult for top locals to find training partners and community with other elite-level trail runners. "I wish I had one or two people I could consistently do hard runs with," says Maxwell Ferguson, a local with a string of impressive ultra performances in 2013. "I can definitely sense the huge benefit of having consistent year-round speed-work partners."
In the mid 2000s, someone like Joe Gray, until recently a lifetime Seattle-area runner, could have found multiple elite training partners. Now, says Ferguson, "To be honest, [Gray] is so much faster than everyone around that we aren't really of much help to him."
"Seattle is such a social city," Gray counters, "that you can easily find someone who loves to be outdoors, or who loves to just run, who will travel to the trails every week with you." Nevertheless, at the end of 2013, Gray joined the elite exodus to Boulder. He admits, "Having the support of a coach and a few other elites to train with has made a difference."
The Seattle Running Company Club ventures north of the city to the Chuckanut Mountains for a group run at Fragrance Lake. Photo by Win van Pelt.
The Great Washington Hope
On a cold Sunday morning last October, a dozen runners gathered at a trailhead within an hour's drive of downtown Seattle for a 4.5-hour scenic loop through the Central Cascades, including ascents to the blue, alpine Pratt and Melakwa lakes. The group, which consisted of men and women of mixed ages and abilities, was part of the Seattle Running Club—founded in 2003 by McCoubrey and current president Win Van Pelt with a vision to introduce new runners to the trails and build community.
Some of the members present had run mountain 100-milers, some were training for upcoming first 50Ks and one young runner named Emilee McLernon had never run trails before. "[The run] brutalized me!" she jokes. "I showed up without food or water and they made fun of how small my tread was. Oh, I'll be back though!"
While Seattleites may mourn the passing of the community's remarkable competitive era, there is a parallel, more hopeful, narrative about local trail running. During all this, Seattle has developed into a remarkably good area for the average trail runner.
James Varner, who's played a central role in recent years in expanding trail events in Washington, says, "I was definitely influenced by what was going on in the Seattle scene—the group runs, the way everyone seemed to volunteer and or race at every local race year after year. I like to think I'm continuing the tradition of inclusion that this area has always been known for."
Local trail-running groups and clubs have proliferated in recent years—ranging from the 800+ member Seattle Mountain-Running Group to the women's High Heel Running Group. Race options have grown exponentially, with races of all distances, fatass-style events and group runs taking place every weekend year-round.
In some ways, even the closure of the Seattle Running Company may have done its part to boost the sheer volume of trail-running opportunities in the area; former SRC employees, accomplished trail runners themselves, now operate three of the most prominent running stores in the area and have continued key aspects of the SRC ethos, including a passion for community on the trails.
"The biggest thing I learned from Scott and Leslie [McCoubrey] was the importance of surrounding yourself with good employees," says Brian Morrison, who took over ownership of the local Fleet Feet and regularly holds trail-focused events, film screenings and group runs with guest-star trail runners. "About half of the staff consider themselves trail ultrarunners, and I'm always extolling the benefits of trails to our [road] marathon and half-marathon training participants."
Eric Sach, another former Running Company manager, now operates The Balanced Athlete in Renton, a suburb south of the city, and started his own series of group trail runs at the start of 2014 jointly with the Seattle Running Club. "My take away from the Seattle Running Company days is that relationships matter. Even seven years after I left SRC to open The Balanced Athlete, my relationship with Scott McCoubrey and others is still strong. I know I can count on them when needed."
And, former top-five Western States finisher Phil Kochik opened the trail-specific Seven Hills Running in one of the city's western corners last year as an attempt to recreate a new center for the trail-running community in Seattle. He believes that it is the first store in the country to carry more trail-running products than road. His store regularly hosts lectures from trail runners and supports local races, and he employs visible members of the local ultra community, including noted race photographer Glenn Tachiyama. And, in 2014, Seven Hills announced that they would be supporting a new, local ultra-team featuring a variety of fast or influential local runners.
"This all ties back to Seattle Running Company," says Kochik, "because that's what they brought to the table—a trail-running clubhouse where you can hang out and get inspired."
Seattle Running Club members exuberant in the high country. Photo by Win van Pelt.
A Center for Remarkable Everyday Runners
Some of the same factors that initially brought the elites together—community, a world-class trail system, competition, word of mouth—have drawn an expanding number of people into the sport. While the community no longer centers around a core group of fast runners the way that it once did, the Washington ultra scene has an egalitarian atmosphere that, appropriately enough, reflects another aspect of McCoubrey's original vision—that "anyone could come out, and anyone can run an ultra," as local Adam Gaston described it.
The fact that Seattle's best-known runners are famous for things other than running is an interesting reflection of that egalitarianism, and of the accessibility and growth of the local ultra scene. Ben Gibbard, the lead singer for the bands Death Cab for Cutie and the Postal Service, is a Seattle Running Club member who has completed multiple ultras. And Matthew Inman, the creator of the web comic "The Oatmeal," introduced millions of readers to the White River 50 when he wrote several web series about his experiences training and running it. From his blog: "After you've been running for 8+ hours every little thing becomes an incredible luxury; at mile 21 I drank a cup of flat Mountain Dew and I swear it tasted like unicorn tears."
And it is telling that, today, a certified "back-of-the-packer" is arguably the closest thing Washington State has to a running celebrity. Ras Vaughan, also known as Ultrapedestrian Ras, is a dreadlocked Rastafarian runner, blogger and podcaster who's been working to expand the definition of what it means to be a successful, influential runner. He routinely sets out to establish "OKTs," or Only Known Times, on routes and distances that haven't yet been attempted, but which capture the imagination. His signature runs so far have been a double loop of the 96-mile Wonderland Trail around Mount Rainier, and a six-time unsupported crossing of the Grand Canyon. Despite these remarkable accomplishments, he will likely never win a race, and his focus is on promoting running for the vast majority of people, who aren't routinely at the front of the pack.
"My goal in covering crazy distances by foot isn't to prove that I'm different," he says, "but to experience the fullness of being an average human. Ordinary people are capable of amazing and extraordinary things."
And perhaps no event encapsulates the Washington running community—its storied past and its accessible present—like the Baker Lake 50K/100K Ultra Trail Runs. Originating in 2002, the race is one of Washington's oldest ultras, and its annual October running marks the end of the Washington summer race season. The course traverses soft, rolling trail along the eastern edge of an alpine lake in the North Cascades, and features constant expansive views of Mount Baker to the north, assuming the low autumn clouds haven't set in.
No women, and few men, have run the 50K faster than Krissy Moehl's 4:40 in 2004, and the locals who organize are as old school as they come. In 2013, the race was directed by Terry Sentinella, a Badwater top-10 finisher in 2012. Former White River and Cascade Crest 100 winner Shawna Tompkins stood by and grilled burgers for finishers throughout the day.
The post-race crowd included local heroes like Brian Morrison and Adam Hewey, Ben Gibbard and a gang of well-dressed hipster friends, a number of first-time ultrarunners, and a host of familiar-faced locals who seem to show up for any race that's likely to provide them with more than five hours of fun on the trails. It was a sunny day, and for hours after the race, this crew of runners mingled–Gibbard and Morrison making jokes about GI issues, and sore racers icing legs while downing beers and burgers.
At the finish line, a crowd waited until nearly midnight, wrapped in sleeping bags to fight off the chilly mountain air, to welcome back the final finishers of the 100K. Things looked and felt the way so many Seattle-area ultras used to—speedsters celebrating their peers' finishes as much as their own victories, and a radically diverse crowd hanging out, united by the trails.
This article originally appeared in our April 2014/DIRT issue.


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When President Barack Obama takes executive action on immigration, he's expected to give final approval to a rule allowing spouses of H-1B visa holders, now barred from working in the U.S., to get jobs. There could be more changes as well as the Obama administration has met with various tech groups to collect wish lists.
Obama is expected to use his executive authority over the coming weeks to make significant changes to immigration rules in the absence of congressional action.
A roadmap for the president is the Senate's comprehensive immigration reform bill (S. 744), which has stalled in the House. Obama is being urged to adopt provisions of the bill that don't require congressional action.
The House isn't expected to vote on the bipartisan Senate bill, which passed in 2013.
Two key items believed to be getting consideration by the administration were included in the Senate bill.
First: The U.S. now issues 140,000 employment-based permanent visas or green cards each year, half of which go to dependents. The Senate bill exempts dependents from the cap, effectively doubling the number of green cards available to principals.
The idea of only counting principals and not dependents, including children, against the cap extends to family permanent residency as well. That provides an opportunity to create broad-based support for principals-only reform.
A draft letter from several groups to the president calls for the elimination, or at least a reduction, in the "egregious backlogs for legal immigration by counting only principals against the limits set by the Immigration Act of 1990."
The letter was signed by the IEEE-USA, the Semiconductor Industry Association, the Society for Human Resources Management, and the League of United Latin American Citizens, among other groups.
Former U.S. Rep. Bruce Morrison (D-Conn.), who chaired the House Immigration subcommittee responsible for drafting the 1990 immigration reform legislation that created the present system, believes the White House has the ability, via executive action, to allocate all available employment-based green cards to principals only.
Second: The tech industry also wants Obama to use executive action to "recapture" unused green cards from prior years, and make them available to people now in the permanent residency backlog. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that recapturing unused green cards from 1992 to 2013 would add about 250,000 visas.
The "recapture" action was also sought in the Senate bill.
According to a several sources, some in the high-tech industry may ask the White House to establish an H-1B priority system. The priority system idea was not part of the Senate bill.
The U.S. now uses a lottery system to distribute visas if the 85,000 cap is oversubscribed. A priority system would give preference to firms that aren't dependent on H-1B visas. This may hurt the major users of H-1B visa, offshore outsourcing firms based both in the U.S. and India.
If a company has 51 or more full time employees and 15% of those workers are on an H-1B visa, it is categorized by the U.S. as H-1B dependent and subject to special rules. There is also opposition within the tech industry to a priority system, so it may lack the support needed.
More certain is final White House approval of a rule to allow spouses of H-1B visa holders who are seeking green cards with authorization to work. For now, spouses can't hold jobs.
The U.S. received nearly 13,000 written comments on the proposed rule before the comment period closed last month.
Writing in opposition was the Society of Professional Engineering in Aerospace (SPEEA), whose members are employed as scientists and in technical positions at several large companies, including Boeing.
SPEEA said that there is "the strong likelihood" that spouses will have science, technology, engineering and math degrees (STEM), and that in many cases may work for the same employer are their H-1B holding spouse. It warned that if the rule is adopted, "employers will likely exploit this opportunity by preferentially hiring H-1B workers with STEM-degreed spouses in order to acquire two STEM workers with one H-1B visa."
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, supports of the rule, arguing that employed spouses "will improve the likelihood that highly skilled H-1B workers will seek to stay in the U.S. on a permanent basis and remain in the U.S. labor force."
The Obama administration, according to Politico, met with tech and other business sectors earlier this month to discuss immigration issues.
Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala), a critic of the H-1B program, said this week in a statement that "the same group of CEOs" that helped to write the Senate immigration bill "is now scheming with the White House to extract by executive fiat what was denied to them by the American people and Congress."
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SchmartPatch allows you to add or replace components on any substrate such as a PCB (Printed Circuit Board). This SchmartPatch board allows you to cut off a pad, stick it on to the surface (adhesive is provided already on the back) and then solder a component onto the SchmartPatch. There also are pads where you can solder jumper wires to make the electrical connection.
Each SchmartPatch board in this 4-pack has five pads that can be cut off as needed, so you get a total of 20 component patches. Each of these pads supports all components in any of the SC70 packages up to six legs.
SchmartPatch can be used on a PCB or on anything. The adhesive backing can used to place a SchmartPatch anywhere that you need it.


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Calif. Aquarium Blames Flooding On Curious Octopus
SANTA MONICA, CA — Staff at the Santa Monica Pier Aquarium in California say the trickster who flooded their offices with sea water was armed. Eight-armed, to be exact.
They blame the soaking they discovered Tuesday morning on the aquarium's resident two-spotted octopus, a tiny female known for being curious and gregarious with visitors. The octopus apparently tugged on a valve and that allowed hundreds of gallons of water to overflow its tank.
Aquarium spokeswoman Randi Parent says no sea life was harmed by the flood, but the brand new, ecologically designed floors might be damaged by the water.


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|Acting Chief Justice Lee Jeong-mi reads the opinion
The translated opinion is produced below. Important passages are highlighted in blue, followed by TK's annotation in bold.
[TK: The court shut down several arguments by Park Geun-hye's attorneys that, basically, the National Assembly did not follow proper procedure to pass the impeachment resolution. This was a weak argument that had no chance.]


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Changing Color Values in Style Sheets
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In addition to the editing techniques that are common for all file types, PyCharm provides specific techniques for CSS, Sass, SCSS and Less files.
In particular, it is possible to easily change color values without the necessity to memorize and type color codes.
color properties are marked with the icons of the corresponding color in the left gutter area of
the editor. Use these icons to view colors and change color values. When you point with your mouse cursor to the
color icon, the pop-up window appears, showing the color and its code.
Choosing color value
To choose color value in a style sheet
Changing color value
To change color value in a style sheet
- Open the desired style sheet for editing, and locate color property to be changed.
- Do one of the following:
- In the Choose color dialog box, pick the desired new color, and click Choose:
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Penguins of Madagascar
Penguins of Madagascar Conversation in POM Quotes.
krazy4kowalski posted on Aug 27, 2010 at 01:59AM
We are going to have a conversation. Who wants to hear the catch? All we can say is POM quotes (and they can't follow an episode, we can't just be quoting Jiggles!)
Example: Fan: Is it...dangerous?
Other fan: Sure it is...guv'nor!
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willingness to communicate
Mini-conference: Sharing ideas and getting feedback
Posted by Dimitra in Education on June 19, 2015
Yesterday was officially the last day of our MA TESOL course. No, we didn't have any lectures nor seminars. It was something different. We had a mini-conference at Froser Noble Hall in the School of Education. The conference started at 9:45 am and ended at 1:15 pm. Each student had their own notice board where we […]
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5 Tips For Classy, Frugal Holiday Fun
The economy may have drained your entertaining budget, but that doesn't mean you can't host a holiday party with panache. It just takes planning -- and ingenuity -- to create champagne parties on a beer budget.
"The essence of successful entertainment doesn't lie in the amount of money you spend in preparing for your guests. It lies in the time, thought and care you devote to the surroundings, activities and menu," says Tracey McBride of Long Beach, Calif., a frugality lifestyle expert and author of the book "Frugal Luxuries by the Seasons."
Following are some easy ways to polish your holiday event without breaking the bank.Display food and beverages with flair
You don't need caviar and champagne to impress. Simple and inexpensive ingredients -- such as raw vegetables -- can make a big impact.
"It's all in the presentation," says Andrea Correale, CEO of Elegant Affairs, a caterer based in New York City's Gramercy Park and Glen Cove, N.Y.
Veggies with dip on a big platter? Ordinary and boring, says Correale, whose clients include the historic club The Players in Gramercy Park and the mansion that houses the Nassau County Museum of Art in Long Island.
But take those same ingredients and place them in individual glass votive candle holders that people can pick up and carry while mingling "and you've got something special," she says."It's the little details that make it look trendy and appealing," Correale says.
No need to break out the filet mignon if you want to serve more substantial food; cheaper cuts of meat can be presented with flair. For example, you can braise beef in a casserole and serve it in sourdough bread bowls, she says.
"Whatever you serve, kick it up a notch," she says.
Forget the big meal
Potlucks or simple buffets are certainly less expensive than sit-down, seven-course dinners. Pare it down even further by hosting a brunch, dessert or cocktail party.
For a cocktail party, offer a holiday punch or signature drink to control the costs of buying different types of liquor. Browse the Web for interesting holiday drink ideas -- such as candy cane martinis, Correale says.
If a New Year's Eve party calls for champagne, opt for a champagne cocktail instead, says Allison Julius, co-owner of Maison 24, a home decor and accessories retailer based in Bridgehampton, N.Y. Put a few fresh pomegranate seeds in a champagne flute followed by pomegranate juice. Then, fill with champagne.
"The red-tinted drinks look festive and will stretch out the number of servings you get from each bottle of champagne," Julius says.
Ditch the paper plates
Party hosts often find it easier to use paper plates, napkins and plastic cutlery. But they also can cheapen the occasion and -- ironically -- add to your costs.
Instead, break out the real stuff: Gather all your plates and flatware.
"They don't need to match," McBride says.
Real plates add a touch of class to your affairs without busting the party budget. You can even take this back-to-basics approach one step further, McBride says.
"I like to use a collection of vintage handkerchiefs in lieu of paper napkins," says McBride.The key is to remember that making a big impact doesn't require a huge amount of money, Correale says.
"It's all about taking the ordinary and making it extraordinary -- simple food plus big visual impact makes a party to remember that won't break the bank," she says.
Decorate with natural elements
Don't buy expensive holiday decorations for a party when there's plenty of free raw materials in your yard.
For example, evergreen shrubs or trees -- such as boxwood or holly -- can be snipped to make garland and wreaths. If you don't have a yard, ask for donations from neighbors or friends.Correale likes to use Styrofoam cones to artistically display evergreen clippings and make a centerpiece tree.
"At a florist, this would cost you $40 or more," she says.
She also takes real fruit -- apples, oranges, pears -- and spray paints them gold for centerpieces."There are many things in your home (that) can be transformed into something that is suitable for holiday decorations," Correale says.
Create party ambiance with candles, scents
For lighting ambiance, use candles everywhere, says Phyllis Cambria, of Coconut Creek, Fla., and co-author of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Throwing a Great Party."If you don't have enough candleholders, use simple glasses and tea cups. You can also turn glasses upside down as a stand for pillar candles.
"These will look terrific when they are displayed in a group in varying heights," Cambria says.You can also fill glasses with sand, cat box filler or decorative rocks to hold taper candles in place.
For inexpensive holiday scents, set some apple cider, fresh cloves and cinnamon at a simmer on your stove instead of buying pricy premade potpourri, Correale says.


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A dress for every occasion and every budget.
It's that time of year! Parties around every corner, celebrations galore and of course the big one…Christmas Day. If you are on the hunt for a frock to cover every occasion and every budget, this post is for you. Feast your eyes on some gorgeous get ups to get you through the silly season!


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Crikey 0.8Mostly this week has been consumed with preparations for LCA ... but programming is a sickness. When you get email from someone suggesting something relatively simple and obviously useful, well ... it's simply impossible not to pull out that emacs window and start typing.
And so it was when I got a request for a backspace character in crikey. Of course backspace and delete seem like perfectly reasonable and useful characters to want; don't know why I didn't think of putting them in before. So I did.
But while I was in there, suddenly it occurred to me that it really wouldn't be much harder to let users specify any key by symbol. (Did I mention being a programmer is a sickness?) And then I realized that specifying control characters with a caret, like ^H, would also be quite useful. (Did I mention that ...)
So anyway, now there's a Crikey 0.8 and it's time to get back to packing and endless fiddling with my talk slides. Except, wait, I need to update my netscheme script to work right with the new laptop, and ...
Did I mention that programming is a sickness?
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A Good Girl (Who Didn't Make It)
Alyssa was my best friend. She was a talented musician, a graceful gymnast, a brilliant writer, and a deeply passionate human being. She cared about people. Love bled from every facet of her being. When she spoke, her eyes were as sincere as her words. And she always wanted to understand what was wrong so she could strive to make it better.
But Alyssa woke up one day during her senior year in college with a strange pain in her chest. The on-campus doctors didn't understand why, so they referred her to a specialist. After several MRIs and blood tests, they determined that she had a rare, escalated case of Hodgkin's lymphoma—a form of cancer. She spent the next three years suffering through varying degrees of pain and sickness as multiple doctors treated her with radiation and chemotherapy. And although these doctors were initially hopeful, Alyssa's condition worsened, and she eventually succumbed to her cancer, dying on her 25th birthday.
A Bad Guy (Who Did)
Ethan was also my friend. Although not as multi-talented as Alyssa, he was incredibly smart, particularly when it came to money and business tactics. But sadly, he didn't care about people one bit. I eventually learned, just before ending our 10-year friendship, that he ripped people off for a living. He primarily targeted elderly folks who had a relatively small life savings. "They're all suckers," he told me. And he felt no remorse because, he continued, "they'll all be dead soon anyway."
Today, at the age of 37, Ethan is a multi-millionaire. And although we haven't spoken in years, I've heard from others that he still hasn't gotten into any legal trouble—largely, I think, because of the calculated legal threats I've heard he makes to anyone he suspects might have a good conscience. I hear, also, that he doesn't suffer from any major health problems, and that he, his complicit wife, and his two healthy sons live in a mansion somewhere in Los Angeles.
The Reason We Make Our Time Count
These are real stories, and yet they're old stories—familiar stories. The people and circumstances differ slightly for everyone who tells them, but the core lessons remain the same: Life is short and it isn't fair. Bad things do happen to good people. And good things do happen to bad people.
Tragically, these stories and lessons often fuel the excuses many of us use when we choose not to follow our hearts. And they fuel the excuses many of us use when we choose to treat ourselves and each other without dignity and respect. "Why care?" we argue, "when the Alyssa's of the world suffer and die young while the Ethan's of the world sip wine at five-star resorts well into their eighties."
But for some of us, Alyssa and Ethan are the reason we do follow our hearts. His story is the reason we live to make the world a little brighter, to make people a little happier. And her story is the reason we use all of the strength we have right now. Because we know we may not have the same strength tomorrow…
Because a world with no guarantees requires us to make the best of the precious little time we have left.
Notes to Self for Making YOUR Time Count
The key, Angel and I have discovered, is keeping the right thoughts and intentions at the top of our minds on a daily basis. Over the past decade we've written various "notes to self" like the ones I've listed below (all of which are now excerpts from our NYT bestselling book), and then we've placed them where we can easily see and reference them (for example, several of our original notes are presently taped up over our desks in our home office). These "notes to self" help us stay on track, by empowering us to make the best and most effective use of our time.
We've passed these notes on to our course students and live seminar attendees over the years, and many of them have thanked us for doing so. We hope YOU find value in them today, too:
1. Opportunity is only ever found in the present.
Some people wait all day for 5pm, all week for Friday, all year for the holidays, all their lives for happiness and peace. Don't be one of them. Life is too short. Time is running out. Don't wait until your life is almost over to realize how good it has been. The secret to happiness and peace is letting this moment be what it is, instead of what you think it should be, and then making the very best of it.
If you don't allow yourself to move past what happened, what was said, what was felt, you will look at your present and future through that same dirty lens and nothing will be able to focus your foggy judgment. Realize this. What you do now matters more than what happened yesterday.
2. Your entire life can be customized from day to day.
There are hundreds of people in every town on Earth who live their entire lives on the default settings, never realizing they can customize everything. Don't be one of them. Don't settle for the default settings in life.
Find your loves, your talents, your passions, and embrace them. Don't hide behind other people's decisions. Don't let others tell you what you want, or what you are capable of. Explore the unknown! Test the limits! Design YOUR journey every step of the way. The life you create from doing something that moves and excites you is far better than the life you get from sitting around wishing you were doing it.
3. The willingness to do hard things makes life worth living.
If you want a job, be ready to work. If you want a relationship, be ready to work. If you want a family, be ready to work. If you want happiness, be ready… To learn and earn and give and grow, NOT just want and have and take and show.
Truth be told, one of the most important abilities you can develop in life is the willingness to accept and grow through life's challenges and discomforts. Because the best things are often hard to come by, at least initially. And if you shy away from hard work and discomfort, you'll miss out on them entirely. Mastering a new skill is hard. Building a business is hard. Writing a book is hard. A marriage is hard. Friendship is hard. Parenting is hard. Staying healthy is hard. But all are amazing and worth every bit of effort you can muster.
4. Daily kindness is a beautiful legacy to leave behind.
Some people will be kind to you. Some won't. Be kind anyway.
Through kindness you have the ability to make a profound difference in every life you touch, including your own. When you guide somebody who is lost and confused, when you hold somebody who is sad and grieving, when you hug somebody who has lost all their hope, you too will feel yourself healing and growing stronger.
So just keep reminding yourself that you will end up terribly disappointed if you expect people will always do for you as you do for them. Not everyone has the same heart, strength and inner resolve as you. No matter what has happened, or what happens today, let kindness be your superpower. Being extra kind to people is a peaceful way to live in each moment, and a beautiful legacy to leave behind in the long run.
5. Everything will change again, faster and sooner than expected.
Nothing lasts. Everything changes. Day to day is a winding journey.
As human beings we are constantly outgrowing what we once thought we couldn't live without, and falling in love with what we didn't even know we wanted. Life literally keeps leading us on journeys we would never go on if it were up to us. Don't be afraid. Have faith. Find the lessons. Trust the journey.
You will gradually learn that nobody gets too far without losing somebody they love, something they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is these very losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities. Embrace these opportunities. Enter new relationships and new situations, knowing that you are venturing into unfamiliar territory. Be ready to learn, be ready for a challenge, and be ready to experience something or meet somebody that just might change your life forever.
Afterthoughts & Questions…
Although it still hurts sometimes, it's also inspiring to think that, a whole decade after her passing, fond memories of my friend Alyssa continue to guide many of the decisions Angel and I make on a daily basis. And Alyssa is not our only source of inspiration. Over the years Angel and I have lost several key figures in our lives too soon to death, including Angel's brother Todd and our mutual best friend Josh. Every single word we write on this blog and in our books, every single live event we host, and every coaching session we hold with a student, is done with these people, and the "notes to self" they've inspired, in mind.
And, I'm sure you can relate in some way…
To a greater or lesser extent, we all know deep down that life is short, and that our mortality—our inevitable demise—will catch up to each and every one of us eventually. And yet we are infinitely surprised when it catches up to somebody we know. It's like walking up a long flight of stairs with a distracted mind and miscalculating the final step. You expected there to be one more stair than there is, but there isn't, and so you find yourself off balance, tripping over yourself for a while, until your mind shifts back to the present moment and the reality of how life really is.
Let's take a deep breath right now and take this to heart.
Let's make the best of the precious little time we have left, together.
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama flies Air Force One when he leaves town. So does Candidate Barack Obama.
Either way, taxpayers are on the hook for a hefty amount.
The souped-up Boeing 747 that typically serves as Air Force One costs $179,750 an hour to operate, according to the latest Pentagon calculations, meaning that expenses for presidential travel mount quickly.
And, no matter what the reason for the president's trip, there are all sorts of other necessary big expenses anytime he moves around the country: advance teams, cargo planes, armored cars, Secret Service protection, communications and medical staff and more.
Presidents always are quick to stress that they reimburse the government for the costs of their political travel.
That's true, but they do so under rules that still leave taxpayers paying most of the tab.
For political trips benefiting his own campaign, Obama's team repays the government for air travel under a formula that's based on what it would cost to charter a Boeing 737 for a comparable trip, according to the White House. Obama's campaign doesn't have to pay the full cost for a chartered plane, though. It pays a reduced amount based on the number of people aboard Air Force One who were traveling for political reasons. That number excludes Secret Service agents and other support staff who always travel with the president.
Obama's political team also pays for items on the ground like food and lodging that are related to political events. Similar reimbursement rules govern political travel by the vice president and first lady, who fly on smaller, less costly military aircraft.
Despite the high costs to taxpayers, "these White Houses aren't doing anything wrong," says Brendan Doherty, an assistant professor at the U.S. Naval Academy who's written a forthcoming book on presidential campaigning.
If a president had to pay the true costs of his campaign travel, says Doherty, he'd never go anywhere for political purposes.
Obama is the first president to pay for re-election travel under updated rules adopted by the Federal Election Commission in 2009 to implement a lobbying and ethics reform law passed by Congress in 2007.
David Mason, a former FEC chairman, said the new rules — linking reimbursement amounts to charter air rates rather than commercial airfare — require the Obama campaign to pay significantly more than it would have under the old rules.
When President George W. Bush was running for re-election in 2004, his campaign and the Republican Party reimbursed the White House more than $1.3 million for "airlift operations," an Associated Press review of federal data shows. Those include itemized expenses for "in-flight services," like food and catering, and the president's helicopter, Marine One.
With the 2012 general election more than six months away, Obama already has exceeded that amount. Since late 2010, a separate Democratic Party "travel offset" account has paid roughly $1.5 million for similar expenses, according to FEC reports. And there can be considerable lag time between when political travel occurs and when reimbursements show up in campaign filings, so more payments are sure to be in the pipeline.
Even under the new rules, taxpayers end up paying a large share of the overall political travel costs for Obama, Mason said. He added that "it ought to be that way," because of all the special costs related to presidential travel, including security and communications.
"Frankly, there are big advantages to being the incumbent candidate which I don't think there's a way to compensate for fully in the campaign finance regulations," he said.
Since this is an election year, the party that's out of power inevitably is sniping about taxpayer-subsidized political travel by the incumbent.
House Speaker John Boehner complained Thursday that Obama's trip this week to the battleground states of North Carolina, Colorado and Iowa, for speeches to college students that were classified as "official" events, was a "pathetic" attempt to turn student loan rates into a political issue.
"His campaign ought to be reimbursing the Treasury for the cost of this trip," Boehner said.
White House press secretary Jay Carney countered that Obama's trip was focused on an important policy issue and said the president goes strictly "by the book" in drawing the line between campaign travel and official travel.
FEC rules specify that when there is any political activity at a particular stop, all travel to that destination must be reimbursed.
When a presidential trip includes multiple stops, some of them for political events and some for official purposes, then travel costs get divided up between the campaign and the government. But following a decades-old White House tradition, Obama aides declined to share details on how that's done.
Asked about Obama's reimbursements, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said the administration follows all federal rules governing reimbursements.
Meredith McGehee, policy director of the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said the lack of transparency about how costs are divided up is troubling.
"It's a pretty murky business," she said. "Is the campaign paying its fair share? The answer is, we don't know."
Ari Fleischer, who was Bush's White House press secretary, said presidents of both parties need leeway "to do normal things," and that includes campaigning. They don't have the option of traveling commercial or charter airlines, or losing the security and support entourage that always travels with a president.
But Fleischer said Obama seems to cross a line by striking an overtly political tone at non-campaign events, such as a recent speech in Florida on tax fairness and the so-called Buffett Rule, in which the president criticized the economic policies of some "members of Congress and some people who are running for a certain office right now, who shall not be named."
Political rhetoric is in the ear of the beholder, however.
"I don't think the president is doing anything that is out of the norm," says Michael Feldman, who worked in the Clinton White House. "When he's talking about the Buffett Rule, he is campaigning for a piece of legislation and an administration priority in his capacity as president."
The Republican National Committee on Thursday requested a Government Accountability Office investigation into what it said were campaign stops being passed off as "official events."
Every recent president has faced finger-pointing over taxpayer-subsidized travel.
While the president's ability to swoop in to political events on Air Force One is a huge advantage — and a bargain — for his campaign in many respects, it does come with a downside: It's far easier for a challenger to hopscotch the country on a smaller plane and to quickly change plans as political dynamics shift. The high per-hour cost of Air Force One, for example, includes charges for fuel, supplies and short- and long-term maintenance for a plane unlike any other.
The cost breakdown for trips that involve a mix of political and official stops is particularly complex. And both Obama and his predecessor tended to mingle their fundraising with official travel, according to information compiled by CBS News' Mark Knoller, who tracks presidential travel.
From the day he filed for re-election through April 9, Obama had taken 58 domestic trips, including 23 that involved political fundraising. Seventeen of those fundraising trips also included official events.
Whether a presidential event should be considered official or political is an unending source of controversy.
Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, who studied presidential travel for the Brookings Institution, said it's difficult to draw a clear division.
"The office is inherently political," she said. "I'm not sure how you would ever separate the political from the presidential."
Associated Press writer Jack Gillum contributed to this report.
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(AllHipHop News) YMCMB rapper Lil' Wayne is trying his hand at a new clothing line, called Trukfit, designed for skateboarding enthusiasts.
Trukfit, the new clothing brand from the Grammy Award winning, platinum selling Hip-Hop icon will debut in January 2012.
According to a statement released by Trukfit, the line was inspired by Lil Wayne's passion for skateboarding and quality street wear.
Trukfit is made from fabrics that feature bold graphics and will sell at a moderate price point.
Lil Wayne's Trukfit clothing line will be debuting on January 23rd and 24th.
Wayne has been touring overseas as of late, having recently performed in Australia with Eminem and also in South Africa with Drake.


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Susan Caldbeck stood at the edge of the chicken wire fence on her Agassiz farm, a bucket of blueberries and seed in hand. Around her were a number of donkeys — rescue donkeys, prize-winning donkeys and one donkey with scoliosis in her back — but Caldbeck didn't pay attention to them. She only had eyes for the chickens.
"Olive. Lucky. Girlies," she said, calling out to the two chickens in a high pitched voice reserved for pets and small children. "Where's my chickens?"
The long, low bawck of an unimpressed chicken rose from the coop. Then, the white and red head of a Leghorn peered out.
"Oh hello Lucky," Caldbeck said, smiling. She tossed some seeds into the run, and Lucky pecked them up, then looked around as if to ask 'Where's my blueberries?'
It seemed a pleasant life for a chicken, but it hadn't been long ago that Lucky was not quite so lucky.
In early January, 55-year-old Caldbeck was looking through Facebook when she saw a post from woman who had found a chicken underneath her trailer.
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"It was the rainstorm right before the snowstorm," Caldbeck remembered. Normally, she said, she would have passed the post by.
"But then she's like, 'Some cat's going to get this chicken,'" she said. "I'm like, really? That's the end of it?"
Comments on the Facebook post about putting the chicken in a pot also pushed her to do something.
"This poor chicken has survived some pretty traumatic stuff already," Caldbeck said. "She deserves a chance to live."
"So my poor husband got home 20 minutes later, and I'm like, 'Come on, let's go, we're going on a chicken wrangling mission.'"
|YLucky (front) in her coop with fellow chicken Olive. (Grace Kennedy/The Observer)
The pair went over with a fishnet, and eventually cornered the rain-soaked chicken, scooped her up and took her home.
"She was so skinny," Caldbeck said. "I have no idea where she came from.
"Somebody said maybe she's a spent chicken," she added, "so she's finished laying her eggs and she's going to get slaughtered."
That didn't deter Caldbeck though. Nor did the fact that, although she and her husband had been nominated farmers of the year when they lived in Aldergrove for their donkey breeding, she had never owned chickens before.
"I have no clue what to do with a chicken," she said, laughing. "Give me a donkey, a horse, you know."
Caldbeck put Lucky up in a dog kennel they converted into a chicken coop and set about creating a home for the chicken.
Her husband, called "Poor Dave" by Caldbeck's friends, built and rebuilt a roost for Lucky 12 times. Calbeck went out and bought 88 pounds of food, because she wasn't sure which kind of chicken feed Lucky liked best. And of course, they went out and got a friend for Lucky as well.
Olive, a deep brown chicken with flecks of black and white on her feathers, came to live with Caldbeck shortly after Lucky arrived.
With Olive's companionship and Caldbeck's love, Lucky prospered. Thanks to Caldbeck's posts in the Life in Agassiz Facebook group, she became a local internet celebrity. And along the way, she found that she wasn't a spent chicken after all.
Since Valentine's Day, Caldbeck has gotten more than a dozen eggs from the two chickens.
"I actually told them they didn't have to lay eggs," Caldbeck said, laughing. "The thought of giving birth every day just seems like a really bad idea to me."
Caldbeck hasn't eaten any of the eggs yet — "it's kind of weird," she said — but has plans to increase her flock to get eggs of all different colours.
"They have to be fancy chickens if they're going to live here. Other than Lucky," Caldbeck added. "She's just a boring old Leghorn, but that's okay."
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