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About the Time Led Zeppelin Were Presented with Gold Records at a Live Sex Show
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Every recording artist dreams about their albums selling well enough to be certified gold or platinum, but actually picking up those fancy awards usually entails spending a boring few hours in a conference room with stodgy label executives. Usually, but not always -- and especially not for Led Zeppelin.
By 1973, Zeppelin had plenty of gold and platinum awards lying around, so when manager Peter Grant was informed that the band had earned another round of certifications for its 'Houses of the Holy' LP, he took the unusual step of suggesting they hold the ceremony at Chat Noir, a Stockholm sex club. And because Grant was not the kind of guy who tended to take no for an answer, that's exactly what ended up taking place -- during a live sex show, no less.
It's the kind of story we'd be inclined to chalk up to rock 'n' roll legend if not for the fact that a photographer was invited, and those shots -- one of which (thoroughly NSFW, by the way) is currently up at Nerve -- are now heading for the auction block, where they're scheduled to be sold during a June 23 event that will, appropriately enough, be hosted by the Bonhams auction house.
The sale lot, which includes "fifty six black and white negatives, a corresponding set of prints and two contact sheets," is presented in a listing that reads in part, "During the proceedings, which included a naked couple performing on a small stage, the band was presented with a number of gold album sales awards...The great majority of these images are previously unseen...a few images are thought to have appeared in a Swedish men's magazine at the time." They aren't cheap -- Bonhams lists a range between $34,000 and $42,000 -- but if you've got some extra money to burn and you're looking to own a piece of rock history that will double as a guaranteed conversation-starter, you could certainly do worse.
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Bicycle is a kind of portable and practical vehicle. But we always worry about the placement and the security of our bikes. This design is aim at solving this resonating problem. The bell of the bicycle is an innovation based on the traditional one. We can pull out a chain hidden in the bell, bypass the rim and lock it back in the bell. At the same time, the bell can automatically turn on the alarm when the lock is broken. The combination of the bell and the chain is not only convenient, but also bring people security.


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China Bids for Friends in Southeast Asia as US Influence Grows
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FILE - In this April 27, 2021, photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, its personnel patrol beside ships said to be Chinese militia vessels at Sabina Shoal in the South China Sea.
China is showing new interest in working with Southeast Asian countries in the disputed resource-rich South China Sea as its superpower rival, the United States, gains diplomatic momentum under President Joe Biden, analysts in Asia say.
China, with Asia's biggest military and economy, hosted a rare, in-person meeting June 7-8, bringing the foreign ministers of 10 Southeast Asian countries together with their Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.
Wang and ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations said in a June 9 statement from their meeting in the Chinese city Chongqing they had discussed the pursuit of "peaceful resolution of disputes" in the South China Sea and a resumption of talks toward "early conclusion of an effective and substantive code of conduct."
Final signatures on the code of conduct — a document that would spell out ways of avoiding mishaps at sea without touching a sovereignty dispute involving six governments — will probably miss a 2021 goal because of its complexity and dearth of related discussions during the pandemic, observers say.
At this month's meeting, China mainly wanted to get Southeast Asian governments on its side and pull them away from the United States, according to experts.
"This will be a way for China to try to shore up its defenses, shall we say, against a resurgence of pro-Western influence," said Jay Batongbacal, international maritime affairs professor at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City.
China claims about 90% of the 3.5 million-square-kilometer sea that is prized for fisheries and fossil fuel reserves. ASEAN members Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam call parts of the sea their own, overlapping the Chinese boundary line, and Taiwan claims most of the same waterway.
Southeast Asian countries have long recoiled over China's landfilling of small islets in the sea for military use and passing vessels through waters they claim. ASEAN defense ministers Tuesday called for the early conclusion of a code of conduct as tensions rise in the region and — without naming any one country — for self-restraint.
China alarmed the Philippines in March by letting 220 vessels moor near a disputed islet in the Spratly archipelago and angered Malaysia last month by flying air force planes near Kuala Lumpur's maritime claims. Maritime diplomacy has eluded the region since 2019 because of a lack of in-person meetings and the urgency of discussing COVID-19 instead of other topics.
Biden began his first foreign trip in office last week to strengthen ties with European allies. He told reporters the eight-day trip was to show China as well as Russia that the United States and Europe are still close.
Biden is trying to "consolidate" allies in Europe, so China must appear "conciliatory" in its own region, said Eduardo Araral, associate professor at the National University of Singapore's public policy school.
Biden has upheld predecessor Donald Trump's approach toward the South China Sea by bringing allies together to check Chinese military movements in the disputed sea. European allies have already backed Washington's South China Sea agenda this year to date.
"I think China is trying to take advantage of this so-called transition from Trump to Biden," said Alan Chong, associate professor at the Singapore-based S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. "It's a long transition, which I think hasn't quite played out yet, and Beijing might well see this as an opportunity to pressure ASEAN to concede more points on the South China Sea."
Southeast Asian states with maritime claims seldom side openly with China or the United States. Washington has no claim in the sea, but it periodically sends naval ships as gestures of support for the smaller disputants. China wants the United States out of the sea, but ASEAN countries privately hope the U.S. presence stops China from taking too much control there, Araral said.
China's ability to call ministers together in person despite struggles with COVID-19 around Southeast Asia makes Beijing look good even without a code of conduct, experts say. The meeting was dubbed a "special" one to celebrate 30 years of China-ASEAN dialogue relations.
ASEAN members hope China can further help them normalize their economies in the aftermath of COVID-19 business closures, Chong said. Several ASEAN members, including the Philippines and Vietnam, have accepted Chinese COVID-19 vaccines despite the maritime friction.
Beijing "clearly wants to use this event to show it has ASEAN people on its side," said Collin Koh, a maritime security research fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. China, as well as Southeast Asian countries, wants to be seen working on a "thorny" issue, he said.
"This is considered a diplomatic coup for China," Koh said. "It manages to get all the 10 ASEAN member states to send their foreign ministers."
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Many patients don't realize how maintaining your oral health benefits your overall health, but a healthy mouth truly is the gateway to a healthy body. Inflammation that is found in the mouth -usually in the form of gum disease – is correlated with inflammation found elsewhere in the body, as in diabetes or heart disease.
Fortunately, when you take good care of your smile you'll gain other health benefits as well. Here are a few tips for making sure that your teeth and gums are as healthy as possible.
Take steps to keep your smile clean and free from bacteria every single day. It only takes a matter of minutes a few times a day to brush your teeth, so make sure you make time for this important task, as well as a daily flossing session. If you tend to produce a lot of plaque, you may also want to add an anti-bacterial mouthwash to your regimen.
Get professional dental care at the recommended intervals. When you see a dentist every six months, any oral diseases that might develop are more likely to be detected in earlier stages when they can be more readily treated. Additionally, professional cleanings by dental hygienists will help to eliminate any harmful bacteria that may accumulate despite a daily oral hygiene routine.
Consider working with a holistic dentist. This type of specialist takes a more integrated view of oral health and how it interacts with and influences the body's other systems. In this way, you can maximize benefits to your smile and your body.
Monitor your smile for any symptoms of concern. – If you notice any problematic issues such as discomfort or bleeding, or red or swollen gums, schedule an appointment as soon as possible with your holistic dentist to be evaluated for conditions like gum disease or tooth decay.
Eat a nutritious, healthy diet that includes minimal sweets. The nutrients found in fruits and vegetables and other healthy foods are just as important for your smile as they are for the rest of your body. And when you limit sweets, you're restricting the nutrition source for the bacteria that can cause decay and gum disease.
Consult with our holistic dentist, Dr. Philip Kozlow, if you would like more suggestions on how to keep your smile healthy while giving your body a boost at the same time.
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Should you decide to fully or partly cancel your reservation, the hotel will make a refund as soon as possible.
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The US Federal Communications Commission or FCC voted on Thursday to Scrap Net neutrality that requires internet service providers to treat all internet traffic equally. This move marked a victory for internet service providers like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon Communications and handed them power over what web content consumers can access. It has also sent Chilling waves across cyberspace and experts say, the move is certain to have ripple effects in other countries. Critics say the move is against the interest of the consumers and favours big corporate companies. Risk looms large on small-time websites and if such websites would choke in the US, they are likely to wilt for users in India too.
How repealing of net neutrality affects consumers?
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What are the concerns of small content providers and start-ups on not having net neutrality?
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What started the debate around net neutrality in India?
Facebook's big advertisement campaign for its Free Basics app that gives users selective access to services like communication, healthcare, education, job listings and farming information -- all without data charges - triggered the debate on net neutrality. For this move, Facebook was criticized for handpicking internet services and for discriminating against companies not in the list, including Facebook's rivals.
What is India's position on net neutrality?
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SADLER v. LYNCH
192 Va. 344
SADLER v. LYNCH.
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Charles B. Godwin, Jr., Mills E. Godwin, Jr., Suffolk, for plaintiff in error.
Thomas L. Woodward, Jacob L. Woodward, Suffolk, for defendant in error.
Before EGGLESTON, SPRATLEY, BUCHANAN, MILLER and SMITH, JJ.
Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia.
BUCHANAN, Justice.
Elbert Lynch was killed apparently as a result of touching a dump truck which had become electrified when the boom of a mechanical crane, by which a metal dragline bucket was being loaded into the truck, came in contact with an electric wire carrying about 6,400 volts. His administratrix brought this action for damages, alleging that his death was due to the negligence of the defendant Sadler, owner of the truck and crane, and recovered a verdict and judgment for $2,500, which this writ of error brings up for review.
Sadler was a crane operator of long experience. Lynch, a married man about 25 years old, had been employed by him as a laborer in that business for three weeks but did not work on Saturdays. On the Saturday of this accident, Lynch asked to borrow this dump truck for his own use. Sadler agreed but told Lynch he would first have to use the truck to haul the dragline bucket to a place where he expected to use the crane. The crane was then stuck in the mud on the property of Sadler's brother.
The crane was pulled out of the mud by a motor grader and onto a farm road, along the side of which were poles carrying several electric transmission lines on crossarms extending partly over the road. Lynch then backed the dump truck down the road to a point about 25 feet from the crane so the bucket could be loaded into the bed of the truck, which was of metal.
The crane was mounted on a revolving platform on a motor truck and was equipped with a steel boom with an operating radius of about 25 feet. The dragline bucket, which was used for excavating, was attached to the end of steel cables which worked over pulleys in the end of the boom and thence down to a drum operated by a motor in the housing in which Sadler, the operator, sat.
After Lynch placed the truck he got out of it and Sadler told him to get away from the truck and stay away. Lynch thereupon moved from five to seven feet away from the truck and beyond the reach of the boom. Sadler then picked up the bucket with the boom, swung it over and lowered it into the bed of the truck. It was then not sitting straight in the truck so Sadler undertook to shift it around. In doing so the boom apparently touched the electric wire. Sadler, then watching the boom and the bucket, did not see Lynch touch the truck but out of the corner of his eye saw him fall. He went to him and found him lying four or five feet from the truck about midway of and parallel to it.
The only other person around at the time was Baird, the operator of the motor grader, who was then driving the grader away and the motor of the crane was also running. He did not see Lynch approach the truck or fall, but on hearing Sadler hollo he ran back to see what had happened and found Lynch lying on the ground. The only mark on Lynch was a burn on his left hand, between the thumb and forefinger. There was no mark on the boom to indicate contact with the electric wire, but an expert witness for plaintiff testified that although there would usually be a mark, it was possible that there would not be. The sheriff testified that Sadler told him that the boom struck the wire and he thought Lynch had his hand on the truck and was electrocuted.
We need not stop to discuss the relation of Lynch to Sadler at the time, whether invitee or employee. The instructions given at the request of both plaintiff and defendant submitted to the jury the question of whether Sadler used such care in warning Lynch of the danger as a reasonably prudent person would have used. See Burruss v. Suddith, 187 Va. 473, 47 S.E.2d 546. That and the question of decedent's contributory negligence were the only issues before the jury and the only issues presented here by the defendant's assignments of error.
In the case of aninvitee we have held that the warning must be given in a reasonably effective way. Knight v. Moore, 179 Va. 139, 147, 18 S.E.2d 266, 270. In the case of a servant we have held that it is the duty of the master to warn the servant of all dangers to which he will be exposed of which the master is or ought to be aware, except such as the servant knew or ought to have known about. Low Moor Iron Co. v. La Bianca Adm'r, 106 Va. 83, 55 S.E. 532. If there is any difference in the scope of the required warning, it should be in favor of the servant rather than of the invitee, and most of the cases have arisen out of the relation of master and servant.
The sufficiency of the warning may depend on a number of factors, such as the intelligence and experience of the servant and the nature of the danger. Grant Storage Battery Co. v. De Lay, 8 Cir., 87 F.2d 726; 56 C.J.S., Master and Servant, § 290, page 1052.
"The standard of care required of one maintaining a dangerous agency must be commensurate with the risk therefrom reasonably to be foreseen." Bennett v. New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Co., 294 N.Y. 334, 62 N.E.2d 219, 220.
A mere general warning of danger may be insufficient, and an insufficient warning is in legal effect no warning. 56 C.J. S., Master and Servant, § 290, page 1053; 38 Am.Jur., Negligence, § 31, p. 677; Fidelity Trust Co. v. Wisconsin Iron & Wire Works, 145 Wis. 385, 129 N.W. 615.
The evidence in this case as to warnings, which comes from the defendant and his witnesses and is not contradicted, shows that the following warnings were given to plaintiff's decedent:
After Lynch moved the truck into position to receive the bucket, Sadler told him to move away, "to stay clear of the truck and get out of the way of it."
Lynch was present when Sadler had operated the crane around power poles "at Pierce's." There he had to move under wires on the side of the road, "and I told him not bother with the crane, or truck, or anything until I got in the field."
At a place referred to as the theater, Sadler had to move next to a pole on which there was a power line in order to get the crane into position for work, and he told Lynch then "to stay away from here if I was near the pole. "The manager of the theater was there at the time and Sadler told him also.
He was asked if he ever told Lynch why he did not want him there when he was working around wires and he replied, "I told him it was dangerous. In other words, if anything should happen, if the cable should break and the boom twisted and I was by the wire, it would fall on the wire."
Again, Lynch was with Sadler one day when he dug a ditch on his brother's place under this power line. Sadler required Lynch to stay up on the hill and did not allow him to be where the crane was operating. He testified that Lynch knew why he did not let him go down there; that where the work was being done he just had room under the wires to operate the crane. He said he told Lynch he should not be near any of that equipment when he was working under the power line, "and I told him never to lay up on the crane, never to come around there if he wasn't busy, if I was working around the power line."
On another occasion when the truck was being loaded with dirt Sadler told Lynch to get out of the truck and stand back.
When a proper warning has been given, a defendant is relieved from liability for injuries received by one who does not heed it, 56 C.J.S., Master and Servant, § 290, page 1053; and failure to heed it is usually contributory negligence. 56 C.J.S., Master and Servant, § 460, page 1302; 38 Am.Jur., Negligence, § 198, p. 878; Ove Tysko v. Royal Mail Steam Packet Co., 9 Cir., 81 F.2d 960.
In Fisher v. Prairie, 26 Okl. 337, 342, 109 P. 514, 516, it was said that the duty of the master to warn "will be held to have been fully performed if the information which he imparted was sufficient when supplemented by the servant's own personal observation to enable him to reasonably appreciate the risks of the employment."
In Labatt's Master & Servant, Vol. 3, § 1160, pp. 3080-3081, is this statement: "In numerous cases the servant has been allowed to recover for the reason that the court felt itself unable to say, as a matter of law, that the master's culpability might not reasonably be inferred from evidence which indicated that the servant, although he had been warned in general terms as to the danger of the work, had received no special warning in regard to the particular danger to which the injury was due, or no explicit instruction as to the proper manner of avoiding it, and that, under the circumstances, the information which the master had thus failed to communicate was necessary to enable the servant to obtain an intelligent compreisnsion of the danger."
On the evidence above stated, which is all there is on the subject, Lynch had been warned in much more than general terms. He had been warned specifically that it was dangerous to be around the crane when it was operating under power lines, and had been given explicit instructions as to the proper, and in fact the only, way of avoiding it; that is, by staying away from the truck. It is true he was not told that if the crane touched the wire at the same time as the bucket touched the truck, the truck might be charged with a deadly current, but we do not think that here the duty of the defendant extended to explaining exactly how the danger against which he had been warned might operate.
There is no evidence as to the intelligence or experience of the decedent beyond the fact that he was a married man 25 years old and had been working for Sadler for three weeks. He could see for himself that the boom of the crane was very close to the power lines, which he had been warned was a dangerous condition. Certain it is that if he had obeyed the specific order to get away and stay away from the truck no harm would have come to him. Sadler was still engaged in loading the bucket into the truck when Lynch left his place of safety and came to the truck in violation of his instructions and with no reason or necessity for doing so. He did that before the bucket was finally settled in the truck and the boom then had to be disconnected from it by Sadler. Lynch did not know how to do that, he had no duty connected with it and could not have moved the truck until it had been done.
In Brickell v. Shawn, 175 Va. 373, 379, 380, 9 S.E.2d 330, 332, 333, Shawn was killed when the frame for an electric sign which was being constructed on a roof fell sideways and knocked him off a parapet at the front of the roof. Brickell, his employer, had warned Shawn "not to get on the parapet and to stay clear of the structure." Shawn was performing no duty which required him to be on the parapet, yet, as the opinion states, "he left a place of safety on the flat roof, where his duties required him to be, caught hold of the structure and pulled himself up on top of the narrow wall. When the structure collapsed he was knocked or fell to the pavement below. Clearly, we think, he was the author of his own passing."
There Shawn was not instructed as to the particular way the potential danger might operate to cause him injury, but his death came from his violation of a specific order to stay away from the source of danger.
In Gray & Bell v. Scott and Wife, 66 Pa. 345, 5 Am.Rep. 371, relied on by plaintiff, defendants were employed to deliver coal to a rolling mill, owned by Painter & Company, over a private tramway, which it was the duty of the defendants to keep in repair. Underneath this tramway was a passageway which the plaintiffs' son had been warned off of by the Painters because of danger which they apprehended from the use of it by workmen rolling trucks, wheelbarrows, etc. Plaintiffs' son was killed while in this passageway by a car negligently pushed by the defendants from the tramway above. The court held that a defense of contributory negligence was rightly rejected because it would have imputed to the plaintiffs' son negligence "in not regarding a warning of danger from a cause entirely different from that by which he lost his life." The court said he could not be guilty of negligence as to the defendants (who had given him no warning of danger from the tramway), unless he had some reason to expect danger from that source, and a duty of care on his part in relation to it. The distinction between that case and this is plain.
In Bennett v. New York & Queens Electric Light & Power Co., supra, also relied on by the plaintiff and similar to this case in its general facts, not only was no warning given, but there was even an assurance of safety.
Usually where failure to give sufficient warning has resulted in liability, it has been in cases where the master has assigned an inexperienced servant to work at a dangerous place or with a dangerous instrumentality without instruction as to dangers inherent in the work sufficient to enable the servant to avoid injury. Crawford v. Michael & Bivens, 199 N.C. 224, 154 S.E. 58; City of Dothan v. Hardy, 237 Ala. 603, 188 So. 264, 122 A.L.R. 637; Obenchain v. Harris & Cole Bros., 148 Iowa 86, 126 N.W. 960; Cotoia v. Seale, 306 Mass. 101, 27 N.E.2d 706; Labatt's Master & Servant, Vol. 3, § 1159, p. 3078.
We hold that the evidence in this case shows that there was sufficient instruction as to the danger involved and how to avoid it, and hence the defendant was not guilty of negligence in this respect, but the death of the decedent was due to his own negligence in failing to heed the instruction given him.
The judgment below is reversed and final judgment will be entered here.
Reversed and final judgment.


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Someone in possession of that much BTC could become a target of criminals, especially since bitcoins are less like stocks and more like cash, where the private keys needed to authorize spending could be printed out and literally kept under a mattress. Bitmain actually stated that the Segwit2x (aka New York Agreement) would be preferable: So naturally, when BIP91 (first part of Segwit2x) locked-in and activated ahead of BIP148, which is scheduled for August 1, most assumed this would prevent the so-called user-activated hard fork (uahf) from. However, the current mania for it looks unsustainable. There are several websites/job boards which are dedicated to the digital currency: WorkForBitcoin brings together work seekers and prospective employers through its website Coinality features jobs freelance, part-time and full-time that offer payment in bitcoins, as well as Dogecoin and Litecoin Jobs4Bitcoins, part. 9, 2009 : Block 1 is mined, and Bitcoin mining commences in earnest.


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Logopolis
Tom Baker's final story as The Doctor, and debut of Janet Fieldings appearance as Tegan The Doctor takes Adric and a young air hostess named Tegan Jovanka, who has come aboard the TARDIS by accident, to the planet Logopolis, home of a race of mathematicians whose help he hopes to enlist in reconfiguring the outer shell of the TARDIS. The mysterious, wraith-like Watcher brings Nyssa from Traken to join them and warns of impending danger – something that is borne out as The Master arrives and kills a number of the Logopolitans
Episode entry
Logopolis is the seventh and final serial of the 18th season in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 28 February to 21 March 1981.
It was Tom Baker's last story as the Fourth Doctor and marks the first appearance of Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor.
This serial also marks the first appearance of Janet Fielding as new companion Tegan Jovanka, whilst Nyssa, played by Sarah Sutton and seen in previous serial The Keeper of Traken, returns and also joins The Doctor as a companion.
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How Can I Estimate What My Truck Accident Case is Worth?
If you suffered an injury or loss as a result of a large truck accident in Seattle, WA and are wanting to estimate what your case might be worth, there is one way you can go about doing this. Now, keep in mind that a qualified and experienced Seattle, WA truck accident lawyer can provide you with a more accurate estimate, however, there are a few ways you can begin working to determine how much you might demand if you are filing a personal injury lawsuit or seeking compensation directly from the responsible party.
The first thing you would need to do is estimate what your economic damages are worth. "Economic damages refers to compensation for objectively verifiable monetary losses" [Source: American College of Surgeons]. So, let's consider a few monetary losses the truck accident has caused.
Past and future medical expenses. Any care you received that was provided to treat the physical or psychological injuries you suffered from the accident should be added up. Whether you paid for the care out of your own pocket or you have bills that are piling up, all of this should be added to get a sum of how much you have spent and/or owe in medical expenses. Now, it may be difficult to determine what your future medical expenses will be so let's leave that up to your truck crash lawyer to determine. Once you have this total, set it aside as you will need it later on.
Loss of past and future earnings. If the accident has resulted in you being unable to work, you will want to add up how much income you would have received had you been able to resume your position and bring in money. And as far as future earning go, although it is best to leave it up to a lawyer to determine, you can estimate the amount based on how long your physician predicts your injuries will have you out of work. Some injuries are so severe that you may never be able to return to your job so you might find this amount rather difficult to calculate if these are the circumstances you are currently facing.
Costs of repairs or replacement. If your vehicle sustained damage and you had to pay for the repairs or the cost to replace it, you will want to add up. In the event you haven't been able to afford the repairs but received an estimate for how much the work will cost, be sure to include this in your total.
The cost of domestic services. If your injuries are preventing you from being able to clean your home, cook your meals, or complete any other tasks at home in which you have to hire someone to do it for you, the amount spent should be written down and will later be added to the other losses we highlighted above.
Loss of employment or business opportunities. If your injury has caused you to miss out on a promotion at work, think about how much you would have made had you received the promotion and been able to work. In the event the accident has led to you being unemployed, estimate how much debt you have accrued trying to stay afloat while seeking other employment that is conducive to your condition.
Once you have a total for each category, go ahead and add them all up. The amount you get will be an estimate as to how much you will want to ask for in terms of economic damages.
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Now, there are other damages you can seek compensation for, although they are much more difficult to calculate on your own. For example, you can also demand payment for non-economic damages for non-monetary losses such as "pain, suffering, inconvenience, emotional distress, loss of society and companionship, loss of consortium, and loss of enjoyment of life." You can also ask that the courts award punitive damages which "refers to damages awarded for the purpose of punishment" and "to deter intentional or reckless behavior or actions motivated by malice." Because these amounts are based on your own personal circumstances, the only way to get a true value for what they are worth is by having a truck accident lawyer calculate these amounts for you.
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Q: Unable to use dynamically imported modules I'm dynamically importing any .py modules that are not the __init__.py or my skeleton.py files from a subdirectory. I first build a list that looks like (.py is omitted):
mods_in_dir = ['my_mods.frst_mod','my_mods.scnd_mod']

my_mods beign the subdirectory, frst_mod.py and sncd_mod.py being the available modules. All modules I import contain the class Operation and it offers always the same three functions. Then I import them using importlib.
import importlib

imports = {}

for i in mods_in_dir:
   imports[i] = importlib.import_module(i)

Which results in apparently successful imports, as I checked it by print(sys.modules.keys()), where they show up as [...], 'my_mods.frst_mod', 'my_mods.scnd_mod', [...].
For testing reasons I defined a function in every of the modules:
def return_some_string():
    return "some string"

But I'm unable to call this function. I've tried everything that came to my mind.. e.g. print(my_mods.frst_mod.Operation.return_some_string()) or print(frst_mod.Operation.return_some_string())
Both resulting in NameError: name 'my_mods' is not defined or NameError: name 'frst_mod' is not defined
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Solved.
@m170897017 helped me solve the problem in my initial attempt.
I missed that I had the modules in the imports dict and didn't use that.
print(imports['my_mods.frst_mod'].ModsClassName.return_some_string()) now successfully prints some_string

A: Change dynamic import to this way and try again:
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mods_in_dir = ['my_mods.frst_mod','my_mods.scnd_mod']
modules = list(map(__import__, mods_in_dir))
# if you want to invoke func1 in my_mods.frst_mod and get result from it
result1 = modules[0].func1()
# if you want to invoke func2 in my_mods.scnd_mod and get result from it
result2 = modules[1].func2()
...

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Rififi () is a 1955 French crime film adaptation of Auguste Le Breton's novel of the same name. Directed by American blacklisted filmmaker Jules Dassin, the film stars Jean Servais as the aging gangster Tony "le Stéphanois", Carl Möhner as Jo "le Suédois", Robert Manuel as Mario Farrati, and Jules Dassin as César "le Milanais". The foursome band together to commit an almost impossible theft, the burglary of an exclusive jewelry shop in the Rue de la Paix. The centerpiece of the film is an intricate half-hour heist scene depicting the crime in detail, shot in near silence, without dialogue or music. The fictional burglary has been mimicked by criminals in actual crimes around the world.

After he was blacklisted from Hollywood, Dassin found work in France where he was asked to direct Rififi. Despite his distaste for parts of the original novel, Dassin agreed to direct the film. He shot Rififi while working with a low budget, without a star cast, and with the production staff working for low wages.

Upon the initial release of the film, it received positive reactions from audiences and critics in France, the United States, and the United Kingdom. The film earned Dassin the award for Best Director at the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Rififi was nominated by the National Board of Review for Best Foreign Film. Rififi was re-released theatrically in both 2000 and 2015 and is still highly acclaimed by modern film critics as one of the greatest works in French film noir.

Plot
Tony "le Stéphanois", a criminal who has served a five-year prison term for a jewel heist, is out on the street and down on his luck. His friend Jo approaches him about a smash-and-grab proposed by mutual friend Mario in which the trio would cut the glass on a Parisian jeweler's front window in broad daylight and snatch some gems. Tony declines. He then learns that his old girlfriend, Mado, took up in his absence with gangster Parisian nightclub owner Pierre Grutter. Finding Mado working at Grutter's, Tony invites her back to his rundown flat. She is obviously well-kept, and Tony savagely beats her for being so deeply involved with Grutter. Tony changes his mind about the heist; he now accepts on the condition that rather than merely robbing the window, they will take on the more difficult but more lucrative task of robbing the store's safe. Mario suggests they employ the services of Italian compatriot César, a safecracker. The four devise and rehearse an ingenious plan to break into the store and disable its sophisticated alarm system.

The caper begins with the group chiseling through a cement ceiling from an upstairs flat on a Sunday night. The suspenseful break-in is completed, and the criminals appear to escape without leaving any trace of their identities. However, without the others' knowledge, César pocketed a diamond ring as a bauble for his lover Viviane, a chanteuse at Grutter's club. The heist makes headline news and the four men arrange to fence the loot with a London contact. Meanwhile, Grutter has seen Mado and her injuries, and she breaks off their relationship. Infuriated at Tony's interference in his life, Grutter gives heroin to his drug-addicted brother Rémy and tells him to murder Tony. But then, the other Grutter brother, Louis, shows them the diamond César gave to Viviane and they realize that César, Mario, and Tony were responsible for the jewel theft. Grutter forces César to confess. Forsaking a FF10 million police reward, Grutter decides to steal the jewels from Tony's gang, with Rémy brutally murdering Mario and his wife Ida when they refuse to reveal where the loot is hidden. Tony retrieves it from the couple's apartment and anonymously pays for a splendid funeral for them. He then goes looking for Grutter and stumbles onto the captive César, who confesses having squealed. Citing "the rules," Tony ruefully kills him.

Meanwhile, seeking to force their adversaries' hand, Grutter's thugs kidnap Jo's five-year-old son Tonio and hold him for ransom. The London fence arrives with the payoff, after which Tony leaves to single-handedly rescue the child by force, advising Jo it is the only way they will see him alive.  With Mado's help, he tracks Tonio down at Grutter's country house and kills Rémy and Louis while rescuing him. On the way back to Paris, Tony learns Jo has cracked under the pressure and agreed to meet Grutter at his house with the money. When Jo arrives Grutter tells him Tony has already snatched the child and kills him. Seconds too late to save his friend, Tony is mortally wounded by Grutter but kills him as Grutter tries to flee with the loot. Bleeding profusely, Tony drives maniacally back to Paris and delivers Tonio home safely before dying at the wheel as police and bystanders close in on him and a suitcase filled with FF120 million in cash. Jo's wife, Louise, takes her child from the car and leaves the suitcase and the body to police.

Cast
Jean Servais as Tony "le Stéphanois": A gangster who recently returned from serving five years in prison for jewel theft. The eldest member in on the heist, Tony is godfather of namesake Tonio, son of Jo "le Suédois".
Carl Möhner as Jo "le Suédois": A young Swedish gangster Tony took the five-year rap for. Jo invites Tony in on the heist. "Le Suédois" actually means "the Swede" in French.
Robert Manuel as Mario Ferrati: A happy-go-lucky Italian gangster who came up with the original idea for a jewel heist.
Jules Dassin as César "le Milanais": An expert safecracker hired by Tony with a weakness for women. Dassin played the role under the pseudonym of Perlo Vita.
Magali Noël as Viviane: a night-club singer who gets involved with César "le Milanais"; she sings the film's title song.
Claude Sylvain as Ida: Mario Ferrati's wife
Marcel Lupovici as Pierre Grutter: Leader of the Grutter gang and owner of the night-club L'Âge d'Or. He is the first to figure out Tony's responsibility for the diamond heist.
Robert Hossein as Rémy Grutter: A member of the Grutter gang, addicted to heroin.
Pierre Grasset as Louis Grutter: A member of the Grutter gang.
Marie Sabouret as Mado: The former lover of Tony "le Stéphanois".
Dominique Maurin as Tonio, the young son of Jo "le Suédois". Towards the end of the film, Tonio is kidnapped by the Grutter gang and is rescued by Tony "le Stéphanois".
Janine Darcey as Louise, Jo's wife and the mother of Tonio.

Production

Development
The film Rififi was originally to be directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, a later luminary of the heist film genre. Melville gave his blessing to American director Jules Dassin when the latter asked for his permission to take the helm. It was Dassin's first film in five years. He had been blacklisted in Hollywood after fellow director Edward Dmytryk named him a Communist to the House Committee on Un-American Activities in April 1951. Subsequently, Dassin attempted to rebuild his career in Europe. Several such film projects were stopped through long-distance efforts by the US government. Dassin attempted a film L'Ennemi public numero un, which was halted after stars Fernandel and Zsa Zsa Gabor withdrew under American pressure. An attempt to film an adaptation of Giovanni Verga's Mastro don Gesualdo in Rome was halted by the US Embassy. Dassin received an offer from an agent in Paris, France where he met producer Henri Bérard who had acquired the rights to Auguste Le Breton's popular crime novel Du Rififi chez les hommes. Bérard chose Dassin due to the major success in France of Dassin's previous film The Naked City.

Using his native English, Dassin wrote the screenplay to Rififi in six days with the help of screenwriter René Wheeler, who subsequently took the material and translated it to French. Dassin hated the novel; he was repelled by the story's racist theme in which the rival gangsters were dark Arabs and North Africans pitted against light-skinned Europeans. As well, the book portrayed disquieting events such as necrophilia—scenes that Dassin did not know how to bring to the big screen. Bérard suggested making the rival gang Americans, assuming Dassin would approve. Dassin was against this idea as he didn't want to be accused of taking oblique revenge on screen. Dassin downplayed the rival gangsters' ethnicity in his screenplay, simply electing the Germanic "Grutter" as surname. The greatest change from the book was the heist scene, which spanned but ten pages of the 250-page novel. Dassin focused his screenplay on it to get past other events he did not know what to do with. As produced, the scene takes a quarter of the film's running time and is shot with only natural sound, with no spoken words or music.

Filming
Working with a budget of $200,000, Dassin could not afford top stars for the film. To carry the lead role, Dassin selected Jean Servais, an actor whose career had slumped due to alcoholism. For Italian gangster Mario Ferrati, Dassin cast Robert Manuel after seeing him perform a comic role as a member of Comédie-Française. After a suggestion made by the wife of the film's producer, Dassin cast Carl Möhner as Jo the Swede. Dassin would use Möhner again in his next film He Who Must Die. Dassin himself played the role of the Italian safecracker César the Milanese. Dassin explained in an interview that he "had cast a very good actor in Italy, whose name escapes me, but he never got the contract!...So I had to put on the mustache and do the part myself".

Rififi was filmed during the wintertime in Paris and used real locations rather than studio sets. Due to the low budget, the locations were scouted by Dassin himself. Dassin's fee for writing, directing, and acting was US$8,000. Dassin's production designer, to whom he referred as "one of the greatest men in the history of cinema", was Alexandre Trauner. Out of friendship for Dassin, Trauner did the film for very little money. Dassin argued with his producer Henri Bérard on two points: Dassin refused to shoot the film when there was sunlight claiming that he "just wanted grey"; and there were to be no fist fights in the film. Such fight scenes had been important to the popular success in France of the Lemmy Caution film series.

Rififi'''s heist scene was based on an actual burglary that took place in 1899 along Marseille's cours St-Louis. A gang broke into the first floor offices of a travel agency, cutting a hole in the floor and using an umbrella to catch the debris in order to make off with the contents of the jeweler's shop below. The scene where Tony regretfully chooses to kill César for his betrayal of the thieves' code of silence was filmed as an allusion to how Dassin and others felt after finding their contemporaries willing to name names in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee. This act was not in the original novel.

Music and title

Georges Auric was hired as the composer for the film. Dassin and Auric originally could not agree about scoring the half-hour caper scene. After Dassin told Auric he did not want music, Auric claimed he would "protect [him]. I'm going to write the music for the scene anyways, because you need to be protected". After filming was finished, Dassin showed the film to Auric once with music and once without. Afterward, Auric agreed the scene should be unscored.

In 2001, Dassin admitted that he somewhat regretted the Rififi theme song, utilized only to explain the film's title which is never mentioned by any other film characters. The title (World War I French military slang) is almost un-translatable into English; the closest attempts have been "rough and tumble" and "pitched battle."  Dassin mistakenly thought the author had created the word himself to refer to Moroccan Berbers because of the Rif War. The song was written in two days by lyricist Jacques Larue and composer Philippe-Gérard after Dassin turned down a proposal by Louiguy. Magali Noël was cast as Viviane, who sings the film's theme song. Noël would later act for Italian director Federico Fellini, appearing in three of his films.

ReleaseRififi debuted in France on 13 April 1955. The film was banned in some countries due to its heist scene, referred to by the Los Angeles Times reviewer as a "master class in breaking and entering as well as filmmaking".
The Mexican interior ministry banned the film because of a series of burglaries mimicking its heist scene. Rififi was banned in Finland in 1955 and released in severely cut form in 1959 with an additional tax because of its content. In answer to critics who saw the film as an educational process that taught people how to commit burglary, Dassin claimed the film showed how difficult it was to actually carry out a crime.Rififi was a popular success in France which led to several other Rififi films based on le Breton's stories. These films include Du rififi chez les femmes (1959), Du rififi à Tokyo (1963), and Du rififi à Paname (1966). On its United Kingdom release, Rififi was paired with the British science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment as a double bill; this went on to be the most successful double-bill release in UK cinemas in all of 1955. The film was offered distribution in the United States on the condition that Dassin renounce his past, declaring that he was duped into subversive associations. Otherwise, his name would be removed from the film as the writer and director.Levy 2003, p. 344. Dassin refused and the film was released by United Artists who set up a dummy corporation as the distributing company.Foerstel 1998, p. 165. The film was distributed successfully in America with Dassin listed in the credits; in this way he was the first to break the Hollywood blacklist. Rififi was released in the United States first with subtitles and then later with an English dub under the title Rififi...Means Trouble!. The film was challenged on release by The Roman Catholic Legion of Decency; as a result, the film suffered three brief cuts, and opened with a title card quoting the Book of Proverbs stating "When the wicked are multiplied, crime shall be multiplied: but the just shall see their downfall". After this change, the film passed with a B rating. In 2005, Variety announced that Stone Village Pictures had acquired the remake rights to Rififi, the producers intending to place the film in a modern setting with Al Pacino taking the lead role.

Home media
In North America, Rififi has been released on both VHS and DVD. The VHS print has been reviewed negatively by critics. Roger Ebert referred to it as "shabby" while Bill Hunt and Todd Doogan, the authors of The Digital Bits Insider's Guide to DVD, referred to the VHS version as "horrible" and with "crappy subtitles".Hunt and Doogan 2004, p. 330. The Criterion Collection released a DVD version of the film on 24 April 2001.Hunt and Doogan 2004, p. 329. In the United Kingdom, Rififi was released on DVD by Arrow Films on 21 April 2003, and on Region B Blu-ray by the same publisher on 9 May 2011. The film was released to Blu-Ray in Region 1 by Criterion on 14 January 2014.

Critical reception
Upon its original release, film critic and future director François Truffaut praised the film, stating that "Out of the worst crime novel I ever read, Jules Dassin has made the best crime film I've ever seen" and "Everything in Le Rififi is intelligent: screenplay, dialogue, sets, music, choice of actors. Jean Servais, Robert Manuel, and Jules Dassin are perfect." French critic André Bazin said that Rififi brought the genre a "sincerity and humanity that break with the conventions of a crime film, and manage to touch our hearts". In the February 1956 issue of the French film magazine Cahiers du cinéma, the film was listed as number thirteen in the top twenty films of 1955. The film was well received by British critics who noted the film's violence on its initial release. The Daily Mirror referred to the film as "brilliant and brutal" while the Daily Herald made note that Rififi would "make American attempts at screen brutality look like a tea party in cathedral city". The American release of the film also received acclaim. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times referred to the film as "perhaps the keenest crime film that ever came from France, including "Pépé le Moko" and some of the best of Louis Jouvet and Jean Gabin." The National Board of Review nominated the film as the Best Foreign Film in 1956.Rififi was re-released for a limited run within America on 21 July 2000 in a new 35 mm print containing new, more explicit subtitles that were enhanced in collaboration with Dassin. The film was received very well by American critics on its re-release. The film ranking website Rotten Tomatoes reported that 93% of critics had given the film positive reviews, based upon a sample of 41. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the film has received an average score of 97, based on 13 reviews.
Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote the film was the "benchmark all succeeding heist films have been measured against... It's a film whose influence is hard to overstate, one that proves for not the last time that it's easier to break into a safe than fathom the mysteries of the human heart." Lucia Bozzola of the online database Allmovie gave the film the highest possible rating of five stars, calling it "The pinnacle of heist movies" and "not only one of the best French noirs, but one of the top movies in the genre." In 2002, critic Roger Ebert added the film to his list of "Great Movies" stating "echoes of [Rififi] can be found from Kubrick's The Killing to Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs. They both owe something to John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950), which has the general idea but not the attention to detail." Rififi placed at number 90 on Empire's list of The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema.

Among negative reviews of the film, Dave Kehr of the Chicago Reader felt that "the film turns moralistic and sour in the last half, when the thieves fall out."
The critic and director Jean-Luc Godard regarded the film negatively in comparison to other French crime films of the era, noting in 1986 that "today it can't hold a candle to Touchez pas au grisbi which paved the way for it, let alone Bob le flambeur which it paved the way for."

See also

1955 in film
List of French films of 1955
List of French-language films
List of crime films of the 1950s
Rifampicin, Italian-developed antibiotics (rifamycins) named after the filmBig Deal on Madonna Street''
Heist film

Notes

References

Bibliography

External links

Rififi: A Global Caper an essay by J. Hoberman at the Criterion Collection

1955 films
1950s crime thriller films
French black-and-white films
Film noir
Films directed by Jules Dassin
Films set in Paris
French crime thriller films
1950s French-language films
French gangster films
French heist films
Films about organized crime in France
Films based on French novels
Films based on works by Auguste Le Breton
Films scored by Georges Auric
1950s heist films
1950s French films

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Ise was worried, he'd not seen or heard from Kite as he'd woken up that morning to an empty space beside him on the bed. She had left without a word and he'd been trying her number all morning but it had been unavailable. He hoped she was okay, he would have advised she took the day off work to settle down a bit.
He was presently on his private elevator on his way up to his office, it was almost noon now and had been ensconced in a meeting with a client all morning where he'd struggled to focus on the issues they'd been talking about.
It had felt good airing his heart out to her last night and sleeping with her by his side had been so wonderful, he couldn't recall when last he'd had such a wonderful rest. He was keeping his fingers crossed and seriously hoping she would give a favourable answer to his proposal.
The elevator doors opened and Princess was waiting to give him his , messages and appointments for the day. He was only half listening, as he passed by Kite's desk, noticing it was tidy like she hadn't shown up all day.
"That's all, Sir," Princess was saying.
"Alright thanks." He said
"Are you alright, Sir? You seem ….distracted."
"Am good, thankyou." He told her dismissively.
They were at his door now and he was about opening it when she called him back.
"Sir?" She said.
He turned to look at her well for the first time that morning "Yes Princess?" Their eyes met and she looked away.
"ummm, never mind Sir," She said and turned to leave.
He frowned "Are you sure?" He asked calling her back.
She nodded "Yes, nothing really," she said as she walked back to her office.
'hmmmm', now what had that been about? He thought but he couldn't think about it for long, Kite was the real issue occupying his mind, where in the world had she disappeared to and why, for crying out loud, wasn't she picking her phone? He really did hope she was fine, maybe she just needed some time alone to sort things out. Walking to his desk he decided to shift those thoughts aside and focus on work instead but he'd not even sat down when he heard a knock on the door.
"Yeah?" He called, probably Princess, he thought but as the door opened he saw it was Kite who peeked in.
His eyes widened in surprise.
"Hi." She said uncertainly as she smiled that hundred watt smile that made his heart do jumping jacks, "ummm, can I come in?"
"Yeah, sure. I've been calling your line is switched off." He told her, seeing that she seemed fine, not like he'd feared.
"yes," She nodded, "I'm avoiding calls from you know who." She replied as she approached his desk.
He watched her, she seemed really okay on the outside. "You left so quietly this morning and I just saw your desk cleared like you'd not come in today."
"I've been at technical since I stepped in, the VILDE group project you wanted me to work on with the engineer, its almost concluded now and feedback from VILDE is good so far. He was filling me in on how it was going and since I wasn't busy up here, I was with him for a while." She explained then flashed him another bright smile "So, I guess you slept well, when I woke up, you were so deep into it I decided not to disturb you, so I crept out quietly."
She was now standing quite close to him, he smiled raising a hand to brush her cheek, he couldn't help himself "I cant remember ever sleeping so well."
She put her hand on his, rubbing his hand gently "Then maybe you should get a refund for your mattress and sheets because they are not doing their job right."
He chuckled as he shook his head at her wonderingly, she took a step closer to him, he was aware of the invisible energy between them. They were holding each others gazes.
"Thanks for last night," She told him looking deep into his eyes.
He shrugged "Anytime." He replied.
He dropped his hand from her cheek but she held on to it, still holding his eyes "I thought about your proposal."
He raised a brow, as his heart suddenly began racing "Really?"
She nodded as she smiled, her hand tightening on his hand, she took a step closer to him "Yes." She said
He frowned "And?"
"Yes." She said again.
"Yes, what?"
She raised a brow "You want me to sing it?"
He laughed "You could if you have a nice voice."
"I have a better idea." She said and before he could respond she grabbed on to the lapel of his suit pulling him toward her and planted her lips on his. Ise's hands naturally found her waist pulling her to him as their lips met.
She broke away smiling "That should be enough for now."
"hmmmm," He groaned "That was too short, I'm not satisfied yet." He told her pulling her closer again but she put her hands on his chest and pushed slightly.
"Slow down, Oliver twist, we are at work, you know?"
"Work can go to hell," he said, still holding her to himself " You finally decided you go with the winning team?" He joked.
She laughed "Yes, but slowly please. You know I'm still you know……reeling from my heart shattering relationship?"
"I promise, I'll go slower than a snail." He said drawing another laugh from her. "you'll be moving in with me, right?"
"hmmm, Now I'm not sure about that, we just started this thing and then there's your mom- who scares me and your sister, what in the world are people going to think?"
"Kite, this is between me and you, I really don't give a hoot what anyone thinks, I want you with me please, I want your presence around me , I just want to wake up and the first face I see should be yours, that's the way you affect me for real." He said and he thought he saw an uncertain look cross her face "Kite? Okay, if you're not sure then let's do it temporarily until you can find your own place? I promised not to rush you so lets do it your way, shall we?"
She seemed to consider it "Okay, I think that sounds much better, and separate rooms." She stated.
"Why?" He protested.
"Moving slowly, remember?"
"mmm," He grunted "I'm beginning to rethink this slowly thing."
"Too late." She replied "I have to get back to work now."
"Okay, just give me a kiss before you leave." He told her pulling her to him again, enjoying the fragrance she was wearing so immensely.
"I should add no kisses in the office to that list." She said but not pulling away.
"That won't work." He said going in for another kiss when his door opened and Princess came in with Jeje and Vicky following behind.
There was a second's pause as their eyes all registered one another's presence. Jeje and Vicky were the ones more hit with surprise.
What happened to knockin? Ise wondered suspecting Princess had done this on purpose. He let Kite from his embrace but still made sure to hold on to her hand for everyone's viewing, he needed them to see that he had nothing to hide.
"I'll see you later, Kitty." He told her and she nodded, her complexion having turned slightly red with embarrassment, he then turned on Princess with a serious look "Has knocking been abolished, Princess?"
"I'm sorry, Sir." She apologised not meeting his eyes, "I thought you were alone since you just came in."
Ise couldn't tell if she was lying or not so he just let it slide, waving her out of the office before he turned to his sister and Victoria "Hi, to what do I owe this impromptu visit?" He pointed them to the seats facing him as he took his own seat, wondering wat Vicki was doing there that afternoon.
"Ummm…Jeje can you give Ise and I sometime alone?" Vicki asked his sister.
"uh, Ye…..Yeah, its okay….. I'm really here to see Tolly- I mean Tola in finance." She stuttered as she took her leave hurriedly, all but running out of the office as if she'd sensed the growing tension in the room.
"Well, well," She started as she took a seat opposite him " I would never have pictured you as someone who frolicked with staff?" She said giving him some kind of look that Ise guessed was meant to make him feel guilty.
Guilty about what? He wondered, all they'd had was a lunch together, it wasn't like he'd proposed to her so why she acting like he owed her an apology.
"How can I help you, Vicki? I wasn't aware you were coming in to see me?"
"I need to make an appointment before coming to see you?" She asked back
"It will be better you do that next time." He said sternly, he didn't know what she thought she was to him but whatever it was, he had to set her straight.
She gasped "Oh, so I've been shifted into the business zone now?"
"I thought we were getting somewhere, especially after lunch yesterday? I had so much fun and I thought you did too?"
"Yeah, I was until I found out you held back the part where you'd been married twice already?" he fired and it got her quiet, as realisation dawned on her.
"I.." She sat back in her seat as she thought of what to say "I didn't tell you because its not exactly conversation for a first date."
"Oh please! That's not true, you deliberately held it back, I wonder why anyway, if you don't have anything to hide?" He asked.
"I don't." She replied.
"You know what, let's not bother going there, that's a closed deal now." He said firmly not wanting to be dragged into irrelevant issues "Lets move on to better things, namely the hospital project, I went over the proposal and business plan, I'm considering investing but I'll need to have a discussion with the board first, they'll be the ones to sign off on it. Is that good?" He asked as he watched her expression.
She was pissed and she didn't hide it. Jeez! Just because of one lunch date, did she think she owned him or what?
She shrugged like it didn't matter to her if the board agreed or not. "I came here to see if we could do lunch today but you obviously are very busy rolling in the hay with your employees." She told him getting up, shaking her head as she got up "Maybe I misread you; I took you as someone who would be a lot more responsible."
He got up after her, if she wanted to be like this and leave, it was fine with him, he didn't owe her an explanation "At least I didn't lie."
"I never lied to you about anything."
"You lied by omission."
"I told you that's not a first date-"
"Says who, Vicki? I told you about my failed engagement; maybe around that time you could have let me know something about yours too? I even introduced you two when we ran into her, I had nothing to hide and clearly I've moved past that relationship but maybe you haven't and it's best we leave it at that. If you want to be friends, I'm cool with it. "
"You can shove your friendship some where else, Williams! I don't need this." She said as she walked out of his office.
Ise raised a brow, what was with some women these days, he wasn't interested, was it now by force? Apart from the fact that she'd held information from him, he didn't plan on being with a woman who'd been in two marriages where both men had ended up dead. That was so eerie.
His phone buzzed and he answered as he sat down, putting it on speaker.
"Yeeup, Princess?"
" Yoav Efrait from TANOIL, TelAviv on the line, Sir."
He raised a brow, back to business now, he thought shoving the women problems behind "Patch him through, thanks."
Kenny looked up from his laptop as Princess barged into his office looking really angry and frustrated. He frowned at her but still noticed the cleavage revealing shirt and clingy pencil skirt she wore. Her face told another tale entirely, she was hardly ever smiling but this was something else.
"Hey P-babe. What's got your panties in a bunch?" He asked smiling at his own joke.
"Could you be serious for once in your life, kehinde?" Princess asked him
"I'm serious, you're looking like someone stole or misplaced your pack of condoms or something."
Princess gave up with kenny and dropped into the seat opposite his "Its this new chick, Kite abi Kitty…the chick is harder than I estimated. she's got Ise all over her, I don't know the jazz she's using. You should have seen them smooching in his office this afternoon."
"You walked in on them smooching?" Kenny's eyes were open with surprise. He would never have thought Ise had it in him to engage in anything other than work in the office. This was a first.
She shrugged, "I had a feeling I would catch them in a compromising position, so when Jeje came in with some other lady I'm sure is also into him, I took them into the office without knocking. You should have seen the shock on all our faces when we walked in."
Kenny burst into laughter "and what did Ise say?"
She shrugged "he acted cool, like he wasn't doing anything wrong, even held her hand in our presence and gave her a smile as she left. Kenny, it's worse than I thought, he might actually be serious with this chick. As in Izy's kind of serious. We have to act fast!"
"Whoa, whoa, Kenny sat up, what do you mean we?"
"Me and you ofcourse." She said pointing at the both of them
"No, no, count me out, you're on your own on this one, P-babe." He told her.
"Come on K-K, you owe me a lot of favours and you know."
Kenny rolled his eyes, she was right. "Why even bother, I'm sure its a fling, she's hot but they have nothing in common. Besides his mom will never agree to it. So don't work yourself up over nothing."
Princess shook her head "I'm telling you this thing looks serious, besides you know how hard headed he can be, he doesn't listen to anyone, not his mom or his father. When he's got something he wants to do, he follows it through damning consequences."
Kenny had to agree, Ise rolled with his gut instincts. "So what do you propose I do?"
"Take her out, like we did Izy."
Kenny shook his head as he remembered vividly his last encounter with the chick at Ola's party. "No way, that one is not as naïve as Izy. It won't work."
"How do you know, have you tried her already?" Princess asked him narrowing her eyes.
Kenny didn't feel like narrating his embarrassing encounter with the chick to Princess so he said "just take my word for it. I know her type, they are not swayed so easily."
"Wow, I never thought a day would come that even the grand commander of federal republic of Nigeria on intimate matters would shy away from a female. Wow, this day should go down in history." She mocked.
Kenny pursed his lips "yeah, says the chick who's been getting her boss to notice her for four years now without success. You should just give up already, I'm here for you or don't I rock your world whenever we get down?"
"Oh please Kenny, you're just booty call, you know that. I need something serious and with someone who matters, and that's something Ise can give me."
Kenny shook his head "I wonder why you won't give it up already, if he hasn't noticed you in four years, honey, he never will!"
"Spare me your counselling session, kenny, please! Let's get back to why I'm here. Are you going to help, if you're not just let me know."
"Hmmmm, P-babe, I really do not want to get caught up in your girl fight issues-"
"Ohhh? You want me to go to Ise with the activities you are up to behind his back? The embe…."
"Shhhhh!" Kenny hushed her up quickly, " reduce your voice will you? Do you want someone to hear? Look! Don't act like I don't give you your share! You're in deep with me, if you rat me out, we'll both go down together. That's a promise!"
"Okay, okay," Princess raised her hands trying to calm him down "let's not go too far, I just need your help, okay?"
Kenny sighed giving in, he had no choice here "alright, let's brainstorm and see if we can come up with something."
Izu was still very angry. Angry at himself, Kite but most especially Brenda! She'd brought this on him. She wanted to play games did she, well he would join her to play.
He'd done a lot of thinking after Kite had left and he knew he had to fight back. Who was Brenda to come call the shots on him?
He'd just parked in front of the house he guessed Brenda was staying in gwarimpa. It was a detached duplex, he wondered who she was staying with in the huge place, possibly one of her chairmen.
The time was ten p.m, he was sure she'd be in. He dialled her number.
"Izu. Do you have my money ready?" She asked as she picked up his call.
"Even better," he replied "I'm at your gate."
"My gate?" The surprise was apparent in her voice.
"Yeah, the address you texted me sometime back." He told her.
"Oh? Why?" She asked.
He rolled his eyes, tempted to tell her it was because he felt like staring at the building but said calmly instead "I came to see you."
"Izu, there's no point, there's nothing you can say, I'm not…"
"I have another proposal for you." He told her and she kept quiet "can you come out?"
He heard her sigh "sure, but it better be good!"
"You'll love it." He said hanging up.
A few minutes later, the gate was being opened. He got out of the car, locking it with the security lock as he walked to the gate.
Brenda appeared behind it in jean cutoffs and a low necked tank, showing off the tatoo on the top of her left bosom.
Her hands were crossed under her generously endowed burst which his eyes were lustfully drawn to. He didn't feel guilty looking at her that way, he had no obligations to Kite anymore and Brenda was a wh'ore so there was nothing wrong if he ogled her.
"You've wasted your time coming here." She told him
"You've not heard my proposal yet." He replied.
"Does that Mother Theresa girlfriend of yours know you are here?" She asked as she led him into the house.
"What girlfriend?" He asked. They'd gotten into the house now and before she could reply, he pulled her back into him.
"Izu." She was surprised at first, ten resisted a little but half heartedly. Izu knew how he affected her, besides the girl was easy. He began nuzzling the curve of her neck as one hand cupped one of her soft full bosoms. He felt himself going hard down in his jeans.
"So, your girlfriend dumps you and you come running back to me?" She asked. "I really don't like being second place to your dear girlfriend."
"Stop acting like you're not elated that I'm here right now…doing this to you." He nibbled on her ear lobe and felt her smile.
"I'm happy," she told him "but you're still going to get me my thirty million bucks." She told him as she turned aroundn and wrapped her hands around his neck. "You hurt me real deep going back to Kite like that after all I did for you."
He tried his best to look repentant as he looked down at her "I thought she was the one I really wanted to be with, turns out I was wrong. She's no different from any other who're out there."
"What did she do?"
"Jumped into bed with her boss, the guy is a billionaire or something..anyway, lets not go there, I'm her because I want us to be partners."
Brenda's eyebrows shot up "What do you mean?"
"I want to turn all this on Kite, er new boyfriend is a billionaire, I make her get the money from him and we split it."
Brenda took her hands off his neck "No, no, no. I want my thirty million."
"Oh, be realistic Bee, you don't really think I could give you five million, talk more of thirty. Look, if you don't accept my deal, I still get the thirty million, I disappear and trust me honey, you won't ever find me no matter how hard you look. So what do you say?"
She smiled as she thought about it, wrapping her arms around his neck again "So, you and I, partners? Not a bad idea, how far is this partnership going, by the way?"
He had to smile knowing he had her attention now, "How far do you want it to go?"
She smiled at him "You are so bloody sexy, I would give up a billionaire to be with you."
'yea, right!' Izu thought to himself "Like the one that owns this place?"
She smiled, "You like it? Belongs to one 'Honourable' I know. He's letting me borrow it, its awesome, isn't it?"
Izu nodded still staring at her, girls like Brenda never learnt, he'd used her before, how was she sure he wasn't using her again. "How awesome is the bedroom?" He asked.
She laughed as she took his hand "Come and see for yourself."
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Other changes involve the doors, with the outer skin being "pushed in" as far as possible towards the centre of the car for better channel airflow. Oh, the standard window has been replaced with a polycarbonate one as well, because race car.
As mentioned at the start, the concept previews an upcoming model, whereby only 75 examples will be produced. Seeing how all 500 units of the road-going Senna were sold before it was even launched, we reckon McLaren won't have a hard time finding customers for this new car.
If anyone have $1 million lying around, U can order one NOW. U better have a large garage to store this as it will most likely be house there most of the time.
If U buy the road-going sibling, your neighbors will be giving U a stare every time U start the car as the whole neighborhood will be mad at U for causing nuisance.
After all has been said & done, no M'sian will buy one as this is deem too outrageous & it will attract MACC attention.
This will likely be kept in a climate controlled glass box instead of stuffy garage.