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The number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus-borne illness COVID-19 edged toward 110 million on Wednesday and the U.S. death toll rose above 488,000, as President Joe Biden said he expects vaccine supply to be sufficient to inoculate all Americans by end-July and for the nation to be close to normalcy by Christmas.
Speaking at a CNN town hall event in Milwaukee, Biden emphasized the need for lawmakers to fund his $1.9 trillion coronavirus rescue package, and discussed everything from protections for small businesses to the administration's vaccination plans. Biden said that by the end of July there would be 600 million doses of the vaccine available, enough to vaccinate every American.
President Joe Biden seeks to assuage concerns about pace of vaccination
His upbeat comments come as the number of new COVID cases and hospitalizations are steadily declining, although experts remain wary about new variants of the virus that are far more infectious.
The U.S. recorded 64,375 new COVID cases on Tuesday, according to a New York Times tracker, and at least 1,703 people died. The U.S. has averaged 81,200 cases a day over the past week, down 43% from the average two weeks ago.
There were 64,533 COVID patients in U.S. hospitals on Tuesday, according to the COVID Tracking Project, down from 65,455 a day earlier and less than half the more than 132,000 counted during the January peak.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine tracker is showing that as of 6 a.m. Tuesday, 55.2 million doses of vaccine had been administered, 39.7 million people had received one or more doses and 71.7 million had been delivered to states. The White House said Tuesday it was increasing dose deliveries to 13.5 million a week, up from an earlier plan for 11 million a week, in an effort to speed up the process and get more jabs into arms.
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Left to right: Li Yong, Zia Mendoza, Alek Filipov, Kobe Shakur, Max Johnson, Kate Jones, Jack Stevens
Ripley's Bureau of Investigation is a book series written by Kay Wilkins (uncredited on the covers), illustrated by Ailin Chambers, and (apparently most importantly) published by Ripley Publishing to promote Ripley's Believe It or Not to kids. But it still could be considered a good series in its own right. It consists of eight published books. The two latest books, "Danger Underground" and "Haunted Hotel", were unpublished, until ebook versions recently appeared exclusively on the children's reading app, Pickatale. The series was intended to have twelve books in total, but it discontinued, likely due to low sales.
On an alternate Earth where Robert Ripley started a private international boarding school for highly talented, genius, or superpowered teenagers on his private island, seven of the best students of Ripley High (or Ripley Academy, it varies between the books and the website) are part of a secret elite team called Ripley's Bureau of Investigation, or the RBI. Run and briefed by their favourite teacher Mr Cain, given high tech gadgets by their science/technology teacher Dr Maxwell, and assisted and co-briefed by their hologram AI RIPLEY. The team is dedicated to traveling the world and investigating sightings of strange creatures and phenomena, to determine the truth and to contribute to the database of discoveries made by the late Robert Ripley and the RBI itself.
Ripley's Bureau of Investigation contains examples of:
One-Wheeled Wonder: Subverted. Dr Maxwell was testing a motorcycle in "Sub-Zero Survival" that had two wheels close together on either side, just appearing to have one wheel.
Absurdly Cool City: The shiny and awesome portrayal of Tokyo in "The Dragon's Triangle".
Affectionate Nickname: Max calls Zia "Z".
Agent Mulder: Max, especially in "Haunted Hotel", enthusiastically believing in ghosts. Inevitably causing more bickering between him and Kate.
Agent Scully: Kate. She doesn't suffer fools gladly when it comes to their belief in ghosts. She doesn't even believe in Kobe's psychic abilities. Although she does believe in the possibility of Atlantis existing as a lost city.
All There in the Manual: There's more information about the school and such on the official website .
Androids Are People, Too: RIPLEY.
Artifact Collection Agency: What the RBI partially acts as.
Artificial Intelligence: RIPLEY.
Asian Airhead: Li is an averted version of Type Two. She is sweet, pretty, rich, fashionable, and Chinese. But besides being a touch superstitious, she is not at all dumb. She is even noted as a musical prodigy.
Awesome Aussie: Jack in a nutshell, he is a sincere homage of the "Australian Naturalist" stereotype rather than an exaggerated caricature. He grew up on an animal park near the Gold Coast, is a survival expert, can soothe dangerous animals, and doesn't mind eating bugs.
Badass Bookworm: Kate.
Badass Normal:
Max seems to be the only agent with no special superpower-like abilities. Everyone else is skilled, knowledgeable, and have strange abilities, whereas he is just skilled and knowledgeable. Nevertheless, he is still their equal and is highly competent as an agent.
Alek could be considered as this technically. He wasn't born with super strength, he went through enough training and exercises to become as strong as he is. But he is still no longer normal, so it's debatable.
Benevolent A.I.: RIPLEY.
Benevolent Boss: Mr Cain.
Best Friend: The team do see one another as best friends, but it's been confirmed that Jack and Max are each other's best friend, same with Kate and Li.
The Big Board: The RBI base has a large, almost wall sized, view screen for mission briefings, to provide visual aids and information, like witnesses' spur-of-the-moment video evidence of what they're investigating.
Big Brother Instinct: Alek. He is older than at least four of the other agents and is the tallest/strongest, he is protective of his teammates and has saved them multiple times thanks to his skills and athleticism. Such as saving Max and Zia from a giant robot dragon with back flips, saving Li from a shark, and saving Kate from falling down a crevasse by diving down after her then free-climbing its sheer sides. He almost dived into a boiling hot lake to retrieve a replacement boat (to save Jack, a young civilian girl, and her dog from being stuck in the lake), until Jack reminded him that if the lake managed to melt the paint off the bottom of the boat, then it could hurt or kill him. He tries to keep an eye on agents he feels could end up in danger easily.
Big Fancy House: The school/mansion. Also Castle Warden in "Haunted Hotel".
Book Dumb: Max generally is. He doesn't get good grades at school and would groan at the sight of a thick book, only interested in/skilled at inventing and anything to do with computers. But that's occasionally subverted when he has his moments.
Max: This is a pretty mountainous area.
Li: Mountainous area? That sounds much more like something Kate would say, than you.
Max: I'm not just a pretty face, you know.
The Bore: What Mr Willis is like when teaching to everyone but Kate.
In "Haunted Hotel", when Kate and Max were crawling in the pirate tunnels, Max was getting bored because Kate went on and on about how the tunnels were made. Max was also annoyed that Kate managed to make something related to pirates sound boring.
Brief Accent Imitation: It's been noted that Kate would tease Max by doing an exaggerated American accent.
Challenge Seeker: Alek is a very competitive sportsman. He tries to play every sport imaginable for the sheer love of them and the challenge, with the skill to match. There is a reason he's an under-16 Olympic athlete after all. For example, in "Secrets of the Deep", he, Kobe, Jack, and Max have a swimming endurance competition for fun. Jack and Max gave up around a half and hour in, but Alek and Kobe kept going for (what felt like) hours because of their respective abilities. While Kobe kept going because of his enhanced endurance/stamina, Alek continued because of his refusal to lose.
Charles Atlas Superpower: Justified. Alek's downplayed version of super strength comes from his years of strongman training, combined with Olympian training.
Cloak and Dagger: Technically what the RBI could be seen as since it's not a government agency and doesn't have direct relationships with any organizations.
Collared by Fashion: Li wears a ribbon choker.
Combat Parkour: Alek. Comes from being a contortionist and part of the Russian under-16 Olympic gymnastics team. Very handy for avoiding a giant robot dragon in "The Dragon's Triangle".
Comm Links: The agents' R-Phones, and headsets on missions. Or radio-mics built into whatever non-civilian type clothes they're wearing (wingsuits, scuba gear, parkas).
Conveniently an Orphan: Kate's parents died in a car accident, and Zia is the sole survivor of a village that was destroyed when she was a baby (her biological parents more than likely died then).
Cool Car: Dr Maxwell's high tech car, Jaws, from "Secrets of the Deep". It turns into a shark shaped submarine!
Cool House:
The school/mansion. Even when no one knows about the RBI's base underneath the school, the school is still a cool mansion filled with Robert Ripley's collection. Like a room exclusively for shrunken heads.
Castle Warden in "Haunted Hotel" also counts as it doubles as one of Robert Ripley's museums, mentioned to have things like an animatronic T-Rex. Even outside of the museum section, there's interesting curios, like a painting made out of ants, a fortune teller machine, and wall skull lamps.
Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Basically what Max does at school...and what Kate can't stand about him. Their arguments are usually about this particular trait of his.
Cool Teacher: The team and probably other students see Mr Cain as this.
Covert Group with Mundane Front: The RBI's cover is that they're the school's Museum Club. Plus the RBI's base is underneath said school.
Creator's Favorite: Max is in the majority of the slice-of-life first chapters.
Crusty Caretaker: The school's caretaker, Matthew Clarkson. He does care about the school looking it's best, seeing it and its collection as one big showcase, but he's still particularly rude, grouchy, and nosy towards the students.
Crystal Skull: Max, Kate, and Alek found one in Antarctica, in "Sub-Zero Survival".
Cybernetic Mythical Beast: The giant robot dragon in "The Dragon's Triangle".
Dangerous Workplace: The agents nearly died on missions multiple times. Scarier once you remember they're between the ages of 13 and 15.
Determinator: Generally the team, but Kobe more so since two of his abilities are enhanced endurance and stamina.
Disapproving Look: While Mr Cain is generally friendly, he can use this when an agent has been misbehaving...usually towards Max. Probably one of the few things that can get Max to be quiet and mind his manners during a briefing.
Disaster Dominoes: A cigarette landing in an underground abandoned coal mine is the cause behind a petrol station blowing up, a boiling acidic lake, and many sink holes destroying a town.
Disastrous Demonstration: In "The Dragon Triangle", Max tries to show off a golf-playing robot he made, but Zia's electromagnetism accidentally messes with it. Causing the robot to hack a table and break a window in Dr Maxwell's classroom.
Do Not Attempt: "Some of the activities undertaken by the RBI and others in this book should not be attempted without the necessary training and supervision." Absolutely with good reason.
Doing Research: It's stated they do this before every mission by going through files/reports or asking geography teacher Miss Burrows (who doesn't know about the RBI) about the location of a particular mission, but there is a chapter dedicated to this trope in "Shock Horror". With Li, Zia, and Max going to a newspaper records office to find information about unusual storm that occurred 15 years ago and a missing park ranger. And in "Danger Underground", offscreen essentially, Zia checked out the maps of the Australian town Copper Creek and its old abandoned mine tunnels to find a connection (concerning the cause of the numerous sinkholes and freak heat incidents). Then both she and Kobe researched similar incidents that happened to an American town in the 1960s, to determine the cause in the Australian town, fires in the coal mines underneath Copper Creek.
Dress-Coded for Your Convenience: The RBI agents are usually dressed in regular civilian clothes, while the DUL agents wear suits.
Drives Like Crazy: In "Wings of Fear", when Jack drives a crystal-coated mini throughout the streets of London to chase after a flying creature. Since he was following Max's directions, he ended up on the wrong side of the road with plenty of oncoming trucks and cars, on the sidewalk, crashing through a flowerstand in a market area, and down a set of steep stone steps.
EMP: In "Shock Horror", Max had an EMP watch that accidentally caused Zia to faint since it upset her electromagnetic energy.
Early-Installment Weirdness: The illustrations for the first book were somewhat rough.
Elaborate Underground Base: Not elaborate, the RBI's home base is simply a high tech underground cellar with a briefing room and a lab, but it is an underground base.
Evil Sounds Raspy: What the so-called 'ghost' tried to sound like when she was threatening Li to leave the hotel.
Evil Tainted the Place: Castle Warden in "Haunted Hotel" is regarded as the haunted hotel in question due to a fire that killed two women in 1944.
Experienced Protagonist: Experienced protagonists, all the agents have done plenty of missions before the first book.
Extreme Omnivore: Jack's perfectly fine with eating insects. And his family, whose specialty is Vegemite-covered sucking bugs.
The Fashionista: Li is the most fashion-conscious of the group.
Flat Character: Unfortunately, there isn't really much to Kobe's character.
Foreign Cuss Word: It was implied in "A Scaly Tale" that Kate insulted Max with one.
Formula-Breaking Episode: Usually the formula for a novel in the series is that three agents are briefed at Ripley High and go on a mission. Plus, each book is one mission after another. It was changed just for "Danger Underground" and "Haunted Hotel", both missions in each book happen at the same time, the whole team on different missions. But:
"Danger Underground" never even involves Ripley High once. The book begins with Jack, back in his hometown in Australia for the summer, just being informed that Max won't be able to visit because he's going on a mission with Kate and Li, the one that occurs in the next book "Haunted Hotel". Instead of being briefed in the RBI's base, Jack is briefed via his R-Phone's video link by Mr Cain. Because the initial mission is a two-hours drive away from Jack and is simply about a three-headed snake, Mr Cain only sends one agent at first, Alek. But once the escalating heat-related incidents happen, Mr Cain sends over the remaining agents, Zia and Kobe, increasing the number of members of the team to four.
While Max, Alek, and Kate went on a mission to Antarctica in "Sub-Zero Survival" (mainly to find the first artifact of Ripley's artifact hunt), Mr Cain sends the remaining agents (Jack, Kobe, Zia, and Li) on a mission to Egypt. The book only focused on the Antarctic mission, the Egyptian mission remained offscreen. But "Danger Underground" and "Haunted Hotel" is the first time the reader gets to know what happens on these simultaneous missions.
Freaky Is Cool: Zia is self-conscious about her natural silver streak, but Max thinks it's cool and makes her look like a superhero.
Free-Range Children: Teenagers traveling around the world alone to big cities like London and Tokyo, and dangerous wildernesses like Antarctica. Somewhat justified, they seem highly trained, skilled, and intelligent enough to handle locations like that on their own, and the teachers outside of the RBI don't actually know. Teachers believe the cover story for all the missions, that the three chosen RBI agents went on a field trip.
Fun with Acronyms: The rival organization against a team trying to investigate and catalogue anything strange is called 'dull'.
Genius Ditz: Max. Not the best when it comes to school and book smarts, absolute genius with computers, robotics, and engineering.
Genius Slob: Li sees Max and Dr Maxwell as this, at least regarding fashion.
Gentle Giant: Alek. He is the tallest and strongest member of the team, with the muscles that would come from strongman and Olympic training, but he is still a very friendly guy.
Ghostly Chill: It's been occurring in Castle Warden, so the selected agents needed to use gadgetry to help detect strange variation in temperature.
The Gift: The school is specifically for teenagers who have their own unique gift. And since the RBI consists of the best students, they're the gifted of the gifted.
Girly Girl: Li.
The Handler: Mr Cain.
Hazmat Suit: What Jack, Alek, Zia, and Kobe essentially wore when they investigated the burning underground coal mines.
Height Angst: Played For Laughs. Briefly every now and then with the shortest member of the team, Li. (Cover art and official art outside of the books may not accurately depict her height.)
Hell Hotel: "Haunted Hotel" is called that for a reason. Potentially, at least. Still treated as creepy.
High School: Ripley High.
Hollywood Hacking: Max somehow managed to hack into traffic lights in "Wings of Fear". In "The Dragon's Triangle", it was briefly mentioned Max used to hack into neon signs of his home town, Las Vegas, and disrupt the delivery of power to make the signs spell out whatever he wanted.
Hologram: As well as the advanced hologram interface RIPLEY, turns out the ghost in "Haunted Hotel" was a basic hologram.
Hormone-Addled Teenager: Done in a G-Rated way with Max in "Wings of Fear". Him having a crush on the woman who spotted the flying 'creature' in the first place, Abby.
Hostile Weather: Happens in "A Scaly Tale" when Kobe, Jack, and Zia are in the Florida swamplands. Again in "Shock Horror", which even makes a roller-coaster stop working.
I Am Very British: Kate, Mr Willis, and Mr Clarkson.
iPhony: The R-Phones.
Info Dump: In-universe regarded as one in "Danger Underground", Kate lectured Jack (through a video link on an R-Phone) about mythological examples of multiheaded snakes as a way to help him. Jack doesn't find the infodump useful at all, but doesn't tell her, only politely thanking her.
Informed Ability: Li's musical prowess, Kobe's other telepathic abilities, and Zia's capability to manipulate weather. Probably would've been demonstrated after the eighth book, but then the series was discontinued.
Intergenerational Friendship: Max and Dr Maxwell.
Involuntary Group Split: As the agents crawled through the pirate tunnels, falling jail bar gates cut them off from the tunnels' entrance behind them (their original way out) and then splitting up the team. They do try to get back together through side passages, but Li was tricked to follow lights she thought were Kate and Max's head-torches, and Max headed in many wrong direction when trying to go back the way he came.
Island Base: Technically. The RBI's underground base is underneath the school, which is on a private island.
Jerkass Realization: In "Running Wild", when Kate called out Max for almost exposing the RBI (because he was spying on Mr Clarkson with one of his robots as a joke and got caught, ending up being grilled by Mr Clarkson and Mr Willis about his behaviour in general...including his 'field trips'), it hit home.
Jet Pack: The 'flying creature' in "Wings of Fear" turned out to be a superhero with a jet pack.
Kid Detective: What the team partially are.
Kindhearted Cat Lover: Zia. Her favourite animal in the school's menagerie is Kismet, the winged cat. She even tried and failed to sneak her into her dorm. And she is the most loyal, most gentle, and kindest member of the team.
Knowledge Broker: This role is separated into two for Mr Cain and RIPLEY. Mr Cain seems to have numerous contacts everywhere and RIPLEY is the team's reliable and immense source of information.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Dr Maxwell.
Lame Pun Reaction: Mr Cain is known for using puns in his RBI text messages to give a hint about the mission in question. The reaction definitely happened in "Wings of Fear", when Mr Cain used the intentionally misspelled and punny 'pterrofied', to give a hint about a mission involving a possible flying creature. Cue the confused and unimpressed reactions from the team, including RIPLEY.
Land Down Under: "Danger Underground" is set in the Australian outback.
Laser Cutter: When trapped in a net, Max discovered Dr Maxwell tweaked his laser pointer to be a literal laser, subsequently he used it to burn though the net and escape. Then, he used it to melt the screws of the grate trapping Kate in a flooded shaft, ensuring he could lift the grate off and rescue her. Finally, he used it on a lock of a locked door, which had the culprit's gear on the other side.
The Leader: Mr Cain is officially the team's leader.
Leeroy Jenkins: One of Max's flaws is his recklessness. Most notably in "Wings of Fear". Instead of using his wingsuit properly, he nosedived and then opened up his suit to get to the flying creature much quicker...which caused the extra material to rip, and Max himself to fall until the 'creature' saved him.
Left Hanging: Since the series discontinued before its end, a number of plot threads have been left unsolved. Such as the clue hunt for the next artifact after the crystal skull, the implication that there's a DUL mole in Ripley High, the reason why the DUL want to sabotage the RBI, and the reason behind Zia's abilities and silver streak.
Living a Double Life: Seemingly just students of Ripley High, secretly an elite team of investigative field agents.
Long Hair Is Feminine: Li.
Lovable Jock: Alek.
Mayor Pain: Type Two, concerning Mayor Reynolds in "Danger Underground". He downplayed all the news about the sink holes, monoxide poisoning, and fiery disasters, and viewed them as unrelated to each other. Even when the agents told him about the cause of the incidents, the underground coal mines being on fire, he dismissed them as overreacting kids because he was certain the coal mines have been emptied. He only got the town Copper Creek to evacuate once the sink holes started destroying the town centre, a little too late. He showed he was more ignorant than wicked when he almost sacrificed himself saving Zia and a little girl, he leapt off the team's Quad Buggy as it was soaring over a widening crevasse to ensure his weight doesn't cause the vehicle (with Zia driving and the little girl inside) to not reach the safe side. Almost, as in Alek and Kobe pulled him up before he could fall all the way down. He realised he was wrong after going through the town's destruction and apologises.
The Men in Black: The Department of Unbelievable Lies. Even in their disguises, they're identified by their sunglasses and shiny shoes.
Mentor Archetype: Mr Cain.
Mission Briefing: Done in every book by Mr Cain and RIPLEY.
Mission Control: RIPLEY.
Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Alek is the strongest member of the team because, as he puts it, "I'm Russian. I grew up swimming in freezing lakes."
Mr. Exposition: Mr Cain and RIPLEY.
Multinational Team: Li's from China, Zia's from Venezuela, Alek's from Russia, Kobe's from Kenya, Max is from America (noted as the school's only American student), Kate's from England, and Jack's from Australia. Justified since they all attend an international boarding school.
Museum of the Strange and Unusual: What Ripley High is.
Mysterious Antarctica: "Sub-Zero Survival" is set there. The agents uncovered a lost mysterious station in an iceberg.
Mystical White Hair: Zia's streak glows white when she's charged with electricity, such as after she's struck by lightning.
Naïve Newcomer: Li used to be this, both a new student and a new agent. She first attended Ripley High/joined the RBI later than the other agents. At the time of the book series, she's been a Ripley High student and an agent for two years.
Name of Cain: Subverted. Mr Cain is definitely a good guy.
Nature Lover: Jack.
Neat Freak: Downplayed. Li just hates getting dusty and dirty, and will complain about it happening to her.
Nebulous Evil Organisation: Definitely the Department of Unbelievable Lies.
Nerds Love Tough Schoolwork: Kate.
Never My Fault: This is one of Max's biggest flaws. While he doesn't blame anyone directly, he doesn't admit when he's wrong, even when he knows he actually is wrong.
Night-Vision Goggles: Used in "A Scaly Tale" and "Secrets of the Deep".
No Such Agency: The RBI is not exactly an agency, but it's still supported by something bigger. Only a few contacts, the DUL, and eventually people interviewed for the database know about the RBI. Employees of Ripley's Believe It Or Not outside of the school (Mr Cain and Dr Maxwell are the only teachers who know of course) have heard stories about the RBI, but some of them regarded the stories as not true and thus believing the RBI isn't real.
Non-Action Guy: Max. At least compared to the other male agents...an outdoorsy survivalist, a gymnast with super strength, and a tall guy with enhanced endurance/stamina and the ability to learn new skills quickly.
Non-Idle Rich: Li comes from a wealthy family and manages to not be idle by being a globe-trotting field agent.
Nosy Neighbor: Well, nosy caretaker.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: In the beginning of "Haunted Hotel", Max was glum because he had to wait a while to visit Jack in Australia, so much so that when the perfect opportunity came to prank Mr Clarkson (pulling a thread on his jumpsuit to ensure they're torn and fall down to his ankles), Max doesn't bother. Li and Kate were stunned by his out-of-character behaviour, even Kate was hoping he would take the opportunity to cheer himself up.
Normally when Mr Cain sends a 'Museum Club' text message to summon agents for a mission briefing, he would add a dad joke/pun related to the mission. He didn't in the text message for the mission in "Haunted Hotel". Due to the importance and seriousness of the mission (employees of the upcoming Ripley hotel being endangered by hauntings), the text message is just 'Urgent - come at once!'. Even in the briefing, the usual five minutes of mingling time are cut short and the briefing immediately starts, with Mr Cain being all business.
Occult Detective: That's what the team technically are, even if they don't find real mythical monsters and ghosts, just more plausible equivalents.
Oddly Small Organization: The bureau is just the team, RIPLEY, Mr Cain, and Dr Maxwell.
Omniglot:
Kate can speak fourteen languages fluently. Justified though, she was born with the ability to pick up the basics of a language by hearing it only once. So technically she can know every language, but she only counts the ones she learnt to speak fluently.
A downplayed version applies to all the characters from non-English speaking countries (Li, Zia, Alek, and Kobe) since they definitely know English as well as their native languages.
Zia: No, I just can't put my thumb on it.
Jack: Finger. The saying is "I can't put my finger on it".
Zia: Thank you. Your language is so strange.
Orphan's Ordeal: Kate's parents died in a car accident when she was younger; her feelings about it are highlighted in "Running Wild".
Outrun the Fireball: Max, Li, and Zia had to outrun exploding trees in "Shock Horror". Zia, Alek, Kobe, and Jack had to outrace a massive fire and collapsing coal mine in a runaway mine cart.
Paranormal Investigation: Generally what the team does, but even more so in "Haunted Hotel".
Passing Notes in Class: In "Sub-Zero Survival", Kate was so excited to tell the other agents about a link she found between the clues to find the next artifact, she couldn't wait to tell them after class. So she passed a note to let them know, which the other agents pass on...unfortunately it didn't end well.
Photographic Memory: One of Kate's main abilities. She memorized all the books of Oxford University's library thanks to it.
Playful Hacker: Max.
Power Trio: How the RBI works. Whenever there's a mission, Mr Cain would choose three agents out of the seven members of the RBI, specifically agents whose skills and knowledge are the most suitable for the mission at hand. Occasionally four agents would go if it's necessary.
The Prankster: Max. Through technological means, like a spying robot and an EMP wristwatch. Both times to mess with Mr Clarkson.
The Professor: Dr Maxwell.
Psychometry: Kobe's fully demonstrated psychic ability.
Real After All: By the end of "Haunted Hotel", after figuring out the haunting was a hoax, the agents learned the janitor they keep encountering, Albert, died in Castle Warden's fire years ago. It becomes obvious to the agents, even Kate, that Albert the janitor was the real ghost.
Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr Cain, in charge of the RBI team and not in any way unfair.
Rebellious Spirit: Max.
Recruit Teenagers with Attitude: Justified. They're not just ordinary inexperienced teenagers. They're highly skilled prodigies and experts in their fields of interests, most of them with rare strange abilities that were likely not found in any skilled adults at the time. Plus teenagers would have a good balance of skepticism and open-mindedness that would be suitable for the job of investigating such unbelievable sightings. Whereas most adults would be too skeptical to proceed properly.
They might only be teenagers, but they knew a lot more about the unbelievable than most adults do.
Robot Master: Ren Nagano from "The Dragon's Triangle".
Sadist Teacher: Shaun Willis, the school's artifact studies teacher, goes back and forth between this and Stern Teacher. Most of the students, apart from Kate, find his lectures boring. He's very strict when he conducts his lessons, wanting absolute silence from his students in class. Seems reasonable at first, but he gets angered very easily, ready to shout when he shouldn't. He clearly favours Kate more than the other students, being much kinder to her, and treats Max in the opposite manner. And then there's the fact that he gave Jack detention for being tardy, not at all sympathetic to the reason why Jack was late...because he was taking care of a sick two-headed cow!
Sarcastic Clapping: Max's reaction to Dr Maxwell excitedly (in an embarrassing manner) playing a 'virtual karaoke machine' he made, aka a Guitar Hero-esque system with holograms.
Saw It in a Movie Once: Max used his genre savviness from horror movies to determine what opens the secret door in Castle Warden.
Max: It actually worked! I knew watching all those films with creepy castles would come in handy one day!
And to determine which room had where the ghost was last seen, Max listened to the mysterious janitor...because he talked in riddles and Max learnt from kung-fu movies that whoever talks in riddles tends to have something important to say.
Scarily Competent Tracker: Somewhat downplayed and completely justified, Kobe is an expert tracker.
"Scooby-Doo" Hoax: What the DUL often does that the RBI has to deal with. The DUL would steal and trick people into collaborating with them to make hoaxes to ruin the database. In "A Scaly Tale", they attempted to mislead the RBI agents to follow a fake lead about a different monster instead of the possible lizard man. In "The Dragon's Triangle", they stole an inventor's giant robot dragon to mess with the RBI. In "Secrets of the Deep", they tricked/hired an underwater sculptor to make a fake underwater city to trick the RBI. This is especially the case in "Haunted Hotel", the most comparable to the trope in question, they tricked an employee of Castle Warden to fake a haunting to trick the RBI and sabotage the hotel's opening.
Kate's uncle is a history and part-time archeologist and their last name is JONES. Might be an extremely subtle attempt at making the two franchises be part of the same universe. Or probably just a reference.
Mr Cain could be a shout-out to actor Dean Cain, host of the third incarnation of the Ripley's Believe It or Not television series.
Jack's surname, Stevens, is more than likely a shout-out to Steve Irwin since he probably inspired Jack's character.
Signature Device: The agents' R-Phones and badges.
The Sleepless: Dr Maxwell is used to staying up all night working on inventions.
Slice of Life: Typically at the beginning of each book.
The Smart Girl: Kate.
Smart People Build Robots: Max.
Smart People Speak the Queen's English: Kate.
Sole Survivor: Zia, she was a baby when she survived a storm that destroyed her village.
Speaks Fluent Animal: Downplayed. This is Jack's main ability, but it's not portrayed in a typical 'he can hear English out of animals and vice versa' way. He can easily interpret animal noises, make similar animal noises and sing-song whispers to soothe animals, establish very basic communication with animals, and has a strong mutual bond with them.
Spiky Hair: Max.
A Storm Is Coming: Zia can literally sense oncoming storms.
Strange Secret Entrance: The RBI's underground base can be accessed by activating an iris recognition scanner (with the right eye) within the left double eye of the bust of the famous double-pupil man Liu Min. Once activated, the panel which the bust is attached to would swing back as a door, opening up to a spiral staircase that leads down to the base.
In "Haunted Hotel", the team finds a hollow wooden panel in the wall that is likely a hidden door. Max figures out how to open it by twisting a wall skull lamp, making the panel slide back.
Stuff Blowing Up: Exploding trees in "Shock Horror" and a petrol station exploded in the prologue of "Danger Underground".
Summation Gathering: Kate does so around in the last chapter of "Haunted Hotel", gathering the hotel employees in the gift shop to determine who is behind it. She narrowed it down to Allan, the replacement night manager. He had to explain after failing to make a run for it. He used holograms, make-up and costumes which matched the walls, and a switchboard to fake a haunting, because he was paid (three times more than his usual fee as a camouflage artist and entertainer) to do so by DUL and he needed the money for his family. He was going to quit after the original night manager fell down the stairs, but DUL weren't going to pay him unless he gets the agents to believe the hotel is haunted and leave.
Sunglasses at Night: Max always wears a pair up on his head, even indoors. He does get called out about it. The DUL agents definitely do this as well.
Super Senses: Li's sensitive hearing. Additionally, it's been stated she can use a combination of her hearing and her voice/sound mimicry ability to make herself capable of echolocation.
Super Strength: Alek. Not ridiculously superhero level of strength, but way above average due to his previous strongman training. For one thing, he held up the foot of a robot dragon in "The Dragon's Triangle", but he's not capable of lifting the whole robot up.
Super Swimming Skills: Alek, swimming is one of the many sports he's great at thanks to training and passion. It's the reason why he was chosen for the mission in "Secrets of the Deep".
Taking the Bullet: In "A Scaly Tale", when Zia realised the metal poles in their tent could conduct the lightning from the thunderstorm over their heads and kill them, she rushed outside to conduct a lightning strike herself. She did this because she had read RIPLEY's files about people who could absorb lightning and assumed her electromagnetic abilities would let to do the same, thereby saving her friends. Otherwise, the lightning would've struck the tent and killed Kobe and Jack, while she would've remained alive because of her powers. But this was only a guess, it could've killed her if she was wrong. She knew that and was still willing to save her friends rather than herself.
Talented, but Trained: How the RBI agents are portrayed.
Alek [...] decided that the others must all perfect their special talents, too, without him realising.
Teacher's Pet: Kate. Even the stern Mr Willis likes her.
The Team: The RBI is just a team.
Techno Babble: Dr Maxwell and Max a little bit, a mix of nonsense and sense.
Teen Genius: Some of the student population of the school. Generally the team if we include their expert fields of interest and their impressive intelligence applied to missions, but more specifically Kate and Max.
Teen Superspy: The agents are more like investigators than spies. But since they're a trained secret team who conduct briefings in a high tech underground base, are given advanced disguised gadgets, go to far-off lands where they go through dangerous situations and occasionally face an organization of well-dressed enemies, the team counts.
Thrown Down a Well: In "Haunted Hotel", after crawling through the pirate tunnels and being washed away, Kate accidentally gets trapped in a flooding underground shaft. The current was too strong to go back through the tunnel and the way out was ten meters above her, covered by a metal grate (intentionally screwed down recently). So the only way she could make it out was by waiting for the water level to rise, to reach the grate. If she doesn't drown first.
Tomboy and Girly Girl: Zia and Li.
Tracking Device: In "Running Wild", Kate, Jack, and Kobe try to track Arun the feral child and his wolf pack by giving them him and a wolf tracking collars.
Traveling at the Speed of Plot: Subverted. The novels take an accurate note of how long it takes/the varied methods to get from the East Coast of America, where BION Island is, to wherever the agents need to go. Even when the agents used an amphibious car to get to Greece.
True Companions: All the members of the team see each other as friends, and they completely depend on each other on missions.
Tunnel Network: The hidden panel door within Castle Warden opens to a an underground passage. It leads to a narrowing network of low-ceiling pirate tunnels underneath the building and by extension the town, St Augustine, itself.
Useless Accessory: Max's sunglasses.
Video Phone: Downplayed. At some point between "The Lost Island" and "Danger Underground", Dr Maxwell installed a secure video link on the R-Phones. Pretty comparable to video chat on smart phones.
Vitriolic Best Buds: Absolutely Kate and Max. While they're not each other's best friend, they somehow do see each other as friends and bicker a lot.
Voice Changeling: One of Li's abilities, she can mimic voices and sounds perfectly.
Walking Techbane: Zia's electromagnetic presence badly affects technology, mostly breaking it. Which has happened to Max's inventions more than once, frustrating him.
Wall Crawl: A classmate at Ripley High, Chloe, can literally do this. Which is why she's part of Li's party planning team for the school's party that intends to celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Robert Ripley's first museum. She's there to help put up balloons.
Whispering Ghosts: What witnesses in "Haunted Hotel" thought they heard, even causing the original night manager to fall down the stairs in the prologue. When the agents investigated, they kept being lured away by ghostly whispers.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Ironically, Jack. He had a bad experience with snakes when he was younger, because snakes are not willing to let Jack communicate with them and calm them down like other animals. It didn't help when he was face-to-face with a Burmese python in "A Scaly Tale", and he had to face his fear for his initial mission in "Danger Underground"...investigate and bring back a three-headed snake.
Wild Child: Arun, from "Running Wild".
World of Weirdness: Downplayed. A lot of the monster of the week type stuff turn out not to be monsters, like the humanoid lizard that was really a human who went through tons of body modification to look like a humanoid lizard in "A Scaly Tale". Then again, a man who can make trees explode and furry elephants with double-trunks exist.
Spy Literature
The Road To Gandolfo
Rip and Red
American Literature (N to S)
Ricky Ricotta's Mighty Robot
Robo-Sauce
Rick Brant
Adventure Literature
Literature of the 2010s
Ripper (2014)

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Suspect arrested in connection with shooting of BYU RB signee
Coppell, Texas, police have arrested a suspect in connection with the shooting of a BYU football signee, according to a report in the Deseret News.
SI Wire
Montay Kentral Howard, 18, was taken into custody after police say he walked toward three-star running back recruit Charles West and fired multiple shots. Howard was charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, the report said.
West was shot on Sunday during a pickup basketball game outside of a Dallas-area school.
According to the report, West told authorities that he and Howard had an argument over money earlier on Sunday.
• EWU graduate transfer QB Vernon Adams admitted to Oregon
West was arrested for rape in January just one week after committing to play for the Cougars. He is accused of raping a woman while holding a knife to her neck and was indicted in March on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Because of the rape allegations, West's status with BYU is unclear. Head coach Bronco Mendenhalltold reporters in June that there was "no word" on West.
His rape case is still scheduled to go to trial.
Police arrest suspect in shooting of Auburn football player Jakell Mitchell
A suspect in the shooting death of Auburn freshman football player Jakell Mitchell has been arrested, according to a statement from the Auburn police chief on Sunday afternoon.
Incoming BYU freshman running back shot in arm during pickup basketball game
Incoming BYU freshman running back Charles West was shot in the arm while playing pickup basketball at a Dallas middle school.
UCLA five-star RB signee Soso Jamabo arrested on multiple charges
Five-star UCLA running back signee Soso Jamabo was arrested early Sunday in Kaufman County, Texas, on charges of drinking alcohol and fleeing police in a vehicle.
Fresno State WR arrested for threatening shooting
Fresno State wide receiver Chris Pryor has been dismissed from the football program after he was arrested Monday for threatening to incite a campus shooting, according to Barrett Sallee of Bleacher Report.
EWU player arrested for involvement in shooting
Eastern Washington player LaShawn Jameison was arrested for his involvement in a fatal shooting.
Two college basketball players arrested in connection with murder
Two basketball players from Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria, Calif., were arrested Saturday in connection with a 2014 murder and are being held on $1 million bail, a KEYT News report said.
BYU RB Jamaal Williams withdraws from school, plans 2016 return
BYU running back Jamaal Williams has withdrawn from school and will redshirt the 2015 season.
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Betsy DeVos' Title IX Rules Could Hurt Students Even Before College, According To Activists
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Late last year, when Betsy DeVos' Department of Education proposed changes to the federal standards for how schools should handle reports of sexual harassment, the outcry from anti-sexual violence organizations was swift. While much of that conversation has focused on how the potential rule changes would affect college students, campus sexual assault advocates say DeVos' Title IX rules would be just as dangerous for another group that hasn't gotten quite as much attention: K-12 students.
"In K-12 students, sexual harassment, sexual assault are already vastly underreported," Dr. Joel Levin, co-founder of Stop Sexual Assault In Schools, tells Bustle. "This is just going to compound the problem."
Title IX is a civil rights law that bans sex-based discrimination in any educational institution that receives federal funds. While the proposed changes would impact students of all ages, one rule that particularly worries advocates in regards to K-12 students directs schools to report harassment or misconduct that happens on campus. This would effectively absolve schools of responding to any incident that happens during social and sporting events off campus, and advocates worry it would also absolve them of responsibility for responding to cyberbullying.
"Students see and interact with their peers at non-school related events — like sports events and on weekends," Deborah Vagins, the American Association of University Women's senior vice president of public policy and research, writes in an emailed statement to Bustle. "Harassment there follows you into the classroom, and the classroom/school is a much more limited space in K-12, necessitating action on the part of the school."
When it comes to K-12 students, the fact that they're legally required to be in the classroom makes these proposed rule changes seem all the more dangerous to advocates working to end sexual assault in schools.
"This is contributing to a situation where the places that are supposed to care for [students], that are legally designated as 'in loco parentis' — as 'like parents' — when students are there, are not being required to protect students," B. Ever Hanna, campus policy manager for End Rape On Campus, tells Bustle. "And that is putting a lot of students at risk."
The way that sexual harassment is defined under the proposed rules, a school must respond when the behavior in question meets the standard of being "pervasive, severe, and objectively offensive." This would effectively disqualify one-off reports of harassment or misconduct. It could also potentially create scenarios in which students are forced to continue enduring abusive behavior, just because that behavior didn't meet an "objectively offensive" standard.
Experts point out this rule change could particularly affect boys, who are often left out of conversations about sexual harassment. As Hanna explains, a lot of behavior that an advocate would identify as harassment wouldn't also necessarily reach a standard of "pervasive, severe, and objectively offensive" — especially when it's happening to a member of a group that many perceive as impervious to sexual harassment.
"We're a society that has some ideas about masculinity," Hanna says. "We may not view certain kinds of conduct as objectively offensive, but it's actually really harmful to the students experiencing it."
Under the proposed rules, schools also are required to file Title IX reports only when certain people — teachers, Title IX coordinators, or officials who have the "authority to institute corrective measures" — are notified about alleged misconduct or harassment. By way of example, Hanna explains that if a student worked up the courage to tell a coach about an experience with abuse, that coach would be under no obligation to report it and the school would thus be under no obligation to act.
"This kind of rule sets up a situation where serial perpetrators like Larry Nassar can go undetected for a lot longer, because all of the people who those survivors were telling about Larry Nassar's conduct would not be responsible for reporting it to the school," Hanna says. "It's pretty terrifying."
Those concerned about the ramifications of these rule changes still have a chance to make their voices heard, as the public comment period on the proposed changes ends Wednesday. Experts speaking to Bustle say that it's necessary to include K-12 students in the greater dialogue about DeVos' proposed Title IX rules, because sexual assault and harassment is no less prevalent there than on college campuses — even if it is, as Levin put it, more of a "hidden epidemic."
"These regulations are really misguided. They won't improve the situation," Levin says. "They're just taking the wrong approach here, and it's going to do more harm than good if they approve these regulations."


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using EPiServer.Commerce.Marketing;
using EPiServer.Commerce.Order;
using EPiServer.Core;
using EPiServer.Framework.Localization;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Shared.Services;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.AddressBook.Services;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Cart.Services;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Cart.ViewModels;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Checkout.Pages;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Checkout.ViewModelFactories;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Checkout.ViewModels;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Market.Services;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Payment.PaymentMethods;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Payment.ViewModels;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Shared.Extensions;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Shared.Models;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Shared.Services;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Start.Pages;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Infrastructure.Attributes;
using EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Infrastructure.Facades;
using EPiServer.Web.Mvc;
using EPiServer.Web.Mvc.Html;
using EPiServer.Web.Routing;
using Mediachase.Commerce.Orders;
using Mediachase.Commerce.Orders.Exceptions;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Globalization;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace EPiServer.Reference.Commerce.Site.Features.Checkout.Controllers
{
    public class CheckoutController : PageController<CheckoutPage>
    {
        private readonly IContentRepository _contentRepository;
        private readonly IMailService _mailService;
        private readonly LocalizationService _localizationService;
        private readonly ICurrencyService _currencyService;
        private readonly ControllerExceptionHandler _controllerExceptionHandler;
        private readonly CustomerContextFacade _customerContext;
        private readonly CheckoutViewModelFactory _checkoutViewModelFactory;
        private readonly OrderSummaryViewModelFactory _orderSummaryViewModelFactory;
        private readonly IOrderGroupCalculator _orderGroupCalculator;
        private readonly IPaymentProcessor _paymentProcessor;
        private readonly IOrderRepository _orderRepository;
        private readonly IPromotionEngine _promotionEngine;
        private readonly ICartService _cartService;
        private readonly IAddressBookService _addressBookService;
        private readonly IOrderFactory _orderFactory;
        private ICart _cart;

        public CheckoutController(IContentRepository contentRepository,
            IMailService mailService,
            LocalizationService localizationService,
            ICurrencyService currencyService,
            ControllerExceptionHandler controllerExceptionHandler,
            CustomerContextFacade customerContextFacade,
            IOrderRepository orderRepository,
            CheckoutViewModelFactory checkoutViewModelFactory,
            IOrderGroupCalculator orderGroupCalculator,
            IPaymentProcessor paymentProcessor,
            IPromotionEngine promotionEngine,
            ICartService cartService,
            IAddressBookService addressBookService,
            OrderSummaryViewModelFactory orderSummaryViewModelFactory,
            IOrderFactory orderFactory)
        {
            _contentRepository = contentRepository;
            _mailService = mailService;
            _localizationService = localizationService;
            _currencyService = currencyService;
            _controllerExceptionHandler = controllerExceptionHandler;
            _customerContext = customerContextFacade;
            _orderRepository = orderRepository;
            _checkoutViewModelFactory = checkoutViewModelFactory;
            _orderGroupCalculator = orderGroupCalculator;
            _paymentProcessor = paymentProcessor;
            _promotionEngine = promotionEngine;
            _cartService = cartService;
            _addressBookService = addressBookService;
            _orderSummaryViewModelFactory = orderSummaryViewModelFactory;
            _orderFactory = orderFactory;
        }

        [HttpGet]
        [OutputCache(Duration = 0, NoStore = true)]
        public ActionResult Index(CheckoutPage currentPage)
        {
            if (CartIsNullOrEmpty())
            {
                return View("EmptyCart");
            }

            bool cartChanged = false;

            if (Cart.Currency == null)
            {
                Cart.Currency = _currencyService.GetCurrentCurrency();
                cartChanged = true;
            }

            var promotionsCount = Cart.GetFirstForm().Promotions.Count;
            Cart.ApplyDiscounts(_promotionEngine, new PromotionEngineSettings());
            if (Cart.GetFirstForm().Promotions.Count != promotionsCount)
            {
                cartChanged = true;
            }

            var viewModel = CreateCheckoutViewModel(currentPage);

            if (Cart.GetFirstForm().Shipments.Any(c => c.ShippingMethodId == Guid.Empty))
            {
                UpdateShippingMethodIds(Cart, viewModel.Shipments);
                cartChanged = true;
            }

            // If any default billing and shipping address then set to cart and save cart.
            if (viewModel.UseBillingAddressForShipment)
            {
                if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(viewModel.BillingAddress.AddressId))
                {
                    Cart.GetFirstForm().Shipments.First().ShippingAddress = _addressBookService.ConvertToAddress(viewModel.BillingAddress);
                    cartChanged = true;
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if (viewModel.Shipments.Any(s => !string.IsNullOrEmpty(s.Address.AddressId)))
                {
                    SetShipmentAddresses(viewModel.Shipments);
                    cartChanged = true;
                }
            }

            if (cartChanged)
            {
                _orderRepository.Save(Cart);
            }

            return View(viewModel.ViewName, viewModel);
        }

        [HttpGet]
        public ActionResult SingleShipment(CheckoutPage currentPage)
        {
            if (Cart != null)
            {
                _cartService.MergeShipments(Cart);
                _orderRepository.Save(Cart);
            }

            return RedirectToAction("Index", new { node = currentPage.ContentLink });
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowDBWrite]
        public ActionResult Update(CheckoutPage currentPage, UpdateShippingMethodViewModel shipmentViewModel, IPaymentMethodViewModel<PaymentMethodBase> paymentViewModel)
        {
            ModelState.Clear();

            UpdateShippingMethodIds(Cart, shipmentViewModel.Shipments);
            _orderRepository.Save(Cart);

            var viewModel = CreateCheckoutViewModel(currentPage, paymentViewModel);

            return PartialView("Partial", viewModel);
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowDBWrite]
        public ActionResult ChangeAddress(UpdateAddressViewModel addressViewModel)
        {
            ModelState.Clear();

            var viewModel = ChangeShippingAddress(addressViewModel);
            var addressViewName = addressViewModel.ShippingAddressIndex > -1 ? "SingleShippingAddress" : "BillingAddress";

            if (viewModel.UseBillingAddressForShipment)
            {
                Cart.GetFirstForm().Shipments.First().ShippingAddress = _addressBookService.ConvertToAddress(viewModel.BillingAddress);
            }
            else
            {
                SetShipmentAddresses(viewModel.Shipments);
            }

            _orderRepository.Save(Cart);

            return PartialView(addressViewName, viewModel);
        }

        [AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get | HttpVerbs.Post)]
        public ActionResult OrderSummary()
        {
            var viewModel = _orderSummaryViewModelFactory.CreateOrderSummaryViewModel(Cart);
            return PartialView(viewModel);
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowDBWrite]
        public ActionResult AddCouponCode(CheckoutPage currentPage, string couponCode)
        {
            if (_cartService.AddCouponCode(Cart, couponCode))
            {
                _orderRepository.Save(Cart);
            }
            var viewModel = CreateCheckoutViewModel(currentPage);
            return View(viewModel.ViewName, viewModel);
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowDBWrite]
        public ActionResult RemoveCouponCode(CheckoutPage currentPage, string couponCode)
        {
            _cartService.RemoveCouponCode(Cart, couponCode);
            _orderRepository.Save(Cart);
            var viewModel = CreateCheckoutViewModel(currentPage);
            return View(viewModel.ViewName, viewModel);
        }

        [HttpPost]
        [AllowDBWrite]
        public ActionResult Purchase(CheckoutViewModel checkoutViewModel, IPaymentMethodViewModel<PaymentMethodBase> paymentViewModel)
        {
            if (CartIsNullOrEmpty())
            {
                return Redirect(Url.ContentUrl(ContentReference.StartPage));
            }

            if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
            {
                // load billing and shipping address from address book
                _addressBookService.LoadAddress(checkoutViewModel.BillingAddress);

                foreach (var shipment in checkoutViewModel.Shipments)
                {
                    _addressBookService.LoadAddress(shipment.Address);
                }

                // Because address is selected from drop down, so remove validation for fields
                foreach (var state in ModelState.Where(x => (x.Key.StartsWith("BillingAddress")) || x.Key.StartsWith("Shipments")).ToArray())
                {
                    ModelState.Remove(state);
                }
            }

            if (checkoutViewModel.UseBillingAddressForShipment)
            {
                // If only the billing address is of interest we need to remove any existing error related to the
                // other shipping addresses.
                if (!User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
                {
                    foreach (var state in ModelState.Where(x => x.Key.StartsWith("Shipments")).ToArray())
                    {
                        ModelState.Remove(state);
                    }
                }

                checkoutViewModel.Shipments.Single().Address = checkoutViewModel.BillingAddress;
            }

            ValidateBillingAddress(checkoutViewModel);

            HandleValidationIssues(_cartService.ValidateCart(Cart));

            if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                return View(checkoutViewModel, paymentViewModel);
            }

            // Since the payment property is marked with an exclude binding attribute in the CheckoutViewModel
            // it needs to be manually re-added again.
            checkoutViewModel.Payment = paymentViewModel;

            ValidateShippingAddress(checkoutViewModel);

            HandleValidationIssues(_cartService.RequestInventory(Cart));

            if (!ModelState.IsValid)
            {
                return View(checkoutViewModel, paymentViewModel);
            }

            UpdateAddressNames(checkoutViewModel);

            SetShipmentAddresses(checkoutViewModel.Shipments);

            CreatePayment(checkoutViewModel.Payment, checkoutViewModel.BillingAddress);

            var startpage = _contentRepository.Get<StartPage>(ContentReference.StartPage);
            var confirmationPage = _contentRepository.GetFirstChild<OrderConfirmationPage>(checkoutViewModel.CurrentPage.ContentLink);
            IPurchaseOrder purchaseOrder = null;

            try
            {
                purchaseOrder = PlaceOrder(checkoutViewModel);
            }
            catch (PaymentException)
            {
                ModelState.AddModelError("", _localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/ProcessingPaymentFailure"));
                return View(checkoutViewModel, paymentViewModel);
            }

            var queryCollection = new NameValueCollection
            {
                {"contactId", _customerContext.CurrentContactId.ToString()},
                {"orderNumber", purchaseOrder.OrderLink.OrderGroupId.ToString(CultureInfo.CurrentCulture)}
            };

            SendConfirmationEmail(checkoutViewModel.BillingAddress.Email, startpage.OrderConfirmationMail, confirmationPage.Language.Name, queryCollection);

            return Redirect(new UrlBuilder(confirmationPage.LinkURL) { QueryCollection = queryCollection }.ToString());
        }

        private void ValidateBillingAddress(CheckoutViewModel checkoutViewModel)
        {
            if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
            {
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(checkoutViewModel.BillingAddress.AddressId))
                {
                    ModelState.AddModelError("BillingAddress.AddressId", _localizationService.GetString("/Shared/Address/Form/Empty/BillingAddress"));
                }
            }
            else
            {
                if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(checkoutViewModel.BillingAddress.Email))
                {
                    ModelState.AddModelError("BillingAddress.Email", _localizationService.GetString("/Shared/Address/Form/Empty/Email"));
                }
            }
        }

        private void ValidateShippingAddress(CheckoutViewModel checkoutViewModel)
        {
            if (User.Identity.IsAuthenticated)
            {
                if (checkoutViewModel.Shipments.Any(a => string.IsNullOrEmpty(a.Address.AddressId)))
                {
                    ModelState.AddModelError("ShippingAddress.AddressId", _localizationService.GetString("/Shared/Address/Form/Empty/ShippingAddress"));
                }
            }
        }

        private void HandleValidationIssues(Dictionary<ILineItem, List<ValidationIssue>> validationIssueCollections)
        {
            foreach (var validationIssue in validationIssueCollections)
            {
                foreach (var issue in validationIssue.Value)
                {
                    switch (issue)
                    {
                        case ValidationIssue.None:
                            break;

                        case ValidationIssue.CannotProcessDueToMissingOrderStatus:
                            ModelState.AddModelError("", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/CannotProcessDueToMissingOrderStatus"), validationIssue.Key.Code));
                            break;

                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToCodeMissing:
                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToNotAvailableInMarket:
                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToInactiveWarehouse:
                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToMissingInventoryInformation:
                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToUnavailableCatalog:
                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToUnavailableItem:
                            ModelState.AddModelError("", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/RemovedDueToUnavailableItem"), validationIssue.Key.Code));
                            break;

                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToInsufficientQuantityInInventory:
                            ModelState.AddModelError("", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/RemovedDueToInsufficientQuantityInInventory"), validationIssue.Key.Code));
                            break;

                        case ValidationIssue.RemovedDueToInvalidPrice:
                            ModelState.AddModelError("", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/RemovedDueToInvalidPrice"), validationIssue.Key.Code));
                            break;

                        case ValidationIssue.AdjustedQuantityByMinQuantity:
                        case ValidationIssue.AdjustedQuantityByMaxQuantity:
                        case ValidationIssue.AdjustedQuantityByBackorderQuantity:
                        case ValidationIssue.AdjustedQuantityByPreorderQuantity:
                        case ValidationIssue.AdjustedQuantityByAvailableQuantity:
                            ModelState.AddModelError("", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/AdjustedQuantity"), validationIssue.Key.Code));
                            break;

                        case ValidationIssue.PlacedPricedChanged:
                            ModelState.AddModelError("", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/PlacedPricedChanged"), validationIssue.Key.Code));
                            break;

                        default:
                            ModelState.AddModelError("", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/Checkout/Payment/Errors/PreProcessingFailure"), validationIssue.Key.Code));
                            break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private IPurchaseOrder PlaceOrder(CheckoutViewModel checkoutViewModel)
        {
            Cart.ProcessPayments(_paymentProcessor, _orderGroupCalculator);
            var totalProcessedAmount = Cart.GetFirstForm().Payments.Where(x => x.Status.Equals(PaymentStatus.Processed.ToString())).Sum(x => x.Amount);

            if (totalProcessedAmount != Cart.GetTotal(_orderGroupCalculator).Amount)
            {
                throw new InvalidOperationException("Wrong amount");
            }

            var payment = Cart.GetFirstForm().Payments.First();
            checkoutViewModel.Payment.PaymentMethod.PostProcess(payment);

            var orderReference = _orderRepository.SaveAsPurchaseOrder(Cart);
            var purchaseOrder = _orderRepository.Load<IPurchaseOrder>(orderReference.OrderGroupId);
            _orderRepository.Delete(Cart.OrderLink);

            return purchaseOrder;
        }

        private void SendConfirmationEmail(string emailAddress, ContentReference confirmationEmail, string language, NameValueCollection queryCollection)
        {
            try
            {
                _mailService.Send(confirmationEmail, queryCollection, emailAddress, language);
            }
            catch (Exception)
            {
                // The purchase has been processed and the payment was successfully settled, but for some reason the e-mail
                // receipt could not be sent to the customer. Rollback is not possible so simple make sure to inform the
                // customer to print the confirmation page instead.
                queryCollection.Add("notificationMessage", string.Format(_localizationService.GetString("/OrderConfirmationMail/ErrorMessages/SmtpFailure"), emailAddress));

                // Todo: Log the error and raise an alert so that an administrator can look in to it.
            }
        }

        private void SetShipmentAddresses(IList<ShipmentViewModel> shipmentViewModels)
        {
            var shipments = Cart.GetFirstForm().Shipments;
            for (int index = 0; index < shipments.Count; index++)
            {
                shipments.ElementAt(index).ShippingAddress = _addressBookService.ConvertToAddress(shipmentViewModels[index].Address);
            }
        }

        private void CreatePayment(IPaymentMethodViewModel<PaymentMethodBase> paymentViewModel, AddressModel billingAddress)
        {
            IOrderAddress address = _addressBookService.ConvertToAddress(billingAddress);
            var total = Cart.GetTotal(_orderGroupCalculator);
            var payment = paymentViewModel.PaymentMethod.CreatePayment(total.Amount);
            Cart.AddPayment(payment, _orderFactory);
            payment.BillingAddress = address;
        }

        private ViewResult View(CheckoutViewModel checkoutViewModel, IPaymentMethodViewModel<PaymentMethodBase> paymentViewModel)
        {
            return View(checkoutViewModel.ViewName, CreateCheckoutViewModel(checkoutViewModel.CurrentPage, paymentViewModel));
        }

        private CheckoutViewModel CreateCheckoutViewModel(CheckoutPage currentPage, IPaymentMethodViewModel<PaymentMethodBase> paymentViewModel = null)
        {
            return _checkoutViewModelFactory.CreateCheckoutViewModel(Cart, currentPage, paymentViewModel);
        }

        public ActionResult OnPurchaseException(ExceptionContext filterContext)
        {
            var currentPage = filterContext.RequestContext.GetRoutedData<CheckoutPage>();
            if (currentPage == null)
            {
                return new EmptyResult();
            }

            var viewModel = CreateCheckoutViewModel(currentPage);
            ModelState.AddModelError("Purchase", filterContext.Exception.Message);

            return View(viewModel.ViewName, viewModel);
        }

        protected override void OnException(ExceptionContext filterContext)
        {
            _controllerExceptionHandler.HandleRequestValidationException(filterContext, "purchase", OnPurchaseException);
        }

        private void UpdateShippingMethodIds(ICart cart, IList<ShipmentViewModel> shipments)
        {
            var i = 0;
            foreach (var shipment in cart.Forms.First().Shipments)
            {
                shipment.ShippingMethodId = shipments[i].ShippingMethodId;
                i++;
            }

            Cart.ApplyDiscounts(_promotionEngine, new PromotionEngineSettings());
        }

        private void UpdateAddressNames(CheckoutViewModel viewModel)
        {
            Guid guid;
            if (Guid.TryParse(viewModel.BillingAddress.Name, out guid))
            {
                viewModel.BillingAddress.Name = "Billing address (" + viewModel.BillingAddress.Line1 + ")";
            }

            if (!viewModel.UseBillingAddressForShipment)
            {
                foreach (var address in viewModel.Shipments.Select(x => x.Address))
                {
                    if (Guid.TryParse(address.Name, out guid))
                    {
                        address.Name = "Shipping address (" + address.Line1 + ")";
                    }
                }
            }
        }

        private ICart Cart
        {
            get { return _cart ?? (_cart = _cartService.LoadCart(_cartService.DefaultCartName)); }
        }

        private bool CartIsNullOrEmpty()
        {
            return Cart == null || !Cart.GetAllLineItems().Any();
        }

        private CheckoutViewModel ChangeShippingAddress(UpdateAddressViewModel updateViewModel)
        {
            var shippingAddressUpdated = updateViewModel.ShippingAddressIndex > -1;
            var updatedAddress = shippingAddressUpdated ? updateViewModel.Shipments[updateViewModel.ShippingAddressIndex].Address : updateViewModel.BillingAddress;

            if (updatedAddress.AddressId == null)
            {
                updatedAddress = new AddressModel
                {
                    Name = Guid.NewGuid().ToString(),
                };
            }
            else
            {
                _addressBookService.LoadAddress(updatedAddress);
            }

            _addressBookService.LoadCountriesAndRegionsForAddress(updatedAddress);
            var viewModel = CreateCheckoutViewModel(updateViewModel.CurrentPage);

            viewModel.UseBillingAddressForShipment = updateViewModel.UseBillingAddressForShipment;
            viewModel.BillingAddress = updateViewModel.BillingAddress;

            if (shippingAddressUpdated)
            {
                _addressBookService.LoadAddress(viewModel.BillingAddress);
                _addressBookService.LoadCountriesAndRegionsForAddress(viewModel.BillingAddress);
                _addressBookService.LoadAddress(updatedAddress);
                viewModel.Shipments[updateViewModel.ShippingAddressIndex].Address = updatedAddress;
            }
            else
            {
                viewModel.BillingAddress = updatedAddress;
                for (var i = 0; i < viewModel.Shipments.Count; i++)
                {
                    viewModel.Shipments[i].Address = updateViewModel.Shipments[i].Address;
                }
            }

            foreach (var shipment in viewModel.Shipments)
            {
                _addressBookService.LoadCountriesAndRegionsForAddress(shipment.Address);
            }

            return viewModel;
        }
    }
}

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He hung the last of the small potted plants and hung it by the front porch. He took in the different smells of the flowers he had just planted in his garden, and thought it all worth the hard work. In months leading to his retirement, Simon couldn't fathom life not working; waking up every morning without following a routine: the 6:00 traffic, t…[Read more]
Tricia commented on the post, vines 6 years, 3 months ago
Their graceful tendrils trickle down from the old, abandoned trellis, enveloping its edges, its corners, its front, and its back. Beside the old house where the excitement of each day depends on how many kids pass by it while riding their skateboards. All is quiet and still, but the vines, they continue to grow, unencumbered with space,…[Read more]
Tricia commented on the post, boots 6 years, 3 months ago
The bright rays of sunshine is blinding my eyes. And though the word escapes me at the moment, all of this fares less than the realization of finally possessing the Amulet of Time. The frustrated, disillusioned townsfolk can once again hope for a better community, a better life—a better future. All I need is to get to the lighthouse to activate t…[Read more]
Tricia commented on the post, cities 6 years, 4 months ago
Towards the sea, across the oceans, the mighty city of Delphinus roars and demands itself be heard. Its people standing proud, brandishing their swords and all sorts of armory, ready to take back their rightful title as citizens of Eora.
Tricia commented on the post, eternal 6 years, 4 months ago
"I could lie and say that it doesn't matter; it doesn't count. But the truth of it is, in every way, every angle of this conundrum, it DOES matter." The clarity of his mind, this burgeoning idea is the answer to all their problems. And the eternally grateful Clark thought back to the day when they first met–by accident, in his mind he knows it w…[Read more]
Tricia commented on the post, tales 6 years, 4 months ago
In a world of fairy tales and adventure, the man with the big imagination is king.
Diana @dindongbell