Financial Modelling 2nd Edition

Financial Modelling 2nd Edition - The purpose of this book remains to provide a "cookbook" for implementing common financial models in Excel. This edition has been expanded by six additional chapters, covering financial calculations, cost of capital, value at risk (VaR), real options, early exercise boundaries, and term-structure modeling. There is also an additional technical chapter containing a potpourri of Excel hints. I am indebted to a number of people (in addition to those mentioned in the previous preface) for help and suggestions: Yoni Aziz, Michael Giacomo Bertolino, Michael J. Clarke, Beni Daniel, Hector Tassinari Eldridge, RazGilad, Doron Greenberg, Rick Labs, Allen Lee, Paul Legerer, Steve Rubin, Roger Shelor, Maja Sliwinski, Bob Taggart, Sandra van Balen, Ubbo Wiersema, and Khurshid Zaynutdinov. I also want to thank my editors, who again have been a great help: Nancy Lombardi, Peter Reinhart, Victoria Richardson, and Terry Vaughn. As always I welcome suggestions and comments.

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The Crossing

The Crossing - I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters. There, on the borders of a creek that runs into the Yadkin River, in a cabin that was chinked with red mud, I came into the world a subject of King George the Third, in that part of his realm known as the province of North Carolina. The cabin reeked of corn-pone and bacon, and the odor of pelts. It had two shakedowns, on one of which I slept under a bearskin. A rough stone chimney was reared outside, and the fireplace was as long as my father was tall. There was a crane in it, and a bake kettle; and over it great buckhorns held my father's rifle when it was not in use. On other horns hung jerked bear's meat and venison hams, and gourds for drinking cups, and bags of seed, and my father's best hunting shirt; also, in a neglected corner, several articles of woman's attire from pegs. These once belonged to my mother. Among them was a gown of silk, of a fine, faded pattern, over which I was wont to speculate. The women at the Cross-Roads, twelve miles away, were dressed in coarse butternut wool and huge sunbonnets. But when I questioned my father on these matters he would give me no answers.

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Barack Obama a Biography

Barack Obama a Biography - In 1988, before moving to Boston to attend Harvard Law School, Barack made an important trip to Kenya. He felt he needed a break from his two and a half years as a community organizer in Chicago; and, as he later answered his half brother Bernard when asked why he had finally come home, he said that he wasn’t sure why, but something had told him it was time. What he found in Africa was more than just a simple connection to family. Rather, it was a pilgrimage for this young man who grew up conflicted by his mixed race and by his father’s absence that came so early in his life.

After traveling through Europe for three weeks, intending to see places he’d always heard about but had never seen, he realized he’d made a mistake in touring there first. Europe wasn’t a part of his heritage, and he felt he was living as if he were someone else, lending an incompleteness to his own history. He also thought spending time in Europe before his trip to Africa might be an attempt to delay coming to terms with his father. When Barack was two, his father returned to Africa, leaving him and his mother in Hawaii. He hadn’t seen his father since he was 10 years old.

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Story of My Life

Story of My Life - It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist. The task of writing an autobiography is a difficult one. When I try to classify my earliest impressions, I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present. The woman paints the child's experiences in her own fantasy. A few impressions stand out vividly from the first years of my life; but "the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest." Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost their poignancy; and many incidents of vital importance in my early education have been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries. In order, therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series of sketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most interesting and important. I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northernAlabama . The family on my father's side is descended from Caspar Keller, a native ofSwitzerland , who settled inMaryland . One of my Swiss ancestors was the first teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subject of their education--rather a singular coincidence; though it is true that there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his. My grandfather, Caspar Keller's son, "entered" large tracts of land inAlabama and finally settled there. I have been told that once a year he went from Tuscumbia to Philadelphia on horseback to purchase supplies for the plantation, and my aunt has in her possession many of the letters to his family, which give charming and vivid accounts of these trips.

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Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery

Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery - A man standing on the sea-shore is perhaps as ancient and as primitive a symbol of wonder as the mind can conceive. Beneath his feet are the stones and grasses of an element that is his own, natural to him, in some degree belonging to him, at any rate accepted by him. He has place and condition there. Above him arches a world of immense void, fleecy sailing clouds, infinite clear blueness, shapes that change and dissolve; his day comes out of it, his source of light and warmth marches across it, night falls from it; showers and dews also, and the quiet influence of stars. Strange that impalpable element must be, and for ever unattainable by him; yet with its gifts of sun and shower, its furniture of winged life that inhabits also on the friendly soil, it has links and partnerships with life as he knows it and is a complement of earthly conditions. But at his feet there lies the fringe of another element, another condition, of a vaster and more simple unity than earth or air, which the primitive man of our picture knows to be not his at all. It is fluent and unstable, yet to be touched and felt; it rises and falls, moves and frets about his very feet, as though it had a life and entity of its own, and was engaged upon some mysterious business. Unlike the silent earth and the dreaming clouds it has a voice that fills his world and, now low, now loud, echoes throughout his waking and sleeping life. Earth with her sprouting fruits behind and beneath him; sky, and larks singing, above him; before him, an eternal alien, the sea: he stands there upon the shore, arrested, wondering. He lives,—this man of our figure; he proceeds, as all must proceed, with the task and burden of life. One by one its miracles are unfolded to him; miracles of fire and cold, and pain and pleasure; the seizure of love, the terrible magic of reproduction, the sad miracle of death. He fights and lusts and endures; and, no more troubled by any wonder, sleeps at last. But throughout the days of his life, in the very act of his rude existence, this great tumultuous presence of the sea troubles and overbears him. Sometimes in its bellowing rage it terrifies him, sometimes in its tranquillity it allures him; but whatever he is doing, grubbing for roots, chipping experimentally with bones and stones, he has an eye upon it; and in his passage by the shore he pauses, looks, and wonders. His eye is led from the crumbling snow at his feet, past the clear green of the shallows, beyond the furrows of the nearer waves, to the calm blue of the distance; and in his glance there shines again that wonder, as in his breast stirs the vague longing and unrest that is the life-force of the world.

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The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882

The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 - After having spent two sessions in Edinburgh, my father perceived, or he heard from my sisters, that I did not like the thought of being a physician, so he proposed that I should become a clergyman. He was very properly vehement against my turning into an idle sporting man, which then seemed my probable destination. I asked for some time to consider, as from what little I had heard or thought on the subject I had scruples about declaring my belief in all the dogmas of the Church of England; though otherwise I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care 'Pearson on the Creed,' and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Considering how fiercely I have been attacked by the orthodox, it seems ludicrous that I once intended to be a clergyman. Nor was this intention and my father's wish ever formerly given up, but died a natural death when, on leaving Cambridge, I joined the "Beagle" as naturalist. If the phrenologists are to be trusted, I was well fitted in one respect to be a clergyman. A few years ago the secretaries of a German psychological society asked me earnestly by letter for a photograph of myself; and some time afterwards I received the proceedings of one of the meetings, in which it seemed that the shape of my head had been the subject of a public discussion, and one of the speakers declared that I had the bump of reverence developed enough for ten priests.

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Edison : His Life and Inventions

Edison : His Life and Inventions - THE year 1847 marked a period of great territorial acquisition by the American people, with incalculable additions to their actual and potential wealth. By the rational compromise with England in the dispute over the Oregon region, President Polk had secured during 1846, for undisturbed settlement, three hundred thousand square miles of forest, fertile land, and fisheries, including the whole fair Columbia Valley. Our active "policy of the Pacific" dated from that hour. With swift and clinching succession came the melodramatic Mexican War, and February, 1848, saw another vast territory south of Oregon and west of the Rocky Mountains added by treaty to the United States. Thus in about eighteen months there had been pieced into the national domain for quick development and exploitation a region as large as the entire Union of Thirteen States at the close of the War of Independence. Moreover, within its boundaries was embraced all the great American gold-field, just on the eve of discovery, for Marshall had detected the shining particles in the mill-race at the foot of the Sierra Nevada nine days before Mexico signed away her rights in California and in all the vague, remote hinterland facing Cathayward.

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Kennedy

Kennedy - Across  the  muddy  Potomac  from  the  Lincoln  Memorial  a  green  and  gentle  slope rises  gradually  to what was once  the home of Robert E.  Lee. From halfway up  that hill one can see on a clear autumn day most of  the majesty  that  is Washington. The three marble monuments and memorials—to  the men who  forged  in  the Presidency an  instrument of power and  compassion—remind a grateful nation  that  it has been blessed  in  its gravest  trials with  its greatest  leaders.  In  the distance  the dome of  the Capitol  covers  a  milieu  of  wisdom  and  folly,  Presidential  ambitions  and antagonisms,  political  ideals  and  ideologies.  To  the  right  is  the  stark  and labyrinthian  Pentagon,  guiding  under  Presidential  command  the  massive  armed might  on  which  hinge  our  security  and  survival.  On  the  grassy  slope  itself, reminding  us  that  “since  this  country  was  founded,  each  generation  of  Americans has  been  summoned  to  give  testimony  to  its  national  loyalty ”  are  marked  with simple  stones  “the  graves  of  young  Americans  who  answered  the  call  to  service.” And away  to  the  left,  its white sandstone hidden behind a screen of greenery,  is  the seat  of  executive  power,  the  scene  of more  heroic  dramas,  comedies  and  tragedies than any stage in the world.

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Thomas Alva Edison - Inventing The Electric Age

Thomas Alva Edison - Inventing The Electric Age - On the evening of December 31, 1879, the tiny village of Menlo Park, New Jersey, became the site of a New Year’s party unlike any the world had ever seen. People were arriving by the trainload to gaze in awe at the latest wonder to emerge from the laboratory of the inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Just two years before, Edison had astounded the world with the phonograph—a machine that talked. To the crowds that were swarming to Menlo Park that evening, he had promised something even more amazing. It was an electric light that could be used in homes, offices, and schools—a remarkable technical innovation that promised to make gas lighting and oil lamps obsolete. The product of months of intensive labor, the invention was now ready for display to the general public.

As the visitors arrived at the little Menlo Park station, they were greeted with a series of glowing glass bulbs mounted on posts along the street leading toward Edison’s laboratory. Bulbs burned as well in six nearby houses. Two lights shone above the gate at the entrance to the laboratory grounds, while several more illuminated the yard surrounding the lab.

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ISAAC NEWTON - LIVES AND LEGACIES

ISAAC NEWTON - LIVES AND LEGACIES - AT A LITTLE BEFORE TEN O’CLOCK THE DRUM ROLL BEGAN, FIRST distant and then ever louder as the thousands gathering to see the king die wound their way through London’s choked streets to the palace of Whitehall. It was January 30, 1649. The weather was exceedingly cold, the sky gray with scattered patches of sunshine, the frost so sharp that great chunks of ice clogged the arches of London Bridge spanning the river Thames. The previous day fifty-nine judges had signed the death warrant of King Charles I, many of them badgered and bullied by the rebel leader Oliver Cromwell, who was about to assume the title of Lord Protector and rule as a king in everything but name. It was Cromwell and his Roundheads, who cut their hair short in defiance of the wigged nobility and practiced the Puritan religion, who most wanted the king’s head. They had fought Charles and his supporters, many of whom were sympathetic to the outlawed Catholic religion, ever since 1642, when civil war erupted in the north of England and spread ross the land like a great plague. Now the leader of the defeated forces had to pay.

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The Agassi Story

The Agassi Story - I am happy in this house.Really,I am.
Nestled in the crook ofthe curve where Andre Drive pours into Agassi Court (I petitioned the city to rename our streets),it’s a big, beautiful home,about  5,000 square feet,bright,airy,open,and filled with a lifetime ofthings that my wife,my kids,and I have accumulated.Unkempt rows offamily photos — the smiling faces of my four children and ofmy four grandchildren — perch on the mantle.A riot oftrophies occupies the foyer.The kitchen boasts two refrigerators,which,together,store enough food to feed a Division I football team.There are — drum roll,please —  five bathrooms. (You’ll understand their significance in a moment.) Out back is a beautiful enclosed tennis court,one ofthe finest in town. Moving here was a big decision for me.When my youngest son, Andre,told me he’d bought four lots on the western outskirts of town,that he was going to build a tennis court,a health spa,and two houses there,and that one ofthose houses was meant for me and Betty,I said thanks,but no thanks.

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Bhutto a Political Biography

Bhutto a Political Biography - Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was a political phenomenon. In a country where the majority of politicians have been indistinguishable, grey and quick to compromise, he stalked among them as a Titan. He has been called ‘blackmailer’, ‘opportunist’, ‘Bhutto Khan’ (an undisguised comparison with Pakistan’s military dictators Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan) and ‘His Imperial Majesty the Shahinshah of Pakistan’ by his enemies. Time magazine referred to him as a ‘whiz kid’ on his coming to power in 1971. His supporters called him Takhare Asia’ (The Pride of Asia) and Anthony Howard, writing of him in the New Statesman, London, said ‘arguably the most intelligent and plausibly the best read of the world’s rulers’. Peter Gill wrote of him in the Daily Telegraph, London: ‘At 47, he has become one of the third world’s most accomplished rulers.’ And then later, after a change of heart and Bhutto’s fall from power, he described him as ‘one of nature’s bounders’. Senator McGovern called him ‘a man of peace’. The spectrum of epithets is wide, as indeed the man was complex.

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John Lennon Biography

John Lennon Biography - John Lennon was born with a gift for music and comedy that would carry him further from his roots than he ever dreamed possible. As a young man, he was lured away from the British Isles by the seemingly boundless glamour and opportunity to be found across the Atlantic. He achieved that rare feat for a British performer of taking American music to the Americans and playing it as convincingly as any homegrown practitioner, or even more so. For several years, his group toured the country, delighting audiences in city after city with their garish suits, funny hair, and contagiously happy grins.

This, of course, was not Beatle John Lennon but his namesake paternal grandfather, more commonly known as Jack, born in 1855. Lennon is an Irish surname—from O’Leannain or O’Lonain and Jack habitually gave his birthplace as Dublin, though there is evidence that his family had already crossed the Irish Sea to become part of Liverpool’s extensive Hibernian community some time previously. He began his working life as a clerk, but in the 1880s followed a common impulse among his compatriots and emigrated to New York. Whereas the city turned other immigrant Irishmen into laborers or police officers, Jack wound up as a member of Andrew Roberton’s Colored Operatic Kentucky Minstrels.

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Algorithmics for Hard Problems

Algorithmics for Hard Problems - The goal of this textbook is to give a transparent, systematics introduction to the concepts and to the methods for designing algorithms for hard problems. Simplicity is the main educational characteristic of this textbook. All ideas, concepts, algorithms, analyses, and proofs are first explained in an informal way in order to develop the right intuition, and then carefully specified in detail. Following this strategy we preferred to illustrate the algorithm design methods using the most transparent example rather than to present the best, but to technical result. The consequence is that there are sections where the first edition of this book does not go deep enough for advanced courses.

To Smooth this drawback in the second edition, we extended the materials for some of the topics of central interest - randomized algorithms for primality testing and applications of linear programming in the design of approximation algorithms. This second edition contains both the Solovay Strassen algorithm and the Miller Rabin algorithm for primality testing with a selfcontained analysis of their behaviour (error probability).

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Engineering Mechanics 2 - Mechanics of Materials

Engineering Mechanics 2 - Mechanics of Materials - Mechanics of Materials is the second volume of a three volume text book on Engineering Mechanics.Volume1deals with Statics while Volume 3 contains Dynamics. The original German version of this series has been the best selling textbook on mechanics for more than two decades; its 11th edition is currently being published.

It is our intention to present to engineering students the basic concepts and principles of mechanics in the clearest and simplest form possible. A major objective of this book is to help the students to develop problem solving skills in a systematic manner. The book has been developed from the many years of teaching experience gained by the authors while giving courses on engineering mechanics to students of mechanical, civil and electrical engineering. The contents of the book correspond to the topics normally covered in courses on basic engineering mechanics, also known in some countries as strength of materials, at universities and colleges. The theory is presented in as simple a form as the subject allows without becoming imprecise. This approachmakes the text accessible to students from different disciplines and allows for their different educational backgrounds. Another aim of the book is to provide students as well as practising engineers with a solid foundation to help them bridge the gaps between undergraduate studies and advanced courses on mechanics and practical engineering problems.

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How to Win Friends Influence People

How to Win Friends Influence People - This biographical information about Dale Carnegie was written as an introduction to the original edition of How to Win Friends and Influence People. It is reprinted in this edition to give the readers additional background on Dale Carnegie. 

It was a cold January night in 1935, but the weather couldn't keep them away. Two thousand five hundred men and women thronged into the grand ballroom of the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York. Every available seat was filled by half-past seven. At eight o'clock, the eager crowd was still pouring in. The spacious balcony was soon jammed. Presently even standing space was at a premium, and hundreds of people, tired after navigating a day in business, stood up for an hour and a half that night to witness - what?

A fashion show?
A six-day bicycle race or a personal appearance by Clark Gable?
No. These people had been lured there by a newspaper ad. Two evenings previously, they had seen this full-page announcement in the New York Sun staring them in the face:  Learn to Speak Effectively Prepare for Leadership
 

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Falling From The Sky

Falling From The Sky - It was the last story.
I was deep into one long weekend in March—on the couch with  music in the background and blanket draped over my shoulders. I stretched. Leaned back. The editing for Falling From the Sky was done. It didn’t—it doesn’t—seem real. Over the course of several months, a great deal of time and effort went into this anthology. These stories, and this anthology, have become a part of me. I frst discovered Another Sky Press back in the Spring of 2006. The concepts behind the press instantly struck a chord—it  was a new kind of publishing paradigm and I wanted in. I offered my services as an editor and suggested a short story anthology.

It would give us the opportunity to showcase an ensemble of writers, each with their own voice. In a burst of inspiration, the title came to me—Falling From the Sky. It summed up everything I wanted this anthology to be—a collection of prose from beyond the mainstream, tumbling into the Press and onto the printed page.

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Fairness, Responsibility and Welfare

Fairness, Responsibility and Welfare - This book emerges from a long story of collaborations and interactions and I am afraid I have lost track of all the direct and indirect help I am indebted for. First, I would like to thank the coauthors of the papers which have provided a good part of the material of this book, Walter Bossert, Dirk Van de gaer, and especially Frangois Maniquet who collaborated on a handbook chapter on compensation and responsibility which formed an early backbone of, and an inducement into, this text. I thank him for his encouragements to develop this project.

John Roemer initially attracted me to this topic during a visit at U.C. Davis, and has always been a great source of inspiration. His comments on this project have been very encouraging. The first chapters were written while I was on sabbatical leave at Nuffield College, Oxford, and I am very grateful to Tony Atkinson and Kevin Roberts for their kind hospitality. During this period, a reading group on hypothetical insurance provided an excellent challenge to understand the attraction of Dworkin's theory, and Chapter 6 has been profoundly influenced by the discussions in this group, in particular with Paula Casal, Tom Christiano, Matthew Clayton, Jerry Cohen and Andrew Williams. At the last stages of preparation of the manuscript, a Lachmann Fellowship at the LSE provided not only an excellent environment to focus on the last chapters, but also the opportunity to benefit from a doctoral seminar on the manuscript, and I am very grateful to the attendants for their comments and their patience with the obscurities of the text. A lecture series at the Norwegian School of Economics provided the last round of valuable comments and I am very grateful to Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden for their kind invitation, and to the attendants for their reactions. I am also grateful to my colleagues at the University of Pau and at CERSES for their support.

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Hidden History of the Human Race

Hidden History of the Human Race - It is my great pleasure and honor to introduce this abridged edition of Forbidden Archeology. Let me say at the outset that I believe this book to be one of the landmark intellectual achievements of the late twentieth century. It will take more conservative scholars a long while, probably many years, to come to terms with the revelations it contains. Nevertheless, Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson have put the revelations out there and the clock cannot now be turned back. Sooner or later, whether we like it or not, our species is going to have to come to terms with the facts that are so impressively documented in the pages that follow, and these facts are stunning. Cremo and Thompson's central proposition is that the model of human prehistory, carefully built-up by scholars over the past two centuries, is sadly and completely wrong. Moreover, the authors are not proposing that it can be put right with minor tinkering and adjustments. What is needed is for the existing model to be thrown out the window and for us to start again with open minds and with absolutely no preconceptions at all.

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Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink : The Power of Thinking Without Thinking - Some years ago, a young couple came to the University of Washington to visit the laboratory of a psychologist  named  John Gottman. They were  in  their  twenties,  blond  and  blue-eyed with  stylishly  tousled  haircuts  and funky glasses. Later, some of the people who worked in the lab would say they were  the kind of couple that is easy to like—intelligent and attractive and  funny in a droll, ironic kind of way—and that much is  immediately obvious from the videotape Gottman made of their visit. The husband, whom I’ll call Bill, had an endearingly playful manner. His wife, Susan, had a sharp, deadpan wit. 

They were  led  into  a  small  room  on  the  second  floor  of  the  nondescript  two-story  building  that  housed Gottman’s operations, and they sat down about five feet apart on two office chairs mounted on raised platforms. They both had electrodes and sensors clipped  to  their  fingers and ears, which measured  things  like  their heart rate, how much they were sweating, and the temperature of their skin. Under their chairs, a “jiggle-o-meter” on the platform measured how much each of  them moved around. Two video cameras, one aimed at each person, recorded everything they said and did. For  fifteen minutes,  they were  left alone with the cameras rolling, with instructions to discuss any topic from their marriage that had become a point of contention. For Bill and Sue it was their dog. They  lived in a small apartment and had just gotten a very large puppy. Bill didn’t like the dog; Sue did. For fifteen minutes, they discussed what they ought to do about it. 

The videotape of Bill and Sue’s discussion seems, at least at first, to be a random sample of a very ordinary kind of conversation that couples have all the time. No one gets angry. There are no scenes, no breakdowns, no epiphanies. “I’m just not a dog person” is how Bill starts things off, in a perfectly reasonable tone of voice. He complains a little bit—but about the dog, not about Susan. She complains, too, but there are also moments when they simply forget that they are supposed to be arguing. When the subject of whether the dog smells comes up, for example, Bill and Sue banter back and forth happily, both with a half smile on their lips.

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