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How to Work with Someone You Don't Like

No matter how positive, enthusiastic, fair and conscientious you are, you may have to work with a few individuals who cause you problems. They could be naysayers, complainers, backstabbers, overbearing ... well, you get the idea.

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Lord of the Ring

A treasure hunter searching in Florida waters discovered a Stanley Cup ring marking the last time Toronto's Maple Leafs were able to clinch the hockey championship.

The ring, which belonged to former Maple Leaf right-winger Jim Pappin, had been missing for some 30 years. Pappin led the Leafs during the 1967-68 season playoffs with seven goals and 15 points.

Early in August, Mark DesErmia was in the Gulf of Mexico, off the shores of Clearwater Pass, FL, with an underwater metal detector when it detected the missing treasure with Pappin's name inscribed on the inside.

Pappin, disillusioned with the Leafs after they traded him to the Chicago Blackhawks, gave his ring to his father-in-law, Peter Kyrzakos, who wore the ring faithfully until he lost it sometime in the 1970s during a stay at his vacation home in Vero Beach, FL.

Kyrzakos was so distressed, he hired people and divers to look for the ring, but to no avail. Too upset to tell Pappin, he asked former Leafs teammate Eddie Shack for his ring so that he could have it replicated. Kyrzakos only told Pappin about the lost ring in 1982 when his daughter and the former hockey player divorced. He gave Pappin the replica and the two remained close until Kyrzakos died in 2004.

Pappin never thought about the ring again until DesErmina gave him a call. DesErmia said he's been offered $20,000 for the ring but that he would gladly give it back to Pappin for a reward. Pappin said he hopes to sell the replica and give DesErmia that money as his reward.