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The WashingtonienneBlogs, Boys and Bad Manners
Published on April 15, 1999 at 3:11pm
"I have a 'glamour job' on the Hill. That is, I could not care less about gov or politics, but working for a Senator looks good on my resume. And these marble hallways are such great places for meeting boys and showing off my outfits." So begins The Washingtonienne, the short-lived blog of one Jessica Cutler, a young Capitol Hill Staff Assistant since dubbed the "New-insky" for her chronicling of kinky sex among D.C.'s power elite. Using her e-nom de plume, Cutler spent a few weeks earlier this year posting online commentary regarding her job, her shoes, and her liaisons with six Hill-dwelling dudes—er, Men of Power—ranging from MD ("Dude from the Senate office I interned at") to R ("aka 'Threesome Dude'") to F (married government Chief of Staff paying her for sex). This cash-dispensing, anal sex-loving crew will presumably be fleshed out, so to speak, in The Washingtonienne's upcoming eponymous novel, for which she recently received a reported six-figure advance (from HyperionDisney, that avatar of family values).
What with the hubbub about the 26-year-old Cutler and her sexcapades, I decided a read-through would be in order, and I curled up the other day with the blog and a martini in a state of high anticipation. I was expecting salacious. Purple. Titillating. Highballs and low morals, detailed with evil glee and sophisticated immorality.
In fact, it was the opposite: as I read, I started to feel gawky, uncomfortable. Giggly. I fought the urge to make prank phone calls and toilet-paper the house. I was regressing. I finally realized why: with the exception of the sex-for-money scenes (okay, all the sex scenes), this twentysomething's blog read a lot like my own eighth-grade diary. Squirming with embarrassment, I recognized the hallmarks of myself at age fourteen-the self-conscious coquetry ("Item! A new contender for my fair hand"), the supreme self-confidence ("I know I'm hot and everything") juxtaposed with adolescent gawkiness ("I got nervous and acted weird. Shit!"). Most of all, I was struck by the resilience of youth, the ability - for better and for worse - to move forward from difficult experiences without emerging scarred for life. Cutler may be down ("I feel bad about what I did to MK") (translation: "I feel bad about cheating on a serious, long-term partner") but she's not out. Turns out that "new stuff from Martha Stewart!" facilitates the healing process just as well as, say, honest communication.
It's fitting that Cutler's blog was originally brought to light by another blog: Political e-gossipmonger Wonkette broke the "news" of Ms. Cutler's online journal several months ago, and if the writing style is any indication, the friendship between Wonkette and Washingtonienne is off to a beautiful start. "WASHINGTONIENNE SPEAKS!! WONKETTE EXCLUSIVE!! MUST CREDIT WONKETTE!! THE WASHINGTONIENNE INTERVIEW!!" So Wonkette hyperventilated last May, fanning the embers of a sophomoric blog into a scoop and trumpeting her own role as star-finder in the process. Attracted by the scent of all those capital letters, other Web-trawlers and bloggers converged, and soon Washingtonienne was appearing in rants and raves throughout the virtual world (e.g. Wizbangblog, Swamp-City, PoliticalWire), all bristling with feedback from readers—and, of course, linking to each other.
Given the fuss, it was only a matter of time before the debacle ensnared more mainstream print media outlets. The Washington Post interviewed Cutler, while Playboy went one better and paid her to pose nude. (Never one to miss a business opportunity, the magazine has since posted a casting call on its website: "Attention Interns: Pose for Playboy Magazine!") Our culture rewards self-promotion in exactly the way the self-promoter would want: with visibility, in this case literally. The preliminary groundwork for that visibility is relatively easy thanks to the Web, where increased accessibility of information breeds increased appetite for information, and vice versa. The more press that was generated about Washingtonienne, the more readers wanted to know, and the more press was generated, and the more readers wanted to know. Cutler was happy to oblige.
But given Washingtonienne's sophomoric prose and extremely short lifespan, what's the brouhaha about? Well, we all love a guessing game. (Although if you have anything to do with government, chances are the list of suspects—identified by their initials and their positions, governmental and sexual—will be easily deciphered. For the rest of us, it might be time to learn the names of our elected officials.) And no, none of the suspects works at the political level of Dick Cheney. "Absolutely not," Ms. Cutler tells Playboy. "I think I would have tried to cash in on that earlier." (Good lord, whom to root for in that battle?) And do we even need to acknowledge that we get off on sex and power? Who can resist a peek at the salaciousness seething behind the sober suits and marble halls of American government? Finally, we love a good villainess-a sexually voracious woman incurs our particularly punitive wrath. Slut! Whore! we cry, wringing our hands, our eyes glued to her cleavage.
But these kinds of puritanical, knee-jerk catchwords are too easy, and they obscure a more complicated truth. Jessica Cutler is a sexually voracious woman. But her problem is not appetite—it's etiquette, or lack thereof. Her gleefully tawdry publishing of the sexual secrets of people she purports to care about is tacky and disrespectful, and it's this, not her sexual zealousness, that should incur our eye-rolling. Take her latest beau: Turns out this fellow (a committee staffer in her office, former cop, "looks just like George Clooney when he takes off his glasses," initials RS—how hard would it be to figure out his identity?) "cannot finish with a condom on. He can barely stay hard." On the other hand, he did ejaculate twice in one evening, so maybe that lessens the sting? A cursory read through the rest of the blog gave no evidence that RS had sinned badly enough to deserve this kind of outing. So… why, Washingtonienne, why? Likewise, the hapless R, "aka Threesome Dude." So Ms. Cutler had a three-way with two other consenting adults? Bully for her. What's appalling is not the encounter, but the way Cutler chooses to present it to the world. Not only is this Dude probably recognizable to his peers, but his earnest, awkward attempt at a thank-you note merits this online comment from our narrator: "Jesus, what a douche."
It's one thing to slam sexual partners to their face, or to a best friend, or to a therapist. It's another to broadcast their thinly disguised identities and their shortcomings to the entire online world via non-password-protected, real-time updates. And it's this breathtaking lack of respect-not the number of partners or choice of sexual positions- that left me wanting to scrub the virtual bathroom walls free of Cutler's callous graffiti.
Cutler is not the first, or even the nastiest, blip in the blogosphere. But she has been able to parlay her private exploits into a public spectacle thanks to an ally arguably more powerful than any wealthy political appointee: the Web. Without it, she might have been just another exhibitionist, albeit one who's rather boorish, opportunistic and, despite her claim of an IQ exceeding 140, not too bright. (From her Playboy interview: "I'm registered as a Republican. That doesn't mean much, though. I'm from New York. New York's different. I'm more the Giuliani/Pataki style Republican, which basically means you're against crime.")
But so what? From the Lascaux cave painters to Jenna Jameson, humans have always been willing to make their sexuality a part—or the whole—of their public image. What's so modern about this affair is not Cutler's character, nor the desire to publicize her dalliances, but rather the ease with which she was able to broadcast her exhibitionism and bad manners to the world. Back in the pre-wired days, she might have limned her encounters in a letter, or waited for friends to visit before drawing them aside in the parlor to whisper her indiscretions. But thanks to the internet, anyone can, with the literal click of a button, eradicate the boundaries between us and All Information Everywhere.
With that in mind, it's Cutler's manipulation that becomes the focus of the story. Initially, I tried to see her as a victim—an emotionally vulnerable young woman alone in the big city, manipulated by powerful men and shocked—shocked!—to discover that with "a blog, you can't expect your private life to be private anymore. You just never know." But she isn't a victim—at least, not of anything other than her own psyche. In fact, reading her recent Washington Post interview, I began to feel that she was not only unmannered, but unbalanced. She protests that she "feels bad" for a lot of people around her, but the claims come across as the wide-eyed, theoretical compassion of someone who has never actually experienced the emotion. She tells a reporter, "I was only blogging for, what, less than two weeks? Some people with blogs are never going to get famous, and they've been doing it for, like, over a year. I feel bad for them." On behalf of all the less-notorious bloggers and other struggling-writer types: thanks for the sympathy. On behalf of the hundreds of female interns and assistants who come to D.C. to work and learn—not just meet guys and show off cute outfits—thanks for further damaging our reputation and rendering questionable our motivations. As for the men formerly in her life? "I feel really bad for the guys," she says. "They didn't deserve this"-as if "this" were a consequence of god pointing the finger, rather than Jessica Cutler typing out their sexual secrets onto her computer screen. Item! Good sex and good manners? Not mutually exclusive, even in politics.
Juliet Eastland's writing appears in print and online venues. She lives in New York City.
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Post sues to see Ritter records
By Howard Pankratz | The Denver Post
August 11, 2008 at 8:15 a.m.
The Denver Post today sued Gov. Bill Ritter after the governor's refusal to turn over 19 months of cellphone records that would show some of who Ritter has called and been called by since taking office in 2007.
The newspaper claims it is entitled to a list of calls made and received by Ritter during the 19 months related to his work as governor.
Ritter only occasionally uses his state-issued cellphone but carries a second cellphone not provided by taxpayers. The governor's office has refused to allow Post reporters to see the itemized bills for that phone, arguing that it would invade the governor's privacy.
Attorneys for the paper disagree.
"It is obvious that if any high-ranking government executive may 'privatize' his conduct of public business by establishing a private account or dealing with private providers of communications technologies, it would allow government officials to unilaterally create a vast and unacceptable 'loophole' in the requirements" of the Colorado Open Records Acts, said the lawsuit.
According to the lawsuit filed in Denver District Court, the newspaper filed two requests for the records, one on July 6 and the second July 28.
The first request asked for the itemized phone bill from Ritter's personal cellphone for January and February 2007.
The second request asked for 19 months of cellphone bills — from January 2007 through July 2008 — which reflect the official calls placed or received by Ritter during normal business hours.
The Post said Ritter's lawyer, Thomas Rogers III, denied both requests because the records being sought were billed to Ritter's private account.
Evan Dreyer, spokesman for the governor, said that what The Post is trying to obtain are records for the governor's personal telephone, which, he contended, are not covered by the Colorado Open Records Act.
Dreyer said there is a distinction between the "political" calls Ritter makes on his cellphone and the calls he makes on state government business.
Dreyer noted that the governor has provided cellphone records for his state-paid cellphone.
"Our basic point is that these are records from the governor's personal cellphone and are not public documents," said Dreyer. "They just aren't. Yes, the governor absolutely makes phone calls. He makes personal phone calls, he makes political phone calls. He calls his kids, he calls his wife, he calls his cabinet members, he calls business leaders and community leaders.
"And out of an abundance of caution for taxpayers, he has made the choice to pay for all of those calls, including business calls, himself so that the taxpayer doesn't end up paying for his personal or political or nongovernment calls," said Dreyer.
The lawsuit noted that the governor's office did provide The Denver Post Ritter's records for his cellular/Blackberry account paid for by the state.
Those records, said The Post, demonstrated — with one month's exception — that the "vast bulk" of the governor's official business conducted by phone was conducted on the cellphone billed to Ritter's private account.
The Post sued Ritter under the Colorado Open Records Act.
The lawsuit claims that cellphone bills are a public record because they are a "writing" made, maintained or kept by a political subdivision in the "exercise" of a legal function.
The newspaper said it strongly disagreed with Rogers that the cellphone records are not a public record.
Ritter uses his cellphone for public business, and the cellphone bills are a "byproduct" and record of public business, said lawyers Tom Kelley and Steven Zansberg, who represent The Post.
The Post contends the Colorado Open Records Act has no specific exemption for disclosures that would invade personal privacy.
In fact, said the newspaper, the records reflecting official business conducted by Ritter aren't entitled "to any reasonable expectation of personal privacy."
The newspaper claims that both the General Assembly and past Colorado governors have determined that under the Colorado Open Records Act, "all writings" — including presumably cellphone records — that involve official business are public records, not private ones.
Here, said The Denver Post, the governor's legal counsel has argued that Ritter's personal calls need to be deleted.
But said the newspaper, if a governor elects to use the telephone that is primarily utilized for public business for personal calls, the "governor must assume either the risk of disclosure or the burden of identifying and redacting calls that are unrelated to public business."
"Because of the minimal intrusion upon privacy interest that would result from disclosure of the governor's cellphone records reflecting calls he made or received in his official capacity as governor, there is no reason for the court to permit or require redaction," said The Denver Post lawsuit.
Thus, claimed the newspaper, it is entitled to the telephone numbers of persons called or calling the governor on nonofficial business, as well as similar calls dealing with official business.
"Redaction should be permitted only as the governor, in good faith, is willing to certify that the omitted information does not relate to official business," said the lawyers.
Dreyer said that The Post has not indicated why it wants the phone records.
"We wish they would," said Dreyer. "We have made repeated offerings to The Post to sit down and talk about what it is specifically they are looking for. And The Post refuses to be forthcoming. It appears The Post is on a fishing expedition for who knows what. "
Dreyer also claimed that Ritter, his office specifically, and state government in general is as "transparent as it could possibly be.
"We provide thousands of documents to the public every day," said Dreyer.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com
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In the discussion on the Card "Sesshomaru (Legends)"
I think this could be an interesting card, but it is hard to rate it if you don't include all of the color attack stats.
This card is thought out well but you really are missing key information.
In the discussion on the Card "Ayumi, Kagome's Friend Until the End"
I agree that this could be an interesting card, but it needs colors and values to be a true character card.
I can see where you are going with this deck, and it's an interesting way to battle a chibi deck. The heavy emphasis on defense and the Rock, Paper, Scissors angle provide two different strategies in one deck. But, I'm not sure why you have Myoga in there.
I haven't played against this deck and idk if anyone has but I can't see this deck working out. its an attacking deck meant for brute force but you can only have 3 characters out at a time since everyone in the deck is "unique" you should add some "non-unique" characters with wolf in the title to the deck and get rid of some of the item&events for them also you should only have 1-3 different Koga cards IMO because having that many Kogas in your deck will end up with you getting a lot of Kogas but nothing else. I can't remember all the ones there are but 2-5 different "non-unique" characters with wolf in the title are in existence a fair amount it the first 2 sets also you don't have either of Koga's follower's in the deck (can't remember their names) and you don't have the location called wolf's den or something like that that which is a staple in "wolf" decks...but that just my opinion as some1 who has seen a few amazing wolf beat-down decks. which isn't to say I don't like the idea of the deck I just don't see it working the way it is right now with a lack of characters.
In the discussion on the Card "Baggage"
This is a great item card to have in any deck. Since it isn't unique, you can attach it to several characters at one time. It lets you stack item bonuses, which is normally impossible. And, with a deck cost of 0, it won't run out your deck.
In the discussion on the Card "Miroku, the Modern Gentleman"
This makes a great addition to a Modern-themed deck, especially since most Modern characters have low stats. Miroku's own stats and his +2 defense bonus to Cute Modern Females can help make a Modern deck more competitive.
Lol, sounds like a real card effect and a pretty cool one lol if your opponent as a good effect but.. wait o.o could you have more than one character under Inuyasha lol and so have more than one effect? Or can he only have one = P?
You can have a whole bunch of abilities.
In the anime, he was able to absorb Hosenki's Diamonds, the Coral Crytal's Barrier, Dragon Scales, Meido and Flames all at the same time.
x.X lol um, that effect sounds overpowered lol..since you expend everytime after you attack but nice lol. EDIT: oh, the boost is temporary o.O ugh, but still is bad anyways especially with that koga that puts cards on the bottom of the opponent's deck, could kill the deck that way x.x lol.
This deck is made of only cards I actually own. The cards are hard to come by now but I've been thinking of now changing up a few things since the battles here are so intense. Thanks for your vote.


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Is Congress Really Talking About Slashing Contribution Limits to 401ks including the Self-Directed Solo 401k ?
October 27, 2017 /in Articles, Blog, Self-Directed Solo 401(k) /by Jim Hitt
No. If they were, it would be big news to many of our clients, who went through the trouble of setting up a Self-Directed Solo 401k for their small businesses or consulting ventures. And there's some talk in the media about Congressional Republicans pushing to slash allowable contribution limits to around $2,400.
The New York Times writes it up here:
House Republicans are considering a plan to sharply reduce the amount of income American workers can save in tax-deferred retirement accounts as part of a broad effort to rewrite the tax code, according to lobbyists, tax consultants and congressional Democrats.
Notably absent from the story: Any language that's actually in a bill on the House floor. More than that, there's also the notable absence of a single Republican lawmaker that has ever, ever publicly advocated to reduce allowable 401k contributions to that level.
Moreover, there's not even a single named source on record saying that this is what the GOP is floating.
It would also put a major dent in the GOP brand, which at least ostensibly seeks to reduce the tax burden on working Americans and businesses.
It seems to us that a bunch of wonks at a planning session were looking at potential ways to offset revenue losses from a planned corporate income tax rate cut, and when they keyed in what they'd have to cap the allowable 401k contribution rate at to recoup the revenue loss, the computer spat out a figure close to $2,400. Nobody wanted to do it, but someone in the room ran to the media "on background," unwilling to put his own name to the story, and the knuckleheads ran with it.
Our take: It is exceedingly unlikely that the GOP tax reform bill will contain any large reduction in allowable 401k contributions – at least not without a corresponding increase in contribution limits to alternative investment vehicles like IRAs and self-directed IRAs. Messing with 401ks – the primary retirement savings vehicle of the middle class – would be likely to cause an electoral revolt. The Obama administration had to quickly abandon a push to tax Section 529 plans a few years ago, as the Times notes in their article.
There is some legislative risk to those sitting on so-called "jumbo" IRAs, including jumbo self-directed IRAs, with assets above about $5 million. If any tax-advantaged investment account counts as 'low-hanging fruit' to revenue-hungry Congressional representatives, it's those.
Naturally, self-directed IRA owners are over-represented among jumbo IRA account owners, because people that are able to amass $5 million or more in IRAs tend to be successful real estate and venture capital or private equity investors.
At this point, we don't see any major legislative risks to the Self-Directed Solo 401k structure, though we'll be keeping an eye on developments as the Republicans in Congress cobble together their expected proposal for tax reform.
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Q: What's the closest you can get to rebooting without killing all running processes? How can I get the effect of rebooting on refreshing the system (freeing resources and reinitialising them) without killing most of the things I have running?
Could I unload and reload kernel modules? Could I tell X to start fresh without killing all running programs? I'm sure I could at least stop and start some services.
My system has some kind of resource leak or other issue (see my other question) and so I have to reboot every few days. I'm hoping for a hack to make it less painful until I can solve the real problem.

A: As others have mentioned it's likely to a specific service or process, which you should be able to kill. You can start gnome-system-monitor as root to see all of the processes on the system and their CPU load.
Instead of rebooting next time try a few things:

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*Use the CTRL+ALT+F1 through F7 to switch to another terminal. This will cause your X graphics system to re-initialize some things and may solve the problem.

*If you tried that and it doesn't work try switching to the other virtual terminal and killing your window manager with killall cinnamon then give it a second and see if the CPU load goes down and your fans stop maxing out.

*You can also restart your window manager from another virtual terminal using:

setsid cinnamon --replace &

This command is a bit complicated so I will explain what it's doing.

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*setsid ensures that it's a top-level session and the command wont die once you close the terminal you ran this command from. If you don't use setsid you may close the terminal window or virtual terminal and then your graphics will stop working.

*cinnamon is (probably) your window manager. Most WMs support this same --replace style, compiz, metacity, etc. This reloads your window manager and usually (as a byproduct of that) reloads your window decorator as well.

*The trailing '&' means execute this command asynchronously or in simple terms in the background. If you don't use this the command will block the terminal you ran this from, and if you accidentally kill it (like with ^C) your graphics will fail.

A: IMO, You need to identify the service which you want to restart(use "top" command for the same).
You will have to be cautious while choosing a service to restart.
For an ex: top will also list "firefox" so you should refrain from killing it as you do not want to close it.

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Distinctiv Passion, Clawback win stakes at Santa Anita, Aqueduct
Edward J. Brown, Jr., Alan Klein, Alan and Phillip Lebherz's Distinctiv Passion set rapid fractions on the lead in Monday's $75, 460 San Pedro Stakes at Santa Anita before cruising to his first stakes victory by a length and a half. That's three straight wins for the 3-year-old Florida-bred colt by With Distinction, sold first by Kaizen Sales, Agent for Plumley Farms at the 2011 OBS January Sale before bringing $65,000 when purchased out of the Kim Harrison consignment at the 2011 OBS August Sale. He's now 5-3-0-1 and has earned $120,600.
Klaravich Stables Inc. and William H. Lawrence's Clawback jumped from a December maiden win into the $73,500 Jimmy Winkfield Stakes at Aqueduct on Monday and the 3-year-old Florida-bred colt by Put It Back ran off to a five length victory. A two time OBS graduate, he was sold first by TdM Sales (Tristan and Valery de Meric), Agent at the 2011 January Sale before being sold for $70,000 by Blas Perez, Agent for Blue Top Holdings Stable at the 2012 April Sale. Now 4-2-2-0, he has earned $110,600 to date. watch his under tack video


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Sue Pruzina  (Lucerna, Suiza, 7 de mayo de 1983), conocida como Milo Moiré, es una artista, actriz pornográfica y modelo suiza, conocida por sus performances desnuda y por el uso de su cuerpo en su arte.

Moiré nació en Suiza, con ascendencia eslovaca y española. La artista estudió psicología en la Universidad de Berna y trabaja desde Düsseldorf, Alemania. Moiré es conocida por sus performances artísticas que incluyen PlopEgg, The Script System No.2, y Mirror Box.

Biografía
De origen eslovaco y español, Moiré nació en 1983 en Suiza, donde se diplomó en dibujo y pintura en 2002 y se graduó en psicología en 2011 en la Universidad de Berna. Comenzó como corista de televisión y modelo y luego como pintora de inspiración expresionista y surrealista. Actualmente vive y trabaja en Düsseldorf, Alemania, junto a su compañero y agente, el fotógrafo P. H. Hergarten (alias Peter Palm), del que también es musa inspiradora, colaboradora y modelo de desnudo.

En 2015 en París estuvo detenida durante unas horas por la policía por ofrecerse a que la fotografiaran desnuda con cualquiera que quisiese hacer una "selfie" con ella en el Palacio de Chaillot. En junio de 2016 en Londres fue sometida a arresto policial por 24 horas, procesada y multada por "actos obscenos en un lugar público" porque, para realizar su actuación "Mirror Box", en la cual se dejaba sentir sus senos y masturbar por los transeúntes en Trafalgar Square.

En la actualidad realiza pornografía en directo a diario que puede visualizarse previo pago a través de su web y su redes sociales.

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BS449 to EC3 via BS5950: The Process, the Pitfalls and the Preparations
BS449 to EC3 via BS5950: The Process, the Pitfalls and the Preparations Nethercot, David A. 2005-07-01 00:00:00 For more than 35 years the author has been directly involved with the preparation of Structural Steel Design Codes – both in the UK and, more widely, in the EU. This activity has also extended to include direct association with Code developments in several other countries around the world e.g. South Africa, Hong Kong etc. plus observation of the process in many places. Utilising the UK position as the timeline, this paper presents a largely personal view of developments over the past 100 years, beginning in the pre-code era and culminating in today's age of international cooperation. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Advances in Structural Engineering SAGE http://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/bs449-to-ec3-via-bs5950-the-process-the-pitfalls-and-the-preparations-RO9Lx0k63y
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For more than 35 years the author has been directly involved with the preparation of Structural Steel Design Codes – both in the UK and, more widely, in the EU. This activity has also extended to include direct association with Code developments in several other countries around the world e.g. South Africa, Hong Kong etc. plus observation of the process in many places. Utilising the UK position as the timeline, this paper presents a largely personal view of developments over the past 100 years, beginning in the pre-code era and culminating in today's age of international cooperation.
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It's been a long time since I've had you write me a story. So, I think it's time we hear from your creative mind. A few weeks ago, I had a meeting in downtown Columbus. It was cold and I was short of time but I was able to get a few snaps. Create a story for me. One week left to buy your SethSnap 2014 Calendar.
As always, Raymond Chandler said it best: She had a body that would make a bishop kick a hole in a stained glass window.
But that wasn't quite right. The bishop hadn't kicked the hole in the stained glass window. The bishop had made the hole–made it when he was thrown through it.
The way I figured it, one of the blonde's boyfriends had figured out that the bishop was giving her a different kind of sacrament. He'd paid a visit to explain to the bishop how things stood.
And to explain to the bishop how things fell from a high window: a high, stained glass window.
"The bishop! He stumbled and fell through the window!" He shook his head, uttering a low and mournful noise.
I moved toward the window. He stepped away from it–helpfully, I thought.
And then it felt as though the whole cathedral fell on my head.
Now I was standing by the window, my head still throbbing from the sap that the big man must have slapped against my skull.
And I was alone there in the room, with the cold air blowing through the hole that the bishop had made in his hasty exit.
At least I was pretty sure that it was the bishop down there. It was a bit hard to tell, given the distance and the strange shape that the body had taken when it finally came to rest–a shape that a dancer might take in some modern production that confuses the crowds and delights the critics.
But I figured that the big man knew who had gone through the window. And I knew, too, that the police would finger me. I'd been set up to take the fall.
Best thing for me to do, I thought, is to get out of town–take the first thing smoking . . .
Was it the tracks that called me? Or, the gentle saw of city trees in a soft breeze? Or maybe the old stone building? Those stones have seen so much. They have felt the kiss of rain, the bite of ice, and the warmth of the summer sun. They have witnessed the ebb and flow of humanity – the good, bad, and ugly. Around them, the city has grown from playing at the old buildings knees to towering above it. Still the stone building sits and watches. It knows that long after the young buildings grow old and fade away, it will still stand – at least in part. For it is made of the bones of the earth and can never truly die until the earth gives up its last breath. This is what has called me. This carved bone of the earth has summoned me here and I cannot deny it my presence.
That means the trains aren't running.
Because the trains aren't running.
Because the train ain't running.
To make the trains stop running.
Rather than on a train that isn't running!


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Doug Cook RD > Omega 3 Fatty Acids > Choline and DHA. The Pregnancy Dynamic Duo
Choline and DHA. The Pregnancy Dynamic Duo
Category: Blog, Brain Health, Mental Health, Omega 3 Fatty Acids
When it comes to prenatal nutrition, several nutrients get a lot of attention. These include the usual suspects such as iron and folate, which historically makes sense.
Iron deficiency anemia is a real concern given the significant increase in blood production that's needed for both moms-to-be and their growing babies. Folate helps to prevent spina bifida, a type of neural tube defect.
But, make no mistake, there are several other crucial nutrients needed for an optimal pregnancy and infant health including vitamins B12, D3, and E, the minerals iodine and selenium, as well as, choline and the omega-3 fat DHA. Sadly, these other key players don't get the attention they deserve.
Nutrients for a healthy pregnancy
It's true, you could take a prenatal supplement to get many of these important nutrients. In fact, most pediatricians recommend one to women who are pregnant, and while that can be helpful, in no way do supplements replace the benefits of eating real food when it comes to nourishing a growing child.
This is no more apparent when it comes to choline and DHA. Without some effort and attention, it's far too easy to miss out on getting enough of these two superstar nutrients to meet the increased need during pregnancy.
Choline, the other B vitamin
Choline is one of the B vitamins; an essential nutrient because your body cannot make enough of it to meet its needs. Choline helps your baby's brain, spinal cord and nerves develop properly.
Not only that, choline is involved in many of the same metabolic pathways as folate, which surprise, surprise, is equally important for preventing neural tube defects as folate is (1). Considering that low blood levels of choline are associated with increased risk for neural tube defects, many suggest assessing choline status prior to pregnancy in the same way folate is (1).
Unfortunately, most women don't get the recommended intake of 425 mg of choline per day and this becomes more concerning during pregnancy when there's a slight increase in choline requirements (450 mg/day) (2, 3).
Does this really matter? The evidence suggests yes. Studies have shown a benefit when women both meet and exceed current choline recommendations.
In a small study of 26 women who were randomly assigned into two groups who ate identical diets except for the amount of choline where half got 480 mg/day and the other half, 930 mg/day. Babies were followed up at months 4, 7, 10 and 13 for memory and information processing speed.
While both groups show cognitive benefits, when compared to 480 mg/day, expectant mothers who got 930 mg/day saw significantly faster processing speeds in their babies (4).
Additionally, choline intakes at double the current recommended amounts improved placental function and may reduce preeclampsia (5, 6).
Choline is widely available in the food supply but it's most concentrated in animal foods. It turns out, the best food sources are eggs, liver, and salmon. For this reason, it's very difficult for pregnant women to consume the current recommended adequate intake of choline, let alone get the amount that research is suggesting is optimal (7).
At least according to US data, eggs are the main contributor of dietary choline:
"Consumers of eggs had almost double the usual intake of choline as compared to non-consumers (525 ± 5.17 mg/d and 294 ± 1.98; p < 0.0001). Protein food (meat, poultry and seafood) consumption also increased usual choline intakes compared to non-consumers (345 ± 2.21 mg/day and 235 ± 8.81; p < 0.0001)." (2).
In short, it's very difficult for pregnant women to reach the adequate intake for choline without consuming eggs or taking a dietary supplement. With a whopping 294 mg per two large egg serving, eggs are the obvious choice.
DHA omega 3, your growing baby's best friend
DHA is another crucial nutrient needed for a healthy pregnancy. DHA is one of the three main types of omega-3 fatty acids. DHA plays an important role in infant brain and eye development.
Maternal DHA intake (diet) and production, as well as, maternal body stores help meet DHA needs for both mother and her fetus during pregnancy (8, 9). Because the DHA needs of the fetus rise during pregnancy with peak requirements at the end of the third trimester (due to accumulation of DHA in the fetal brain tissue), getting lots of dietary DHA is key.
Because there's significant increased transfer of DHA to the developing fetus, there's a risk this can lead to depleted maternal DHA levels which are associated with increased maternal health issues including depression (10).
Because the DHA status of mothers-to-be is an important factor on fetal brain and eye health, as well as, during a child's early life, recommended DHA intakes are based on the first 1000 days of life (11).
What does this all mean in practical terms?
According to the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids, most health organizations recommend between 200-450 mg of EPA+DHA per day, with an emphasis on DHA, for women who are pregnant (12).
Given that maternal status is so important, as it is with choline, a women's omega-3 intake should be assessed prior to pregnancy too, especially considering that most adults are not meeting the recommended intake of omega-3 fats (13, 14).
Best food sources of choline and DHA
But there's good news!
Turns out, some of the richest sources of choline tend to also have DHA, including scallops, Atlantic cod, salmon, eggs (the egg yolk), especially when they are omega-3 enriched eggs. Naturegg Omega PLUS eggs by Burnbrae Farms are packed with choline, DHA and higher amounts of other important nutrients.
Two Naturegg Omega 3 PLUS eggs contain 250 mg DHA and 50 mg EPA or 300 mg total; well within the 200-450 mg per day range as recommended by the vast majority of countries for healthy pregnancy outcomes.
Adding two eggs per day can help close this important nutrition gap for Canadian women who are pregnant or planning on becoming pregnant. Not to mention there are several other important nutrients for babies-to-be including choline, lutein, folate, vitamins B12, D, E, the mineral selenium and of course protein; 12 g per two egg serving.
Good nutrition is front and center when it comes to both maternal and infant health.
A food-first approach is always the best way to meet your nutritional needs and this is no less true when it comes to a healthy pregnancy.
Two important nutrients that most pregnant women are not getting enough of are choline and the omega-3 fat DHA; both essential for optimal fetal brain, eye, and cognitive development.
Without eggs, getting enough choline is extremely difficult, and without regular fish and seafood consumption, DHA needs likely won't be met either.
Fortunately, omega-3 enriched eggs like Naturegg Omega 3 PLUS are the ultimate tasty and nutritious convenience that pregnant women, and their growing babies, are looking for.
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Chiaramonti (en sard, Tzaramonte, gal·lurès Chjaramònti) és un municipi italià, dins de la Província de Sàsser. L'any 2007 tenia 1.915 habitants. Es troba a la regió d'Anglona. Limita amb els municipis d'Ardara, Erula, Martis, Nulvi, Ozieri, Perfugas i Ploaghe.

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Part of the challenge of the environmental movement in the developed world is to get people to look more deeply into their lifestyles and consumer choices: to see, for example, that cellophane-wrapped beef probably comes from a cow that fed on grain grown on land cleared of rain forest, which accelerates climate change.
But while ethical eating has gained traction in the mainstream, one aspect of our lifestyle lags well behind: style itself. In clothing, green, it seems, is not the new black—at least not yet.
At least that's according to a new, but small study, carried out by the International University of Monaco (IUM). In a survey of more than 100 Europeans and North Americans, researchers found that organic fashion did not have the same glamor as organic food.
The research team also concluded that the concept of green fashion is not clear to the majority of respondents. Consumers seem lost in the exact meaning of green fashion and lack information on norms and processes. In Europe, green fashion must become more attractive to the young generation to be a viable consumer option.
This last graph might be the most pertinent. What does green fashion actually mean? Non-toxic dyes? Organic wool? Ethical employment to offshore factory workers? Without certification program or governing bodies to assure consumers they are purchasing ethical products, fashion is open to all sorts of green wash shenanigans—such as one brand that recently tagged a clothing line as green because it used recycled paper price tags, without offering any more information on the production of the actual clothing.
It is not impossible to shift public consciousness about fashion—think of how the mainstream turned on fur 30 years ago. But clearly the clothing industry needs to be more clear on what they mean by going green.
(Click here to read TIME"s story on eco-friendly shopping bags).


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Home Free mashes up 'Fishin' in the Dark'
Home Free blends country hits "Fishin' in the Dark" and "Boondocks."
Home Free mashes up 'Fishin' in the Dark' Home Free blends country hits "Fishin' in the Dark" and "Boondocks." Check out this story on Freep.com: https://on.freep.com/1EpYor3
Brian Mansfield, USA TODAY Published 5:40 p.m. ET Aug. 28, 2015 | Updated 5:41 p.m. ET Aug. 28, 2015
The members of a cappella group Home Free, from left: Tim Foust, Austin Brown, Rob Lundquist, Chris Rupp and Adam Rupp.(Photo: LeAnn Mueller, USA TODAY)
Home Free goes down home on their forthcoming "Country Evolution" album with a medley blending country hits from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Little Big Town.
"The Sing-Off" winners' a cappella rendition of the Dirt Band's 1987 smash "Fishin' in the Dark" and Little Big Town's 2005 hit "Boondocks" premieres at USA TODAY.
"When we started brainstorming about what songs evoke the spirit we want to convey on our new album, we thought, 'What are some of country's biggest hits?'" high tenor Austin Brown says. "Why not "Fishin' in the Dark" with something more recent? Little Big Town's "Boondocks!' You wouldn't think the styles would really mesh, but they do. We messed around with them for a few weeks and they're great together."
Country Evolution, out Sept. 18, is the group's third album since winning NBC's "The Sing-Off" in 2013. The album contains four original songs, as well as covers of Dolly Parton's "9 to 5," Garth Brooks' "Friends in Low Places," Andy Grammer's "Honey, I'm Good" and a medley of hits by country group Alabama. The album also includes a versions of "Elvira" sung with the Oak Ridge Boys and "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" with Charlie Daniels and YouTube star Taylor Davis.
Home Free will begin its fall tour Sept. 14 in New Brunswick and also has a holiday tour in the works.
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Andy Ickes sensed the Lord's guidance many times before, during and after his trip to South Africa.
Ickes, pastor of College Acres Baptist Church in Wilmington, led a mission team, which left for Durban, South Africa on June 19 and stayed about two weeks.
Eight team members worked with College Acres' partner church, Austerville Baptist Church in the Wentworth community, and the True Love Waits organization in South Africa.
True Love Waits, a program created by LifeWay Christian Resources, encourages teenagers and college students to make a commitment to sexual abstinence until they are married.
Two of the College Acres team members — Angela Hewett, an art teacher at a Wilmington high school, and Ickes' son Corey, a junior at UNC-Wilmington — stayed in Durban an extra month.
"It's been really neat to see what the Lord has done," Andy Ickes said.
College Acres started the partnership with Austerville about two years ago. Later, four church members went to find out what people in the area needed most.
College Acres had worked with the church in 1999 when the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina had a partnership with Baptists in South Africa.
In November seven church members led sports camps in the area.
"With each trip, the Lord has shown us more," Ickes said.
After the team gave its report about the November trip, Ickes said he started praying that the Lord would direct the church to a need that would more closely connect the gospel with life.
About 40 percent of people in Durban and 20 percent of people in South Africa have HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, and Ickes began feeling the church should focus on purity and abstinence.
"Very few people over there have not been affected in some way by HIV/AIDS," Ickes said.
Later, Ickes started sensing in his prayer time that the church would send a young lady to work on the field in South Africa.
Just before Christmas, Hewett came forward saying she felt the Lord wanted her to go to South Africa.
They prayed together and agreed it would be for the summer.
When one of the men in the church learned the emphasis in South Africa would be on purity and abstinence he connected Ickes to his sister-in-law, who had taught about abstinence in Bolivia.
When Ickes talked to her, the conversation turned to spiritual warfare and Ickes started praying for a young man to accompany Hewett.
Ickes talked to his son about it and he agreed to go.
Ickes contacted the International Mission Board about possible resources for the team to use while they served in South Africa.
Cindy Schirle, who worked for True Love Waits in South Africa for two years, came and trained the College Acres team.
Before the team left, Ickes preached a sermon using the main points of True Love Waits.
After the service, a senior adult told him the sermon should be preached in every church in America.
"It's just a message that everybody needs to hear," he said.
While in South Africa the team made presentations at four schools and spoke to about 1,200 seventh graders, Ickes said.
Team members also made a presentation through an interpreter to a camp for Zulu youth and held a youth night for a number of area churches.
The people in South Africa connected with presentations about True Love Waits, Andy Ickes said.
"They have seen the devastation of sexual sin," he said.


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Tanglewood Season Curtain Rises on Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble
Silk Road Project founder Yo-Yo Ma
(LENOX, Mass.) – The 75th anniversary season of Tanglewood, the famed summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, will kick off with a performance by The Silk Road Ensemble with its founder, the world-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma, at Ozawa Hall on Friday, June 22, 2012, and again on Sunday, June 24. Performances begin at 8 p.m. on both evenings.
On both evenings the ensemble will perform internationally inspired music by composers Giovanni Sollima from Sicily ("Taranta Project") and Sapo Perapaskero from Romania ("Turceasca"). Rounding out the program will be music composed by performing members of the Ensemble: "Shristi" by Sandeep Das from India, who plays tabla; "Muiñeiras" from "Cancionero Musical de Galicia" arranged by Cristina Pato from Galicia, who plays gaita; and "Ascending Bird" arranged by Colin Jacobsen, an American violinist, in collaboration with Iranian santur player Siamak Aghaei.
"Returning to Tanglewood, for us, is like coming home," said Yo-Yo Ma. "It was at Tanglewood twelve years ago that a group of musicians from around the world first came together to form the Silk Road Ensemble. Then we were strangers, and many of us had only the language of music in common. Over the years, we've returned several times to develop new music. So Tanglewood is, if you will, the ensemble's birthplace, and it remains an inspiration for us."
Hailed by the Boston Globe as a one-of-a-kind roving musical laboratory without walls, the international Silk Road Ensemble draws its members from countries as distant and diverse as China, India, Spain, South Korea, Iran, Japan, Switzerland, Israel, and the United States.
Silk Road Ensemble
Each ensemble member's career responds to one of the preeminent artistic challenges of our times: to maintain the integrity of art rooted in authentic traditions while nourishing global connections. Many of the musicians first came together under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma at a workshop at the Tanglewood Music Center in Massachusetts in 2000. Since then, in various configurations, ensemble artists have collaborated on a diverse range of musical and multimedia projects, presenting innovative performances that spring from Eastern and Western traditions and contemporary musical crossroads. The Silk Road Ensemble has recorded five albums.
Under the artistic direction of Ma and the leadership of CEO and executive director Laura Freid, the Silk Road Project presents performances by the acclaimed Silk Road Ensemble, engages in cross-cultural exchanges and residencies, leads workshops for students, and partners with prominent cultural institutions to create educational programs and materials. Silk Road Connect, the Project's multidisciplinary arts integration approach, inspires students and educators to make connections across all areas of their lives and studies. Developing new music is a central undertaking of the Silk Road Project, which has been involved in commissioning and performing more than 70 new musical and multimedia works from composers and arrangers around the world.
Tickets for the June 22 and 24 performances run from $20 to $99 and are available by calling 888-266-1200 or by visiting Tanglewood.
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Philadelphia federal judge rejects ERISA plan's grab for catastrohically injured child's settlement
Posted on July 25, 2007 by Ken Shigley
Thanks to alert reader Shannon Duffy at American Lawyer Media for calling to my attention a recent federal district court ruling in Philadelphia.
In Mills v. London Grove Township, a toddler had a serious serious head injury resulting in cerebral palsy. Liability carriers agreed to pay their grossly inadequate policy limits. After fees and expenses a total of $357,170.21 was available for a special needs trust for the child. However, the insurance company that paid medical benefits under the father's employer's ERISA plan demanded that it be reimbursed $123,690.12 from the child's recovery. The court analyzed the ERISA claim under Great-West Life & Annuity Ins. Co. v. Knudson, 534 U.S. 204 (2002) and Sereboff v. Mid Atlantic Medical Serv., Inc., 547 U.S. (2006). The court concluded, in part, as follows:
The net effect of the two cited Supreme Court opinions,as applied to the present case, is, in my view, as follows: the parties to this litigation have a right to settle their differences, and have done so. The only question before this court is whether the proposed settlement is fair to the minor. I conclude that it is. Nothing in the ERISA plan confers upon ACS Recovery Services a right to control the conduct of this litigation; it has no right to object to the proposed settlement.
In the unusual circumstances of this case, I conclude that it is appropriate to require the dotting of all i's and the crossing of all t's. ACS Recovery Services paid the medical benefits without first obtaining a written reimbursement agreement, as contemplated by the Plan. Assuming that its right to assert a lien was not fatally impaired by that omission, its lien would not come into existence until the Plan beneficiary (the plaintiff-husband-employee) received funds reimbursing the medical expenses in question. That has not yet occurred, and, if the proposed compromise settlement is effectuated in all its
terms, will not occur.
ACS Recovery Services' belated request for injunctive relief seeks to enjoin the transfer of funds to the "special needs trust." Since the adult plaintiffs will not receive any of the funds in question, they are not proposing to transfer any
funds to the special needs trust. ACS Recovery Services has not sought injunctive relief from anyone else.
Ordinarily, a court would be reluctant to rely upon the technicalities discussed above. In this case, however, the equities seem to favor such an approach. The damages suffered by the minor-plaintiff are astronomical, and life-long. In the final analysis, the real dispute generated by ACS's opposition is between ACS and the taxpayers who, in the future, will be called upon to bear the minor's medical expenses. ACS was paid premiums for its coverage; the taxpayers have not been.
This opinion was written by Senior Judge John Fullam, age 85, who was appointed by President Johnson in 1966. It is good to have some wise older judges who remain productive and are able to see past the corporate heartlessness that seems to predominate in some quarters these days.
The Shigley Law Firm represents plaintiffs in wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases statewide in Georgia, and in other states (recently including Alabama, Nevada and Florida) subject to the multijurisdictional practice and pro hac vice rules in each state. Ken Shigley was designated as a "SuperLawyer" in Atlanta Magazine and one of the "Legal Elite" in Georgia Trend Magazine. He is a Certified Civil Trial Advocate of the National Board of Trial Advocacy, Chair of the Southeastern Motor Carrier Liability Institute and former chair of the Georgia Insurance Law Institute. He particularly focuses on cases arising from truck wrecks and accidents (tractor trailers truck wrecks, semi truck wrecks,18 wheeler truck wrecks, big rig truck wrecks, log truck wrecks, dump truck wrecks.


A solid fresh banana and yeasty saison. Good effervescence and good draft pour.
Tart and 🍋'y . Well carbed, crisp and super fresh from the local. One of their best beers in a while IMO. Lovely lazy Monday.
Sweet and malty. Nice Belgian dubbel!


Confession: I have 5 e-mail addresses. 2 for school, 1 for work, 1 personal account, and 1 for when people ask me for my e-mail when I buy things. I just cannot stand to see ads in my inbox. It drives me nuts! But no matter how hard I try to keep them out, they somehow creep back in.
Take some time today to UNSUBSCRIBE from anything in the personal inbox that would never actually get read. I did it yesterday and it felt awesome!
New month; new purse... I do this religiously every. single. month. Switching out my purse forces me to toss any useless junk that I've been carrying around (I mean, I had crayons and scissors in this one, for crying out loud). Honestly, there have been some months where I've been so over it that I just flipped my purse upside down over a trash can (true story). This one makes a huge difference!
Well, of course keeping the car cleaned out is important. I try to take out as much as I can each day, but little things like change and lipgloss get left behind sometimes. Take a minute (or 60) to give the inside of the car a fresh start too. I mean, we do spend a LOT of time in these things.
I have a grocery spreadsheet because I'm a crazy person. But I can't be the only one, right? It's just a list of all of the superfoods that are in season and which meal(s) they can best be used for. To keep from eating the same thing day after day, I switch up my list every month.
Finally, of course, is the house. Living in a "staged" house has completely changed the way I look at decorating. Other people don't want to walk in and see a bunch of personal photos and meaningless clutter covering every square inch of space. They want to see clean surfaces, bright spaces, and the features of the house!
At the end of the old month, I grab 3 trash bags and label them: "Attic" "Goodwill" and "Toss". I put on some music and try to put a specified (and even) number of things into each one. September had 30 days (of clutter), so I'm filling up each bag with 30 things!
What do you do to ring in the new month?!


Capturing Forever is a story of second chances. Losing the love of your life, because you put work over family too many times, she finally had enough and left you. Could you have another chance or is eight years separated too long?
Jacqueline "Jac" Knight is a regional manager of human resources for a large shipping company. She travels non-stop, home only a handful of days in a month. Jac has worked tirelessly to rise up the corporate latter. She has put everything on the backburner on her quest to the top. Unfortunately the sacrifices she has made for her career have been huge personally. The love of her life asked her to leave, never being home was too much to endure, and her relationship with her father has deteriorated greatly. When Jac's father' health begins to rapidly decline, she must make some hard choices. She must rely on her ex-wife to hold things together while she is gone on business. Finally, Jac begins to see the error of her ways years ago. Is it too late to get her back?
Casey Meadow's is Jac's ex. She has a thriving photography business that she has built over the years. Between running her small business and caring for her teen son, Casey has had to do most of it alone. Her girlfriend wants them to take it to the next level and move in together, but Casey isn't sure. She finds herself pulling back every time. When Jacqueline's dad, who is also very close with Casey, takes a turn for the worse, she can't help but jump in and assist in his care. Being around Jac raises old feelings, but is she willing to risk her heart again on the one person that could absolutely destroy it.
Jac and Casey have chemistry with each other, while it doesn't set the pages aflame, it is there. You can feel their love for one another. I loved their dialogue between each other I just wish there had been more of it. There are a number of players in this one and they do take away some of the time between the two mains. Both ladies have another lover, and that was kind of hard for me. I felt like we needed more buildup. Fan the flames so to speak. You most definitely wanted them to find their way back to each other. Their reunion just had so many obstacles to overcome.
I liked this one. It's a well thought out book, interesting and the pacing is done well. The character's felt real and relatable. I wish these two would have been honest with each other and had more substantial conversations. Overall a good read.


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