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I have always lived in the Evergreen state and being from a suburb in Seattle, I am used to lush green forests and trees, big beautiful mountains, and what feels like an unlimited amount of natural lakes. We also live super close to the Puget Sound and Pacific Ocean. I would be lying if I said that I didn't love the scenery here, it really is gorgeous. But life near a major city is also stressful. Seattle is homebase to major corporations like Microsoft, Amazon.com, T-Mobile, Expedia, Nintendo... etc... which draws a lot of people here. That isn't always a bad thing, I mean, my Husband loves it because he knows that he will always have a job in his field. But the over-populated communities, the traffic.... OH THE TRAFFIC (shoot me now!), and the fast-paced mind set can be exhausting. Granted, I don't life IN the city of Seattle, but I have always lived in a fairly large suburb of it, and life has always felt so hectic. I've never enjoyed that feeling. So when we got pregnant with Easton, we moved out to a smaller town, but even now, I feel the trickle down of the big city.
My Husband is from Southeast Idaho, and I had a running joke with my sister-in-law Nichole, that every photo or video I took while we were there, made it look so "red neck". The first time she said that, I laughed and told her that I wasn't staging anything, I was simply photographing what was there. And truthfully, the town my Husband is from, is a tiny little podunk town, and so life is sorta red-necky there. It's vast with farms and livestock, most people own tractors. There are tons of small family owned businesses, a lot of the buildings are old and rundown, and there's only one high school that all the kids attend. It's not uncommon for people to drive into town on an ATV (ahem, Philip's Dad), the goats getting loose and wondering the streets is normal, and people have and shoot guns regularly (GASP!). All of this is so foreign to me, but if I'm being honest, I like it.
Idaho doesn't have the beautiful green landscape that I love in Washington, in fact, it's kinda ugly and brown. But what it lacks in scenery, it makes up for in quality of life, in my opinion, of course ;-). Things aren't as busy, people are more laid back, and life just seems... simpler. People seem to be less concerned with the material things of the world, and more happy just being with their friends and family. There is something to be said about that. Actually, there's a lot to be said about that.
Obviously, I haven't actually lived there before, so who knows if I'd be there (or somewhere like it), but it really is appealing sometimes. I'm just not a city girl. I like going to the city, but I need quiet.
And all this isn't to say that I'm going to pack up my family and move to Idaho, but I'm saying that I wouldn't mind it one day. If anything, it makes me want to slow down a little and just enjoy life a little more. Ya know?
What are your thoughts? Are you city people? Or do you prefer the country?
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I recently had a fangirl's pleasure of interviewing Iris Van Herpen for the April issue of Dazed and Confused. If you've ever seen Herpen's hyper-complex, digitally designed dresses, it's easy to assume that the fashion world's poster girl for 3D printing is a programming-savvy, autoCAD wizard. However, the fact is she is not- Herpen says that it was always unlikely that she would come to work so closely with computers, being somewhat technophobic to the point of disliking sewing machines. She's a fashion designer who likes crafting directly with her hands- thinking sculpturally, even spurning the paper process. When Herpen started incorporating rapid prototyping in her work, she sought out collaborations with technical experts – architects like Julia Koerner and Neri Oxman- to help her design and produce her ideas.
Businesses promise that one day the everyday consumer will be able to customise downloadable designs and make objects themselves, from or at home. All this talk of 3D printing becoming democratized and being the new DIY made me curious. Was this reality closer than I thought? I worried- I can hardly draw in Illustrator, let alone design in 3D and avoid programs like Maya and AutoCAD. However, being uncomfortable with being behind the times, I set out to prove that 3D printing is all that companies like Shapeways and i.materialise promise: from the computer, anyone can be a designer, producer and maker of unique objects.
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I ask a graphic designer friend to help me trace the desired shape from the cover of bit of reading I'd seen and liked. Now had an importable .svg file I could use and customise in the design program.
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HAIGA: Respose to One Single Impression Prompt of 3/23/08
This week's prompt at ONE SINGLE IMPRESSION is "spring." As always, I encourage you to visit and enjoy others' delightful contributions.
Now that I'm living in southern California (I moved from New York city in February), the difference between winter and spring is not as obvious. But the weather is getting warmer overall and the sunlight a bit stronger. In fact, just becoming more lovely. :-) (The haiku on this haiga is a slightly revised version of an older one of mine.)
Daffodils have special meaning to me as they were one of my mother's favorite flowers. So that "spring in her step" was supported by more than just spring beauty.
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'til next time, keep dreaming,
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- Best Actress – Naomi Watts
I was both really nervous and really excited about watching The Impossible. Excited because I wanted to see how they filmed a movie about something as huge and devastating as the 2004 tsunami, and nervous because it was such an awful, terrifying thing.
When the tsunami hit in real life, I was morbidly fascinated with it (as I tend to get about disasters of various kinds); I couldn't stop reading about it or watching news stories about it for days. I eventually stopped after I was getting nightmares, but I had plenty of images in my mind about what it must have been like to see it happen, and the images in The Impossible were about a thousand times worse than anything I had imagined. What makes the whole thing scarier is that María Belón, the real woman that Naomi Watts played, was on set in Thailand during the filming and worked with the screenwriter to make sure everything was portrayed accurately. And with that, any hopes I had that The Impossible overdid it went out the window.
It's almost hard to find what to say about The Impossible, because I really do think it's incredible all-around. It was shot so amazingly, and not just because of the way they managed to capture the actual storm. The shots were big when they needed to be, like when Maria and her son, Lucas (Tom Holland) are being swept away by the waves while trying to cling to each other and it's shot largely from above, to show how fast the water is moving and how high it is. But they were subtle when they needed to be, too, passing without much of a pause over shots of dead bodies piled on top of one another, to give a sense that this was a commonplace thing. The acting was also unbelievable; it takes really skilled actors to bring subtlety to a disaster movie like this. When Maria first emerges from the water after the first wave hits, she clings to a palm tree as the water crashes around her, and just continually screams. The water is so loud that it's hard to even hear her, but the way she just screams seems so natural it's almost painful to watch. There are a lot of incredible moments of acting from everyone (is Ewan McGregor one of the most underrated working actors? I think he is): as Maria and Lucas trudge through the mud after the waves have subsided, Lucas starts to notice the extent of his mother's injuries: a huge flap of skin bleeding and hanging off the back of her thigh, blood coming from her side. When he sees her thigh, he says her name and she stops and turns toward him and he sees that a strap of her tank top has ripped off, not only exposing her breast but exposing her pretty serious wound. He looks away while she reties her shirt to cover herself, but the look on his face shows that he's much less concerned about his mother's nakedness and more about what all of her wounds mean for the two of them. Then there is when Henry (Ewan McGregor) is describing to other survivors where his family was when the storm hit, and another survivor, who lost is whole family, offers Henry his cell phone so he can call home. Henry calls his mother for the first time since the storm hit, and breaks down to the point where he can't speak and just hangs up and sits and sobs. If the acting wasn't so magnetic, it would be too devastating to watch.
While there's still two movies to go in the Best Actress category for us to see, I really hope Naomi Watts gets this. I think it's a real shame that nothing else about the film got recognition, especially the visual effects and performances by Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland, but Naomi Watts really was incredible.
This film was an emotional disaster movie that you hope works out for its main characters. This film was definitely good but not really something I enjoy watching. It's far too stressful. There were a few times where I think the main characters made stupid mistakes but I suppose when you're in such a stressful situation it can be hard to think clearly.
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I'll post my progress Monday night as I plan on making full use of the long weekend.
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Just a place for quotes or poems I like, thoughts on days or times, comments on what I'm doing and a place to share my love of cross stitch and what I create.
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I probably wasted at least a week worrying about whether I should submit my TTB app because I wasn't 100% finished with it or wasn't sure how accurate the information I was providing needed to be. Since time is money, I wanted to provide a glimpse into the future for anyone in my position or a step behind me.
Once you click the final submit button you're taken to a Record Submittal page where you'll see your new tracking number. One piece of helpful info listed here is that "TTB will consider your application abandoned after 15 business days if all required supporting documents are not received." There's a button on that page that I guess you have to click that just reads "copy record". No mention as far as I can tell about why you need to copy a record but once I did that, I got to the next page.
Next you're magically whisked away to a page asking you to allow pop ups. This seems to be a required thing to accept.
The next page is an error page, in case you forgot you're on a government website. It does give you a 'here' to click to "continue exploring the system". By that they mean you'll go back to the Permits Online homepage where you can get into your application record and review/edit contact info and add but not delete attachments. If anyone knows how to delete an attachment, I'd love to know how.
So if you're mostly done with your TTB application and antsy to get it submitted, it appears safe to submit, keeping in mind that you have 15 days from the date you do submit before you need to have all your attachments in. I'll add updates here about all of my future correspondence, steps, mistakes, and anything I come across that helps or hurts my application processing time. If you have any advice, I'd love to hear it.


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She is 4 going on 13
At first, I didn't appreciate it when someone told me to enjoy motherhood because kids grow fast and soon they won't need you. I took it lightly until my 4-year-old started giving me vibes as though she thinks she is big enough to move out and drive a car "not a chance" Parenting comes with a lot of challenges but also with the greatest rewards. Joao and I are enjoying every minute of it. I remember when she was born, I thought to myself – she is starting life with a clean page, all she needs to do is fill in the page with her life story. Genetically Joao and I make a huge part of her life story. The challenges are how are we going to positively impact it? As we know it's not easy being a parent, but we are happy to say, 'we are not perfect parents but we are perfect parents for her. We are doing our best to make sure she is happy with most parts of her life chapters. She is growing so fast- for it's as if I am not getting time to process it all, and daily I am reminded that she is now a full functioning member of the family.
A couple of months ago she was in the bathroom and there was no toilet paper- she called out screaming, "Mom can you do me a favor and bring me toilet paper, please?" It dawned on me that she is growing and how we see her needs to change from how it was when she was a baby (even though she is always going to be a baby to us) So I thought it will be fun to share some of her growing up moments with you.
Ms.Jisele the chatterbox
I enjoy engaging her in conversations but sometimes I log-out and let her go on by herself. She always has something to say- 'surprise… surprise, this apple did not fall far from the tree!
Ms.Jisele the boss
Now, that is not a big surprise. I am kinda bossy myself and if I am honest I expecting anything less from her. She is at a stage where her word has to be last. So Joao and I try and let her win at some things, without breaking our own rules.
Ms.Jisele reads me (as the Americans say) more like calls me out
What? For an example: I told her she needs to put on a jersey but then I dressed her in a jacket. She tells me, "but this is not a jersey it's a jacket" Oh accuse me!
Ms.Jisele the copy cat
I used the 'F' word but when the teacher mentioned that Jisele used it at school. I downplayed my part but later mentioned the incident on the blog (talk about coming clean) I realized she copies everything especially the bad and that I needed to be honest with my actions if I want to have a positive impact on her. She thinks what mommy does must be right, "well not"– wait till she is she's a teen it's all going to be the other around. The challenge is to make sure what comes out of our mouths is authentic and is meant with love.
Ms.Jisele the honest one
As great as being honest is, it can also be awkward if she is coming across as rude or mean without knowing. Like that time when we saw a little with severe 3rd-degree burns on her hands and face. She kept calling for my attention to see to her. That moment when I wanted to bury my head in the sand, but then I saw it as an opportunity to explain that the little girl had an accident and that she shouldn't be scared of her. I held the little girl's hand as I was explaining to Jisele and I proceeded to kiss her little hands, in the end, to show her that the little girl is okay and that she is human like us.
Ms.Jisele the reader
I am enjoying this moment, we mostly read to her, but lately, she has been insisting on reading for herself. It's the funniest but beautiful thing ever. She opens a book and creates a story by looking at the pictures. Most times she is accurate to the original story. But my favorite is when she makes it up, that level of creativity is so beautiful to see.
I now fully agree with that we must enjoy every minute with our kids because they do grow fast.


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The mighty $16 trillion American economy can easily shrug off a snowstorm or two, even in regions unaccustomed to wintry snow and ice. But a prolonged bout of unusual weather is taking a toll, especially on small businesses like Abbadabba's, a shoe store chain in Atlanta, which has weathered two major storms this year.
"It's been bad, but it goes back even further than just this winter," said Kristen Dellaporta, the chief financial officer, explaining that two years of mild winters had prompted the store to cut back on cold-weather gear, and an exceptionally rainy summer had helped to squelch profits in 2013.
This year, the company has lost business not only because it had to shut down during the storms but also because it couldn't meet customer demand. "Last year we had boots and no winter, this year we had winter but no boots," Ms. Dellaporta said. "We all need to start buying the Farmer's Almanac, I guess."
Abbadabba's, where a wall of spring flip-flops is on display, generally places orders six months in advance and cannot restock on short notice. "When you're small retail, your real business is inventory management, just having the right things at the right time," Ms. Dellaporta said. "I would have loved to have been stocked up on nothing but rain boots, but that wouldn't be practical."
Economists have placed much of the blame for a recent spate of weak economic data on the effects of the unseasonable cold in the Northeast, Midwest and South, which they project will shave a few tenths of a percent off the growth of gross domestic product in the first quarter.
But much of the sudden slowdown in hiring, industrial production and retail sales, they hope, will be shrugged off come spring. Consumers seem to believe this, too. The Thompson Reuters University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment for February, released on Friday, showed that a slight drop in satisfaction with current economic conditions was offset by an uptick in optimism for the future.
Many weather effects are either transient (a snowstorm may keep you from the car dealership for a day or two, but it probably won't cancel your plans to buy a car) or self-balancing (a hardware store may sell less paint and drywall but more shovels and salt). If a factory shuts down for a couple of days, chances are it will simply fill its orders a little later.
But in some industries, losses cannot be made up so easily. A restaurant forced to shutter on a Tuesday is not going to sell twice as many burgers on Wednesday.
At London Grill, a restaurant in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, revenue is down 10 percent more than in the usual January slump, said Terry Berch McNally, a co-owner. But weather can also be fickle: On Thursday, just as Ms. McNally was fretting about whether her Valentine's Day bookings would fall through, the afternoon brought twice as many drinkers as usual because local employers had closed early.
When weather strikes repeatedly, losses can build up. Valentine's Day was blissfully sunny, putting an end to the immediate worries of both Ms. McNally, who got a flurry of last-minute reservations, and Susan McKee, at Old City Flowers in Philadelphia.
Thankfully, Ms. McKee said, the biggest day of the year for florists would not be a bust. But her revenue for 2014 is down about half from what it would usually be. Inventory has been hard to get because of grounded planes. Walk-in sales have been slow.
"It's crushing me," she said on Thursday, when Philly was blanketed by snow and ice. "I have thousands of dollars invested in perishable gorgeous flowers that I can't get anywhere. I have three trucks parked outside the store, and I can't move the trucks. This day is lost. There was no revenue today."
Nonstop Couriers, a same-day delivery company that operates within 100 miles of the Philadelphia, has lost about $20,000, or around 3 percent of annual revenue, since this winter's snow storms began in December, said Rick Slowicki, the president. The storms have also pushed back Mr. Slowicki's plans to hire two new drivers and kept him from expanding his customer base because he doesn't want to risk providing a late delivery for a new client.
His drivers have been affected, too — as have millions of other hourly workers, who make up about 60 percent of the work force.
Rich Ludwig, a Nonstop employee, said the storms had cost him $800 in lost wages. He has pulled back on socializing and groceries, cutting spending to "the bare necessities," he said.
It is not yet clear how much of the poor showing in recent data is the result of bad weather, and how much the bad weather may simply be masking softer demand. On the one hand, said Ian Shepherdson of Pantheon Economics, weather "affects pretty much everyone all the way up the supply chain." On the other hand, he said, "It's completely impossible to disentangle weather effects from everything else."
The effects can be tricky to nail down. In one analysis, economists at Capital Economics, a research firm, noted that through a series of complex chain reactions, a heavy blanket of snow might drive gold prices up and wheat prices down.
Speaking to Congress earlier this week, Janet L. Yellen, chairwoman of the Federal Reserve, said that weather might have been a factor in the weak jobs reports in December and January, but warned the public not to jump to conclusions. In a report this week, retail sales made a poor showing as well, decreasing 0.4 percent last month from December, and spending in December was revised downward to make the 2013 holiday shopping season the weakest since 2009.
Manufacturing also declined in January, despite a large jump in output from utilities because of the cold, with many economists concluding that the weather was not causing the retreat but making it look worse.
Mr. Shepherdson ticked off indications that some of the growth in the latter half of last year would not be sustainable: Manufacturing output was fed by a buildup in inventory, not demand, and increased spending by consumers was fed by a decline in the savings rate.
The construction industry, which is particularly sensitive to weather, added jobs in January, which some economists said was evidence that the weather was not the problem.
Jed Kolko, the chief economist for Trulia, agreed. "There are plenty of other factors that have held back sales in recent months," including low inventory and pullback by investors, he said.


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Morrison Industries (another small veteran-owned business, by the way) recently posted this op-ed about the evolution of gear (or lack thereof). It's the very first post from their new website and is a hell of a debut...promises great things to come. I thought it brought up some damn interesting points, and although I would maybe argue just couple of things (possibly just semantics) I think it's worth spreading the word. That's why it's posted here. No one can argue the point that gear is frequently misused and/or over-carried. Nor (in my opinion) can it be argued that some kit isn't actually built to solve problems that don't exist (lots of it obviously is). That said, I personally think we have seem some great evolution in gear, we've just seen some horrible regression in implementation and use - again, that may be just a semantics issue, not a contradiction to what the author (presumably Nathanial Morrison) posits below.
Somebody should make the brass read this Morrison Industries blog post thoroughly...and the six points he brings up should be taught to every new troop by his NCOs.
I would certainly rather have to go to war today with the equipment available than what we had in the desert storm days...I just wish our military was practical, even ruthlessly pragmatic, in its use and requirement. More of a Rhodesian philosophy maybe. DR
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Nov 25, 2012
Has Gear Evolved? Or Did It Just Change?
Back in my day… My goodness, I'm officially old enough to say that! How time flies! But seriously, back in my day we used the ALICE gear. ALICE web kit, ALICE pack, etc… It was good kit. We were training for those long-range missions and flirting hard with CQB. It all fit together and with a few mods it worked very well everywhere we went.
Modifications did happen. I used to have a sewing machine and I modified my gear and ended up doing a good bit for the other guys on the team. The first thing that came out was velcro. A bunch of use did a number of uniforms in velcro. But it was so damn loud that we abandoned it. We also found that it attracted dirt and leaves like a magnet and that clogged it so bad that it didn't work at all. We also found that it sucked when wet, especially in salt water. Freefall speeds tended to rip things open as well. I will never forget a day at Camp MacKall when we took contact. We dropped and slithered backwards down the slope we were on. Every one of us with velcro on our LBE had lost the contents of our pouches and the velcro was so clogged with leaves and sand that we had to tape the pouches shut for the next 2 days. After that I had the velcro removed and sailing snaps installed. I have viewed velcro as largely worthless since that day. Granted, in some applications it is genius. But the trick is understanding where those applications are.
When Operation Enduring Freedom kicked off the old garrison Army rules were shredded and overnight we started running chest rigs. Chest rigs are fine of you are carrying a mountaineering pack. If you load the front of the torso with no counterweight you instantly induce massive amounts of strain to the entire back, especially the low back. So if you wear a proper pack this is OK. But most do not. So it is impossible to call this progress from a human performance perspective.
Then came Operation Iraqi Freedom and the demand by the brass to wear bodyarmor. This is where the real trouble began. Body armor reduced lung capacity by no less than 40%. Cumberbund style armor is exponentially worse. On top of that we are ordered to carry insane amounts of weight on it. So, with scapula pressed into the back plate and stomach pressed into the front plate, MASSIVE low back problems present themselves. This is perhaps the single most destructive thing the military has ever done to the soldier. From a human performance perspective this is nothing short of an epic disaster for our armed forces. One might go so far as to say it is criminally negligent. The ability to maneuver is obliterated with body armor and all the ridiculous gear stratted to it. Then add in temperature, environment, altitude, fitness levels, etc… and you have the perfect storm.
Then came the tactical wanna-be… The Airsoft and Paintball crowd almost overnight took over the market for all things tactical. Worthless kit flooded the market and Privates started buying it up as fast as they could while old NCOs like me looked on in a state of shock. These days the market is so choked with "stuff" it makes things difficult for even the informed to make the right choices.
Here at Morrison Industries we use a 6-part checklist to evaluate equipment.
1. What are your actual requirements? For example, a PJ or CCT has to be able to jump and dive all of his equipment. He also needs to be able to climb with it. That makes things very challenging. There is no greater moment of clarity for a guy as that when he discovers he cannot get his parachute on over his cool looking kit.
2. What do you NEED? As in the real world NEEDS. Not what you want or looks cool. What do you really need? Do you actually need that "Admin Pouch" or is the old method of carrying that stuff in your pocket the better way to go? Have you thought about what it will do to your ability to climb or lay in the prone? Does it affect weapons handling? You get the idea.
3. What products address this need in the most simple and KISS way possible? Bells and whistles do not make the gear better. Always use the minimalist approach. Most things are unnecessary, some are essential. I carry an MSR Reactor stove because it works everywhere, it's fast and the benefits outweight the size for me in most environments. Especially the higher and colder it gets.
4. What do you ACTUALLY KNOW about the needs, the items and the details? This is huge. Did you know that Gore-Tex is the leading cause of blisters and athletes foot because it traps moisture in most situations? So is Gore-Tex the devil? No. In Seattle or New England in the Spring is is essential! If you don't know, get educated and remember the advertisers are trying to get you to buy their stuff.
5. Have you tested it in EVERY way conceivable and solicited at least 5 other opinions? To that end, the negative opinions are the most important. Are they right and you're wrong? You have to be open to that possibility. You should ask around first, especially to the most experienced guys you can find before wasting your money. Combat vets of multiple deployments are a great place to start.
6. Does it have to cost that much? If it is a Berry Ammendment Compliant item you can be assured the profit margins are barely there. If it's made overseas, most large companies are making a killing on it. But beware because depending on what factory made it, the quality may be equal to US products or significantly less. If the price is too good to be true, you are about to be let down.
Those checkpoints should help you to narrow the field on what is good for you and appropriate for your needs. If all else fails, send us an e-mail and we'll try to help you out as best we can. One of the best ways to get other opinions is to post on our Facebook page. There are a number of very knowledgable folks there who can help out.
In conclusion, it is my professional opinion that military gear has actually regressed rather than evolved. I see it as my job to bring the best of it to one central portal for you the customer. Anything that I sell either enhances human performance in combat or has a neutral effect. I look forward to your participation in the search and manufacturing of the best equipment and performance.
Note: Morrsion Industries is also running a Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale (10%) using discount code Black_Friday_2012


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ST. LOUIS — It's 7:32 on a recent Wednesday morning, and Gabe Fleisher is racing to put the finishing touches on his daily newsletter, Wake Up to Politics. It's been a busy 24-hour news cycle. "Another day, another bombshell," the newsletter begins.
Late on Tuesday afternoon, reports emerged that James Comey, the fired F.B.I. director, had written an internal memo suggesting that, in a private meeting with President Trump, the president had asked him to end the agency's investigation into his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn. "I hope you can let this go," Mr. Trump reportedly said to Mr. Comey. In the wake of this disclosure, the newsletter recounts, some Democrats in Congress were using the words "obstruction of justice" and even "impeachment." Meanwhile, the big story from the day before — that Mr. Trump may have shared classified information with Russian officials during a White House visit — continues to roil Washington.
It's a lot to digest and cogently explain. But a deadline is quickly approaching, and it's not just the one concerning the more than 2,000 subscribers who expect their Wake Up briefing to appear in their email inboxes just after 8 a.m. each weekday. More urgent is that, in about 13 minutes, Gabe's ride to school will show up.
For Gabe Fleisher is not a Washington pundit or a producer for CNN, but a 15-year-old freshman at a St. Louis high school.
The free newsletter, which he has been writing in some form since he was 8, is a surprisingly sophisticated, well-researched summary of the day's political news. It counts among its subscribers Gene B. Sperling, contributing editor at The Atlantic; the MSNBC anchor Steve Kornacki; Major Garrett, chief White House correspondent for CBS News; the "Daily Show" correspondent Roy Wood Jr. (who on Twitter called Wake Up "one of the best political newsletters to hit my inbox"); the "Game Change" co-author Mark Halperin; and Jim VandeHei, the founder of Axios and a founder of Politico — as well as reporters for The New York Times, The Washington Post and USA Today, many of whom are among Gabe's nearly 5,000 Twitter followers. (Twitter's chief executive, Jack Dorsey, is also a follower.)
In some ways, Wake Up is the anti-Skimm. It doesn't dumb-down the daily political news for its audience and it occasionally highlights events that could challenge the interest of even the most-obsessive political fans. (A recent edition included the news that the Senate had scheduled for that day a "cloture vote on the nomination of John Sullivan to be deputy secretary of state.") But this young journalist makes it an accessible, and even engaging, door-opener for readers, particularly young people, who want to know what is going on and why everyone is suddenly talking about some guy named Flynn.
"I feel a sense of responsibility," Gabe said. "Not everyone reads it every day, and it's obviously not the only thing people read. But some people tell me that it is. And that's a responsibility that I take seriously."
And he does it all on little more than six hours sleep.
"To think that, at his age, that I would be waking up every morning, to do what he is doing, there are no words to describe how that would never happen," said his father, Randy Fleisher, 53, a rabbi, sitting in the living room of the family's two-story brick home in University City, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, as Gabe sat across from him, checking his phone. "It's a pretty remarkable thing."
Dressed in a baggy T-shirt and dark gray sweatpants, his sleep-tousled hair falling to just above his shoulders, Gabe is sitting up in bed, hunched over his Lenovo laptop, typing away. Within reach are his alarm clock, which went off — as usual — at 5:55 a.m., a recent copy of Time magazine, his iPhone (which he picks up occasionally to check his Twitter feed) and a stack of books he has been reading: "Personal History," by Katharine Graham; "A Memoir," by Barbara Bush; "Front Row at the White House," by Helen Thomas; and "Shattered," by Amie Parnes and Jonathan Allen, a detailed post-mortem of Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign for president in 2016. ("I loved their first book, 'HRC,' but I don't think this one is as good," Gabe said.)
On the walls of his second-floor, 10-by-12 room ("smaller than my sister's," he pointed out) are framed articles from Politico ("Missouri Sixth Grader May Be Next Mike Allen") and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch ("Fourth Grader Is Political Junkie"). Also, copies of the Declaration of Independence and the first page of the Constitution, a photo of Barack Obama and Representative Lacy Clay, Democrat of Missouri, and an eclectic mix of bumper stickers from the 2016 campaign — for Carly Fiorina, Ben Carson and even the fictional Frank Underwood among them. ("I'm going for a complete collection," Gabe said.)
Elsewhere are small busts of several presidents; Gabe's passport to the presidential libraries (so far his has visited all but two of the official ones, Reagan's and Nixon's); a miniature replica of the White House; photos of Gabe, his father and his sister, Zoey, at the 2009 Obama inauguration; and one of a 12-year-old Gabe with the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin after a speech she gave in Chicago that Gabe's grandparents took him to.
And everywhere you look, there are books, books and more books — in a free-standing bookcase, on shelves, on the windowsill and even the floor, all about politics or history, from the four-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln by Carl Sandburg to "The Audacity to Win" by the former Obama campaign strategist David Plouffe ("a great book," Gabe said).
In fact, it was Mr. Obama's election as president that set off Gabe's interest in politics. At age 7, he and Zoey were taken by their father on a last-minute road trip to the inauguration. (Gabe's mother, Amy, the sales director for Caleres, a St. Louis shoe company, stayed home. "I don't like to drive," Mrs. Fleisher explained.)
Gabe's subsequent reading of a children's book on presidential campaigns, "See How They Run," further fueled that enthusiasm. More books and those family visits to the presidential libraries followed. Soon Gabe was intently following the news of the day, and trying — emphasis on trying — to share it with his parents.
"He is this bundle of energy," Mrs. Fleisher, 51, said over a recent pizza dinner with Gabe and his father. (Zoey, 18, a high school senior entering nearby Webster University in the fall and planning to major in vocal music education, was home with a cold.) "And he's always talking about all the stuff that's going on, and I can't absorb it all. I still can't. I'm like, 'Comey, what?' So he would come to me in the morning, and he was just starting to read the news, and would want to share stuff with me, and I would say: 'You know what, Gabe, I can't get all this. Why don't you email me, so I have a chance to think about it and I can ask you questions and we can talk about it?' So he started emailing me, and then it began to take on more of a newsletterlike format."
"She was my first subscriber," her son chimed in.
Soon she was sharing it with family and friends, and someone they knew told a reporter for The Post-Dispatch about it. At age 10, on Super Tuesday, Gabe landed on the front page of the newspaper.
"That was when people started reaching out to me, people I had no connections to, like professors and even some St. Louis politicians," Gabe said.
As the audience grew, so did his ambitions. He attended more political events with his parents and realized that he liked being part of the mix. In 2010, Gabe and his parents went to hear Mr. Plouffe speak about his experience on the 2008 Obama campaign and the book he had just written about it.
Mrs. Fleisher: "At the end, people lined up to ask questions and Gabe said to me, 'Mom, can I ask question?'"
Rabbi Fleisher: "He asked a great question."
Gabe: "It was not a great question."
Mrs. Fleisher: "Yes it was."
Gabe: "I asked, 'Where do you go from here? What's next for you?' It was not a great question."
Another coup has been meeting Ms. Goodwin. First, Gabe and his parents saw the Pulitzer Prize-winning author speak at an event at the Lincoln Library in Springfield, Ill., soon after the publication of her "Team of Rivals," which Gabe loved. "He ran up to her like we were at Disney World and she was Mickey Mouse," his mother said.
A few years later, after her book "Bully Pulpit" came out, he saw her again in Chicago. "I went up to get it signed, but she did not remember me," Gabe said.
Then, in 2014, Ms. Goodwin came to St. Louis for a sold-out speaking engagement. The audience was told they could write questions and submit them. "I don't even remember what question I asked," Gabe said, "but I wrote that I was a 13-year-old journalist, and she said: 'Gabe? Is Gabe Fleisher in the audience?'"
She now follows him on Twitter.
The breakthrough for both Gabe and Wake Up to Politics came in the most recent presidential campaign, when Gabe was able to get press credentials for two of the primary debates held in Des Moines — the Democratic one in November 2015 and the Republican one in January 2016 — and where he was able to sit with reporters and meet some he had admired from afar. One, Dan Balz of The Washington Post, even took a shine to Gabe and helped him wrangle his way into the post-debate spin room. "No one says no to Dan Balz," another reporter told Gabe when the youngster expressed surprise that he had been allowed inside.
There, he made the acquaintance of Sean Spicer, then a relatively little-known spokesman for the Republican National Committee. As they chatted, Mr. Spicer said to Gabe, "If you want to see a real debate, come to the Republican one here in January," and then gave him his email address. Gabe followed up and Mr. Spicer got him credentials. "He couldn't have been nicer," Gabe said. (Unfortunately, Gabe has so far been unable to get back in touch with Mr. Spicer, now the White House press secretary, about trying to score one of the "Skype seats" allotted to out-of-town journalists at the daily press briefings.)
At the Democratic debate, Gabe also met some executives from Twitter, which was one of the sponsors. A few weeks later, @WakeUp2Politics was verified. "That was a big day," his mother said.
And that initial shyness about asking questions has given way to an unchecked confidence that has led him to direct-message a reporter at USA Today about how to get on the White House press list and being part of the press scrum quizzing politicians after a debate.
"Being a kid reporter, I have to be a little more pushy," Gabe said at that dinner with his parents, sharing a cheese pizza with his mother and sipping on his second Coke. "It's just a fact of life, because when I am trying to get an interview, the first response is always skepticism."
He added: "Jeff Sessions came to St. Louis a few weeks ago, and I got credentials pretty easily, and I get there, and I have everything I need, and I was on the list and I had my ID, but for a long time they just wouldn't let me in. I get that. It's the attorney general and there is going to be security, but they had the dogs check me out, which happened to none of the other reporters, and I just had to keep pushing and say, 'I'm supposed to be here.'"
It's precisely 7:45, and after a quick change into his usual school uniform of baggy T-shirt and cargo shorts and a fast brushing of his teeth, Gabe is down the stairs, into his slip-on Nike sneakers, out the door and on his way to school.
This is his second year at John Burroughs, a progressive private high school in the St. Louis suburb of Ladue founded in 1923. Gabe arrived with his reputation preceding him.
"I had heard of him when he was assigned to me as his adviser, when he entered as an eighth grader last year," said Mark Smith, a history teacher. "I knew that he was this seventh grader who did this newsletter thing and you didn't quite know what to expect. But I found him to be personable, funny and deeply intelligent."
His parents say Gabe has managed to have a relatively normal life, one with friendships and outside interests and a keen awareness that his schoolwork can't suffer.
"I remember really clearly," his father said. "Gabe had a teacher, I'm not sure what grade, and his comment on the report card was Gabe was able to be socially at ease and also very passionate about government, politics and history. That was very affirming to me. It's all about balance. I'm less concerned about the grades themselves than if this became all-consuming, to the exclusion of everything else in his life."
As Gabe explained: "There are times when I am up really late, studying for a test, and I tell myself I have to get some sleep. But I wouldn't keep doing it if I didn't love it." (Though he will take a break this coming week for finals.)
Kate Ward, his biology teacher at Burroughs, said he was not a total anomaly in his peer group when it came to a keen interest in public affairs. "In this political climate, there is a lot to talk about," she said, "and we are certainly talking about things like climate change and what's going with the E.P.A. in this class."
Gabe, she added, "doesn't start those conversations, necessarily, but the other students often look to him to answer questions about what's going on."
Gabe said: "Most of my friends are politically aware. I don't think I'm an outlier in terms of being interested in politics; most of my friends and even most of my classmates are. But maybe not all of them are on Twitter at 6:30 every morning."
But, yes, there are times when the newsletter takes a back seat to real life, most notably when Gabe goes off to the wilds of Minnesota, totally off the grid, for 12 weeks every summer. He has been going to a summer camp there for years, as did his father before him, and nothing disrupts that schedule, not even the Democratic and Republican conventions last summer. "Not knowing the V.P. picks, when they came out, that was tough," Gabe said with a wry laugh.
More recently, he was on a wilderness retreat in the Ozarks organized by his school, with no access to a computer or his cellphone for several days, just as the Comey story was taking its wild twists and turns.
"I came back," Gabe said, "and I was on the bus, and my phone kept saying, 'No cell service, no cell service' and then suddenly it came back on, and I got a notification saying 'Schumer responds to Comey firing' and I was like, 'What?!?'"
How long will the Wake Up to Politics newsletter last, especially as high school becomes more difficult and college looms? His parents seem a little surprised that it has lasted this long, and Mr. Smith, Gabe's academic adviser, thought "as he entered high school, the newsletter might go away."
But it hasn't, and Gabe continues to balance the demands of school, home life and the newsletter with an almost unnerving casualness. "He's figured out how to be a relatively normal teenager who goes through the messes and problems that most normal teenager goes through," Mr. Smith said.
While the adults in his orbit seem amazed by his ability to pull it all off — the word "juggling" comes up a lot — Gabe himself has a pretty simple explanation why it all seems so manageable.
"I don't need a lot of sleep," he said, "and I type really fast."


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Teenie, the Beagle puppy, had adhesions that stuck her abdominal and pelvic organs together. The surgery to spay her required a delicate touch to separate the adhesions and avoid causing organ damage or bleeding. We are happy to report that with our help, Teenie received the specialized surgery and recovered very well.
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New Delhi: French President Francois Hollande is on a two-day visit to India and is expected to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday. This is Hollande's first visit to an Asian country.
The two countries will hope to pave way for important trade deals and discuss crucial issues. On agenda are defence deals, including the sale of Rafale fighter jets.
Controversy over ban on turbans in French schools is also likely to come up during the French President's trip. "The turban issue must be taken up seriously (during the meet)," said Congress Party MP, Preneet Kaur.
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Anti-Establishment Vote Hits Both Parties
It wasn't so much anti-incumbent but anti-establishment.
That's the message that came out of the results on Tuesday, where voters sent a message to the party establishment -- both Democratic and Republican -- that expressed a deep dissatisfaction with the status quo.
The big news came in the Democratic contest for the Senate in Pennsylvania, where five-term incumbent Arlen Specter -- who quit the GOP last year because he was not going to survive the primary -- wound up losing anyway, despite the backing of President Obama, Gov. Ed Rendell and assorted party luminaries. Specter, 80, was never able to convince his new party that he was one of them. Much of the credit for that goes to a savvy media effort by his opponent, two-term Rep. Joe Sestak, who ran ads reminding Democrats that six years ago Specter was warmly endorsed by another president, George W. Bush, and that he spent years voting for Republican Supreme Court justices. Those Democrats with longer memories still harbored anger over the way Specter questioned Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas court confirmation hearings back in 1991.
Sestak received 54 percent of the vote to Specter's 46 percent, ending Specter's long career in politics. Specter, in conceding defeat, pledged to support Sestak in the general election.
Former Rep. Pat Toomey, who came within an eyelash of defeating Specter in the GOP primary in 2004, will be the Republican nominee in November.
If the Democratic Party establishment took it on the chin in the Keystone State, Republicans got the same message in Kentucky. There, local powerhouse Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, muscled out two-term Sen. Jim Bunning (R) from a re-election bid and helped install Secretary of State Trey Grayson as his would-be successor. But GOP voters weren't buying, and instead gave first-time candidate and ophthamologist Rand Paul a smashing victory, telling McConnell and party leaders that the old way of doing things was no longer acceptable. Even though Grayson was not the incumbent, he bore the brunt of the anti-establishment anger. Paul, the son of Texas congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul, utilized his father's sizable presence on the Web to make him financially competitive with Grayson.
The Republican primary may have been one-sided, but that was hardly the case among the Democrats. By the narrowest of margins, state Attorney General Jack Conway edged out Lt. Gov. Dan Mongiardo for his party's nomination. Six years ago, Mongiardo came close to defeating Bunning.
The results were less definitive in Arkansas, but what happened there can't be comforting to Sen. Blanche Lincoln, a two-term Democrat whose avowed centrism -- in a state that gave Obama just 39 percent -- didn't go over well in the primary. She managed 45 percent of the vote, to 43 percent for Lt. Gov. Bill Halter. And because neither candidate received a majority -- a third candidate, conservative businessman D.C. Morrison, pulled in about 13 percent -- Lincoln and Halter continue their battle for three more weeks, in a June 8 primary runoff.
Halter was the beneficiary of anger towards Lincoln by national netroots organizations like MoveOn.org and labor unions, such as the SEIU and the AFL-CIO, who were frustrated with what they saw as the incumbent's failure to vote with her party on some key issues; her opposition to the public option in the health-care bill was only one of their objections.
While progressives were railing against Lincoln by calling her a DINO -- a Democrat In Name Only -- Republicans were blasting her as someone too liberal for Arkansas. Rep. John Boozman (R) topped an eight-candidate field with 53 percent, enough to avoid a runoff. He will be able to conserve his funds as the Democrats spend the next three weeks beating each other up.
The only race where a Democrat took on a Republican came in Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District, in the southwestern part of the state, the district held 36 years by John Murtha (D) until his death back in February. The district is majority Democratic but socially conservative, and Republicans eyed the seat as the perfect locale to make it a bellwether for November. Their candidate, businessman Tim Burns, railed against Democratic rule in Washington, attempting to tie Democrat Mark Critz with Obama and Speaker Nancy Pelosi, neither of whom are especially popular in the 12th. For his part, Critz, a longtime Murtha aide, arguing that voters cared more about what was happening in Washington, Pa., than in Washington, D.C.
Some Republicans are saying that one of the reasons they lost is that they were at a numerical disadvantage because the Democratic Senate primary brought out a huge number of Democrats. They insist that the results will be different in November, when the same two candidates run again. But others will argue that this was the kind of seat the GOP needed to win if it was going to make huge gains in November, and there will be a lot of recrimination over why they failed.
Critz's victory, along with that of Paul in Kentucky, Sestak's ouster of Specter in Pennsylvania and the uncertainty in Arkansas, made it difficult to arrive at what it all exactly "means." For all the talk of an anti-incumbency mood out there, the fact is that in the 11 states to hold primaries thus far in 2010, only one sitting House member, Alan Mollohan (D) of West Virginia, and one sitting senator, Specter, were booted out of office by voters. Another senator, Republican Robert Bennett of Utah, was denied the right to run in this year's primary by delegates at his party's state convention who felt he was not sufficiently conservative.
But there is some sort of narrative developing. One is that the Tea Party movement -- or whatever you want to call what's going on with conservatives in the GOP -- is alive and well. Their rallying behind Rand Paul in Kentucky is only the latest victory for them, following the decision by centrist Florida Gov. Charlie Crist to leave the GOP and become an independent, as well as the defeat of Bennett in Utah. A key figure to watch in all of this is Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina, who early on backed conservative Marco Rubio over Crist in the Sunshine State, supported another candidate in Indiana who finished a strong second to establishment choice Dan Coats in the Senate primary, and who signed up for Paul in Kentucky despite McConnell's cheerleading for Grayson. DeMint is one of those true-blue conservatives who would rather have a smaller, but more ideologically pure, GOP than a big tent.
It's hard to make the case that Specter's defeat in Pennsylvania is a sign Democrats want to move the party further to the left. Thirty years in office, mostly as a Republican, made it tough for him to sell himself to his new party. Ultimately, it was really about Arlen Specter. And voters apparently had had enough.
But Lincoln's centrism is certainly the reason why she was forced into a runoff in Arkansas, and progressives and the unions are no doubt rejoicing over that result today. That jubilation may be short-lived, especially if the Republicans win the seat in November ... which they may very well do.
The messages that greeted the respective party establishments on Tuesday night followed a day of other political news that brought more headaches to the two parties. In Indiana, Rep. Mark Souder (R), a strong religious conservative, announced he would resign his congressional seat, effective Friday, because of an affair he was having with one of his staffers. And in Connecticut, state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal (D), the frontrunner for the Senate seat being vacated by Chris Dodd (D), was trying to fend off accusations that he lied about his military service.
In other primary results, Sen. Ron Wyden (D) was renominated in Oregon over minor opposition and will face law professor Jim Huffman (R) in November. In the state's gubernatorial contest, former Gov. John Kitzhaber won the Democratic nomination in a field that included ex-Secretary of State Bill Bradbury. Kitzhaber, one of five former governors seeking a return to his old office this year, squares off against former NBA star Chris Dudley in the general election. The incumbent governor, Ted Kulongoski, is leaving because of term limits.
In the Pennsylvania gubernatorial contest, where Gov. Rendell is also term-limited, state Attorney General Tom Corbett (R) will face Democrat Dan Onorato, the chief executive of Allegheny County.
The race for governor in Arkansas will pit incumbent Democrat Mike Beebe and GOP nominee Jim Keet, a former state senator.
Tuesday night Political Junkie posts: Arkansas Senate, Kentucky Senate, Pennsylvania Senate & 12th CD.


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Yes it is unfortunate about Enam?s injury but that is sport and he will recover and go on to play plenty of cricket. He has a complete rupture of his PCL and will be out for between 8 and 10 weeks at this stage.
Coach's Report: U19 Test Three
by Richard McInnes
Published: 20th August, 2004
Pre-match Summary
About Enam's Injury:
Yes it is unfortunate about Enam?s injury but that is sport and he will recover and go on to play plenty of cricket. He has a complete rupture of his PCL and will be out for between 8 and 10 weeks at this stage. He is not in any pain and there is very little swelling so the forecast is good for him. He will see a specialist here in the UK prior to heading home in late August.
About Nazmul and Talha:
Nazmul Hossain is also returning home this week to see his family and freshen up before the champion?s trophy commences. We had to send one player home in order to Talha to come over and I offered Nazmul the opportunity given the length of this tour and the additional 4 weeks he will now be staying. It leaves us a little short for the 3rd test and the ODI?s but provides him with the best opportunity to perform in the Champion?s trophy.
Team for the 3rd test is as follows:
Nafees Ahmed (captain)
Aftab Ahmed (vice capt)
Dhiman Ghosh (vice capt)
Mushfiqur Rahim (wk)
Nafees Iqbal
Shamsu Rahman
Nazim Uddin
Nadif Chowdhury
Rubaiyat Huq
Ashim Chowdhury
Kasi Shahadat Hossain
Israq Sonnet
Not Playing: Enamul Haque Jnr & Nazmul Hossain
Hope this brings everyone up to date.
Post-match Summary
The 3rd test finished in a draw as was destined to be the case after losing more than two full days to rain. There was the possibility of trying to set up a match today but the additional value of some confidence building time in the middle for our middle order prior to the one day series was more important to us given that we had already lost the test series.
We set our selves a target once the rain had intervened not to lose a single hour of play. By this I mean we break each day down in to 6 by 1 hour blocks and we aim to win each hour. For example if you are 2 for 100 at lunch that would be considered a shared or equal session, if we were 100 for 1 that would be a win to us if batting, if we were 100 for 3 that would be a loss.
Credit to the players during this match, where rain ruined our chances of a win, but we maintained our effort to not lose a single hour of play, we equalled two, and won the rest. This is an important learning process for the players to ensure they are able to play the last ball of the day with the same intensity as the first ball.
We finished up being bowled out for 346 today with Nafees Iqbal 56, Shamsu Rahman 34, Nazim Uddin 65, Nadif 37, Dhiman 48 and Mushfiqur Rahim remaining 36 not out. Credit again to Ashim Chowdhury who batted for nearly an hour for his 10 runs, but created a partnership of 40 with Mushfiqur.
England then batted a second time and were 35 for 1 at stumps with Rubaiyat Huq picking up Joe Denly for 7. Denly was struck on the forearm by a Rajib bouncer in the first over of the innings.
I have attached some interesting statistics from the test series indicating the runs scored by the top 7 batsmen from each team across the series. I, along with others have been critical of our batsmen at times, but when compared to the England top order, James Hildreth?s double hundred excluded, the Bangladesh team equalled or out performed their counterparts.
Outstanding contributions were provided by Shamsu Rahman, Aftab Ahmed and Mushfiqur Rahim. Nazim Uddin is finally starting to show some form and batted very well today. Hopefully he can take this form in to the one day games. A disappointing aspect is the openers who despite strong lead up form in practice matches, failed to really achieve in the Test matches when it counted.
This statistics indicate that batting may not have been as easy as we think it should be. Although the English lads played some equally foolish shots to through their wickets away. So we are not the only country who do that, maybe the English players learn quicker as they get older though.
Stats: Top 7 batsmen
We have our first practice one day match on Sunday the 22 against Hampshire 2nd XI and then the first ODI at Arundle Castle on Tuesday followed by back to back matches at Hove on 26th and 27th.
Scorecard: Test Three
Complete Scorecard: Test Two
Complete Scorecard: Test One
About the author(s): Richard McInnes is quite possibly the most beloved coach associated with the Bangladesh cricket infrastructure. Why? Perhaps it is because unlike other coaches, with the exception of Jamie Siddons, he is clearly and demonstrably invested with the Tigers.
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Tigers fans are as mature as the players. Under the nick of Observer, Richard has been, for over 8 years, teaching us the process that is cricket.
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Akame ga Kill! episode 06
Oh my god… How could anyone possibly see this coming? This epic episode turned out to be so tragic… God… How can this be so good!? It feels wrong to actually like this episode, but I do… I loved every minute of it.
It started out normally (or as normal as it gets in Akame ga Kill!) with Tatsumi and Leone and their mission to free dozens of prostitute slaves from the clutches of evil drug lords and pimps. This women were drugged, brought in and soon became addicted to that drug. Now they do everything to get their hands on a fix, even if it means selling their bodies to the ugliest, fattest and cruellest of men.
Things got out of hand when Leone recognize one of the girls there and charged straight in. I must say that it was over before I even got time to start enjoying it properly, but it was awesome nonetheless. Those drug lords and pimps won't be doing business ever again. Unless they found a way to continue drugging and pimping women in the afterlife (not that there is such a thing as an afterlife).
Anyway, what completely stirred me is that scene where Seryuu, that girl that helped Tatsumi during the last episode, and her weapon actually sliced Sheele in half. I tried hard to ignore the fact that that freak of nature actually ate the top half of Sheele afterwards, but I couldn't. I was choked up. We only recently just watched an entire episode dedicated to Sheele and her life. And now she's dead… She got killed by a stupid girl that thinks she's doing the right thing by stopping the people that, on the same day I might add, saved many women from a terrible, drug-filled life. I changed my mind completely. That girl, Seryuu, needs to die quickly and painfully. She has been corrupted a long time ago. I see that now.


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UMBC midfielder J.D. Harkey (Loudon County/Purcellville, Va.) has been selected to play on the South squad in the 67th annual United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association North-South All-Star game. The contest will be played at Goucher College on Friday, May 27 at 5:30 p.m.
Harkey has competed for parts of five seasons with the Retrievers. After two seasons contributing as a defensive midfielder, he earned the starting face-off specialist position in 2009, but suffered a torn ACL early in the campaign. But he returned and became the 21st player in school history to win 100 or more draws in a season in 2010.
In 2011, the co-captain returned to play as a defensive middie and again became a prime contributor on that unit. He competed in 46 career games, scoring two goals and adding two assists, and recording 58 ground balls.
Harkey just completed a double major in political science and history.
He becomes the 51st UMBC player to compete for the South squad since 1970. The Retrievers have been represented at the game in 13 of the last 14 seasons.