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justin tells me about occupy detroit, being a substitute teacher, growing medicinal marijuana, and more
This is a series in which I get to learn about America from you.
Justin is a 21 year-old Libertarian living in the Detroit suburbs. When he's not working as a substitute teacher, he participates in the Occupy Detroit movement and grows medicinal marijuana. I was thrilled to hear from him, and his interview shattered my assumptions in many ways. (I don't want to spoil anything, but I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!)
What's it like living in Detroit?
I don't actually live in Detroit. I've lived in the suburbs, about 10 minutes outside of the D, most of my life. I hate to admit it, but I've noticed a huge decline in the area since the depression began. And when you go into the city of Detroit, it hits you like a brick. Some parts look like they belong in Somalia or Afghanistan, not the United States. Entire strips of what were once thriving businesses are burnt out, and look like they're on the ugly end of a Tomahawk missile. It's depressing.
You've been involved with the Occupy Detroit movement. Can you tell me more about that?
It's done a great job of focusing on local issues that matter to the citizens of Detroit. For example, Occupy Detroit has been very involved in fighting foreclosures. Sometimes, hundreds of people physically occupied the home of someone who was being evicted.
Within hours of this, the banks called off the foreclosure, and the homeowner got to keep their house. It's an interesting and helpful form of protest. I don't see the people of Detroit complaining about it.
But I also have my critiques. In terms of demographics, about 80% of the city is African-American. So you'd think a movement called "Occupy Detroit" would reflect these demographics. But not even close.
Don't get me wrong—there are certainly persons of color who participate. But the majority of Occupy Detroit is young, white college students like myself. And most of us don't even live in Detroit. Many of us are from the suburbs.
White, unemployed students with nothing better to do but protest on behalf of people we think are incapable of speaking out for themselves. Can you say "White Savior Complex" much?! In that sense, I don't think it's representative of the city.
I'm not trying to discourage anyone from getting involved. I'd just like to see the movement populated by the people it claims to defend.
Are you still very involved?
Lately, no. When it started here, back in early October, I was very active, mostly on weekends. I attended meetings and General Assemblies, I camped out in Grand Circus Park. I marched in protests and participated in actions. I felt like I was contributing. But then I got a little disillusioned.
I'm a pretty ardent libertarian, and about as pro-capitalism as they come. And at these protests, there was a really strong anti-capitalist tone, which turned me off. I tried to suggest other actions, such as protesting the Federal Reserve (which conveniently has a branch office in Detroit). Whenever I'd suggest an alternative idea, I'd get laughed at and ignored.
I genuinely believe that the Fed causes most of the income inequality that the Occupy movement protests. Occupy really dislikes the banks, and what I think they need to understand is that the Fed is the banks.
So for a not-anti-capitalist like myself, I just felt really out of place with the Occupy movement. I drifted off and stopped participating.
Nowadays, my participation is pretty much contained to a Marxist book discussion group. It's a small group of people from the Occupy movement who meet up every week in the Occupy Detroit building on Michigan Avenue.
Everyone suggests a short article or excerpt, and each week we read one and discuss how it relates to current events and the Occupy movement. Many Marxists are there, but I try to spice things up and offer an alternate view. The article I suggested recently was called "Markets not Capitalism" by Gary Chartier.
I enjoy this, because it's nice to have civil debates in person instead of via computer screen. And some people are actually quite knowledgeable and intelligent. But I guess in terms of actual activism, the whole thing is a little too Left-Wing/Socialist for my tastes. And I'm not going to change that direction, so why even bother?
What drew you to the movement in the first place?
I first heard of it back in September, when Occupy Wall Street became a big national headline. I heard that other cities around the country were organizing similar protests, did some research and found that there was an Occupy Detroit, so I was sold.
I knew the thing had an anti-capitalist bent, but being the little idealist I was, I thought maybe I could change that. Maybe I could get the group to see that it was the state, and not the market, that was their enemy? So partially out of desire to participate in a historic movement, and partially out of hubris and inflated ego, I decided to get involved.
That's very self-reflective of you. You mentioned that you're against the auto bailout. Why? It seems like a good idea from everything I've read about Detroit.
I think the auto bailout is a desperate attempt to cling to an outdated industry that's not relevant to the 21st century economy. Sure, it saved some jobs: but at what expense?
One of the fundamental laws of economics is scarcity: there are finite resources, and each resource we put towards one purpose means that that resource isn't being put towards another purpose.
The future of the American economy isn't in outdated forms of car manufacturing. That might have been good for the country in the 1950s, but in the 2010s, it's outdated. And the Big Three auto companies take up a lot of resources: the labor, the raw materials, the space they occupy, the machines they use… all those resources could have been repurposed and put toward helping Detroit create something new.
But since we bailed out the auto companies, all those scarce resources are put toward the same old mode of production. They already bankrupted themselves once doing the same old thing; it's only a matter of time until they bankrupt themselves again and need yet another bailout.
It's a sensitive and difficult issue to discuss, especially since I live in the Detroit area. People take it really personally, like if you're against the auto bailouts then you're against them personally. That's not at all the case. I'm looking at things from a long-term point of view.
Imagine what happened when computer word processors were invented. Scribes lost their jobs. The typewriter industry was basically tossed into the trashcan.
But in the long run, was this really a bad thing? No, because word processors are just so much more efficient and better than typewriters and scribes!
I know that's a far-fetched example, but hopefully it illustrates the point I'm trying to make about automotive manufacturing being an outdated form of production and job.
I get your point, but it seems like there's a contradiction. You protest foreclosures (and thus interfere with pure capitalism), but don't like the bailout because it interferes with pure capitalism. What am I missing?
Well that's the thing. Many of these foreclosures aren't even legitimate! There's plenty of evidence to suggest that a sizable number of banks committed outright mortgage fraud.
Sometimes they even foreclosed on a house where the tenants never even took out a mortgage or already paid it off! And in other cases, banks lost the paperwork and thus legally were not entitled to foreclose.
So I don't think there's any contradiction in protesting banks that use fraudulent and illegal means to foreclose on innocent people—that's criminal.
I get your point that if an industry is going to fail, it will eventually fail, but isn't there something great about saving a million jobs? Otherwise, all those people would have been unemployed—how do you reconcile that?
Yes, people will be unemployed, but that's not always a bad thing. What if we outlawed computers and mandated that every document be hand-written by professional scribes? That would create a lot of jobs, but would it be best for the economy? Same deal.
Businesses that are destined to fail are a capital drain and a waste of resources. The sooner they fall, the sooner their resources can be put to use in a more effective way.
Switching gears a bit, how did you get into growing medicinal marijuana?
Well, to be honest, it all boils down to the green: money. My family was heavily invested in real estate: my dad owned a house remodeling company and when real estate started to tank hard, you can guess what happened to the family business—it also tanked.
We were broke as a joke, my mom and dad lost their business, and didn't have anywhere to turn. We'd stopped paying our tax bills, put off paying our mortgage (to the point where our house was almost foreclosed upon), lived off credit cards—a pretty standard story for many Americans.
Things were really bad. That is, until the state of Michigan legalized marijuana. Out of desperation, my family invested all our savings into growing pot. And, four years later, it's worked out pretty darn good, thank God.
How did you hear about it as an option?
It was all over the local news. It was a very controversial ballot initiative, and when we heard it had passed, we hopped on the opportunity.
My dad is a businessman and knows that the best time to get into a market is when it begins, before you get crowded out. So we took a gamble.
Make no mistake, marijuana is a cash crop. There's a huge demand out there, and that's just on the legal side of things. When you factor in the black market, it's even bigger.
People love their smoke, whether it's for intoxication or medication. Since we don't particularly enjoy the threat of prison time and SWAT raids, we do everything 100% by the books (grow in accordance with the regulations, sell only to licensed patients, etc.).
Although it can be a hassle, Michigan law is quite generous. For example, a caregiver can have up to six patients (including himself). For each patient, a caregiver is legally permitted to grow up to 12 plants and also possess up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana.
So if you're a caregiver with six patients, you're legally allowed to grow up to 72 plants and also legally carry on your person up to 15 ounces (which is just one ounce shy of a pound). Not sure if you've ever seen a pound of pot before, but it's a *lot* of weed. And I don't even own 72 plants! That's a LOT.
I can't complain. And really, although we're businessmen, we're also humans who understand many people legitimately need this medication. We like to help out.
For example, one patient of mine has Crohn's Disease. It's a really ugly disease from what I understand: your liver is basically a giant ulcer that flares up occasionally. When it does, the swelling becomes extremely painful, and you can't eat food for days.
Marijuana is the one medicine, according to my patient, that actually relieves his pain, restores his appetite, and has the fewest side effects. For him, it's a miracle drug. And unfortunately, this patient doesn't exactly have a lot of money, so every month I'll give him a small bit of medication, free-of-charge. I do this with many of my patients, because I know they have legitimate medical issues and it helps them out. The rest of it gets sold to local dispensaries.
So, not only is marijuana a good way to make money, but you also get to know that you're helping people function day to day.
How did you learn to grow it? Were there classes?
Mostly trial and error. My dad grew up on a farm, so he knew generally how to grow plants. But growing pot is a delicate science, and in some ways, even an art. Its a science in that you have to be very precise with your nutrients and maintaining a good environment, but also an art in that your environment needs a sort of "Feng Shui" feel to it. You learn as you go.
I also read the book "Marihuana Horticulture: The Indoor/Outdoor Medical Grower's Bible" by Jorge Cervantes. I recommend it to anyone curious about the process.
The internet is also helpful for diagnostic stuff. For example, one of my plants was wilting and turning yellow, so I went online to see if people had similar problems and learned that it was just a simple nitrogen deficiency.
You're a substitute teacher hoping to become a full-time teacher. What's surprised you about the Detroit Public School system?
I don't teach for Detroit Public Schools (DPS). I work through an agency, which services schools in the surrounding areas, but DPS isn't one of them. However, they do service some of the rougher school districts, and, oh lord, do you learn to respect teachers a lot more after working with some of these kids!
One of the classes I subbed, a first grade class, resembled a WWF wrestling match more than a classroom because they fought so much while I was subbing. There were bruised eyes, sore ribcages, and cuts and scrapes galore.
Kids like to take advantage of having a substitute in the room. They like to test their limits and see what they can get away with. It can be really, really difficult to control the classroom.
I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but the sad reality is that many schools are used more like a day care service than an educational environment.
In one of the districts where I worked, when I asked a teacher for help, she straight up told me, "Your job is really to watch the kids and make sure they behave. Don't worry about academics as much as keeping them under control."
How did you react to that?
I didn't say anything, but I just thought, "What a sad state of affairs, when the educators themselves admit that you're more of a babysitter than a teacher."
Given all you've experienced, I'm surprised you'd want to teach full-time.
Well, it's partly because I don't want to be a pot farmer for the rest of my life. I kind of want to do something more fulfilling and purposeful than farming, and I think teaching kids would be very rewarding on a personal level. Plus, I enjoy being around kids and teaching them and stuff.
Also, I think it's a way I can help improve my community and also the country at large. Let me be extremely blunt: people (not just kids) in the United States really have no clue what math is. I don't think everyone has to be on the level of Einstein, but it's really depressing when you see how many people have to solve 5x4 on a calculator.
Plus, I think the way math is taught in our country—completely geared toward passing the ACT and devoid of critical thinking or creativity—is wrong.
If the purpose of high school is to prepare students for college, then, as someone who graduated with a Bachelor's degree in math, I can attest to the fact that what you learn in high school prepares you in no way, shape or form for the kind of math you will experience in college.
Maybe by being a teacher I can solve that problem and not only help kids understand math, but also motivate them to get excited about it and actually want to learn it?


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If you're interested in learning how to kite surf, visit water sport hub, Adventure Sports Kite Surf Australia, the only accredited kite surf school in the area. Group and private lessons are available and you can either buy or hire equipment. Kite surfing may look daunting, but with the right instruction people of all fitness levels can partake in this activity, so why not give it a try?
Looking for holiday fun with the whole family? A day trip to Aussie World is in order. This major Australian theme park houses 30 rides, including the Wild Mouse Rollercoaster, originally built in 1935 and recently refurbished, and the Rock n' Roll Rebel, which spins riders around to music from past decades. Aussie World advertises short queues and affordable day passes providing unlimited access to all rides. When you're ready for a break, visit the iconic Ettamogah Pub across the street, the concept of which came about thanks to an Australasian Post cartoonist's frequent drawings of it. Brought to life in 1989, the pub is now the most photographed bar in the world and serves modern Australian cuisine.
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Westword recently published an article by Lisa Rab outlining the difficulties faced by many Somalis living in the city of Greeley. Compared to bigger, more diverse cities Greeley may not be as equipped to handle the cultural and religious practices Somali Muslims have brought to the city.
Many Somali refugees were drawn to Greeley to take up jobs working at the JBS Swift & Company plant. However, recent controversy has surrounded the plant's handling of Somali requests for religious accommodations. Following a walkout and subsequent negotiations, a miscommunication led to the firing of at least 100 Somali workers.
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Dedicated to our primeval cowherd Palani Avinankudi Dandapani
The Tamil speaking country consists of five socio - climatic - agricultural zones. The Sangam text Purananuru refers to this as the "five Tamil countries". Each country has its own breeds suited to the ecosystems and even micro ecology of the respective areas. All breeds thrive in local conditions and invariably deteriorate in alien environments.
Chera or Konga:
North: The Nilagiris - Terakanambi - Talamalai - Biligiri rangan mountains - Perumbalai (northern mountain chain)
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1. Mee Konga (Mekattu madu or nowadays "Kangayam" मी कोङ्ग, मॆकाट्टुमाडु, काङ्गयम, गङ्गनाड ): The Chera country is also called Konga country therefore referred in Tamil as "Konga" cattle and "Ganganad" in Kannada. There are 24 divisions in this country. The cattle from one of the divisions "Kangayanadu" are referred as the typical Kangayam cattle. Mae Konga cattle are bred in the modern taluks of Kangayam, Dharapuram, Tiruppur, Udumalpet, Avinasi, Palladam (all in Tiruppur dt.), Palani, Oddanchatram, Vedasandur, Dindigul (all in Dindigul dt.), Aravakurichchi, Karur (Karur dt.), Coimbatore, Mettupalayam, Sulur, Pollachi (all in Coimbatore dt.), Erode, Bhavani, Perundurai, Gobichettipalayam, Sathyamangalam (all in Erode dt.), the right bank side of the Kaveri in Mettur tk. in Salem dt., the panchayats of Mayanur, Balarajapuram, Manavasi, Renganathapuram in Krishnarayapuram tk. of Karur dt. summing up as the region to the west and south of the Kaveri until Mayanur. Bred by the Konga Vellala community. It is said to have come with the Konga Vellalas from the Gangetic (therefore Konga or Ganga) region in the pre - Sangam age.
A Mee Konga (Kangayam) bullock
2. Mazha Konga (Kikattu madu or "Tiruchengodu" मऴ कोङ्ग, कीकाट्टु, तिरुच्चेङ्गोडु): Found on the northern and eastern side of the Kaveri in the Taluks of Mecheri, Omalur, Nangavalli, Salem, Sankagiri, Attur, Gangavalli (all in Salem dt.) Rasipuram, Namakkal, Paramatti Velur, Tiruchendgode (all in Namakkal dt.), Kattuputtur (Tiruchirapppalli dt.) and parts of Dharmapuri dt. Bred by the Konga Vellala community. It is said to have come with the Konga Vellalas from the Gangetic (therefore Konga or Ganga) region in the pre - Sangam age. A smaller sized cousin of the Mee Konga breed yet a better milch variety. Bred by the Konga Vellala community. It is said to have come with the Konga Vellalas from the Gangetic (therefore Konga or Ganga) region in the pre - Sangam age. Has reduced greatly in numbers due to illegal smuggling encouraged by the government with slaughter houses and AI with Kangayam bulls.
Mazha Konga (Salem or Tiruchengodu) cows
3. Semmarai (Semmarai, Malayan or "Bargur" सेम्मरै, मलैयन, बर्गूर): This is found in the mountainous regions of the Bhavani tk. in Erode dt. Has mixed red and white patterns. It has a white coloured cousin in the adjoining western hills. Resembles the Purnaia cattle (Amrut mahal - Hallikar corpus). Trotting variety firey in disposition. Bred by the Lingayat community of the mountainous forests. Linked intricately with them.
A Semmarai (Bargur) bull
4. Palamalai (पालमलाई): Bred in the Palamalai hills in the Mettur taluk of the Salem district and adjoining Anthiyur taluk of Erode dt.. Bred by the Malayala Goundans (Native hillsmen) in the hills and some Kongu Vellalans around. Nearly extinct. Confused with Alambadis and Bargurs, they are black in colour with white patterns.
A Palamalai bullock
5. Alambadi (आलाम्बाडि): Bred in the hilly forest areas of the upper Kaveri basin Mettur (Salem dt.) Pennagaram, Dharmapuri (both in Dharmapuri dt.) Kollegal, Bangalore rural (both in Karnataka state). Trotting variety known for endurance. Bred by Konga Vellalas, Lingayats, Vanniyars and Vokkaligas of the region.
An Alambadi bull
The black individuals are Alambadi cows
6. Kollimalai - Seravaroyan hill cattle:
Looks like a stunted pygmy version of Konga (Kangayam). Well suited for the tropical evergreen vegetation and malarial life in the Kolli - Yercaud - Pachamalai - Kalvarayan mountain corpus. Reared by the native Malayali tribesmen.
North: North Vellar
East: Bay of Bengal
West: the Mayanur Madukkarai great wall
South: South Vellar
Breeds of the Chola country:
7. Perambalur mottai cattle (Mottai madu पेरम्बलूर मोट्टै): Rounded shaped variety with small or polled horns. Bred by Choliya Vellalas, Mutturajas and Vanniars of the region.
Mottai (Perambalur) herd
8. Konadan ("Manapparai" कॊनाडन, मणप्पारै): Found in the modern taluks of Krishnarayapuram, Kulittalai (both in Karur dt.), Manapparai, Trichy and Tovarankurichchi (all in Trichy dt.), Bred by the Choliya Vellalas of the region and intricately linked with their lifestyle.
Konadan (Manapparai) cows at work
9. Mottai cattle (Tanjore polled cattle or "Umbalachery" तञ्जावूर मोट्टै, उम्बलच्चॆरि): Polled horns and firebranded feet mark the cattle. Best suited for the Kaveri delta alluvium. Found in Thanjavur, Tiruvarur and Nagapatnam dts. Choliya Vellalas, Choliya Brahmans and Tanjore Kallars are big breeders.
Mottai (Umbalachery) stud bull
Pandya country:
North: Kodaikkanal mountains - Sirumalai - Piranmalai - North Vellar
East: Sethu (Adam's bridge) and the Bay of Bengal
West: Peruvali - Westen ghats - Dindigul - Karaikkadu
South: Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin) and the Indian Ocean
Breeds of the Pandya country:
10. Irucchali (इरुच्चाळि): Found as herds in the Sivaganga dt. and southern Pudukkottai dt. Nearly extinct.
Irucchali herd
11. Jallikattu (Pulikulam or Jellicut पुलिक्कुळम, जल्लिक्कट्टु): Previously found all over Nilakkottai, Nattam (both in Dindigul dt.), Madurai, Teni, Sivagangai and Ramanathapuram dts. now to be found mainly in the Cumbum valley of Teni dt. Used for bull baiting and draught. Predominantly bred by the Konar communit and part of its lifestyle. Endangered.
Pulikulam Cattle herd
Jallikattu (Pulikulam) stud bulls
Jallikattu (Pulikulam) calves
12. Thambiran madu (तम्बिरान माडु, दॆवरु आवु): Bred by Kannada speaking Kappiliya Gounders of the Teni dt. Called by them "Devaru Avu". All names meaning the "sacred herd". Intricately linked with the community.
13. Tenpandi (Tirunelveli तेन्पाण्डि, तिरुनेल्वॆलि): Found in the Virudhunagar, Tirunelveli and Thoothukudi districts. Well suited to the area. Bred by the Idayans (Konars),Nadars and Mukkulathors.
Tenpandi herd
14. Tirunelveli hill breed cattle (तिरुनेल्वॆलि पहाडी गॊ): They were grown along the eastern slopes of western ghats in Ancient pandya country. They are used by the local Organic farmers.
Dravida or Tondai country:
North: Tirupati hills - Suvarnamukhi river
East: Bay of Bengal
West: Mountains west of Krishnagiri
South: Thoppur ghats - South Pennar
Breeds of the Dravida country:
15. Tondainadu (Tiruvannamalai तिरुवण्णामलै, तोण्डैनाडु): Found in Chittoor (A.P), Velur, Tiruvannamalai, Chengalpattu, Chennai, Vizhuppuram (all in T.N). Has Red, White, Black and mixed colours. Reared by Todai mandala Vellalas and Vanniars.
Tondai (Tiruvannamalai)
Ramana Maharishi's favourite cow - Lakshmi
16. Turinjithalai (तुरिञ्जित्तऴै): Drought resistant variety. Eats only Albizia amara (Telugu: Thurinji, Tamil: Arappu, Unjal, Usilai, Hindi: Ailaa) leaves and bark. Reared by Telugu Golla herder community. Less than 100 remain.
Thurinjithalai cattle
17. Punganur (पुङ्गनूर): A miniature variety yet a good milker. Found in the Chitoor dt.
Pungaur bull and cow
Punganur stud bull
North: South Pennar
East: Bay of Bengal
West: Yercaud - Kollimalai range
South: North Vellar
Breeds of the Nadu country:
18. Nattan (नाट्टान): Resembles the Perambalur mottai breed.
Many more breeds have gone non-descript due to the government system. The government also tries to mongrelise native breeds by crossing other native and alien species for making quick bucks through its infamous 'milk societies'. More to come.
To contact the Author of the article:
PonDheepankar K
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Kongadesam chapter, Erode.
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I wouldn't reccoment this school for ANYONE. Staff & Teachers are horrible, and hardly ever give the students the attention they need. A lot of students struggle at this high school, & often drop out or fail.
I hate my school. The only thing good about Everett is the band. And the Teachers. Other than that it doesnt do anything but hurt me. Im tired of evereyday waking up and saying " Ugh here we go agian " This school needs to change. I do not want to graduate from Everett highschool.
Their Band keeps the children interested in their school and their education. Grades are very important to them.
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This school is terrible. I am a teacher who taught here and quit after two months. There is zero leadership or support from the administration. The principal sits in her office and talks about how things should be. The teachers have no credibility because they have no back up. Do not send your kids here!
The academic quality here at Everett is amazing, but we do have too many students in class rooms. this affects us all because we get a limited amount of hands on help, during class. Most teachers though give the option have at least an hour after school to come in for tutoring like right now im in a history teacher's classroom that has given his classroom and time to the baseball team for study hall. Teachers love to help us and the cafeteria is always open after school for us students to use. We are also a magnet school that strives towards the visual and performing arts. Parent involvement is at the boarder, but who will help unless asked. security here is also great, and yes they try to much to be our 'friends' but we are not meat to them were family, were a family of vikings.
The administration at this school is the WORST in the country! They allow kids to wander in and out of class whenever they want to, be very disrespectful, and loiter in the halls when they should be in class. There is NO discipline in this school PERIOD! Most teachers here are wonderful, but administration does not care about a student's education, or support the teachers. Administration is not preparing students for their future, i.e. college, job, technical school, etc. Students are allowed to smoke and take drugs on school property, without fear of punishment. Administration wants to be 'friends' with students rather than giving them guidance. The students run this school, while administration watches. If you want your child to get a good education, DO NOT SEND THEM HERE! Security officers have NO authority either. They are removing the 'tardy policy', and Code of Conduct book is worthless. What a waste!
When i went to Everett i thought it was a great school, i felt safe and the teachers i had actually cared. I think the staff is great and the principal Mr. Dale Glynn has opened alot of doors for people. people complain about things but i think there needs to be more parental involvement if changes want to be made. thats something that everett lacks is the involvement from the parents for there children. i think if that would go up then it would be alot better. parents have to start caring about whats going on at their childs school. if u dont get involved then u dont have any right to complain!
Everett high school has never failed me. The morale of both the staff and students never falters. I feel out of all the high schools in lansing, Everett has the top quality. Better safety, better teachers, and a staff that actually gets to know their students makes it a great place to be. Diversity at Everett makes this school a very multi-cultural, and hence forth better school
Everetts Principal is a great leader and they have many more activities for the students than when I went to school. My son has not had any problems with any of his teachers this year and the way of learning has gotten away from the text books and more on hands task. Keep up the good work.
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Fantastic. My slow cooker is smaller and could only accommodate 2 lasagna noodles per row but it served 5 tonight and will serve 4 tomorrow. As the recipe indicates there is some up front work but once it is in the slow cooker you can forget about dinner until 12 minutes before serving. Highly recommend and a definite do again addition to our family favorites.
Slow Cooker Sausage and Squash Lasagna
Photo: Iain Bagwell; Styling: Cindy Barr
We were surprised and delighted by how well lasagna cooks up in the slow cooker. Be sure to use traditional noodles, and place them in the cooker uncooked. We tried the recipe with specially formulated no-bake noodles, and they didn't work as well.
Yield: Serves 10 (serving size: about 1 cup)
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Total: 4 Hours, 57 Minutes
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 342
- Fat: 14.1g
- Saturated fat: 5.5g
- Monounsaturated fat: 5.5g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.6g
- Protein: 19.8g
- Carbohydrate: 35.4g
- Fiber: 4.1g
- Cholesterol: 52mg
- Iron: 1.2mg
- Sodium: 516mg
- Calcium: 180mg
- 9 ounces part-skim ricotta cheese
- 1 ounce Asiago cheese, grated and divided (about 1/4 cup)
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, divided
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 6 garlic cloves, divided
- 6 cups water
- 1/2 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 large yellow crookneck squash, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- 1 large zucchini, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices
- Cooking spray
- 12 ounces hot turkey Italian sausage links, casings removed
- 2 cups chopped onion
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 3 (3.5-ounce) packages shiitake mushrooms, stemmed and sliced
- 1 cup unsalted chicken stock (such as Swanson)
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil leaves
- 1 (25-ounce) jar lower-sodium marinara sauce (such as Dell'Amore)
- 12 uncooked lasagna noodles
- 4 ounces fontina cheese, shredded and divided (about 1 cup)
- 1. Combine ricotta, 2 tablespoons Asiago cheese, 1 tablespoon parsley, 1 tablespoon chives, pepper, and 1 garlic clove, grated, in a bowl; set aside.
- 2. Bring 6 cups water to a boil in a large skillet; stir in red wine vinegar. Add squash and zucchini; cook 2 minutes. Drain.
- 3. Heat skillet over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add sausage; cook 7 minutes, stirring to crumble. Stir in onion; cook 8 minutes or until onion is tender.
- 4. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms; cook 10 minutes or until mushroom liquid nearly evaporates. Mince 5 garlic cloves; stir into mushrooms. Stir in stock, basil, and marinara. Bring to a boil; remove from heat.
- 5. To assemble lasagna, spoon 1 cup marinara mixture into the bottom of a 6-quart electric slow cooker. Top with 4 noodles, breaking noodles to fit cooker. Layer half of squash mixture, half of sausage mixture, and 1/4 cup fontina cheese over noodles; top with 1 cup marinara mixture. Arrange 4 noodles over marinara mixture; top with ricotta mixture. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup fontina; top with remaining half of sausage mixture and remaining half of squash mixture. Arrange remaining 4 noodles over squash mixture; top with remaining 1 1/2 cups sauce and 1/4 cup fontina. Cover and cook on LOW for 4 hours.
- 6. Preheat broiler.
- 7. Uncover slow cooker; sprinkle lasagna with remaining 1/4 cup fontina and remaining 2 tablespoons Asiago. Broil on middle rack of oven for 2 minutes or until cheese browns slightly. Sprinkle with remaining 1 tablespoon parsley and remaining 1 tablespoon chives. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
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Sept. 27, 2010, 3:02 a.m. CST
"Even if you're a giant loser today"
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Dude, Season Nine of Scrubs!? Even the winner would be a "giant loser", would they not?

Also why did they title it "The Complete AND FINAL Ninth Season"?

How many ninth seasons did they have???
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Didn't even Herc hate this season?
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Finally something I might win..
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...kinda like Brent Favre.
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Sept. 27, 2010, 9:33 a.m. CST
by slappy magoo
I watched it. I was fascinated by the trainwreckiness of it all. At a certain point, I had to stopbecause it was just so painful, but I watched at least half of the episodes. It almost felt like fans of the show were being punished for once liking it. Not only because it was so poorly written (it was) but because the sense of continuity twixt seasons 8 and 9 was conveniently erased for the sake of getting a few more episodes. The penultimate season had a halfway decent sense of closure, of maturation, for a good chunk of the cast, not just J.D. Everyone seemed like they were going where they were supposed to be going. Suddenly, everyone's doing something else. Characters who were in charge of the HOSPITAL and chief of surgery suddenly had the time necessary to teach classes too? Former major players come and go a few episodes like they're doing fans a favor by showing up? Other characters disappear altogether (Carla - the new Vera? Maris? Always discussed, never seen?) And finally, the hospital is upped and moved to some bucolic college setting? Man, that had to suck for the community they were actually serving? Yeah, I know, it's just a show. Somehow my life has moved beyond it quite nicely. But if you're going to create characters and an environment that's supposed to manipulate an audience's emotions, suddenly negating everything that came before is a dumb way to do it. Oh, and did I mention how awful the writing was?
Sept. 27, 2010, 10:30 a.m. CST
I actually liked this season better
by jim
once JD left for good. When Scrubs was "his" show, I liked the character; when he was just another character he was severely annoying and really unfunny.
Sept. 27, 2010, 10:51 a.m. CST
Zak Braff killed the show that made him.
by Smashing
It's so ungrateful of him to leave when the show was still going sgtrong, interestingly he has done nothing of any note since leaving either. The episodes where just starting to gel really well and bang the show is cancelled, I wonder if his rising star will level off now like other actors who left ungratefully the shows that made them, SMG anyone?
Sept. 27, 2010, 10:52 a.m. CST
People whose posts concist or repeating Family Guy lines are twa
by Smashing
Get a brain and make your own points mayhaps eh?
Sept. 27, 2010, 10:53 a.m. CST
Finally, a prize that sucks as badly as Twitter...
by kells
Now I don't have to be jealous about some fucking loser winning something I want and deserve more.
Sept. 27, 2010, 10:54 a.m. CST
Season 9 was good comedy.
by Smashing
The show changed somewhat biut it was still consistently funny and I second the call that the bemoaners may not have even watched every episode, if you had you would not fail to have thought it funny
Sept. 27, 2010, 11:08 a.m. CST
Did I even watch the last season?
by Darkman
Get fucked. I don't have to eat a dog turd to know it's disgusting.
Sept. 27, 2010, 11:34 a.m. CST
Can I have the Hospital Room Set?
by cookylamoo
Then I can play with my brother and call him girl names.
Sept. 27, 2010, 11:49 a.m. CST
Missed this season
by donkey_lasher
Just because it actually sounded awful. It looks like I was right.
 Why couldnt they have simply repackaged the whole thing with new actors playing new characters? That would have worked, if they had sacked off the old cast.
Sept. 27, 2010, 1:09 p.m. CST
by slone13
Of course you don't have to eat a dog turd to know it's disgusting. But until you do, your opinion on dog turds is entirely moot and completely inconsequential.
Sept. 27, 2010, 2:08 p.m. CST
I love scrubs
by eric haislar
One of the funnest and clever shows to ever grace TV, great stories and chracters. Knife Wrench! Sure the last 3 seasons where weak. But seasons 1-5 where fucking awesome. I watched season 9 I don't consider it scrubs. it was a spin off with the same name. Scrubs for me ended in season 8. Eagle!!!!!
Sept. 27, 2010, 2:11 p.m. CST
"I don't have to eat a dog turd to know it's disgusting."
by jim
No, it's pretty much a given. Unless the dog happens to be one of those Aesop animals. Like the Dog That Shat the Swiss Chocolate Turds (my favourite fable growing up).
Sept. 27, 2010, 3:59 p.m. CST
wouldnt take this for free.
by MeMyselfAndNy_aaan
feel bad for thoughs who would.
Sept. 27, 2010, 4:04 p.m. CST
That cover tells you everything you need to know
by TrigPalinsBodyDouble
'Nuff Said!
Sept. 27, 2010, 4:09 p.m. CST
Scrubs is about as funny as newborn baby rape
by TrigPalinsBodyDouble
Sept. 27, 2010, 5:13 p.m. CST
Scrubs was a guilty pleasure of mine
by rabidfnark
for a while, and I'll still watch the odd episode on comedy central or where ever. It could be funny, and it could be sad, but it felt (to me anyway) like it had a real hard time deciding which it really wanted to be. Like how sometimes it would start funny and try to be a tearjerker by the end. Now when I watch comedy I prefer that it leave most of that maudlin crap behind (Community springs to mind, and there are others but they're not on the tip of my brain just now).
Sept. 27, 2010, 5:25 p.m. CST
by slone13
Scrubs knew exactly what it was. Every episode was "a very special episode" but with laughs. It never swayed too far to either side.
Sept. 27, 2010, 5:34 p.m. CST
AfterScrubs was worse than Joey
by Heckles
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh man.
Sept. 27, 2010, 6:19 p.m. CST
It should have ended at season 8.
by Kraven Morehead
season 8 had a very nice ending. season 9 was not awful by tv standards but by the standards set by the show itself i wanted to smother it like it was jack nicholson at the end of "cuckoo's nest". one thing i thought was interesting was how a lot of the new characters sort of took the place of the old characters in the style of comedy/person that they were. it was almost like the end of "the wire" . . . with the main difference being that the ending of "the wire" was amazing and this was not.
Sept. 27, 2010, 7:19 p.m. CST
That's a damn good description, Slone13.
by rabidfnark
Still, the ups and downs in that show were dizzying and at times really annoying (regardless of their intent). But yeah, I see your point. And what the hell, I can admit that it had its moments (both funny and sad) that worked.
Sept. 27, 2010, 9:32 p.m. CST
Scrubs, the show no one watched.
by RPLocke
Sept. 28, 2010, 11:37 a.m. CST
"AfterScrubs was worse than Joey "
by jim
No way. Joey ran for two seasons, so there was that much more suck to it. Besides, the second half of "AfterScrubs" was a lot better than the first.
Sept. 28, 2010, 5:37 p.m. CST
I think 'Winner' is too strong of a word
by SifoDyasJr.
They'll make good coasters.
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Palace board staff and archakas of palace temples mourn the death of Srikantadatta Wadiyar
An eerie silence engulfed the Amba Vilas Palace here on Tuesday afternoon following the demise of Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar of the erstwhile royal family in Bangalore.
The surroundings of the century-old palace and the residential palace were deserted. Those working at the Mysore Palace Board said Mr. Wadiyar's wife, Pramoda Devi Wadiyar, rushed to Bangalore around 2 p.m. She had come to Mysore from Bangalore on Monday.
A visibly disturbed Janardhana Iyengar, the Dharmadhikari at Mr. Wadiyar's residential palace, said: "I cannot speak anything at this moment. I have lost a big asset in my life. Mr. Wadiyar was the annadata for so many people. His death is an irreparable loss for all of us."
Mr. Iyengar, who has been performing religious rituals at the palace for over four decades, said he last saw Mr. Wadiyar on November 24 here. He left for Bangalore the next day.
Describing Mr. Wadiyar as the most affectionate and kind-hearted person, he said, "He treated his staff like his children."
The archakas at the residential palace — Kumaraswamy, Narasimha and Balasubramanya — and those at the temples located around the palace became emotional on hearing the news.
Rama Nayak, a permanent security guard at the palace who performs the role of a 'sipahi' during the Dasara celebrations, broke down on hearing the news. "Namma maharajaru treated us very affectionately. He gave us livelihood and was the annadata for over 300 people working at the palace and the museum," Mr. Nayak, who has been working at the palace from the last 29 years, said.
A group of people, including staff of the palace board and tourist guides offered floral tributes to Mr. Wadiyar outside the board office.
S. Krishna (60), a tourist guide, recalled the kindness of Mr. Wadiyar, and said, "He was a man of simplicity. His demise is a big loss for the people of Mysore."
Mada Nayak, an employee at the palace board, said the focal point of the Mysore Dasara was no more. The festivities may not have the same grandeur in Mr. Wadiyar's absence, he said.
"Mr. Wadiyar always used to offer prayers at Atma Vilas Sri Ganapati temple inside the palace before embarking on a journey and on special occasions," he recalled.
Lakshmamma (70) and Chikkathayamma (60), both fruit vendors at the century-old Devaraja Market, said: "It is a sad day for all of us."
Meanwhile, security at the palace has been tightened. Police Commissioner M.A. Saleem held a meeting with senior police officers.
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I just got back from the LCBO - one of the government owned liquor stores here in Ontario. A buddy of mine was over earlier today to pick up some stuff I had for him, and he very generously pushed 10 bucks into my hand with a stern warning that it only be spent on beer. Being unemployed with a $0 budget for beer, I was very happy to take his money, and as soon as my wife awoke from her nap I went off to oblige him!
Generally speaking aside from on-site at a brewery, you can buy beer in Ontario either at the LCBO - the government store, or at Brewers' Retail (a.k.a. The Beer Store), which is owned jointly by the big 3 - Molson (Coors), Labatt (Interbrew), and Sleeman (Sapporo). Where I go depends on what I'm looking for. In the old days it used to be pretty cut-and-dried - the LCBO for imports, and the The Beer Store for domestic. But this is not the case anymore since there is now lots of cross-over.
Generally speaking the LCBO does have more imports than The Beer Store, and the Beer Store does have more domestic brands. Mainly megaswill, but it also has a very good selection of craft-brewed Ontario beers. But the LCBO (Liquor Control Board of Ontario, in case you were wondering) sells singles, and the Beer Store does not anymore - the one near me used to when I first moved into this house 8 years ago, but stopped shortly thereafter. Actually that is not quite true since they do sell singles of some imports, but not domestics. And I wanted to stick strictly to my $0 beer budget, and knew there was no way in heck I'd ever get a six-pack of domestic for $10, so I figured my best choice was to go to the LCBO.
I knew that roughly speaking I'd be able to get 4 beer for $10. Wow, it was tough choosing! I suppose I could have gone for 3 of the top premium beers, but I knew I'd still be able to get 3 good ones and a so-so for $10. But still it took me about 15 minutes of meandering to decide. During this time one of the employees tried to "help" me. I usually go one of 2 ways when this happens, given that I almost certainly know far more about the beers on the shelves than any of their employees ever will : either, (1) play along out of a combination of politeness and morbid curiosity to see what gems of beer knowledge they might lay on me, or (2) brush them off and ignore them. I was feeling more in the latter mood today, mainly I guess because I was somewhat embarrassed to admit that my main goal was to stick within my $10 budget :-) It was some tough juggling, but I did it.
There was a 6 pack of Waterloo Dark that had been cracked open, and 2 bottles removed. I know that the LCBO does not really allow this (anymore), so I didn't even bother asking if I could buy some of the remaining 4 beers, even though this is one of my all-time favorite beers which in turn is one of the key reasons I bought a few thousand dollars in stock in the company a few years ago. I just did not feel like having that argument with an employee. Even though I usually prefer to support Ontario Micros rather than imports or the megaswill.
Here is what I eventually went with. Hockley Dark in the can, at $2.65. This was a very easy choice - a wonderful beer that reminds me a lot of the aforementioned Waterloo Dark. And brewed in Ontario. It has been a while since I've had one, but I seem to recall it being sort of a lighter Porter. Right next to it on the shelf was Neustadt 10W30 - another darker beer that I'd never actually tried before. So a fairly easy choice as well, given that it is brewed in Ontario, too. A number of summers ago the Neustadt Pilsener used to be a mainstay of mine the odd time I bought beer, and I'd heard a lot of good buzz about 10W30, no pun intended. But now I was at $5.30 so had to find some cheaper beers to fill out the bill.
I noticed that Bass was $2.40 a can, so it was a fairly easy choice. It is the only remaining original example of a Pale Ale. i.e. the only one still being brewed today, that was brewed when the Pale Ale style originated some 150 years ago. I am sometimes disappointed with Bass, but it has been some time since I've had one so I figured I was due. Now I had $2.30 left to find something else. There were a fair number of beers in this range, of course, but not many that I really wanted to drink. I settled for Tiger because I don't think I'd ever had one, and am pretty sure it is a good solid Pilsener style beer, if pretty mainstream.
So $9.90 later and I am out the door, headed home to chill my pressies! I'll report back later as I drink them.
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Although I decided not to make another long-term commitment to the stage, I was glad to get back to New York after the filming of Streetcar. I lived in an apartment at Sixth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street near Carnegie Hall and dropped in from time to time at the Actors Studio to meet girls. One of them was Marilyn Monroe, who was being exploited by Lee Strasberg. I had first met her briefly shortly after the war and bumped into her again-literally-at a party in New York. While the other people at the party drank and danced, she sat by herself almost unnoticed in a corner, playing the piano. I was talking to someone with a drink in my hand, having a good time, when someone tapped me on the shoulder; I spun around quickly and hit her with a sharp elbow to the head. It was a solid knock and I knew it must have hurt.
"Oh, my God," I said, "I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. It was an accident."
Marilyn looked me in the face and said, "There are no accidents."
She meant it to be funny and I laughed. I sat down beside her and said, "Let me show you how to play a piano. You can't play worth a damn."
I did my best for a few bars; then we chatted, and thereafter I called her from time to time. Finally one night I phoned her and said, "I want to come over and see you right now, and if you can't give me a good reason why I shouldn't -maybe you just don't want me to- tell me now."
She invited me over, and it wasn't long before every soldier's dream came true.
Marilyn was a sensitive, misunderstood person, much more perceptive than was generally assumed. She had been beaten down, but had a strong emotional intelligence- a keen intuition for the feelings of others, the most refined type of intelligence. After that first visit, we had an affair and saw each other intermittently until she died in 1962. She often called me and we would talk for hours, sometimes about how she was beginning to realize that Strasberg and other people were trying to use her. She was becoming a much healthier person emotionally. The last time we spoke was two or three days before she died. She called from her home in Los Angeles and invited me to come over for dinner that night. I said I had already made plans for the evening and couldn't, but I promised to call the following week to set a date for dinner. She said, "Fine," and that was it. It's been speculated that she had a secret rendezvous with Robert Kennedy that week and was distraught because he wanted to end an affair between them. But she didn't seem depressed to me, and I don't think that if she was sleeping with him at the time she would have invited me over for dinner.
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The interview I did with Starlito last year is in the January issue of the Believer. Buy the print issue for the full thing.
At the beginning of "Nightmares," the penultimate song on the second of Starlito's three full-length mixtapes from 2012, the twenty-nine-year-old Nashville rapper distortedly intones, "The last three books I read were The Power of Habit, Hop on Pop, and Dream Psychology." What follows is a claustrophobic detailing of Starlito's nightmares—an overzealous PO, no "pot to piss in," stuck on a label full of "extra middlemen"—atop a terrain well summarized by his recent reading list of pop science, Dr. Seuss, and Freud.
Starlito's sound has come to be defined by his husky and lithe vocals, embrace of sample-driven soft-rock beats, and complex wordplay. He made a short-lived attempt at traditional commercial success in the middle part of the last decade (while on Cash Money Records, he made a cameo as Lil Wayne's teammate in Birdman and Wayne's basketball-based "Pop Bottles" video), and he has spent the past few years self-releasing music and charismatically mapping his psyche on record.
—Joshua Bauchner
THE BELIEVER: You clearly thrive online—a twenty-two-minute music video, pay-what-you-will releases, big presences on Twitter and Instagram, and so on—but you also remain rooted in Nashville and Tennessee and turn out huge crowds for your live shows there. How do you balance the internet career, in which everyone wants new shit for free all the time, with boots-on-the-ground fan-base building, which actually pays the bills?
STARLITO: The internet stuff only goes so far; if people can't see you, can't touch you, they can't gain a real appreciation for what you've got going on—if it's real or not. That's where a twenty-two-minute video comes from: it's both trying to give you insight and showing you, OK, I'm not on television like the rest of your favorite rappers or the other guys of the moment, but I have a comparable product. Twenty-two minutes being the standard thirty-minute TV show minus the eight minutes of advertising. I'm not so stubborn to think being on a major label is what prevents other rappers from doing this, that being independent is what allows me or any rapper to kick it from a real place. Regardless of the business stuff, it's about remaining a freethinker, a free spirit.
It's almost overwhelming to think that I haven't had a song on the radio in three years; I haven't been associated with a record label or any kind of entity other than my own LLC for the last two and a half years. And I made more money in 2011 than I ever had in a year rapping; and I made more money in 2012 than I did in 2011. At this point, it's not just about the money. If it were, I would approach things differently. But even though I'm not doing it from a commercial standpoint, it's still becoming more and more commercially viable.
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"The 'paperwork explosion' expresses both a threat and a wish."
Jim Henson, The Paperwork Explosion, 1967.
The "paperwork explosion" expresses both a threat and a wish. The threat, an old one, is that we are being overwhelmed by paperwork's proliferation, its explosion. The wish is to convert all this cumbersome matter into liberating energy, which is exactly what explosions do. From Chaptal's "electric fluid" to IBM's "machines should work, people should think" to USA.gov's slogan "Government Made Easy," we remain attached to the idea that someday, somehow, we can liberate this energy, put it to other uses. . . .
Yet we must not miss the ambiguity here. "Machines should work, people should think." The message repeats itself several times; it's the core of the film's techno-utopian vision. We can imagine IBM executives and lawyers and public-relations agents sitting across a table from the thirty-year-old Jim Henson reminding him to make sure he includes these lines in his film. What if we shifted the emphasis just a little bit? From "machines should work, people should think" to "machines should work, people should think"? Is it possible the film might be trying to warn us against is own techno-utopianism? Read this way, the film is less an imaginary resolution to the problem of information overload in the modern era than an imaginative critique of this imaginary resolution. Machines should work, but they frequently don't; people should think, but in this day and age, they seldom have the time.
Ben Kafka, The Demon of Writing (New York: Zone Books, 2012), 149–50.
Chinx Drugz featuring French Montana, "Feelings," 2013.
"Give a fuck about your feelings." I actually take this in a very affirmative way.
Rick James, "Love Interlude" / "Spacey Love," 1979.
Warm up this morning.
Claire Denis, 35 rhums, 2008.
I cry.
Foxy, "Tena's Song," 1978.
Feel better about life, Sunday morning.
Suga Free & Pimpin Young f/ Nate Dogg - "15 Minutes To 5" (Empire, 2013)
Suga Free is a national treasure.
Malcolm Little ad!
Years ago, an issue of Transition magazine (the journal of Harvard's Dept. of African and African American Studies) used this as the cover, with the caption "The Secret Relationship." Genius.


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