text: Bookmarks Cytomegalovirus retinitis Print-Friendly CMV retinitisPrevious imageEnlargeCloseNext image / Previous imageEnlargeCloseNext image / Previous imageEnlargeCloseNext image / NavigatorCytomegalovirus (CMV) retinitis is a viral inflammation of the retina of the eye.I Would Like to Learn About:Expand All Collapse All Causes CMV retinitis is caused by a member of a group of herpes-type viruses. CMV is very common. Most people are exposed to CMV in their lifetime, but typically only those with weakened immune systems become ill from CMV infection. Serious CMV infections can occur in people who have weakened immune systems as a result of:AIDS AIDSHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes HIV infection and AIDS. The virus attacks the immune system. As the immune system weakens, the body is at...ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article Bone marrow transplant Chemotherapy Drugs that suppress the immune system Organ transplant Symptoms Some people with CMV retinitis have no symptoms.Symptoms include:Blind spots Blurred vision and other vision problems Blurred visionThere are many types of eye problems and vision disturbances, such as: HalosBlurred vision (the loss of sharpness of vision and the inability to see ...ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article FloatersFloatersThe floating specks you sometimes see in front of your eyes are not on the surface of your eyes, but inside them. These floaters are bits of cell de...ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article Retinitis usually begins in one eye, but often progresses to the other eye. Without treatment, progressive damage to the retina can lead to blindness in 4 to 6 months or less.Even with regular treatment, the disease can worsen to blindness. This progression may be because the virus becomes resistant to the drugs so that the drugs are no longer effective, or because the patient's immune system has deteriorated further.Patients with CMV retinitis also have a chance of developing retinal detachment, in which the retina detaches from the nerves of the eye, causing blindness. Systemic CMV infection also can occur.SystemicSystemic means affecting the entire body, rather than a single organ or body part. For example, systemic disorders such as high blood pressure or sys...Read Article Now Book Mark Article Exams and Tests CMV retinitis is diagnosed through a standard ophthalmologic exam. Dilation of the pupils and ophthalmoscopy will show signs of CMV retinitis.OphthalmoscopyOphthalmoscopy is an examination of the back part of the eye (fundus), which includes the retina, optic disc, choroid, and blood vessels.ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article CMV infection can be diagnosed with blood or urine tests that look for substances specific to the infection. A tissue biopsy can detect the viral infection and presence of CMV virus particles, but this is rarely done.BiopsyA biopsy is the removal of a small piece of tissue for laboratory examination.Read Article Now Book Mark Article Treatment The goal of treatment is to stabilize or restore vision and prevent blindness. Long-term treatment is often needed. Medications may be given by mouth (orally), through a vein (intravenously), or injected directly into the eye (intraviteously). Outlook (Prognosis) The disease will sometimes get worse, even with treatment. Possible Complications Blindness Kidney impairment (from drugs used to treat the condition) Low white blood cell count (from drugs used to treat the condition) White blood cell countA WBC count is a test to measure the number of white blood cells (WBCs) in the blood. WBCs help fight infections. They are also called leukocytes. ...ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article Retinal detachmentRetinal detachmentRetinal detachment is a separation of the light-sensitive membrane (retina) in the back of the eye from its supporting layers.ImageRead Article Now Book Mark Article When to Contact a Medical Professional If symptoms worsen or do not improve with treatment, or if new symptoms develop, call your health care provider.People with AIDS (especially those with a very low CD4 count) who have vision problems should make an appointment for an immediate eye exam. Prevention A CMV infection usually only causes symptoms in people with a weakened immune system. Certain medicines (like cancer therapy) and diseases (such as AIDS) can cause a weakened immune system. People with AIDS who have a CD4 count of less than 250 cells/microliter should be examined regularly for this condition, even if they do not have symptoms. If you had CMV retinitis in the past, you should take preventive treatment for this condition, even if your CD4 count stays below 100. If your CD4 count has been greater than 100 for 6 months, your doctor may say you can safely stop the preventive treatment. Related Information AntibodyImmune responseHIV/AIDSSystemicRetinal detachment...WBC count Open ReferencesReferencesDrew WL. Cytomegalovirus. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 384.Masur H, Healey L, Hadigan C. Treatment of human immunodeficiency virus infection and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. In: Goldman L, Schafer AI, eds. Goldman's Cecil Medicine. 24th ed. 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In thinking about the Men's Rocky Mountain Knitting Retreat, I realized I should probably offer some advice on traveling with yarn. Here's the blog (a day before it get's published on knittingman.wordpress.com) for you to peruse. Let me know if you have any other travel tips!
At the Men's Rocky Mountain Knitting Retreat, we stopped in at the Loopy Ewe and I managed to pick up a gig teaching a couple of classes. One of them will be beginning lace. Although I'll be covering lace knitting in general and theoretical terms, it was suggested that I teach toward a pattern as well. I decided on the Grouchy Geisha from ravelry.
This is turning out to be a fun project...smooth sailing through the 2X2
rib and cables only every 16 rows. I am taking the opportunity during the
Florida summer evenings to prepare for the cool winter nights to come. I'm
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DUBAI, Nov 1 (Reuters) - The death toll from an explosion of a fuel tanker in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Thursday has risen to at least 22, Saudi state television said.
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A Bryan man is out of jail charged with stealing materials from his old employer Kent Moore Cabinets.
43-year-old Jesus "Jesse" Castillo was arrested Friday and is charged with three counts of theft of property.
Last month he was fired from his position as purchasing manager at Kent Moore Cabinets in Bryan after company officials and police say he stole cabinet materials and resold them.
In November Bryan Police say they recovered some of the stolen property after Castillo resold items at a home on Bittle Lane in Bryan.
He's accused of stealing around one thousand dollars worth of cabinet materials over three occassions.
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Police say he told them he was going through a divorce and needed the money to pay his lawyer.
He and several other employees were terminated from Kent Moore Cabinets in November after the alleged thefts were discovered.
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Lost in Translation
My list of game titles that should have seen a North American release (or European for that matter). In other cases, they did see a local release, but curiously only delivered to one particular system. For whatever reasons (usually stupidity or copyright), these were not brought to the fans, and this list is dedicated what should have been.
I'm a big proponent of releases for all platforms that make sense hardware-wise, and never understood the whole exclusive thing. The more exposure a company gets, the more fans they garner from other sources, for their next game products. Accepting "bribes" to limit the sales to one console doesn't seem like good business to me, and it's not fair to their customers.


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Review: Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
Director Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) was tasks with telling the story of our 16th President………..as a vampire hunter. More importantly, he was tasks with having to blend fiction with non-fiction while still keeping audiences entertained. As ridiculous as the premise is, ALVH starts like a by-the-book revenge flick. Lincoln's (Benjamin Walker) story begins with the death […] [Read More]


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The Rebels earned their place atop the final boys soccer power rankings of the 2011 season.
Do they deserve it? What about teams 2-10?
Did I get it right? Let me know in the comments section.
1. South Burlington (13-4-1): Overcoming injuries and graduation losses, the Rebels made a surprise, but deserving run to the Div. I title, knocking off nemesis CVU with a defensive-minded approach. Last ranking: 4.
2. Champlain Valley (14-3-1): The Redhawks reloaded this fall, as usual, and made a run at a 17th Division I crown. Alas, CVU fell short when it couldn't find the equalizer against South Burlington. Last ranking: 1.
3. Burlington (12-2-2): The Seahorses' only losses of the season were to CVU, the second in the semifinal round by a 1-0 result. Last ranking: 2.
4. Missisquoi (14-2-1): Back in Division I, the Thunderbirds had a fine season – and they did knock off defending champion Essex in the quarterfinals before falling to South Burlington in the semifinals. Last ranking: 5.
5. Burr and Burton (15-2-1): The Bulldogs were at their best in the Division II tournament, reaching down for big-time victories in the semifinal and final rounds to snag the crown. Last ranking: 8.
6. Harwood (11-4-1): The Highlanders proved pesky for CVU – the teams split during the regular season – but they couldn't contend with South Burlington in the quarterfinals. Last ranking: 3.
7. Colchester (10-5-1): After losing a couple of key players to graduation, the Lakers churned out an impressive 10-win season that included a late-season triumph over South Burlington. Last ranking: 6.
8. Essex (9-6-1): A late-season swoon drops the defending champions down the rankings a bit. Last ranking: 7.
9. U-32 (11-4-3): You have to wonder if the Division II title game might have swayed the Raiders' way if Jack Shea hadn't gone down with an injury early in the match. Last ranking: Unranked.
10. Peoples (11-5-2): After their run to the Division III crown, a nod of recognition is deserved for Peoples, which needed to fend off undefeated BFA-Fairfax in the quarterfinals before seizing the crown. Last ranking: Unranked.


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With our attempts to cultivate nature, humankind causes the rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Wild systems, genetic surprises, autonomous machinery and splendidly beautiful black flowers. Nature changes along with us.
One of the many arguments for high-wattage storefronts, streets and parking lots is that bright lights deter crime. Since neighborhood thugs lurk in the shadows, the reasoning goes, it's best to make sure there are no shadows at all. This commonsense conclusion has been called into doubt by findings that show no correlation between crime levels and lighting.
So why is this finding great news? It gives us all an excuse to turn off the lights. Artificial lighting at night wreaks havoc on our circadian rhythms, leaving us at risk for obesity, depression, even cancer. It's also bad for wildlife, from birds to turtles and flying insects. Light pollution is even unhealthy for our sense of awe: Eight in ten kids born in the United States today will never see the Milky Way outside of a planetarium.
The end of bright, pushy electric lights might also make way for more humane nighttime lighting. Imagine navigating canals by bioluminescent bacteria, or walking down side streets illuminated with gentle bacterial glow. Or, just plant the whole city with rows of bioluminescent trees.
Story via Mother Jones. Image via Flickr user Kevin Dooley.
A new study from the marine conservation group Oceana reveals that a full one-third of seafood across the US is mislabeled. Not surprisingly, the most expensive fish is also the most lied-about. Tuna was anything but tuna 57% of the time, while red snapper was another species in a whopping 87% of all cases. While cheaper, harmless species like tilapia are often substituted for the real deal, there's at least one health threat on record: "White tuna" might actually be escolar, a tasty fish that nonetheless causes oily, explosive diarrhea.
As with the horse meat scandal, it's astonishing how few consumers can tell the difference between species the we assume to be wildly different. It all comes down to marketing that treats fish like brands – just as that Nike swoosh is more important than the shoe itself, the words "bluefin tuna" matter far more than the actual taste.
Image from Flickr user Whologwhy.
Over at the New York Times, a recent article exposes the clever and surprisingly immoral ways the food industry manufactures foods to rival hard drugs for their addictive potential. Well worth the read, the article discusses "designer sodium", the genesis of the ideal kid's lunch, and the search for the morphine-like "bliss point" in soda. One scientist's description of Cheetos, in particular, highlighted the extraordinary detail that goes into what we see as a normal, familiar food:
"This," Witherly said, "is one of the most marvelously constructed foods on the planet, in terms of pure pleasure." He ticked off a dozen attributes of the Cheetos that make the brain say more. But the one he focused on most was the puff's uncanny ability to melt in the mouth. "It's called vanishing caloric density," Witherly said. "If something melts down quickly, your brain thinks that there's no calories in it . . . you can just keep eating it forever."
Nearly all widely available foods, from Cutie clementines to the dozens of Pringles flavors, have been exquisitely manufactured to appeal to our primal need for salt, fat and sugar, and for our just-as-ancient yearning to get the most calories for the least amount of labor. We're all hungry and lazy. Anyone looking to introduce new and untested food – in-vitro meat, for instance – would do well to remember that food science has already perfected the art of hooking consumers on whatever they care to feed us.
Photo via Flickr user Bunches and Bits.
Now that our cooler friends can Instagram, tweet, and FourSquare the heck out of every underground concert and speakeasy cocktail, FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) has become a persistent problem for the less-hip. But there's hope for those who would rather spend their Saturday nights watching re-runs of Downton Abbey than heading downtown to the newest brewpub.
The new application CouchCachet promises to give you the fully-booked, in-the-know life you so desperately wish to present. The app is a full-service social booster: Not only does it check you in to the trendiest places in your neighborhood, it also periodically tweets obscure lyrics and photos of hipsters in skinny jeans. As one of the quotes from the site says: "I can finally be who I want you to think I am". And what you are, along with the rest of the internet, is mostly an algorithm.
Via the New York Times.
It's a self-evident truth that there's nothing that can't be better with bacon – including housing. While Next Nature was busy dreaming up new in vitro meat (IVM) foods, the mad scientists of Terreform ONE in New York went ahead and designed an entire dwelling made of IVM pig cells. While the prototype for the "victimless shelter" is just conventional pig leather, the real deal (if it ever exists) would be a complex structure with tissue-engineered bone for support and giant sphincters for windows. We'll leave it up to the religious authorities to decide whether a pork house is kosher.
In a darkly ironic reversal of its normal role, Photoshop is now being deployed to make models look more fleshy than they actually are. In part spurred on by the impossible beauty standards that Photoshop has made commonplace, models have become so adept at self-starvation that magazine editors have to use software to make them look healthier.
Former Cosmo editor Leah Hardy recently described the "reverse-retouching" that occurred under her tenure:
With each swipe of the razor or rip of the waxing strip, the world has unwittingly been massacring one of its most familiar species. In what may be the first extinction caused by porn and string bikinis, pubic lice are disappearing from the world's nether regions. The popularity of hair removal has, supposedly, decimated the louse's habitat.
The food writer Bee Wilson, author of Consider the Fork, has put forth a surprising theory about forks and teeth that has received widespread online coverage. According to Wilson, humans had an ape-like bite until relatively recently, with our top and bottom incisors aligned along their edges. With the invention of the fork around 250 years ago, our teeth abruptly switched to the overbite that is common to nearly every human today.
Not real, but a far more creative way to deal with unsightly public works than tree-shaped antennas.
Via Gizmodo.
When moss photosynthesize, they release nutritious fats, carbs and proteins into their roots to feed colonies of helpful, symbiotic bacteria. In the process of breaking down these compounds, the bacteria release electrons. In other words, the create electricity. Researchers at the University of Cambridge have figured out how to harness these minute electrical charges into an emerging technology called biophotovoltiacs (BPV).
Created by Alex Driver, Carlos Peralta, Paolo Bombelli, the prototype Moss Table produces enough electricity to power a small lamp. According to Peralta, the Moss Table "suggests a world in which self-sustaining organic-synthetic hybrid objects surround us, and supply us with our daily needs in a clean and environmentally friendly manner." Small devices could be powered by houseplants or backyard gardens, while larger arrays of plants might hold promise as a new renewable source of energy, especially in remote or impoverished communities.
See also the NANO Supermarket's speculative algae-powered Latro Lamp and the Bioelectric Bonsai.
Story via the University of Cambridge. Image via Keetsa.
Think the moon looks lonely up there? In a decade or so, NASA may add a tiny playmate to keep the moon company. Last April, researchers from the Keck Institute for Space Studies presented a proposal to "capture" an asteroid and drag it into the moon's orbit. The moon's new mini-moon would provide NASA astronauts with a laboratory for studying the feasibility of mining asteroids for metals, using their oxygen, hydrogen and carbon to refuel spacecraft, and for figuring out ways to prevent a Cretaceous-style extinction event. Compared to the moon, the 500 ton, 20-foot asteroid would not be very big, but would be a feat of engineering to astonish the world.
Via Discover Magazine.
While Next Nature is hard at work normalizing the idea of eating lab-grown meat, a group of British design students are working to bring insect-eating into the mainstream. Though worm and insect protein is vastly more efficient and eco-friendly than vertebrate protein, most Westerners dismiss it as unclean and unappetizing. In their video, the group maps out an eight-year plan to bring bugs from a gourmet curiosity to a familiar brand – one that customers might even prefer over pork or chicken. The amount of research the group put into making palatable, marketable bug food is remarkable: from molecular-level ingredient paring to designing a network of urban insect farms, it seems they've left no log unturned in the quest for gastro-grubs. For a detailed break-down of the project, visit here.
Thanks to Stephen Perry for the heads-up.
A 23-year-old in China was recently puzzled why his online avatars were being killed off at disproportionate rates. After asking around, the young man eventually discovered that his own father was behind the virtual murders. It turns out that the father was concerned that his unemployed son had become addicted to gaming, and reasoned that hiring an online hitman would be as terminal a solution as a real-life assassin. The only problem? Virtual avatars usually have a pesky supply of extra lives.
Story via BBC News. Image via Kotaku. Thanks to Jack for the heads-up.
With rising energy costs and our growing arsenal of iPads, smart phones, and wearable monitors, we're always on the lookout for new ways to power our devices. Perpetua Power, an Oregon-based startup, has invented a chip that can turn heat into energy – specifically the heat from your own body. When placed against your skin, the one square-inch TEGwear thermoelectric generator outputs up to three volts. One generator is enough to power headphones or a pedometer; a battery of them sewn into your favorite jumpsuit might even provide enough power for a phone. Maybe the TEGwear chip will be the intermediate step between old-and-tired fossil fuels and our fat-powered Energy Belt.
Image and story via Fast Company.
Designer Robbie Tilton's keyboard replaces the impersonal metal of a keyboard with lush imitation moss and wooden keys. Though it's a good example of fake nature, Tilton's keyboard is about more than just plastic replacements for the real thing. According to Tilton, "Tech products are often built in a clean, glass, pristine style. They're not touchable. Tactilely, they are not that interesting." The keyboard reintroduces some of the tactility of old nature into our unresponsive, button-filled environment.
Thanks to Daniel R. Witte for the heads-up.
Birds use whatever they can get their beaks on to build nests, including cigarette butts. Surprising new research from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México shows that instead of giving baby birds a bad case of smoker's cough, the cigarettes in their nests might actually be helping them. The more used-up filters a nest had, the fewer nest-dwelling parasites called it home.
Since nicotine is a natural pesticide, it's likely that trace remains of the chemical in the butts are keeping away the creepy-crawlies. The researchers still don't know if the birds are using butts because they're good insulators, or if they're somehow aware of their anti-parasite properties. Birds in more wild environments have been known to line their nests with strong-smelling, bug-repelling herbs, so it's possible they're instinctively attracted to that special cigarette stink.
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If you've turned to plastic Christmas trees because the real ones leave piles of needles behind, science is working to bring live conifers back into your holidays. A $1.3 million project in the US is trying to find which individual trees hold onto their needles most tenaciously. A team headed by plant pathologist Gary Chastagner is subjecting thousands of branch samples to a "rub test" and then meticulously counting the number of needles that fall off. By comparing shedding versus non-shedding pines, the team hopes to find the piece of RNA responsible for needle loss – and to develop an easy field test for identifying that trees that lack the offending nucleotide.
Genetic testing aside, the story of the commercial Christmas tree in the US is an interesting one. A tradition introduced by German immigrants, Christmas trees were mostly gathered from wild or semi-wild conditions until the 1970s. Unfortunately, harvesting all the young conifers from a forest has the side effect of letting understory shrubs and weeds to go wild. Competing for light against these quick-growing plants, pine tree saplings grew tall and spindly – a shape that's not particularly festive. Christmas tree farms sprung up to provide the perfectly conical trees that no longer existed in the wild. Hypernature at its most festive.
Via the New York Times. Image via Ian Sane.
No, those aren't plastic trinkets or beads from a craft store. They're diatoms, a group of single-celled algae, and unlike almost all of our current technologies, they can rapidly and reliably synthesize nanoscale structures. Diatoms produce incredibly complex silica shells that are riddled with a regular pattern of pores. As can be seen above, diatoms come in an incredible variety of shapes – around 100,000 species in all. Strong, easy and quick-growing, and virtually unlimited, diatoms are drawing the attention of scientists who are interested in nanotechnology.
As with many nanotechnologies, research into the use of diatoms is in its infancy. These microscopic algae have been studied for their ability of synthesize novel electrical devices, including new ways to detect pollution. A chemical process that converts their silica shells into silicon creates ready-made nano electronics. Since biologically active molecules attach to the pores in their shells, they may eventually function as a "lab on a chip" for detecting antibodies, traces of diseases, and other chemicals in the body. Diatoms also show promise in the fields of optics. Solar energy cells with diatom-based coatings capture three times more electrons that standard coatings. Genetic manipulation might refine the diatom's natural precision engineering to create bespoke parts for nanosensors and nanoscale machines from diatoms. Further proof that guided growth is the future of manufacturing.


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The 5th Teaching & Learning Conference took place on the 7th and 8th June 2007. The conference was entitled: "Learning Technologies: from Pilot to Mainstream".
Amongst the visiting keynotes were:
The focus of the event is very much on the real world practicalities of using elearning technologies and many of the sessions will present opportunities for discussion, debate and the sharing of practice.
The official 5th Annual Teaching and Learning Conference Website (2007) is now available.
Full information shall be available on this site on:
You may also print the conference leaflet, and poster below.
This is for your own information, but can also be distributed amongst colleagues.
Download conference leaflet >> (335 kb)
Download book of abstracts>>(28.6 MB)
This is the blog site for the NUI Galway conference in June 2007 of the same title. Here we'll post information and news relevant to participants as well as up-to-date reports on the event itself and post-conference discussion. http://celtconf2007.blogspot.com/
(1) E-learning in Practice
(2) Web 2.0
(3) "Share and Share Alike"
(4) Assistive Technologies
(5) "You Tube, I Tube, We Tube"
We have recorded the conference keynote talks, and made these available online in Flash video format. You can also download the PowerPoint slides, the audio only (in MP3 format) or a video iPod file (m4v). If you find the Flash video files too large for your internet connection, you can also view a Windows Media streaming video file. For links to each of the recordings, check them out on our Webcasts or Podcasts pages.


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Used and Abused.
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Re: Used and Abused.
Yeah, but the deal is man, they're all in on this.
The singer is the jerk's sister, and the bassist and him were in on this plan together as well. They didn't want to pay a drummer, so they offer one a spot on the band roster until the recordings were done, then they dumped the sucker. The sucker being me.
It's not about the money, the tracks, or even the credit (although all of that would be really nice.) It's about principle. The guy deserves a swift kick in the nads and the shins for doing this. He needs to learn that he can't go around using people to get shit done. Cause I'm not the only person he's done something like this, too. The way he sees things, is that everyone is around to do service for him, whether it's help on our transcription assignments, recording for his band, or transposing charts for his jazz combo. He's a user and an abuser and he needs to learn that he can't get away with this stuff all the time. In simple terms; he's just a bully.
I'm pissed because I would never do anything like this to anyone. Your name and reputation is the end-all and be-all in the music industry. I treat everyone I've ever played with with respect, care, and compassion because that's what they deserve. He lies, cheats, and deceives everyone he plays with. Obviously he's not the only one who does this, but I can't stand by knowing that he's going to do this to someone else, and is doing this to someone else. I'm sure you can all empathize with that feeling.
I just wanted to thank everyone for their support in this matter. Unfortunately, the lawyer states that there isn't much I can do, because I don't have any hard proof that I did anything, and the only way I could get anything would be if the jerk admitted that I played for him, which isn't going to happen. All I can do is spread the word that the guy is a jerk who no one should deal with or trust.
The sad part is, this experience has really affected my relationships with others negatively. I now feel like I have to be on my guard, waiting to be stabbed in the back by my friends. I put a lot of trust in this guy, and he abused it. I don't want that to happen again. He's also a good friend with one of my good friends, and I feel as though what happened with him is going to ruin that friendship as well.
We shall see. Again, thanks for your support guys, it means a lot.
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