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Today's review is Lauren Layne's Blurred Lines, with Netgalley again providing me with a free copy in exchange for this honest review. There's a giveaway, too, for two mugs and several great ebooks!
The Book:
In a novel that's perfect for fans of Abbi Glines and Jessica Sorensen, USA Todaybestselling author Lauren Layne delivers a sexy take on the timeless question: Can a guy and a girl really be "just friends"?
When Parker Blanton meets Ben Olsen during her freshman year of college, the connection is immediate—and platonic. Six years later, they're still best friends, sharing an apartment in Portland's trendy Northwest District as they happily settle into adult life. But when Parker's boyfriend dumps her out of the blue, she starts to wonder about Ben's no-strings-attached approach to dating. The trouble is, even with Ben as her wingman, Parker can't seem to get the hang of casual sex—until she tries it with him.
The arrangement works perfectly . . . at first. The sex is mind-blowing, and their friendship remains as solid as ever, without any of the usual messy romantic entanglements. But when Parker's ex decides he wants her back, Ben is shocked by a fierce stab of possessiveness. And when Ben starts seeing a girl from work, Parker finds herself plagued by unfamiliar jealousy. With their friendship on the rocks for the first time, Parker and Ben face an alarming truth: Maybe they can't go back. And maybe, deep down, they never want to.
My sophomore year of high school, I had a short-lived friendship with this girl named Korie Hamilton.
She was nice enough.
A little too much purple eyeliner, a few too many likes sprinkled throughout her constant chatter, but we had every class together our first semester, so we kind of became friends by default.
Anyway, Korie was forever yammering on and on about how her best friend on the entire planet was Stephen Daniels, a boy she'd known for all of four weeks before promoting him to BFF status.
Apparently it was, like, ohmigod, like, the best thing ever to have a guy she could talk to without complicating things with romantic entanglements.
Real best friends can generally go more than a couple hours without mentioning each other's name, but Korie found a way to fit Stephen's name into every other sentence.
Just friends my ass.
I guess technically they were platonic for a while. Stephen had a girlfriend named Libby Tittles, or something unfortunate like that, and Korie had this on-again-off-again thing with her junior high boyfriend.
But anyone who's ever seen a movie, or watched TV, or just had basic awareness of human interaction saw exactly where Korie and Stephen were heading: Humpville.
Even though Korie swore up and down that she didn't like him like that, both of their significant others were long gone by Thanksgiving of sophomore year.
By Christmas vacation, Korie wasn't uttering quite so many likes. Why? Because Stephen's tongue was in her mouth before school, after school, and every freaking weekend.
But we all know how this ends, right? Just a few short months later, not only were Korie and Stephen no longer dating, they sure as hell weren't best friends.
Their short-lived romance and ensuing breakup barely even registered a blip on the gossip chain, but I'd like to think it taught some of us high school girls a valuable lesson:
Guys and girls can't be just friends. Or not best friends, anyway.
Shit gets too complicated.
But let's fast-forward a few years, shall we?
I'm now twenty-four, and I have a public service announcement to make: I was wrong.
Guys and girls really can be best friends.
It is possible to have a platonic relationship with a guy where there are no romantic inklings, no sexual fantasies, and no naïve proclamations of I don't like him like that in a torturous attempt to hide an agonizing unrequited love.
How do I know this? How do I know that a guy and a girl can be best friends without romantic entanglements?
Well, let's see, I've been on the female end of one such platonic relationship for six years now.
Six. Years.
True story:
Ben Olsen and I met the summer before our first year at University of Oregon during freshman orientation. We were assigned to the same group in one of those terrible ice-breaking activities where you have to put a sticky note on your head and guess what kind of safari animal you are, or something, and we just . . .
I don't know why we clicked in the Hey, you're cool but I have no interest in boning you kind of way, but we did.
Maybe it was because I was in stupid insta-love with another guy in our group. Or maybe because my ovaries were hyperaware that Ben's ridiculous good looks would lead to heartbreak. But whatever the reason, we did the implausible.
We became best friends.
And, yes, every single one of my female friends has given me the exact same warnings I gave Korie Hamilton way back when: It won't work.
My friends are split down the middle on how it will actually go down, but they're all convinced that it will go down.
Half think that Ben and I are soulmates who are just biding our time until marriage and babies.
The other half think that we're going to have too much to drink one night, have awful sex, and never speak again.
Ben and I proved them wrong when freshman year ended and our friendship was still intact. Sophomore year? Repeat.
Junior year, we really upped our game. Not only were we closer than ever, but we became roommates. It happened sort of by accident when one of his housemates backed out at the last minute, and I belatedly realized I couldn't bear one more year of dorm food, so I moved in. And it worked. So we did it again senior year.
Here we are, two years after graduation, still living together, although we've upgraded from crappy off-campus housing in Eugene to a slightly less crappy two-bedroom house in the Northwest neighborhood of Portland.
And yes. Still platonic as ever, with not so much as a hint of change in the air. I'm crazy in love with Lance Myers, my boyfriend of five years, and Ben . . .
Well, Ben's on a rather awe-inspiring mission to seduce the entire female population in western Oregon.
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My Review:
As the description says, Blurred Lines delivers a sexy take on the age-old question of whether guys and girls can be "just friends."
Parker and Ben have been just platonic friends for years – there's been no sexual or romantic interest of any kind between them in all that time. Parker's been dating Lance for the last five years, and Ben is rather proud of his string of one night stands. But when Lance dumps Parker and she realizes how much she misses sex – and how hard it is for her to go out and be the female version of Ben – she makes the wild suggestion that she and Ben become friends with benefits.
The first thing I noticed, and loved, about this book was the fact that their friendship was well established. Too many times, books that take on this idea do so with a relatively new friendship that makes it hard to believe that there's not an already existing underlying attraction that one or both people just isn't admitting to. Parker and Ben are clearly established as friends, having known each other for years, been roommates, and settled into many of the relaxed behaviors of good friends. She's not jealous of his one night stands when she meets them in the kitchen, and he's friends with Lance (though it is clear that his loyalty is unwaveringly for Parker). I enjoyed seeing that firm establishment of that friendship, and how close they were as friends.
I loved all the humor, too. There were so many things that had me laughing out loud and giggling at the awkwardness or silliness of a situation. There were moments of seriousness, and situations that called for a more somber tone, but I really enjoyed the way the author managed to balance it with humor and keep the book light and fun for the most part.
The awkwardness as Ben and Parker tried to go from just friends to friends with benefits was perfectly done. Enough to be believable, but not so much that it made it unbelievable that they could move forward with the idea.
I also enjoyed the progression of their feelings. Seeing how each of them dealt with the burgeoning feelings, their denial and acceptance, their willingness to do what they thought was right or what they thought was best for the other person, was a real indication of love for me.
It was also great to see that the author didn't try to write this as a "you can go from friends to more and back with no problem" kind of book. There were clear problems when Ben and Parker decided to end their experiment, and it nearly ended their friendship.
Overall, this book was a perfect balance of humor, seriousness, fun, love and sex. It answered the question of whether men and women can be just friends (or whether this particular man and woman could, anyway), and what happens when you try to be more than friends and then go back.
I loved Blurred Lines and am now a fan of Lauren Layne!
The Author:
Lauren Layne is the USA Today Bestselling author of contemporary romance.
Prior to becoming an author, Lauren worked in e-commerce and web-marketing. In 2011, she and her husband moved from Seattle to New York City, where Lauren decided to pursue a full-time writing career. It took six months to get her first book deal (despite ardent assurances to her husband that it would only take three). Since then, Lauren's gone on to publish ten books, including the bestselling Stiletto series, with several more on the way in 2015.
Lauren currently lives in Chicago with her husband and spoiled Pomeranian. When not writing, you'll find her at happy hour, running at a doggedly slow pace, or trying to straighten her naturally curly hair.
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MEXICO CITY Andrea Benítez simply did what many rich, connected Mexicans have always done: she used her influence to step on the lower born. Witnesses said that when she was not given the table she wanted on Friday at Maximo Bistrot, a popular Mexico City restaurant, she called in inspectors who worked for her father at the countrys main consumer protection agency to shut it down.
Dreadful service, she wrote on Twitter, before announcing she had arrived at the agency to complain. They have no manners.
What followed, however, caught much of Mexico by surprise. Instead of enjoying the perks of privilege, Ms. Benítez and her father have become the targets of a broad and swift social media campaign with tens of thousands of Tweets condemning them that led the presidents office on Monday to announce a formal investigation into allegations of abuse of power.
This kind of response, it must be said, is exceedingly rare in Mexico. Murders are routinely ignored by the authorities here, and increasingly by senior officials who would prefer to discuss other topics. But the food at Maximo Bistrot apparently has the capacity to ignite public rage and government action like little else.
To many of its fans, the restaurant is the Chez Panisse of Mexico City, a gastro-paradise of fresh ingredients delivered with innovation for (relatively) affordable prices,
Maybe she should have called upon her cartel contacts to take care of the problem. Nothing like getting shot and beheaded works better at improving morale in the kitchen.
Mexicans are not Americans by a long shot. Some, after a long period of time can fit in. Here in Texas, people of Mexican decent that go back to the days of "Texicans" are as American as apple pie. But Mexicans that have been brought up in Mexico are not the type of people that will easily assimilate in to our culture. For the illegals that have come here from Mexico it will take many of them generations to become "Americanized". Maybe, and that is a big maybe.
The dirty little secret is that the majority of Mexicans like free stuff. They are very happy to come here and mooch off the gringos. Why? Because that does not happen in their country. For example, consider that America has nearly 2 million nonprofits. Years back a number of them, including bleeding heart religious groups ventured in to Mexico and like drunks standing on a Mardi Gras float they showered poor Mexicans with all sorts of free stuff. The Mexicans figure out quickly that the land of the gringo was the land of freebies. Some, the really bad ones, found that the US was the land of easy pickings. Just take what you want.
Back to the nonprofits issue. Do you know how many nonprofit entities there are in Mexico? I'm not referring to the US nonprofits I'm referring to Mexican nonprofits that have been formed in Mexico by Mexicans. With the goal to give stuff to the poor. How many do you think there are? If the US has 1.5 to 2 million nonprofits guess how many there are in Mexico. 100,000? 500,000? Nope. Essentially there are zero. Nada. None. The notion of charity in the Mexican culture is virtually nonexistent. This is why when they see they can get free $hit in the US they jump the fence and swim the river.
We are idiots. Morons in this country for allowing people that have never done anything here to come here and take from us. Hell, our insane politicians go farther than that. They GIVE them what they won't give most Americans. For what? Votes someday and for nothing else. That is the only upside for the US politicians, votes. Because ignorant and poor Mexicans will never be anything but loadstones on our economy. Sure, some can cut grass or drive a nail or paint but they will almost to a person be a taker out of the US economy and not a giver.
The gringos are a joke to most Mexicans. Ask any descendent of Mexicans that have been here themselves for generations. If you think what I just wrote is bad you should hear them. They can't stand the illegals.
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In a distantly related experience, I've donated about 50-60 pints of blood in my life; I used to donate at work. I've worked in the Home Office of three Fortune 100 companies with 4-5000 employees in each of those locations. I could put all the non-white donors I've ever seen in my car.
I have to believe it's cultural but I simply don't understand why virtually all the donors I've ever seen are white.
No, pero sé lo que eres.
"You bastards! You vicious, heartless bastards! Look what you've done to him! He's worked his fingers to the bone to make this place what it is, and you come in with your petty feeble quibbling and you grind him into the dirt, this fine, honourable man, whose boots you are not worthy to kiss. Oh... it makes me mad... mad!"
Even more rare in the US.
Thanks for your insight. I am always amazed at the explosion in the non-profit sector here. The charity sector too. I call it the do-gooder sector. China may have taken much of our manufacturing but the do-gooder sector is doing just fine. It's a great business and great salary if you are in the right NGO. Female and gay oriented, leftist oriented too as far as who works in them. Amazing how these parasites have carved out this huge new (kinda) niche for themselves
Of course many charities are good and worthwhile, many religious ones are. But many are there to provide salaries and self-aggrandizement for those who work there. So many 100% bogus charities around too.
We should have nonprofit charities. The criteria should be simple, they can exist if they clothe, feed or house human beings. That's it.
Did you know that Consumer's Union, the entity that publishes "Consumers Reports" is a nonprofit. Yep, their postage is subsidized by taxpayers. The last time I checked they had about $90,000,000 in the bank.
How about the Anti Defamation League? The ADL. They pay their handler, Abe Foxman over $400,000 a year. For what? Running around saying how "insert name here" hates Jews. Interesting, eh? Remember Oskar Schindler? He saved over a 1,000 humans in WWII. He died without a cent. But old Abe is a rich man who could not hold Oskar Schindler's coat.
I could go on and on about the abuse of US nonprofit laws.
We have an out-of-control epidemic in the country when it comes to nonprofits. Way too many are in business to enrich their handlers, push a political agenda or to simply drive commercial corporations out of business by competing directly with them at times.
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CNN's Amber B. Lyin', Reporting: How TV's Most Trusted Cable News Outlet* Got Played
Over the last several months, reporters here and at some of our sister papers have published stories about the mythical child-sex-trafficking pandemic allegedly sweeping our nation. Prodded by activist researchers and research-adverse activists, the media has obsessively repeated bogus claims that hundreds of thousands of children are being held in bondage in the backs of vans and strip clubs right here in our cities. Bottom line: If you haven't spent the last several months gasping, you're not watching enough cable.
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Lyon is the subject of a story you'll see in this week's Observer, penned by Village Voice Editor Tony Ortega. In it, Ortega demonstrates how Lyon has transitioned from reporter to activist and how she used obviously bogus stats to ambush Craigslist's admittedly meek and borderline-autistic founder, Craig Newmark, accusing his message board-style classifieds of aiding and abetting child-sex traffickers.
That's where we come in. It wasn't only the fear-obsessed media who ambushed Craigslist; it was also several states' attorneys general, who, under pressure from conservative activists, strong-armed Craigslist into shutting down the adult-services portions of its websites. And when they were done with Craig, they turned their sights on Backpage.com, a similar classified-and-message-board website owned by Village Voice Media (which owns the Observer , the Voice and 11 other newspapers).
Now, our owners, two famously ornery Irishmen, have their issues, but meekness ain't one of them. So they picked a fight. They picked it with the activists, with the scientists, with the politicians and with Ashton Kutcher, and now they're picking one with Amber Lyon. They've been upfront about it, but anytime you unload on an issue in which you have an obvious stake, there's bound to be some PR recoil. So it goes, to borrow from another ornery bastard.
Read Tony's story, though. It's an interesting look at how a small group of activists can use the media to turn a nuanced, worthy story into something bigger and scarier and, most important, ready for the spotlight of sweeps week, awards season and, in the case of Lyon, $250-a-plate luncheons where she and her story are the star.
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With annual total production estimated at 1.7 million tons of fruit and 1.8 milion tons of vegetables, agriculture is the most important sector in the Serbian economy. It accounts for about 10 per cent of the national gross domestic product (GDP) and provides more than 20 per cent of the country's total employment.
Geographical indications (GIs), collective "brands" used for products with a specific reputation and qualities attributable to a specific place of origin, are the most common type of origin-based labels. Together with other types of premium product labels, they are considered as a way to improve the efficiency and inclusiveness of agricultural and food systems.
In view of this, the EBRD and FAO are jointly implementing a technical assistance project for the development of GIs in Serbia's horticultural sector in collaboration with the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management (MAFW) and the Intellectual Property Office . Groups of producers, EBRD existing clients in the fruit and vegetable sector and the public authorities and private scetor involved in GI institutional system =will be the main beneficiaries of the project.
Three horticultural value chains are being supported as pilots in the project in relation to the following quality products:
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August 31st is a day that fans of classic horror have been awaiting for what seems like forever. On that day Image Entertainment will release the Boris Karloff hosted anthology series "Thriller" on DVD fully remastered and brimming with bells and whistles. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we sat down with Boris' daughter, Sara Karloff, to talk about her dad, the series, and more.
"I am so delighted that 'Thriller' is finally being released in a proper format and beautifully redone," says Karloff. "The fans have been clamoring for years for this series to be re-released, and I couldn't be more thrilled that they're going to get it. Image Entertainment has done a superb job in terms of how much care has gone into this package, and I know that the fans will not be disappointed in any way, shape, or form."
Adds Sara, "The set is just going to be beautiful. For years I've been getting e-mails and phone calls, and even at shows when I am making personal appearances, people have been asking me, 'When is it going to come out?' It's been way too long of a wait, but I'm delighted to say that the wait is just about over."
"I think that this release will open up my father's work to a whole new generation of fans," Sara continues. "It had originally aired during a time when we already had 'Alfred Hitchcock Presents' and of course 'The Twilight Zone' so it got a little swallowed up. 'Thriller' is a wonderful compilation of talents. Writers like Robert Bloch and wonderful directors like Ida Lupino showcased their talent, and of course terrific actors of the time and today pitched in like Cloris Leachman, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Leslie Nielsen, William Shatner, and Richard Chamberlain. There were so many wonderful talents both in front of and behind the camera. It really was an incredible marriage of talents. Some of the episodes even went on to become either specials on TV or even series on TV like 'Robert Bloch's Dark Room'. The material was just great. Really, I couldn't be happier that it is about to be discovered again."
Pertaining to her father, Karloff said, "My dad was really having fun. He didn't just walk through the introductions either. He knew the material of each episode that he was introducing, and he really enjoyed having something new each week in store for the audience. He just loved working, and he loved this series. He especially loved starring in several of the episodes, and he enjoyed the actors that he got to work with. He was so disappointed when it got canceled despite its popularity at the time."
"My dad was a consummate professional, and he loved seeing the business get furthered, Sara says, wrapping up. "He was really into progress, and in 1949 he moved from Hollywood to New York to embrace the then new medium of television. That's something that very few 'movies stars' back then would even think of doing. My father would certainly be open to anything that moved the industry ahead without damaging its integrity, and I think he'd really favor today's DVD technology. The supplemental information given to the audience certainly adds to the enjoyment of the final product, and it's something both my father and I consider very worthwhile."
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Essay Topic: Children and parental supervision.
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Today's' children are future generation of the world. There are serious debates on how to groom the children. Some people argue that the younger generation should be given full freedom to live and choose on their own while others feel that they should be adequately monitored. In my opinion both views have got merits and demerits.
Firstly freedom of thought in a convenient surrounding paves way for mind blowing creative thought. In addition it is commonly accepted fact that psychological stress can never bring out positive creativity. Take any famous poet for example; they have given wonderful master piece of fine arts when in disturbance free isolation. Hence it is proven beyond doubt that the parental pressure and expectation cannot give freedom to the developing children and thereby hindering their creative development.
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Stamping Out Hunger in America
June 10, 2005
Last Tuesday was National Hunger Awareness Day which is a grassroots effort to raise awareness and donations to help end hunger in America. The U.S. is the land of plenty, and we produce the safest and most abundant food supply in the world. But there are still those who do not always have the means to feed themselves or their families in our very own communities. National Hunger Awareness Day serves to remind us that we must constantly work to prevent hunger in our country and there are many ways that we are doing that.
Federal government programs have been designed to provide food assistance to adults and children. These include the National School Lunch Program, Food Stamp Program, Women, Infants and Children (WIC), the Emergency Food Assistance Program and the Nutrition Services Incentives Program. Last year, almost 8 million women and children participated in WIC in the U.S. and over 131,000 just in Virginia alone. WIC is a federal grant program that provides nutritious foods, nutrition counseling and referrals to health and other social services to low-income pregnant and postpartum women as well as infants and children under the age of five who are at nutrition risk.
Proper nutrition is essential to the growth and development of infants and children. Without the proper nutrients, children may lag behind their peers in both physical and cognitive development. The National School Lunch Program provides nutritionally balanced, low-cost or free lunches to children in more than 99,800 schools across the country. Over 700,000 children participated in the program in Virginia last year. Every child deserves the opportunity to grow and learn without hunger.
As Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, I have worked with my colleagues to pass legislation that creates and monitors federal nutrition programs to be sure they are well run. U.S. farmers and ranchers provide an abundant, safe and nutritious food supply and continue to share the bounty of their harvest with their fellow Americans.
Local community organizations and volunteers also aid in the fight against hunger. America's Second Harvest distributes food and grocery products through more than 200 food banks and food rescue organizations throughout the U.S. This year, the organization will celebrate its 25th year of operation and I commend their noble efforts. Local food banks, soup kitchens, and volunteers also contribute to efforts in our communities.
Congress will continue to evaluate our federal domestic food support programs to ensure that they reach those in need in the most effective manner while combating fraud and abuse. The fight against hunger in the U.S. is ongoing, but I am confident that with the help of organizations like America's Second Harvest and contributions from food producers and volunteers, we can stamp out hunger in America for good.


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I've been asked to create a few 3D cakes that don't allow fondant to be stretched over the top and then evently smoothed out all around (i.e. a T-Rex dinosaur). For these kinds of odd-shaped cakes I need to apply the fondantin 2-3 different sections.
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