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June 24, 2010 VOLUME 5 Issue 27
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Letters to the
Dear SC Democratic Party,
Now that Alvin Greene has been
confirmed, we’re asking you to forego
any other roadblocks and let the rest of
us enjoy him while we have him. No
Democrat would beat DeMint anyway,
so who cares who runs against him?
At least this way it’ll be entertaining to
watch. DeMint is morbidly fascinating
and cringe-worthy enough during live
debates; imagine him paired with Alvin
Greene! Put Glenn Beck and Ed Begley
Jr. on a panel to moderate it and the whole
country will tune in.
Thank you, journalism gods!
Columbia City Paper
Dear sports fans,
Remember two weeks ago when the
word “vuvuzela” was virtually unknown
to the Western world? It was a simpler
time, an innocent time to which we
may never return. For those of you who
haven’t heard the tragic news, the Florida
Marlins hosted a vuvuzela promo night
in the precious sanctity of a major league
baseball park last weekend. It was a
game –for those unfortunate enough to
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attend it—devoid of the sounds of the ball
hitting the catcher’s mitt or the peanut
vendor’s distant call; a place where the
hallowed crack of a homerun shot was
drowned out by the droning of 15,000
plastic novelty horns. Let’s not open
Pandora’s box, America, we beg you. An
occasional cowbell at football games,
clappers, whatever. But, please not the
vuvuzela. Let’s nip this in the bud before
“free vuvuzela” night rears its ugly head
at Turner Field, or God forbid, Williams
Brice.
Columbia City Paper
Dear Jake Knotts,
We don’t want to harp on your recent
slip of the tongue. But, the whole mess
has kinda gone into phase two after
you took your time at the State House
podium during a crucial budget vote to
call yourself a proud redneck instead
of focusing that time on your actual job
as a legislator. (What type of political
handler, professional or otherwise, could
have possibly allowed you to pour that
can of kerosene on the fire?) Sure, you
were correct in asserting that the GOP
has no shortage of politicians who make
depraved, awe-inspiring comments on
a fairly regular basis. If they were all
asked to resign along with you, American
government would collapse. We get that.
Here’s the problem: In your sense of
the word, “redneck” means a working class
Joe, whose neck gets red from working in
the sun. Many white Americans, however,
consider it a pejorative term, similar to
“hayseed” or “cracker,” used to imply
poverty, ignorance, uncouthness and
sometimes even bigotry. Some historians
argue that the term was more officially
co-opted in the West Virginia coal wars in
the early part of the century, during which
pro-union miners wore red bandanas to
signify their solidarity. In an anti-union
state like ours, some folks might think
you just proudly aligned yourself with
pro-union commies. Thus, we urge you to
call a televised press conference to clarify
if you are using the term in a “white
trash” or “pro-union man” sense of the
word and then either apologize to your
Caucasian constituents or our state’s anti-
union corporate overlords, whichever the
case may be.
Columbia City Paper
 Alvin Greene answered his home
phone when I called and we casually set
up a time to meet. A few days later, the
32-year-old candidate regarded me from
a puffy chair in the corner of his father’s
home, which served as headquarters for
his Zen-like campaign for the U.S. Senate.
On the table by the chair sat toenail clip-
pers, a disposable razor and a Sonic fast
food bag.
“Lately it’s been very busy,” Greene
said of his life as he took a bite from his
sandwich. “I didn’t expect so much so
soon.”
Greene is unemployed. He said that
before the election he spent much of his
time watching television. The news was
on the whole time we talked.
Greene managed to pay the $10,000
filing fee to the State Democratic party,
but no one noticed him until he inexpli-
cably beat his opponent, Vic Rawl, by
a large margin in the Democratic pri-
mary. Now, everybody wants to figure out
what happened and who the heck Alvin
Greene actually is. As was widely report-
ed, Rawl challenged the results, claiming
that the voting machines were faulty.
South Carolina bought them used from
Louisiana when that state outlawed them.
Rawl collected anecdotal evidence but
eventually acknowledged there was no
good way to prove the errors he claimed
had skewed the results.
Jim Clyburn, the majority Whip
and Greene’s own representative, called
Greene a “plant.” Lindsey Graham echoed
Clyburn’s calls for an FBI investigation.
But, on the day before my visit, the
state party had decided not to overturn the
results of the election, making Greene,
Sen. Jim DeMint’s official opponent this
fall. The state party still hopes Greene
will step down. When asked if Greene
had a chance against DeMint, Kiana Page,
the party spokesperson said, “This race
proves that anything can happen in poli-
tics. Especially in South Carolina.”
Greene knows that as well as anyone
and has a simple answer to the question
of who he is. “I’m the best candidate in
the United States Senate race in South
Carolina,” he says.
I asked him if his non-campaign
campaign was an intentional strategy to
attack the anti-government senator. He
just smiled and took a bite of his sandwich
and looked at the TV. I asked what he was
going to say to DeMint.
“Well, I’m planning for a September
debate. One hour long on a major televi-
sion channel.”
“If he refuses to debate, what would
that say about him?” I asked.
“It says that he doesn’t care about
the people of South Carolina or their
concerns,” Greene answered. “He and
other representatives are responsible and
accountable for the dire situations we
face here in South Carolina and across the
country.”
Greene grew up in Manning and
served in the air force and the army. He
claims that he was involuntarily, but hon-
orably, discharged from the military and
refuses to say more about the issue. He
earned a Political Science degree from
USC. I was asking him about classes he
remembered when a knock sounded at
the door.
Greene laid down his Sonic wrapper
and got up. “Here’s the umm,” he fumbled
a moment and nodded toward the door. “...
Manning Times Reporter. Here’s someone
from the Manning Times.”
“So you were just telling me about
your own education and about studying
political science when he knocked on the
door,” I said.
As if on cue, there was another knock.
“Who is it?” Greene hollered.
“It’s WIS.”
“I told them not to come,” he said,
as if to himself. “OK! All right. Just open
the door.”
The Manning Times reporter got up to
open the door.
“Seems like your life’s gone crazy,” I
said to Greene.
“It has.”
It was clear at that moment that
Greene had absolutely no control over
what was happening to him. It was almost
like a sci-fi movie where an ordinary guy
was sucked through the screen into the
hyper-reality of the televised universe.
He seemed to be struggling to find his
bearings.
The TV man did not introduce him-
self and spoke in a gruff tone.
“I was just wondering you know –I
see you’re eating lunch,” he said. “I know
you said that you didn’t really want to do
TV interviews, but, uh, I was just down
here trying to get a feel of who you were.
And so many people have a preconceived
notion of who you are just because of the
charges and everything.”
The charges are, of course, the felony
charges pending against Greene for alleg-
edly showing pornography to a college
freshman and asking her if she wanted
to go back to her room. It is something
else Greene refuses to talk about. But it
is clearly one of the main reasons why no
prominent Democrats have reached out to
help him.
“I’m really not interested in that now,”
Greene said to the TV man. “Maybe in a
week or two you can check back.”
The phone rang.
“Well you know it’s just kind of hard
for me to get to Manning from Columbia
every day,” the TV man said, obviously
annoyed.
Greene ignored him and picked up the
phone. “Hello? ...OK.” He hung up.
“So I was just hoping we could go
ahead and knock it out today if that’s pos-
sible,” the TV man said, seemingly oblivi-
ous to we print reporters who were in the
Alvin Greene continued on page 4
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Alvin Greene continued from page 3

middle of an interview. “You just step

right outside. It’ll be real quick.”
“OK. Let me finish these and then I’ll
think about it,” he said.
“All right. I’ll just be right outside in
the Channel Ten Jeep.”
The TV man walked out, shaking
his head. WIS subsequently wrote on
their website on June 19 that Greene had
agreed to do an interview and backed out,
even though, at least to me, it seemed like
he had repeatedly told the reporter he did
not want to talk.
Greene said it was like this every day
now. He did not have a computer, a cell
phone or even Caller ID. He answered
every call blindly. He said that he was in
the process of organizing a campaign and
building a website, but at the moment, he
needed a press secretary more than any-
thing else.
“So you were talking about your
political science classes,” I continued.
“Way back then were you thinking of
running?”
“Yes. I took a course in black politics.
And the professor was Kenneth Whitby,”
he said. “But I’ve followed politics since
I was a child, so I always knew that run-
ning for office was always in the back of Greene talks with the media on his land line phone. Photo: Baynard Woods.
my mind.”
He took the last bite of lunch, crum- ones.” knocking. view?” the TV man asked.
bled the wrapper and put it in the bag. “Your opponent, I guess, would ask “All right,” the TV man said, “you “No.”
“As a soldier serving in Korea two where that money is going to come from?” want to do it inside or outside? We have The TV man seemed angry. His voice
years ago I knew that this country was “Well, we spend two times more of a light on the camera if you want to do got louder and he said Greene would look
declining and I knew if I got a chance our taxpayer dollars on inmates than on it inside. Like I said, it will just take two bad. “That’s not a threat,” he said. “It’s
I would make things better,” he said. students,” he said. “Non-violent offenders quick minutes.” just the way it is.”
“That’s my campaign: Bringing America should be offered pretrial intervention. “What are you going to ask again?” Finally, they left. Greene had just
Back.” Justice in the justice system is important. “Now that all of the late night come- fought another battle in the attempt to
The phone rang again. It takes so much money a day to keep dians have made their jokes and protests maintain control of his life and be a can-
“Hello? ....Who’s calling?” He lis- someone incarcerated. Fairness saves have been done, how do you plan to get didate. He insisted that he campaigned
tened for a little while. “OK. Can you money. It’s another example of how our your campaign rolling?” the TV man in the primary—he just didn’t use the
get back with me in a week or two? I’m incumbent Republican— ” asked. “A lot of people there still don’t media to do it. He’s trying to maintain that
busy.” The phone rang. seem to be taking you seriously. How do unlikely model.
As a result, everyone wonders if
“Perhaps, the only really crazy thing about him is that he believed Alvin Greene is crazy. Perhaps, the only
really crazy thing about him is that he
an ordinary citizen with no organization could run for Senate and believed an ordinary citizen with no orga-

win without getting sucked into the media machine.”

He hung up and turned back to me.
“What is your campaign strategy
other than the debate?” I asked.
“The issues, my message. Jobs. See
I have a plan for jobs. Even picking back
up with the Department of Transportation
projects put on hold after 9/11. Such as
Interstate 74 from Michigan to Myrtle
Beach. Widening of other major highways
across the state, especially the evacua-
tion routes from the coast. And those will
create jobs in the short term and the long
term.”
The phone rang.
“Hello? ...Where you at? ...Hello?”
He hung up. “Yes. And better PTAs, bet-
ter facilities for better education. Fixing
dilapidated schools and building new
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“Hello?” I could tell from Greene’s
side of the conversation that it was a
Sunday talk show wanting him to go on.
To the person on the other end of the line,
he said, “That’s church time mainly right
there in the middle of the day.” Then he
hung up.
He turned back to me.
“When I say my opponent is revers-
ing forward progress, I’m not being sar-
castic. It’s green jobs and it’s better for
the economy and the environment. That’s
advancing society that I’m for and our
two current United States senators are
against that. They’re trying to repeal
Health Care.”
As the Manning reporter got up to
leave, the WIS crew burst in without
you plan to get people to take you seri-
ously?”
“I told you over the phone that I
wasn’t doing this,” Greene said.
“Two questions, that’s it.”
“No.”
“Ok. So why not?”
“I just… I just don’t like the questions
and I don’t like— ”
The phone rang. Greene answered it.
WIS kept talking.
“You’re going to have to get used to
it,” the TV man said. “I mean I’ve been
covering politics for years.”
“Yes,” Greene said into the receiver.
“All right I’m busy now. I have folks over
here. All right.” He hung up.
“So you don’t want to do the inter-
nization could run for Senate and win
without getting sucked into the media
machine. He seems to believe he can con-
trol what he wants to talk about and leave
major questions unanswered. He is living
in another century.
But, so far, Alvin Greene’s crazy idea
has not been so crazy. At least he won in
the primary. “I wasn’t that surprised,” he
said. “I expected to win. I worked hard. It
wasn’t a big deal.”
But now it is a big deal and the media
are trying to suck Greene into their orbit.
In the television world, he seems like a
lost alien, inhabiting a universe whose
laws he doesn’t comprehend. Maybe he
could start to get a handle on it, if only he
could get someone to answer the phone.
“Hello,” he said as I said goodbye.
talkback@columbiacitypaper.com
 Election results
Runoffs: The Russian roulette of politics
By Wes Wolfe
You can’t usually accurately predict
the outcome of a primary runoff, you can
only hope to. In 2008, Sheri Few – the
school choice advocate and evangelical
fundamentalist – was clobbered in the
Republican primary runoff for State
House District 79 by David Herndon.
This is despite the fact she had a lot more
money than Herndon and bested him by a
significant amount on Primary Day. You
never know.
There were some favorites going
into the primary runoffs this year. Rep.
Nikki Haley was expected to win the
GOP nomination for governor, which
she did with 61 percent of the vote with
97 percent of the precincts reporting.
Solicitor Trey Gowdy laid the hurt
on U.S. Rep. Bob Inglis in the Fourth
Congressional District, beating him 71-
29. As was pointed out by a tweet from
former S.C. politico Wyeth Ruthven,
even Gary Condit got 36 percent after the
Chandra Levy scandal broke. Rep. Tim
Scott took the First Congressional District
GOP nomination over Paul Thurmond,
68-32.
But as this paper went to press, there
were some upsets. Outgoing U.S. Rep.
Henry Brown decided to run for Berkeley
County supervisor, finding himself in a
runoff against incumbent Supervisor Dan
Davis. That was a mistake, and Brown
came out on the short end, losing as
Davis took 56 percent of the vote. Rep.
Joey Millwood, often criticized by this
writer as one of two of the most brain-
dead members of the General Assembly,
saw his time in the House limited to one
term as he was bested by former Landrum
mayor Doug Brannon for the Republican
Despite some negative media attention Dan
Johnson won the solicitor runoff over John
Meadors
Because of some negative media attention
Nikki Haley won the GOP nomination over
Rep. J. Gresham Barrett on Tuesday, June 22
nomination in State House District 38.
There was much rejoicing.
Here in Richland County, the
Democratic establishment got behind John
Meadors for the solicitor runoff against
Dan Johnson. The media has investigated
stories about alleged scandalous activity
involving Johnson, but he beat that back
and the establishment politicos to take the
job, 57-43 with 97 percent reporting.
But looking back over the runoff
results, a trope that was building
finally crested. A lot of Palmetto State
Republicans are crowing that they
nominated minorities for two major
offices (Haley, Scott) and a woman for
governor (Haley). Here’s the problem
with that: if your skin is darker than the
average Caucasian, you’re probably
going to vote for Democrats. If you’re a
woman, you’re probably going to vote
for Democrats. Dems are more likely to
nominate both women and minorities to
higher office. It’s true that Republicans
are more likely to be both white and male.
So, if you’re a member of a party
that’s had diversity issues since the
presidency of Lyndon Johnson, it might
be a good idea to push minority and
female candidates and just let it be. As is
said when a player scores a touchdown,
act like you’ve been there before. By
overly celebrating, it just brings more
attention to the fact the opposition party
has been dominating among traditionally
disenfranchised voters for the past 50
years.
Wolfe is the proprietor of
WolfeReports.com and has written for 11
publications in five states.
talkback@columbiacitypaper.com
June 24 2010 5
 By T. Christian Miller, ProPublica
REDDING, Calif. — Wade Dill does
not figure into the toll of war dead. An
exterminator, Dill took a job in Iraq for a
company contracted to do pest control on
military bases. There, he found himself
killing disease-carrying flies and rabid
dogs, dodging mortars and huddling in
bomb shelters.
Dill, a Marine Corps veteran, was a
different man when he came back for visits
here, his family said: moody, isolated,
morose. He screamed at his wife and
daughter. His weight dropped. Dark circles
haunted his dark brown eyes.
Three weeks after he returned home for
good, Dill booked a room in an anonymous
three-story motel alongside Interstate 5.
There, on July 16, 2006, he shot himself in
the head with a 9 mm handgun. He left a
suicide note for his wife and a picture for
his daughter, then 16. The caption read: “I
did exist and I loved you.’’
More than three years later, Dill’s
loved ones are still reeling, their pain
compounded by a drawn-out battle with
an insurance company over death benefits
from the suicide. Barb Dill, 47, nearly lost
the family’s home to foreclosure. “We’re
circling the drain,” she said.
While suicide among soldiers has
been a focus of Congress and the public,
relatively little attention has been paid to
the mental health of tens of thousands of
civilian contractors returning from Iraq and
Afghanistan. When they make the news at
all, contractors are usually in the middle of
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scandal, depicted as cowboys, wastrels or
worse.
No agency tracks how many civilian
workers have killed themselves after
returning from the war zones. A small study
in 2007 found that 24 percent of contract
employees from DynCorp, a defense
contractor, showed signs of depression or
post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD,
after returning home. The figure is roughly
equivalent to those found in studies of
returning soldiers.
If the pattern holds true on a broad
scale, thousands of such workers may
be suffering from mental trauma, said
Paul Brand, the CEO of Mission Critical
Psychological Services, a firm that provides
counseling to war zone civilians. More than
200,000 civilians work in Afghanistan and
Iraq, according to the most recent figures.
“There are many people falling through
the cracks, and there are few mechanisms
in place to support these individuals,’’ said
Brand, who conducted the study while
working at DynCorp.”There’s a moral
obligation that’s being overlooked. Can
the government really send people to a
war zone and neglect their responsibility
to attend to their emotional needs after the
fact?”
The survivors of civilians who have
committed suicide have found themselves
confused, frustrated and alone in their grief.
“If I was in the military, I’d at least
have someone to talk to,” said Melissa
Finkenbinder, 42, whose husband,
Kert, a mechanic, killed himself after
returning from Iraq. “Contractors don’t
have anything. Their families don’t have
anything.”
Some families of civilian contractors
who have committed suicide have tried
to battle for help through an outdated
government system designed to provide
health insurance and death benefits to
civilian contractors injured or killed on the
job.
Under the system, required by a law
known as the Defense Base Act, defense
firms must purchase workers’ compensation
insurance for their employees in war zones.
It is highly specialized and expensive
insurance, dominated by the troubled giant
AIG and a handful of other companies. The
cost of it is paid by taxpayers as part of the
contract price.
But the law, which is designed to
provide coverage for accidental death and
injury, blocks payment of death benefits in
the case of almost all suicides. Cases linked
to mental incapacity are the lone exception,
judges have ruled.
A joint investigation last year by
ProPublica, ABC News and the Los Angeles
Times revealed that contract workers must
frequently battle carriers for basic medical
coverage. While Congress has promised
reforms, there has been no discussion of
changing the law when it comes to suicides
involving civilian defense workers.
The military, by contrast, allows
survivors to receive benefits in cases in
which a soldier’s suicide can be linked to
depression caused by battlefield stress.
Hundreds of soldiers have committed
suicide since the war in Afghanistan began
in 2001, according to studies by the Army
and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
In response, the Defense Department has
become more active in trying to prevent
suicide than its hired contractors, military
experts said.
The military is “aggressively trying
to reach people and do intervention
beforehand and set up suicide awareness
programs,” said Ian de Planque, a benefits
expert at the American Legion, the nation’s
largest veterans group. “Awareness of it has
increased. I don’t know that it’s transferred
over to the civilian sector at this point.”
Birgitt Eysselinck has spent years
trying to prove that her husband’s death
in Iraq was related to stress from his job
with a company specializing in the removal
of land mines and explosive ordnance. So
far, courts have sided with the insurance
firm, Chicago-based CNA, in denying
Eysselinck’s claim. (CNA declined to
comment, citing privacy reasons.)
Eysselinck, 44, said that neither federal
judges nor insurance adjusters understand
that civilian contractors face many of the
same risks in Iraq and Afghanistan that
soldiers do. Her husband, Tim Eysselinck,
endured mortar attacks and frequently
traveled across Iraq’s dangerous highways,
she said.
“There is a huge percentage of
contractors who are silently suffering,”
Eysselinck said. “That obviously puts them
and their families at risk. Communities are
bearing the brunt of this, especially the
families.”
Wade Dill was working at a local pest
control company when he decided to take
a job with KBR in Iraq in late 2004. The
money was good – almost $11,000 a month
for handling extermination and hazardous
material disposal, more than double his
normal salary.
“He said this was our opportunity,”
Barb Dill said. “He could start a college
fund for our daughter, pay off the mortgage
and have a nice retirement. He told me
at his age, 41, he didn’t know if he had
enough years left in him to give us what he
wanted.”
Wade started that December, working
on bases in central and northern Iraq.
Violence was ever present. A base near
Mosul was shelled frequently. He told
Barb that a mortar landed close enough to
temporarily deafen him. Once, he called her
“There are many people falling through the cracks and there are
few mechanisms in place to support these individuals.”
sobbing.
“My husband never cried, ever,” she
said. “Marines don’t cry. A young man,
a soldier, had put a pistol to his head and
blown his brains out. And Wade had to go
in and clean up after they removed the body
– he had to clean up brain matter and blood.
It really upset him.”
Barb Dill noticed a change in her
husband when he returned home for a visit
Barb Dill lays on her living room floor as she talks about her husband’s suicide. She said, “It leaves you with
the most empty feeling. And there’s no band aid, there’s no drugs, there’s no operation, there’s nothing to make
it better. They say time, but I’m waiting. And some days it was really rough.” (Francine Orr/Los Angeles Times)
in December 2005. The couple had been
high school sweethearts, married for 15
years. They had troubles, but had always
worked them out. Now, he seemed moody
and often angry, lashing out at her and their
daughter, Sara.
“He would say hateful things to me
and our daughter – things he had never said
before.” Dill said. “This was a man that
loved his little girl and his wife. He always
called us his girls.”
When Wade returned for another
visit in June 2006, he abruptly quit his
job and began acting erratically, Dill said.
He ripped the wiring out of appliances,
smashed mirrors and poured lighter fluid
on their furniture.
After a few weeks, Wade took a room at
a local motel. On July 15, he asked Barb to
come see him. Their conversation spiraled
into a confrontation. Frightened and angry,
Barb sped off in her car. The next day, the
Shasta County coroner’s office called to tell
her that Wade’s body had been found in the
room.
“He told me that he was sick and
needed help,” Dill said. “I told him to get
help and then we would talk. The last time I
saw him was in my rearview mirror.”
Dill soon found herself in financial
difficulty. Her husband had always taken
care of the bills. He had spent lavishly with
his higher salary, buying two BMWs during
trips home. Now, Dill discovered the couple
was $300,000 in debt on their mortgage and
car loans.
She plunged into depression, struggling
to cope with her daughter’s grief and the
sense that she had failed her husband in
his time of need. She sold the cars and
nearly lost her home after falling behind on
mortgage payments.
She suffered mostly by herself.
Except for a handful of Web sites, no
support groups exist for widows of civilian
contractors. The federal government offers
no counseling for civilians returning from
work in war zones.
Dill said that she felt abandoned by
everyone: her husband’s employer, the
insurance company and especially the
federal government, which oversees the
Defense Base Act system through the Labor
Department.
“Shouldn’t our government be pattern of increasing erratic behaviors
responsible for the companies they hire?” that culminated in suicide,” wrote Charles
Dill said. “Shouldn’t our government take Seaman, an expert in PTSD.
care of its own people, who are doing jobs A Labor Department examiner
our government, ultimately, wanted them to recommended that AIG pay the claim,
do?” but the company refused. AIG and KBR
Survivors of civilian contractors whose declined comment about the case. In court
death is related to their work in Iraq have filings, AIG has argued that the Defense
the right to apply for compensation benefits Base Act does not cover suicides.
that pay up to $63,000 a year for life. AIG attorneys also have said that
Dill applied, asserting that her Wade Dill’s actions were related to marital
husband’s PTSD made him an exception to and family problems. A psychiatrist
the rule against payments in suicide cases. hired by AIG testified at a hearing in San
Her claim was denied by AIG, KBR’s Francisco in January that he had performed
insurance provider. a “psychological autopsy” on Wade Dill
She protested, sending her claim into a based on interviews with his family and
court documents.
The psychiatrist, Andrew D. Whyman,
said his evaluation led him to conclude that
Dill suffered from depression and that his
suicide was unrelated to the violence he
witnessed in Iraq.
dispute resolution system run by the Labor “Take out the Iraq experience, (the
Department. Her case is still grinding its suicide) would have happened,” Whyman
way through the system, which can take testified. “He had a choice. … He could
years to produce a final result. have chosen not to do that.”
Experts hired by the family and the Barb Dill insists her husband came
insurance company differed on what led to back from Iraq a changed man.
Wade Dill’s suicide. “No matter how strained our
A psychiatrist hired by her attorney relationship could get at times, we always
found that job stress in Iraq was one of the pulled out of it with no problem,” Dill said.
factors that drove Wade to suicide: “The “Iraq changed all that.”
bottom line is that the combination of Now, she said, she is trying to hold her
physical separation and work-related stress life together. A final decision in her case is
resulted in increasingly emotional distance, not expected for months.
greater distortion of the relationship, “We’re just slowly sinking,” she said.
increasing emotional intensity, and a “It’s hard to be strong.
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Thursday 6/24/10 Cafe Strudel Utopia New Brookland Tavern Wednesday 6/30/10
Chris Compton The Overtones New Brookland Tavern Lovecraft
Cafe Strudel The Cover Of Afternoon Pity Rally New Brookland Tavern
TBA Hard Knox Grill The White Mule Charlie McIver TBA Off With Their Heads
The reason Your Listening, Lauren Lucas w/ Mike Non Stop Hip Hop Live The Fake Boys
New Brookland Tavern Sounds of Surburbia and Willis & tba Presents: Monday 6/28/10 Lewis Turn Out
mewithoutYou Nashville Tenn's The Streets Won't Leave Hawaiian Shirt Day
David Bazan Mellow Down Easy Saturday 6/26/10 Me Alone Concert New Brookland Tavern
Rubik Featuring Fat Rat Da Czar Invader The White Mule
Macs on Main Art Bar w/:Ali-Rah, Bornaturals, Give Em Hell Kid Drew Dixon
The White Mule Soul Patrol Capital City Playboys Dan Johns, Mentality They Say We Burn So
Joe Firstman w/ Trey CD Release, West Bank, Bright Thursday 7/1/10
Lockerbie, Matt Corbin New Brookland Tavern Flat Out Strangers, SC Utopia
Avon Walk For Breast Broadcasters Jellyroll & Delicious Dish The White Mule New Brookland Tavern
Utopia Cancer Benefit Show w/: Davin McCoy w Andrew Vindictive Soverign
Open Mic w The Dubber Dance Commander Cafe Strudel The White Mule Hoover Invoking The Abstract
Patchwork Medic "Now You See Them" Amy Speace w/ Fran Barriers
Friday 6/25/10 Fight The Quiet Sanderson (early show) Tuesday 6/29/10 The Terrigen Mists
I Am Carpenter Hard Knox Grill James Ervin & Friends Eyes Cast Down
Art Bar From Columbia With Love The DB Bryant Band New Brookland Tavern
Columbia Alternacirque Acoustic Open Mic Night The White Mule
Macs on Main Sunday 6/27/10 w/ Brightford Sam Baker, w/ Natilie
Daddy Blue Zukerman, and John

Road Trip
06/25/10 :: Friday North Myrtle Beach, Mo Daddy’s Simplified Kylie’s
Matthew Ryan SC Asheville, NC Cornelius, NC
Gabriel Kelley The Evening Muse
The Packway Charlotte, NC Milhouse Fiery Dar Williams Alter Eagles
Handle Band Ron’s Home Team Sara Watkins The Doghouse
Athfest Athens Crosstown Amici’s BBQ Orange Peel Fayetteville,NC
Sports Bar and Grill Sullivan’s Island, SC Asheville, NC
Ken Will Morton Concord, NC Tommy Emmanuel
Athfest Athens 06/26/10 :Saturday Ro Parrish Charleston Music
Simplified Forty- Blue Restaurant Hall
efren Flicker Rod Roadhouse Dead Confederate Charlotte, NC Charleston, SC
Theater and Bar Mint Hill, NC 40 Watt Club
Athens Athens, Leslie Noise Org
Andy Friedman & Damsel Down Bitch Please
Hightide Blues The Other Failures Futurebirds Breaking Laces Daily Dose
Melting Point SMOKE Southern Athfest Athens, Dudefest 2010 Charleston, SC
Athens Barbecue Revival Charlotte, NC
Blythwood, SC The Woodgrains Bloodkin
Nora Jane Struthers The Bearfoot Truckstop Preachers Firework Show
Stillwater Taproom L Shape Lot Hookers Last Neighborhood The Pour House
Augusta, Fiery Ron’s Call Athens, Theatre Charleston, SC
Home Team BBQ Charlotte, NC
Noise Org Charleston, SC Ponderosa Little The Bloodsurs
The Wormhole Kings Athens The Rippingtons Tin Roof
Savannah Mama’s Love Farnell Charleston, SC
The Pour House Strawberry Flats Newton Road
Shortwave Society Charleston, SC Melting Point Runner Mobile Elmwood Wild
Hookah Joe’s Athens Amphitheatre Wing Cafe Hilton
Asheville, NC Jacob Johnson (formerly Uptown Head Island, SC
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Josh Roberts Florence, SC World Athens, Charlotte, NC Cracker The
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Will Hoge Chris Young Broadway At the
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10 June 24, 2010 Charlotte, NC Alabama Theater Griff Martin
 Good news for fans of modern coun-
try with a touch of R&B: Nashville
recording artist and Columbia native,
Lauren Lucas, is playing a summer show
in her hometown.
Lucas is a solid songwriter with a
sound just begging for massive airplay on
CMT. Catching her in an intimate setting
like The White Mule will definitely be a
treat. In fact, you’d probably already be
singing along to her music videos if a
shakeup at Warner Bros. Records in 2006
hadn’t put her recording project on hold.
“I didn’t know what to do,” Lucas
says of the ordeal. “I had to reinvent
myself. But, I know who I want to be
much more now than I did when I got off
the label.”
“If I’m out there singing every night,”
she says, “I want to do something I love.
I want to share a little piece of me with
people and I don’t want that to be false.”
The result of that ethos is a really
(really) strong EP titled If I Was Your
Girl that Lucas recorded independently.
If Lauren and Nashville counterpart
Mike Willis decide to just go acoustic on
Friday, prepare for some soulful magic; if
they bring backing bands they’re going
to rock. Whatever they break out, it’s
going to be good. Again, if you’re a fan of
modern country, don’t miss this one.
Adam Glover opens. Doors at 6 p.m.,
show at 8.
june 24, 2010 11
 The Get Wets get wet at The Whig
By day, 28 year-old Mike Lee roams the depths of the Thomas Cooper
Library as circulation supervisor at the University of South Carolina. He’s
worked at the Coop for almost four years so it’s no surprise that when the sun
goes down the Cola Town resident finds a quiet bottom floor study room and
transforms into his alter-ego Jim Stark, frontman of the Get Wets, perpetuator of
the rhythm and booze and former host of WUSC’s Rock ‘N’ Roll Radio from
2002-2007.
It always seems to be a party for the guy in the short shorts, white tee,
Gilligan hat and eerie 60’s surfer movie inspired lupine laugh end-capped with
a boisterous and elongated “WIPE OUT!”
Last weekend Stark brought out his band, The Get Wets, equipped with
drinking and dancing shoes for a late night performance at the Whig. Kicking
things off that evening was The Mondellos from Atlanta.
As the ABC news station slaved away just overhead Stark enjoyed a Pabst
while pulling nails from his tambourine (the jangle frisbee) commenting that he
should have probably taken care of those chores at any other time besides now.
Below left: Artie Mondello of the Mondellos. Below middle: Scotty Tempo
and Amy Long Caffee take a break on the steps outside the Whig. Below right:
Anna Howard watches the Mondellos as Stark encourages the party.
-SEAN RAYFORD
 movie times
Movie times 6:25 7:15 9:10 10:00 Prince of Persia: The Benjamín Espósito
listed are for the The Karate Kid (2010) Sands of Time (PG- (Ricardo Darín) as he
weekend of June (PG) 13) pens a biographical
25. please confirm 12:30 2:00 3:35 5:05 6:50 9:35 novel about the
with theater or visit 6:40 8:15 9:45 Shrek Forever After unsolved case of a
columbiacitypaper. Get Him to the Greek (PG) young newlywed’s
com for the latest. (R) 11:50am 2:10 4:30 brutal rape and
12:45 1:50 3:25 4:35 Iron Man 2 (PG-13) murder years ago.
Regal Columbia 6:20 7:20 9:00 10:00 4:10 7:05 10:05 Past and present
Cinema 7 Splice (R) intertwine for Espósito
3400 Forest Drive 1:30 4:20 7:10 9:50 Regal Columbiana and colleague Irene
With all of the remakes that are descending both methods that the audience might expect to Suite 3000, Columbia, Just Wright (PG) Grande Stadium 14 Menéndez Hastings
down upon us, I try to see the original versions see mixed in with some very unorthodox ones. SC 29204 1:55 4:15 7:00 9:35 1250 Bower Pkwy, (Soledad Villamil) in
before I see what present day Hollywood has to We also see Dre’s relationship with Mei Ying Letters to Juliet (PG) Columbia, SC 29212 director Juan José
offer. Unfortunately I am not always able to. I develop and blossom into something more than Grown Ups new! (PG- 1:10 4:00 6:45 9:20 Campanella’s Oscar-
am actually quite disappointed this time more just friends. Mr. Han’s past is also revealed 13, No Passes) The Losers (PG-13) Grown Ups new! (PG- winning character
than others that I was not able to see the initial and he connects with his pupil on a level that 11:30am 2:00 4:30 1:40 4:45 7:10 9:40 13, No Passes) study in which justice,
film to this remake. I know, I know, just like even he did not expect to. Of course the story 7:10 9:40 Oceans (G) 11:45am 12:30 2:15 pain and love collide.
not seeing other movies such as The Godfather builds to the most exciting part of the film, the The A-Team (PG-13) 2:10 4:25 6:50 9:05 2:55 4:45 5:30 7:15
franchise and Scarface, not seeing the original tournament. Everything he has learned and more 11:25am 2:10 5:00 Death at a Funeral 8:00 9:40 10:25 JUNE 25-JULY 1,
three or at least the very first Karate Kid is seen is on full display as Dre attempts to overcome his 7:40 10:20 (R) 12:10am Friday-Thursday
as a mortal sin in the world of classic movies. fear of not just being able to defend himself but Get Him to the Greek 1:20 3:50 6:35 9:30 Knight and Day new! Friday, June 25 - 3:00,
But I promise I will get to it and much sooner also adjusting to his new life and giving a man (R) Alice in Wonderland (PG-13) 5:30 and 8:00
rather than later now that I’ve seen the revamp. with past demons a second chance at his own. 11:40am 2:20 4:50 in Disney Digital 3D 11:40am 12:40 2:10 Saturday, June 26 -
Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) is uprooted from The Karate Kid is a true all around crowd 7:50 10:25 (PG) 3:10 4:40 5:40 7:20 3:00, 5:30 and 8:00
his life in Detroit and forced to move halfway pleaser. It has kids being kids including the Splice (R) Disney Digital 3D 8:10 9:50 10:45 Sunday, June 27 -
around the globe to Beijing, China because of his funny things that they say, pop-and-lock 12:00 2:30 5:10 8:00 Showtimes More Info 12:20am 3:00, 5:30 and 8:00
mother’s, Sherry (Taraji P. Henson) job. Culture dancing and practical jokes. It shows the 10:30 1:35 5:15 8:45 Jonah Hex new! (PG- Monday, June 28 -
shock would be an understatement here, simply difficult transgression that one would go Prince of Persia: The Avatar in Digital 3D 13) 5:30 and 8:00
moving to another neighborhood even takes through, especially a child, being torn away Sands of Time (PG- (PG-13) 12:00 2:35 5:05 7:45 Tuesday, June 29 -
some kind of adjustment but moving to another from everything they once knew and introduced 13) Digital 3D Showtimes 10:15 5:30 and 8:00
continent in another hemisphere altogether has into an entirely new life. It has romance and 11:20am 1:50 4:40 More Info Toy Story 3 new! (G) Wednesday, June 30 -
got to be far from easy. Right off the bat, Dre friendship and insight into Chinese culture and 7:10 9:50 1:25 5:00 8:30 11:50am 1:20 2:20 3:00, 5:30 and 8:00
meets a young girl named Mei Ying (Wen Wen of course it has the stunt fighting and action that Letters to Juliet (PG) 3:50 4:50 6:30 7:30 Thursday, July 1 -
Han) who is an aspiring violinist and finds is expected of it. One controversy that it did 11:15am 1:40 4:10 AMC Dutch Square 9:00 10:00 11:30 5:30 and 8:00
himself smitten with her. He tries to talk to spark was the fact that it is titled The Karate Kid, 7:00 9:40 14 Toy Story 3 in Disney 937 Main Street
her and she takes an interest back but another respectively after its predecessors, but features Iron Man 2 (PG-13) 800 Bush River Rd., Digital 3D new! (G)
kid, Cheng (Zhenwei Wang), witnesses their the kung fu style of martial art fighting. Karate 12:10 4:20 7:20 10:10 Columbia, SC 29210 Showtimes More Info THE BIG MO
friendly interaction and decides to step in. Step is in relation to Japanese culture whereas kung 11:20am 12:20 1:50 MONETTA DRIVE-
in is putting it mildly, him and his “crew” fu is to Chinese. It is titled The Kung Fu Kid in Carmike Wynnsong Grown Ups new! (PG- 2:50 4:20 5:20 7:00 IN
immediately pressure Dre into a fight which ends Asian countries and only called its original name 10 13, No Passes) 8:05 9:30 10:30 5822 Columbia
with him laying face down on the ground. After in America. 5320 Forest Drive, 10:10am 11:20am 12:00am Highway North, M
trying to cover up his black eye with makeup for Jaden Smith seems to be a natural after only Columbia, SC 29206 12:45 1:55 3:20 4:35 Killers (PG-13) onetta SC 29105
school the next day, he runs into the same kid a couple of films on his resume. He trained with 5:55 7:15 8:30 9:50 11:40am 2:30 4:55 LESS THAN AN
during lunch but this showdown is cancelled due the films fight and stunt coordinator, Wu Gang, Knight and Day new! 11:10 7:35 9:55 12:05am HOUR AWAY Take
to the arrival by the school principal. Frustrated, before filming his fight and training scenes with (PG-13) Knight and Day new! Prince of Persia: The I-20 to exit 33 (SC
feeling alone and very angry, Dre tells his mom Jackie Chan. Acting wise, he does a great job, 1:00 1:30 3:35 4:15 (PG-13, No Passes) Sands of Time (PG- Route 39)
that he is ready to go home. Her only response probably just playing himself; he adds jokes 6:10 7:05 8:45 9:45 11:25am 2:15 4:55 13) Take SC 39 to
to him is a very disappointing, “this is home”. and charisma to his character that will delight Jonah Hex new! (PG- 7:45 10:25 11:30am 2:05 5:25 Monetta, SC (approx.
Taking an opportunity to exact some movie goers. Jackie Chan puts on possibly his 13) Jonah Hex new! (PG- 7:55 10:40 7 miles.)
revenge on his enemies, Dre throws a bucket best acting performance aside of stunt fighting 1:30 4:00 6:55 9:15 13, No Passes) Sex and the City 2 (R) Turn right onto US 1.
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himself lying face down on the ground. This some of his signature funny man antics and one Toy Story 3 in DisneyToy Story 3 new! (G, (PG) mile down US 1 on the
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maintenance man, Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). He girlfriends, Taraji P. Henson, who plays a cool Disney Digital 3D 10:20am 11:40am Robin Hood (PG-13) CASH ONLY! Gates
quickly puts an end to the fight without once but no nonsense mother who will kill someone
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laying a hurtful hand on the children who are over her baby. I might also add that she looks
12:30 1:30 3:05 4:05 6:25 7:50 9:05 10:30 Iron Man 2 (PG-13) starts at 8:45.
much younger than himself even though they quite delicious while donning a traditional red
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 SavageLove Sex Advice
by Dan Savage
I’m a woman in
my 20s, and I’ve been
dating the love of my
life for two years now.
We are incredibly
happy except for—
guess!—we have
different sex drives.
When we first started
dating, I initiated sex all the time and enjoyed it,
but as soon as I started on birth control, my libido
evaporated. After a nightmarish year of trying
different methods, arguing with doctors, and hurt
feelings, I decided that it wasn’t worth it, and
we’ve stopped using any hormonal birth control
(we’re using condoms).
But months later, I still have almost no
interest in sex or masturbation. We have sex once
or twice a week, but it’s physically boring. I put
on my game face and endure it. I enjoy pleasing
him, but it does nothing for me. It hurts him that I
am not interested in sex and that he can’t arouse
or please me. I want us to have a healthy sex life,
because I love him and he’s worth it. Could this
still be the birth control? Did I somehow flip the
OFF switch?
Please help, Dan. My doctors are all sex-
negative and don’t see the problem, and I want to
enjoy sex again.
Not Horny, Not Happy
Your problem doesn’t sound like a case of
differing sex drives, NHNH, but like a healthy sex
drive that’s been derailed.
“Birth control pills can decrease sexual desire
if they substantially lower testosterone levels,”
says Cindy M. Meston, PhD, professor of clinical
psychology at University of Texas at Austin
and author of Why Women Have Sex. “The pill
supplies a steady dose of hormones, so that the
body stops producing its own unsteady, cyclical
dose.” The pill keeps your estrogen level high in
order to prevent ovulation, while also “increasing
the sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG),
which binds to testosterone, thus blocking it from
being ‘read’ by the body.”
Testosterone plays a huge role in female
libido, and blocking testosterone doesn’t do your
libido any favors. And while most women who
experience a severe drop in libido on the pill
bounce back a few months after they stop taking
it, some women aren’t so lucky.
“One well-regarded researcher, Irwin
Goldstein, found that after stopping the pill, SHBG
remained high in some women and testosterone
levels didn’t go back up,” says Meston. “It’s
not common, but it could explain this woman’s
situation. The best thing for her would be to go to
a gynecologist, urologist, or endocrinologist who
specializes in sexual medicine (make sure they
actually know what the hell they’re measuring)
and have all her reproductive hormones
measured. If she’s low in testosterone, she can
take testosterone supplements.”
That means you’ll have to fire your current
sex-negative doctors, NHNH, and find yourself
some new, sex-positive ones—and you’ll have to
stick with them.
“She needs a good doctor to monitor her
closely, as too much testosterone causes bad side
effects in women—side effects like facial hair
growth.”
I also shared your e-mail with Debby
Herbenick, PhD, sexual-health educator at the
Kinsey Institute and author of Because It Feels
Good, and she feels there’s a chance your problem
isn’t hormonal.
“In working with people, what I more often
have found—and wrote about in my book—is
something I call a ‘cycle of dread.’ I know that
14 June 24, 2010
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“All the Right Angles”--they’ve got the market cornered.
by Matt Jones 53 Madness’s musical genre 19 Blue solid on a pool table
55 ___-Locka, Florida 21 Lower-level apartment
sounds ‘magazine-y,’ but it’s the best way I can Across 56 Soundgarden frontman Chris number
1 “Little Women” sister crushed by the other team? 26 Network that merged with
think of to describe it, and this woman seems to
5 His famous role is being 61 Polynesian capital UPN
epitomize it.” reprised in 2010 62 Its ads compare cereal bowl 28 Missile storage buildings
8 List with activities for kids quantities 30 Some tests
A cycle of dread—let’s call it COD—can kick 12 ___ con pollo 63 Falls behind 31 Cub Scout group
in when someone keeps having sex she doesn’t 14 Wyatt of the Old West 64 Dirty 32 Antlered beast
want to have, or isn’t enjoying, because she feels 16 Apple pesticide banned in the 65 Simmons competitor 33 The Family Stone leader
she must. 1980s 66 Major event for a law student 35 Some motorcycles
“Sometimes, it works out all right—once 17 Play ___ in (affect) 67 Abbr. in many Canadian city 36 On the cheap end
they start going, it feels better. But quite often, 18 It may stick out of one’s pants names 37 It may get in gear
they don’t want it, they do it anyway, it sucks 20 General Colin’s nickname in 68 Caustic substances 38 Greek consonant
(‘physically boring,’ ‘I put on my game face’), the dynamite business? 39 “Smoking” alternative
and they do it anyway and keep doing it.” 22 Old synthesizer brand Down 43 Tissue swellings
Herbenick believes a temporary “ban on 23 Albuquerque coll. 1 Shearing sound 44 Nevada county
intercourse”—or taking “vaginal off the menu,” 24 Kind of dye 2 Baseball stats 48 “The Writer’s Almanac”
as I’ve recommended in similar circumstances— 25 Helper, for short 3 They get deployed subject
”can help couples learn to touch each other again 27 Goddess of the dawn 4 Ian of “Ratatouille” 49 Burning the midnight oil
with pleasure.” 29 “Humble” homes 5 Body type somewhere in the 50 Cowboys’ home
I think you should take the advice of both of 34 “The Office” actor Steve made middle 52 Office notes
our guest experts: Initiate a ban on intercourse for up of many parts? 6 Obama Chief of Staff Emanuel 54 Part of NEA
now, NHNH, because you’re not doing you, your 37 Snoring cause 7 “I could ___ referee” (line from 56 Busy workers during April
libido, or your boyfriend any favors when you put 40 Its chairman was Yasser Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind”) 57 Latvian capital
on that game face and go through the motions, and Arafat 8 Down Under pal 58 Right on the map?
go get your hormone levels checked. 41 Long-limbed 9 Airline with a hub at Ben 59 “Get going!”
42 Thurston of “Gilligan’s Gurion 60 Playwright Coward
Island” moving to Missouri? 10 Finger part 61 The whole kit and caboodle
What does a person do when an LTR starts to 45 “The Worst Comedian of All 11 Online address
feel stagnant or boring or dull? Time,” according to Maxim 13 Asian mammal also called a ©2010 Jonesin’ Crosswords
Partnered But Jonesing 46 Betty White recently hosted it “humped cattle” (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)
47 Tater 15 Elizabeth Wurtzel autobio
A person experiments (with partner), cheats 51 Fashion line? drug
(on partner), or breaks up (with partner).
I have a dilemma. Even though I was born
in 1972, people always assume that I’m in my
mid-20s. I tend to attract girls in their early 20s,
and when they ask how old I am, I counter with
“How old do you think I am?” They invariably
guess an age that I haven’t seen in more than a
decade. When I tell these 21- to 23-year-olds the
truth, it’s a complete turnoff. Just last night I had
to endure—that’s endure, not Ensure—my third
brush-off at the hands of a hot 21-year-old girl
in a row!
So what’s an apparent senior citizen like
myself to do? Do I just wait hopelessly for the
dreaded question to come up? Do I blurt out “I’m
old” as soon as a woman walks up to me? Do I
take measures to try to look my age?
You’re probably wondering why I don’t just
go for women closer to my own age. Here’s why:
Women my own age tell me that they’re looking
for serious relationships and I look way too young
for that and they worry that my looks mean I’m a
total player!
You’re Only Using Numbers, Girls
First, YOUNG, maybe your problem is the
lousy puns. Endure/Ensure? That would earn you
a brush-off from me.
But if older women aren’t interested because
you look too young, and younger women aren’t
interested because you are too old—if you’re
actually being discriminated against based on
your age/looks—then you have a license to lie to
women, young and old.
Let younger women think you’re in your 20s
until they get to know you better. Then disclose
and apologize for the deceit without being too
abject about it. You had cause. As for women
closer to your own age, well, instead of telling
them you’re very nearly 40, YOUNG, let ‘em
think you’re a twentysomething with a thing for
older women. Then if a puma—or panther or
cougar or otter or whatever—decides to dump
you because she’s getting too attached and the
(presumed) age difference is simply too great,
bust out your birth certificate, apologize, and
propose.
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