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How to Choose the Best Estate Planning Attorney in San Diego

Choosing the right estate planning attorney in San Diego is a crucial decision that can have a significant impact on the protection and distribution of your assets, as well as the well-being of your loved ones after you're gone. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you navigate this important selection process and find the best estate planning attorney san diego for your needs.

1. Assess Your Needs and Goals

Before you start searching for an estate planning attorney, take some time to clarify your goals and needs. Consider factors such as:

Complexity of Your Estate: Do you have substantial assets, multiple properties, or business interests that require specialized planning?

Family Dynamics: Are there unique family situations, such as blended families, minor children, or individuals with special needs, that require careful consideration in your estate plan?

Estate Planning Objectives: What are your primary objectives? Are you focused on minimizing estate taxes, protecting assets from creditors, providing for charitable giving, or ensuring specific distributions to beneficiaries?

Having a clear understanding of your situation and goals will help you articulate your needs when evaluating potential estate planning attorneys.

2. Seek Recommendations and Research

Start your search for a San Diego estate planning attorney by seeking recommendations from trusted sources, such as:

Friends and Family: Ask friends, family members, or colleagues who have gone through estate planning for recommendations.

Financial Advisors and Accountants: Professionals who are familiar with your financial situation may have valuable insights and referrals.

Online Resources: Use reputable online directories, legal websites, or state bar association websites to find estate planning attorneys in San Diego. Look for attorneys who specialize in estate planning and have positive client reviews.

3. Evaluate Qualifications and Experience

When evaluating potential estate planning attorneys, consider the following qualifications and experience:

Specialization in Estate Planning: Choose an attorney who specializes in estate planning rather than a general practitioner. Specialization ensures that the attorney has in-depth knowledge and experience in this complex area of law.

Years of Practice: Experience matters in estate planning. Look for an attorney with several years of practice specifically in estate planning, ideally with a focus on clients similar to you in terms of asset level and estate complexity.

Credentials: Check if the attorney is a member of relevant professional organizations, such as the American Academy of Estate Planning Attorneys or local bar associations. Membership often indicates a commitment to ongoing education and high ethical standards.

4. Schedule Consultations

Once you’ve identified a few potential candidates, schedule initial consultations to meet with each attorney. Most estate planning attorneys offer a complimentary initial consultation where you can:

Assess Communication Style: Pay attention to how well the attorney listens to your concerns and explains complex legal concepts in a way that you understand.

Discuss Approach and Strategy: Inquire about the attorney’s approach to estate planning and their strategies for achieving your goals. A good attorney will provide thoughtful insights and tailor their approach to your specific needs.

Ask About Fees: Understand the attorney’s fee structure, including whether they charge a flat fee, hourly rate, or a combination. Ensure that you are comfortable with the fees and that they align with the services provided.

5. Consider Compatibility and Trust

Choosing an estate planning attorney is not just about their qualifications; it’s also about finding someone you trust and feel comfortable working with. Consider factors such as:

Personal Rapport: Trust your instincts about whether you feel comfortable sharing personal and financial information with the attorney.

Accessibility: Consider how accessible the attorney is and how responsive they are to your inquiries. Communication should be clear and timely throughout the estate planning process.

Client References: Don’t hesitate to ask for references from current or past clients. Contacting references can provide valuable insights into the attorney’s professionalism, communication, and effectiveness in handling estate planning matters.

6. Review and Update Your Plan Regularly

Once you’ve chosen the best estate planning attorney for your needs and goals, work closely with them to create and implement your estate plan. Remember that estate planning is not a one-time event; it should be reviewed and updated periodically to reflect changes in your life circumstances, tax laws, and financial goals.

Conclusion

Choosing the best estate planning attorney in San Diego requires careful consideration of your needs, thorough research, and thoughtful evaluation of potential candidates. By following these steps and investing time in selecting the right attorney, you can ensure that your estate plan is well-crafted, legally sound, and aligned with your long-term objectives. A qualified estate planning attorney will guide you through the complexities of estate planning, provide peace of mind, and help you protect your legacy for future generations.

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The Vital Work of a San Diego Probate Attorney

The legal process associated with the passing of a loved one can be complex, causing an additional emotional burden during an already challenging period. For those located in Southern California, assistance from a trained San Diego probate attorney can provide the necessary support to guide individuals through this process.

Understanding Probate Law

Probate is the legal process that deals with administering someone's property and affairs after their death. A San Diego probate attorney is a law specialist who helps administer these assets in accordance with the decedent's Will or local laws when no Will exists. They are well-versed in San Diego's specific rules and regulations surrounding probate law and thus play a vital role in ensuring a smooth transition of property.

Duties of A Probate Attorney

A probate attorney assists executors (or administrators, if there's no Will)of the decedent's estate with numerous tasks. One central aspect includes securing all the deceased individual’s assets.

They carefully catalogue all properties and valuables before paying any outstanding debts or taxes. Next, they assist with distributing these according to the deceased person’s instructions detailed in their Last Will and Testament or by local law if no such instructions exist.

This lawyer also aids in obtaining appraisals for the decedent's properties as required for proper distribution among heirs.

Resolving Disputes

One difficult situation often faced involves potential disputes among family members related to asset allocation—roiling emotions triggered by grief can exacerbate disagreements making them hard to resolve amicably. In such cases, experienced assistance from a San Diego probates attorney will prove invaluable.

By serving as an objective party aware of specific Southern Californian laws tied to these disputes, they reduce the strain on family relationships while ensuring compliance with both legal obligations and the decedent’s last wishes.

Court Representation

A significant aspect of probate law involves presenting information in court about the deceased’s estate. The San Diego Probate Attorney offers representation during these necessary and complex legal proceedings, ensuring local laws are complied with and making certain that everything process-wise goes smoothly.

Estate Planning

While mainly tasked with handling matters after death, a San Diego Probate Attorney also plays a role in preventing probate issues from arising altogether. They can help individuals create solid estate plans to ensure property is transferred to intended heirs promptly and efficiently, reducing the possibility of family disputes or protracted legal processes post-death.

In Conclusion:

Retaining the services of a qualified San Diego probate attorney affords peace of mind during an emotionally turmoil-laden period—the bereavement phase following a loved one's death. These attorneys' expertise in interpreting complex jurisdiction-specific laws eases the navigation path through distributing assets as per instruction or law should there be no instructions. Their ability to deftly handle potential familial disputes, their court representation skills, and their proactive advisory role make them an indispensable ally for anyone needing to negotiate San Diego’s specific probate laws.

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We help people throughout San Diego protect their loved ones and secure their legacies through custom estate plans.

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An excerpt from The Bezzle

I'm on tour with my new novel The Bezzle! Catch me next in SALT LAKE CITY (Feb 21, Weller Book Works) and SAN DIEGO (Feb 22, Mysterious Galaxy). After that, it's LA, Seattle, Portland, Phoenix and more!

Today, I'm bringing you part one of an excerpt from Chapter 14 of The Bezzle, my next novel, which drops on Feb 20. It's an ice-cold revenge technothriller starring Martin Hench, a two-fisted forensic accountant specialized in high-tech fraud:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

Hench is the Zelig of high-tech fraud, a character who's spent 40 years in Silicon Valley unwinding every tortured scheme hatched by tech-bros who view the spreadsheet as a teleporter that whisks other peoples' money into their own bank-accounts. This setup is allowing me to write a whole string of these books, each of which unwinds a different scam from tech's past, present and future, starting with last year's Red Team Blues (now in paperback!), a novel that whose high-intensity thriller plotline is also a masterclass in why cryptocurrency is a scam:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865854/redteamblues

Turning financial scams into entertainment is important work. Finance's most devastating defense is the Shield Of Boringness (h/t Dana Clare) – tactically deployed complexity designed to induce the state that finance bros call "MEGO" ("my eyes glaze over"). By combining jargon and obfuscation, the most monstrous criminals of our age have been able to repeatedly bring our civilization to the brink of collapse (remember 2008?) and then spin their way out of it.

Turning these schemes into entertainment is hard, necessary work, because it incinerates the respectable suit and tie and leaves the naked dishonesty of the finance sector on display for all to see. In The Big Short, they recruited Margot Robbie to explain synthetic CDOs from a bubble-bath. And John Oliver does this every week on Last Week Tonight, coming up with endlessly imaginative stunts and gags to flense the bullshit, laying the scam economy open to the bone.

This was my inspiration for the Hench novels (I've written and sold three of these, of which The Bezzle is number two; I've got at least two more planned). Could I use the same narrative tactics I used to explain mass surveillance, cryptography and infosec in the Little Brother books to turn scams into entertainment, and entertainment into the necessary, informed outrage that might precipitate change?

The main storyline in The Bezzle concerns one of the most gruesome scams in today's America: prison-tech, which sees America's vast army of prisoners being stripped of letters, calls, in-person visits, parcels, libraries and continuing ed in favor of cheap tablets that bilk prisoners and their families of eye-watering sums for every click they make:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

But each Hench novel has a variety of side-quests that work to expose different kinds of financial chicanery. The Bezzle also contains explainers on the workings of MLMs/Ponzis (and how Gerry Ford and Betsy DeVos's father-in-law legalized one of the most destructive forces in America) and the way that oligarchs, foreign and domestic, use Real Estate Investment Trusts to hide their money and destroy our cities.

And there's a subplot about music-royalty theft, a form of pernicious wage theft that is present up and down the music industry supply-chain. This is a subject that came up a lot when Rebecca Giblin and I were researching and writing Chokepoint Capitalism, our 2022 book about creative labor markets:

https://chokepointcapitalism.com/

Two of the standout cases from that research formed the nucleus of the subplot in The Bezzle, the case of Leonard Cohen's batshit manager who stole millions from him and then went to prison for stalking him, leaving him virtually penniless and forced to keep touring to keep himself fed:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/19/leonard-cohen-former-manager-jailed

The other was George Clinton, whose manager forged his signature on a royalty assignment, then used the stolen money to defend himself against Clinton's attempts to wrestle his rights back and even to sue Clinton for defamation for writing about the caper in his memoir:

https://www.musicconnection.com/the-legal-beat-george-clinton-wins-defamation-case/

That's the tale that this excerpt – which I'll be serializing in six parts over the coming week – tells, in fictionalized form. It's not Margot Robbie in a bubble-bath, it's not a John Oliver monologue, but I think it's pretty goddamned good.

I'm leaving for a long, multi-city, multi-country, multi-continent tour with The Bezzle next Wednesday, starting with an event at Weller Bookworks in Salt Lake City on the 21st:

https://www.wellerbookworks.com/event/store-cory-doctorow-feb-21-630-pm

I'll in be in San Diego on the 22nd at Mysterious Galaxy:

https://www.mystgalaxy.com/22224Doctorow

And then it's on to LA (with Adam Conover), Seattle (with Neal Stephenson), Portland, Phoenix and beyond:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/16/narrative-capitalism/#bezzle-tour

I hope you'll come out for the tour (and bring your friends)!

Between 1972 and 1978, Steve Soul (a.k.a. Stefon Magner) had a string of sixteen Billboard Hot 100 singles, one of which cracked the Top 10 and won him an appearance on Soul Train. He is largely forgotten today, except by hip-­hop producers who prize his tracks as a source of deep, funky grooves. They sampled the hell out of him, not least because his rights were controlled by Inglewood Jams, a clearinghouse for obscure funk tracks that charged less than half of what the Big Three labels extracted for each sample license.

Even at that lower rate, those license payments would have set Stefon up for a comfortable retirement, especially when added to his Social Security and the disability check from Dodgers Stadium, where he cleaned floors for more than a decade before he fell down a beer-­slicked bleacher and cracked two of his lumbar discs. But Stefon didn’t get a dime. His former manager, Chuy Flores, forged his signature on a copyright assignment in 1976. Stefon didn’t discover this fact until 1979, because Chuy kept cutting him royalty checks, even as Stefon’s band broke up and those royalties trickled off. In Stefon’s telling, the band broke up because the rest of the act—­especially the three-­piece rhythm section of two percussionists and a beautiful bass player with a natural afro and a wild, infectious hip-­wiggle while she played—­were too coked up to make it to rehearsal, making their performances into shambling wreckages and their studio sessions into vicious bickerfests. To hear the band tell of it, Stefon had bad LSD (“Lead Singer Disease”) and decided he didn’t need the rest of them. One thing they all agreed on: there was no way Stefon would have signed over the band’s earnings to Chuy, who was little more than a glorified bookkeeper, with Stefon hustling all their bookings and even ordering taxis to his bandmates’ houses to make sure they showed up at the studio or the club on time. Stefon remembered October of ’79 well. He’d been waiting with dread for the envelope from Chuy. The previous royalty check, in July, had been under $250. The previous quarter’s had been over $1,000. This quarter’s might have zero. Stefon needed the money. His 1972 Ford Galaxie needed a new transmission. He couldn’t keep driving it in first.

The envelope arrived late, the day before Halloween, and for a brief moment, Stefon was overcome by an incredible, unbelieving elation: Chuy’s laboriously typewritten royalty statement ended with the miraculous figure of $7,421.16. Seven thousand dollars! It was more than two years’ royalties, all in one go! He could fix the Galaxie’s transmission and get the ragtop patched, and still have money left over for his back rent, his bar tab, his child support, and a fine steak dinner, and even then, he’d end the month with money in his savings account.

But there was no check in the envelope. Stefon shook the envelope, carefully unfolded the royalty statement to ensure that there was no check stapled to its back, went downstairs to the apartment building lobby and rechecked his mailbox.

Finally, he called Chuy.

“Chuy, man, you forgot to put a check in the envelope.”

“I didn’t forget, Steve. Read the paperwork again. You gotta send me a check.”

“What the fuck? That’s not funny, Chuy.”

“I ain’t joking, Steve. I been advancing you royalties for more than three years, but you haven’t earned nothing new since then—­no new recordings. I can’t afford to carry you no more.”

“Say what?”

Chuy explained it to him like he was a toddler. “Remember when you signed over your royalties to me in ’76? Every dime I’ve sent you since then was an advance on your future recordings, only you haven’t had none of those, so I’m cutting you off and calling in your note. I’m sorry, Steve, but I ain’t a charity. You don’t work, you don’t earn. This is America, brother. No free lunches.”

“After I did what in ’76?”

“Steve, in 1976 you signed over all your royalties to me. We agreed, man! I can’t believe you don’t remember this! You came over to my spot and I told you how it was and you said you needed money to cover the extra horns for the studio session on Fight Fire with Water. I told you I’d cover them and you’d sign over all your royalties to me.”

Stefon was briefly speechless. Chuy had paid the sidemen on that session, but that was because Chuy owed him a thousand bucks for a string of private parties they’d played for some of Chuy’s cronies. Chuy had been stiffing him for months and Stefon had agreed to swap the session fees for the horn players in exchange for wiping out the debt, which had been getting in the way of their professional relationship.

“Chuy, you know it didn’t happen that way. What the fuck are you talking about?”

“I’m talking about when you signed over all your royalties to me. And you know what? I don’t like your tone. I’ve carried your ass for years now, sent you all that money out of my own pocket, and now you gotta pay up. My generosity’s run out. When you gonna send me a check?”

Of course, it was a gambit. It put Stefon on tilt, got him to say a lot of ill-­advised things over the phone, which Chuy secretly recorded. It also prompted Stefon to take a swing at Chuy, which Chuy dived on, shamming that he’d had a soft-­tissue injury in his neck, bringing suit for damages and pressing an aggravated-­assault charge.

He dropped all that once Stefon agreed not to keep on with any claims about the forged signature; Stefon went on to become a good husband, a good father, and a hard worker. And if cleaning floors at Dodgers Stadium wasn’t what he’d dreamed of when he was headlining on Soul Train, at least he never missed a game, and his boy came most weekends and watched with him. Stefon’s supervisor didn’t care.

But the stolen royalties ate at him, especially when he started hearing his licks every time he turned on the radio. His voice, even. Chuy Flores had a fully paid-­off three-­bedroom in Eagle Rock and two cars and two ex-­wives and three kids he was paying child support on, and Stefon sometimes drove past Chuy Flores’s house to look at his fancy palm trees all wrapped up in strings of Christmas lights and think about who paid for them.

ETA: Here's part two!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/17/the-steve-soul-caper/#lead-singer-disease

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 14 Rewatch:   “Sensu Lato”        

The basics:  After a scientist/Navy Reservist is stabbed, the team works to find the attacker.  Kensi and Deeks deal with parenthood, Sam sees a possible new future.

Written by: Faythallegra Claude and Indira Gibson Wilson

Faythallegra Claude wrote season 13’s "Perception" and season 14's "Glory of the Sea".  Indira Gibson Wilson co-wrote, “The Frogman’s Daughter”, "Signs of Change" and “Hard for the Money” and was the sole writer for "Lost Soldier Down" and "Let it Burn".

Directed by: Kevin Berlandi directed the season 14 premiere, "Game of Drones".

Guest stars of note:  Duncan Campbell is back from “Sleeping Dogs” as Agent Castor, Brandon Raman as Arjun Sethi, Jason C. Louder as Dr. Daryl Howard, Krishna Smitha as Natasha Graham, Lisa Marie as Dr. Claire Winchester, Kelby Keenan as GenBioSys Tour Guide and Jordan Murphy as Chief Technology Officer Tom Fields.

Our heroes:  Look for moths.

What important things did we learn about: Callen:  In San Diego. Sam:   Setting conscientious objectives. Kensi:  Wants to spend a little more time with Deeks even though they work and live together. Deeks:   Driving Rosa to school while listening to podcasts and introducing her to 70’s rock is the highlight of his day. Fatima:   Tasked with organizing Hetty’s office. Rountree: Doing well with his denim investment, looking at growing his empire to real estate. Kilbride:  Getting Fatima cool DoD access.

What not so important things did we learn about: Callen:  Working on a Russian case. Sam:  Looking at his future. Kensi:    Wanting some romance. Deeks:   Mr. Romance. Fatima:  Not happy Kilbride was messing up Hetty’s office. Rountree:  Obsessed with the future. Kilbride:  Looking for a possible replacement.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange?  Don’t know but she’s planning Sam’s future.

Who's down with OTP:   Kensi and Deeks are trying to navigate being both parents and a couple in love.

Who's down with BrOTP:  Sam and Rountree were more mentor and mentee than pals.

Fashion review:   Sam wears a chocolate brown pullover sweater.  Kensi is jogging in a black zip-up fleece jacket, a red athletic bra and red running tights.  While working, Kensi has on a white and grey striped sweater.  Deeks is jogging in a medium grey longs-sleeve tee and light grey joggers. In the office, Deeks is wearing a medium blue light-weight hoodie over a white undershirt.  Fatima wears a white turtleneck under a short black sweater.  Rountree wears a black jacket over a medium grey sweater.  Kilbride wears his ‘uniform’ – blue three-piece suit, light blue dress shirt, blue tied with red stripes.

Music:   “WOJ” by EverythingOShauN is playing in the lab to start the episode.  “Feels” by Nina-Symone plays as Kensi and Deeks leave the office.

Any notable cut scene:  For the second straight episode!  And there are two!

Number one has Sam and Rountree entering the lab building.  Rountree is still discussing real estate – thinking of buying a multi-unit home.  He’d live in one unit, Jordyn would live in another and he would rent out the third unit to cover expenses.  Sam gives Rountree a non-committal “not a bad idea”.  When Rountree says interest rates are high, Sam agrees but with little spirit.

Number two is after the kidnapping with Dr. Winchester is in the back of an ambulance getting some oxygen.  She asks about Dr. Howard, who is in ICU but is expected to live.  Dr. Winchester tells Sam that Dr. Howard’s work will save the world.  Sam things the world needs all the help it can get.  When the ambulance drives away, Sam sees Rountree looking at a lovely home.  Sam teases Rountree about having it all planned – nice house, a dog.  Rountree likes the idea of a dog.  Sam tells Rountree that things work out when a plan comes to fruition.   Rountree is waiting for a “jewel of wisdom” from Sam.   Sam tells Rountree to “pivot” – be prepared to pivot.  Rountree will thank Sam in ten years, according to Sam. 

That “pivot” scene should have stayed – it works beautifully with Sam’s conversation with Kilbride at the end of the episode.

Quote:  Kilbride:  “Henrietta evidently knew this office needed me and probably thought I needed it, too.  Now, you don't open that envelope till you're sure you want to take this job.” Sam:  “You know, in the past I would have given you a flat-out no.  But my life has evolved into something that I barely even recognize.  I think it's time for me to reevaluate where I want to go, how I want to get there.” Kilbride:  “You mean setting goals.” Sam:  “Ah, I wouldn't call it that.  More like conscientious objectives.” Kilbride:  “Tomato, to-mah-to.  But let me know what you decide as soon as you can.  I want to be able to leave at a moment's notice and somebody has to do this godforsaken job.” Sam:  “Well, you make it sound so fun, Admiral.”

Anything else:  In a lab, a scientist is examining an insect under a microscope.  “WOJ” by EverythingOShauN is playing and the doctor is signing/rapping along.  His phone beeps.  Putting away his bug by covering the petri dish, the scientist picks up his things to leave, forgetting his car keys.  Walking to the lab’s door, he passes a wall of small caged creatures – bugs, reptiles, animals.  The scientist speaks to his charges before singing his way out of the office.  He turns off the lights and is gone.

As soon as the scientist leaves, a person wearing black and a ski mask enters the lab through a side door. 

The scientist gets about halfway down the hall when he realizes he doesn’t have his keys.  Returning to the lab, he sees the masked person and confronts the intruder.  The two struggle, knocking over some petri dishes, including the one with the insect the scientist was studying.  After the scientist is knocked to the ground, the intruder pulls out a knife and stabs the scientist several times. 

Kensi and Deeks are out for a run.  Rosa is going to be carpooling to school with a classmate’s mother driving them on Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Deeks wants a full investigation into the mom, making sure her driving record is clean.  For Kensi, carpooling would give Kensi and Deeks a chance to have a little time for themselves in the morning – they could go jogging.  Deeks is not happy – he loves listening to podcasts with Rosa as they go to school, introducing Rosa to 70’s rock songs is the highlight of his day.  Deeks will have that on Monday, Wednesday and Friday but Tuesdays and Thursdays, Rosa would carpool.  Deeks thinks Tuesdays and Thursday will suck until Kensi points out that he saying spending time with her would suck.  

Deeks explains that they already spend a lot of time together – they both live together and work together like superheroes.  Kensi doesn’t think they are superheroes.  Kensi wants some romance.  Deeks doesn’t – who needs romance when you’re married.  Kensi is offended.  Digging a hole, Deeks explains that romance is based on lies – wearing clothes you’d never wear, wearing perfume that masks a person’s true smell and well, bouquets of flowers are just dead flowers that were murdered for romance.   Kensi is sad – she’s not going through life on autopilot, going through the motions.  Deeks comes around – they could go to a taco truck they like, maybe a wine bar and a movie.  Kensi calls it a date and Deeks doesn’t.

In the office driveway, Sam is talking to his father about dinner – Korean barbeque and Japanese food.  Raymond doesn’t see much of a difference.   Sam cuts the call short when the Admiral walks up.  Sam actually invites the Admiral to join him and Raymond at Benihana – the Admiral will think about it.  He has other business with Sam.  Callen is working with the San Diego office in a Russian smuggling case.  Sam saw the memo about Callen working in San Diego.  The Admiral is worried – Callen is taking on a lot with the case, the wedding, Pembrook, the whole Katya business.  Callen as a lot of plates spinning in the air.  Sam is sure Callen can take of all that’s on his plate. 

The Admiral’s concern is less about what’s going on now but what will be going on when the Admiral is unavailable to lead.  Kilbride wants Sam as the acting supervisor of OSP.  Sam wants no part of that - he’s a field agent.  Kilbride is worried that some outsider may take over the office – “some blue-flame outsider” – and Callen would have a hard time with that.  Sam as the leader would work better for Callen.  Sam is now unsure so the Admiral gives him some time to figure out what’s best for the team.  Sam sighs – he knows the Admiral did that on purpose.

In the firing range, Fatima and Rountree are shooting.  Both did quite well looking based on the paper targets.  Rountree asks Fatima how often she thinks about the future.  She tries to stay present.  Rountree is the opposite – he’s is obsessed.  Fatima mentions doomsday prepping and Rountree already has his “end of the world kit”.  He is visualizing his future.  Fatima is a fan of visualization boards but that’s not Rountree’s style.  He wants to have a ten-year plan, especially since the denim brand he invested in is beginning to show a profit.  If there is a year’s worth of profit, he’d buy a home in Los Angeles and look for new investments – a good investment that could change the world.  Fatima asks if a special someone changed Rountree’s future plans.  A call to Ops saves Rountree from answering.

In Ops, Fatima tells Sam and Rountree about the scientist, a retired Navy reservist Commander Dr. Darryl Howard of Whitley University. Dr. Howard is a tenured professor of entomology at Whitley specializing in pesticides.  He is alive, barely, in a coma at Cedars.  LAPD is at the lab investigating what, if anything, has been stolen.  Dr. Howard works for the Navy’s office of special research so the Admiral is looking into what Howard was doing for them.  The bigger concern was a similar attack last year at Glenforest University.  Gallons of pesticides were stolen and used in a bombing attack at a local city council office.  Six people were hurt in the bombing.  An extreme anti-government movement – the Patriot Mission Society – is believed to be behind the attack. 

Video cameras outside of the Whitley lab show a figure walking out with a duffle bag.  Sam doesn’t think the duffel bag would not carry the gallons of pesticides needed to cause a substantial explosion.  Fatima disagrees – Dr. Howard had access to chemicals – severely restricted use chemicals - that a normal person could not get at a home improvement store.  Some of these chemical as so powerful that it wouldn’t take much to cause a lot of damage.  Asking about Dr. Howard’s family, he has an ex, Layla Lewis.  Castor is going to pick her up and bring her to the boat shed.  Sam wants Kensi and Deeks to interview Lewis.  While Sam and Rountree go to the crime scene, Fatima is going to investigate the Patriot Mission Society to see if they are planning another bombing.

The lab is a mess – so much so that Sam says “wow” when he sees it.  The hard drive from Dr. Howard’s computer is missing.  While everything has been ransacked, the animals/reptiles/bugs in their cages are untouched but one cage is missing.  Sam thinks maybe the whole crime scene was set up to cover up the theft of the cage and its contents.  They need to speak to someone who knows about the lab.

Castor introduces Leyla Lewis to Kensi and Deeks in the boat shed.  Moving her to the couch, Kensi asks about Lewis’s relationship with Dr. Howard.  They were a couple for about 20-years but Dr. Howard only cares about his work.  They’ve been separated for five years.  She calls him a lovely man, a genius but he wants to change the world with his insects.  When Deeks asks how, Lewis explains that people need to understand what is happening to the earth, insects and animals with certain chemicals being used.  Dr. Howard is driven by the science and learning, not money.  Lewis admires him – just can’t live with him.  It’s hard when all the person you love wants to talk about is work.  Kensi couldn’t agree more. 

Lewis is so sorry about what happened to Dr. Howard but it all makes sense now.  Dr. Howard said he thought people were hacking his e-mail, hacking his phone, making threats against him.  Lewis thought he needed to see someone over his paranoia, especially when Dr. Howard started cancelling some of his speaking engagements.  At a speech, he thought someone in the audience was following him from lecture to lecture.  Lewis is crushed – she didn’t believe him.  And Dr. Howard certainly didn’t deserve this, he’s a kind soul.

At the lab, Sam has Dr. Howard’s assistant, a young grad student named Arjun Sethi, reviewing the checklist of Dr. Howard’s lab creatures.  Rountree asks who would steal the hard drive but Sethi has no idea.  There should be four moth cages but one seems to be missing.  When Sam isn’t happy with the Sethi’s surprise, Sethi explains he’s been out of town for two weeks.  Maybe the moths were moved.  Reviewing the pesticides, some are missing.  Why would someone steal the moths, hard drive and pesticides?  Dr. Howard is studying the negative effects pesticides have on soil, insects, reptiles and humans.  His research, which was disseminated widely, may lead to enemies in the big agriculture pesticide business.  Sam wants a list of all the pesticides Dr. Howard was researching so they can crosscheck them with the ones missing. 

Watching Kilbride go through the drawers in Hetty’s office, Fatima offers to help since she organized the place for Hetty.  The Admiral is not interested.  Fatima asks if she could ask what he’s looking for.  She could, according to the Admiral but that won’t guarantee a response.  He wants to know about the Patriot Mission Society.  Five are in prison, one died and the seventh member is in ICU after a bar fight.  Kilbride wants Fatima to check other local terrorist organizations as he continues to look through Hetty’s file cabinets.  Fatima tries again to help but Kilbride slams a file drawer closed to chase her away. 

In the boat shed, Kensi has info about Dr. Howard’s security at the five conferences where he spoke this year.  All five had incident reports with the last having a heckler removed from this audience.  The heckler, a woman in her 30’s, had no ID.  She was released without providing a name to security.  Deeks gets Fatima on the plasma screen looking for the heckler at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach. 

After Fatima is off the screen, Deeks recalls he and Kensi saw The Queen Experience at the venue.  They had fun.  Deeks agrees but now they have couples fun, married fun like Costco for the little samples, family dinners, carpools – family fun.  Kensi asks if Deeks remembered what Layla Lewis said - Deeks remembers the bugs and saving the world.  No, Kensi said it was easy to lose touch with each other dealing with the daily grind.  Deeks tells Kensi that she is the most important person to him in the world.  But the two of them only have 377 left.  Kensi is confused – 377 what?  377 days until Rosa graduates high school and goes into the world as an adult.  It flies by.  Kensi loves that Deeks loves being a family man.  But she doesn’t want to lose touch with the two of them “being us.”  Deeks understands.

Sam and Rountree meet Sethi in the lab’s hallway as it looks like Sethi is leaving.  Sethi provided a list of pesticides Dr. Howard was working on along with Dr. Howard’s ranking of the pesticides for their strength and damage they cause.  Based on the way the intruder left the building, it has to be someone familiar with the lab.  Security provided a list of all the ID holders in the building but Sam wonders if there is another way to get into the lab.  Visitors can sign in at the front desk.  Sethi is free to go.

Sam and Rountree figure that it is possible the moths and pesticides may have been stolen by someone who doesn’t want Dr. Howard to go public with what happens with the pesticides.  Fatima comes over comms.  While Dr. Howard was studying nine different pesticides, there were two that he was particularly critical of – matrazine and nitrithazine.  They are highly toxic to the point that they change the cell structure of lizards.  And if these chemicals can change cell structures of lizards, they might to the same to humans.  Allurum Tech and GenBioSys make the two chemicals.  When Dr. Howard went public with his research three-months ago, both companies took significant financial hits.  That may be motive.

In the Admiral’s office, he is putting something into a 5X8 envelope.  Fatima arrives with news of the woman causing a scene at Dr. Howard’s speeches.  Natasha Graham is a public relations manager for GenBioSys.  Fatima has a video of Graham but warns the Admiral that it was made by a college student and has a made by college student feel.  The video is of Graham being dragged out of the lecture with all sorts of special effects, video looping and music.  “People have entirely too much time on their hands,” Kilbride grouses.  GenBioSys has been trying to discredit Dr. Howard and his research.  That has the Admiral wondering how far the company would go to protect the product.  Kensi and Deeks are going to the company to find out.

In a greenhouse, a woman is leading a tour featuring the good GenBioSys does with their pesticides.  Kensi and Deeks join the tour late, posing as tourists from San Luis Obispo.  He snarks about her complaints that they never go anywhere.  They are being shown the way GenBioSys grows lettuce.  While the group looks at the lettuce, the tour guide asks Kensi and Deeks “Strawberries or wine?”  Deeks thinks the lettuce is plenty.  She wanted to know what they grew, strawberries or wine.  Maybe garlic.  They are wine growers – the Smithingtons.  They have Smithington Wineries.  The tour guide asks some specific wine questions and Kensi and Deeks provide different answers.  The tour guide dreams of owning a vineyard and Deeks agrees – it is so romantic. 

Kensi spies Natasha Graham and while Deeks looks like a bunny with lettuce, they walk over to talk to Graham.  Kensi confirms it is Natasha Graham while Deeks asks for kale that doesn’t taste like kale.  Oh, can I get some of that?  Kale ruins everything.  Back to the show, Kensi asks about Dr. Howard.  Kensi flashes her badge, Deeks flashes the video of Graham being dragged from the lecture.

At the lab’s front desk, Sam tells Rountree that if someone signed in with bad intentions, they’d use a fake name (isn’t that Day One lessons at FBI school?  Pay attention Tess).  Dr. Howard had one guest sign in but over five nights in a row – Dr. Claire Winchester from Braddock University.  That would be too risky for Natasha Graham to be going in five nights in a row.  Rountree asks Fatima to check out Dr. Winchester.  Maybe she knew what trouble he was in.

Natasha Graham denies she is the woman in the video.  Kensi accuses Graham and GenBioSys of going after Dr. Howard by breaking into the lab, stabbing him and stealing his research.  Graham is stunned.  She only went to one of his talks and only spoke to him once, the day before the attack.  The pesticide that GenBioSys is very important to her, to the company.  Kensi asks if Graham knew Dr. Howard – she didn’t.  Dr. Howard was hired by GenBioSys to study the pesticide before its release.  When he panned the product, the company went to smear him and release the product anyway. 

Matrazine was Graham’s first big product launch.  And the company believes it is safe.  So did Dr. Howard at first.  But Graham was tipped off that Dr. Howard was also working for a competitor.  When he was confronted about working for a competitor, Dr. Howard thought matrazine “would poison the Midwest and babies would grow two heads.”  While she tried to discredit Dr. Howard, she wouldn’t hurt him.  Asked for an alibi, Graham was on a terrible Tinder date at Del Frisco’s (I love Del Frisco’s – pay attention Tess).  The waiter Rodney saved her from a terrible date.  Graham returns to work.

Walking in a residential neighborhood, Rountree picks up a flyer for a house for sale.  The neighborhood is great and close to the office.  Sam notes the homes in the area go for $1-million to start.   Rountree may be looking for a home closer to Texas.  Walking onto Dr. Winchester’s property, Sam mentions her office said she was working from home and there are cars in the driveway.  Her front door, however, is ajar. 

Calling into the house, Sam and Rountree go in with their weapons drawn.  A man shoves Rountree through Dr. Winchester’s dining room table.  The man runs out a back door with a laptop.  Dr. Winchester is being shoved into the back of an SUV in an alleyway behind the house.  Shots are exchanged with Sam hitting the man who pushed Rountree through the table.  The injured man tries to make his way to the SUV but the vehicle races out of the alleyway.  He keeps running until he hits the streets, when a vehicle runs over the injured man.

As the coroner’s office takes away the dead guy, Sam tells Rountree that Fatima has a BOLO out on the SUV and Kaleidoscope is looking for the vehicle.  None of the neighbors have security cameras that face the alleyway.  With Dr. Winchester spending so much time with Dr. Howard, Sam knows something is up with the three armed men who were sent to kidnap her.  Rountree thinks it is because she and Dr. Howard were working together.  Sam disagrees – Dr. Howard didn’t have what they want so they’re trying to get it with Dr. Winchester.  Sam is going to search the house, Rountree is going to check with the neighbors.

In Ops, Fatima tells Kilbride that she hasn’t been able to track the SUV.  The Admiral has his own bad news.  Telling Fatima to pull up the DoD database, something she never had access to until the Admiral got her, there is a file on Dr. Claire Winchester.  She is a DoD civilian contractor.  Her work at Braddock University is a DoD project and it is in conjunction with Dr. Howard’s work.  The DoD is sending a technical specialist to the boat shed to work with Kensi and Deeks.

Fatima’s tablet beeps – the dead man has been ID’d.  He’s Zhang Chin, a Chinese citizen and a legal U.S. resident.  The Admiral notes that is an odd mix.  Chin has an old student visa – he attended Whitley University but never graduated.  Checking who sponsored the visa, it is New Origin Talent, a Chinese recruitment agency.  The Admiral is familiar with New Origin Talent – they help China steal intellectual property and work in espionage.  Dr. Howard and now Dr. Winchester must have been targets for whatever they were working on.  Kilbride wants an address from Chin – maybe they can trace where the kidnappers took Dr. Winchester.

At the house, Sam is looking around when Rountree returns.  Neither found anything that will help rescue Dr. Winchester.  One neighbor saw a vehicle with dark tinted windows parked on the street for a few days.  Sam thinks by grabbing Dr. Winchester and the laptop, the kidnappers got what they came for.  Sam sees an Apple Watch charger – Fatima can ping the watch’s location.  He’s worried that once the kidnappers get what they need from Dr. Winchester, they may kill her.

Once again, Castor brings Kensi and Deeks a visitor, this time DoD Chief Technology Officer Tom Fields.  While Dr. Winchester’s kidnapping is troubling, Fields is really worried about the theft of the moths.  The moths are more important.   Funded by the DoD, Drs. Howard and Winchester were working to create moths that would take out agricultural pests.  The moths carried viruses that would end the need for pesticides.  A good thing, according to Deeks.  It is a good thing, Fields explains until “malicious actors” use the moths to spread viruses that could kill crops – devastating harvests.  Dr. Winchester was kidnapped to recreate more moths.

Fields explains that insects are hard to control.  Once released, they’ll reproduce.  If the moths carry a virus that would damage harvests, half the food supply for the US could be gone in six months.  Asked how the Chinese government would even know about the moths, Fields doesn’t know.  Dr. Howard’s lab had top security clearance with his lab assistant managing projects, materials and data.  Deeks points out that the assistant didn’t know what the moths were for when questioned.  Impossible, according to Fields.  Dr. Howard worked closely with his assistant, “he trusts Arjun.” 

As the Admiral arrives in Ops, Fatima is going through Arjun Sethi’s e-mails.  Nothing really jumps out.  Getting everyone on comms or the phone, Kensi thinks that if Dr. Howard was as paranoid as he ex believed, maybe he never told Sethi about the moths.  Sam and Rountree disagree – Sethi was supposed to know the lab inside and out.  Even if he didn’t know exactly what the moths were being used for, he’d know that it was a classified DoD project. 

A beep on Fatima’s tablet signifies that Sethi’s bank records are in.  Not much money in the account but there was a crypto transfer of $5,000.  Looking at the crypto account, there is $30,000, mostly coming from a company called Flow Genis.  Fatima sees that Dr. Howard had a special company for his speaking engagements, maybe Sethi has a similar set-up.  Checking, Flow Genis has been getting money from New Origin Talent.  Sam and Rountree are sent to find Sethi.

Racing out of the lab, Sethi is taking a back staircase, panting as he runs down the stairs.  Sam is on the landing below Sethi, Rountree on the landing above.  He’s caught.

In interrogation, Sam explains to Sethi that they know he lied to NCIS about the pesticides and the missing moths.  He can help himself by helping them find Dr. Winchester.  Sethi has no idea where she is.  “This was not part of the plan.”  Rountree wants to know what is the plan.  Sethi was paid to give “first looks” at Dr. Howard’s research.  Explaining that Dr. Howard wouldn’t cooperate after Sethi tried to recruit him, Sethi tried to sell New Origin Talent offering a big grant to the lab.  When Sam suggests Sethi set Dr. Howard up, Sethi assures them he did not.  Sethi was sure he could convince Dr. Howard there was no harm in taking the money. 

Sam tells Sethi he is in violation of the Patriot Act and his actions could be seen as treason.  Asking one more time, Sam wants to know where Dr. Winchester is.  Sethi knows about a lab in Shanghai.  She could be on her way there.

Outside of interrogation, Sam and Rountree go the new boat shed armory.  Fatima has intermittent tracking data from Dr. Winchester’s watch.  It is near one of three airports on the Westside.  She sees that New Origins Talent has a private jet at Santa Monica Airport – the watch beeps leaving the 10.  Kensi and Deeks join Sam and Rountree.

With the SUV showing up on Kaleidoscope, Fatima tries to guide the Sam/Rountree and Kensi/Deeks to Dr. Winchester.  Sam and Rountree cut them off but they are able to go in reverse to try to leave a street.  Afraid to fire into the SUV and hit Dr. Winchester, Sam asks Fatima if she can switch off the SUV’s engine through vehicle security services.  

Kensi and Deeks are able to cut off the SUV before it leaves the street.  As the SUV barrels toward Sam and Rountree, Fatima is able to get the engine cut.   Sam and Rountree get the bad guys out of the front of the SUV, Kensi rescues Dr. Winchester in the back of the SUV.  Deeks finds the moths. 

Returning to the office, Kensi finds a lovely floral arrangement on her desk.  “You murdered flowers just for me,” she says to Deeks.  Deeks said the flowers were already dead – no blood on his hands.  Calling himself Mr. Romance, Deeks asks Kensi out on a date.  Pulling something out of his back right pocket, there is a grade school way to ask if Kensi would be his girlfriend.  In his back left pocket is tickets to see Gregory Alan Isakov at the Terrace Theater.  Kensi is thrilled.  Knowing they have so much on their plate, Deeks doesn’t want to lose what got them to where they are now.  Though Deeks wouldn’t mind seeing Kensi in her torn up Levi’s – “a big part of our thing.”  That’s why she wore them on every single date.  Deeks thinks it feels like 10-years ago, he doesn’t want to lose their spark, lose “us” or lose Kensi.  Kensi thinks Deeks could see a whole lot more of her.  Deeks is going to call his mother to stay with Rosa – he and Kensi are going to have a standing date night.  The two leave.

Kilbride finds Sam as he’s leaving. Dr. Winchester is out of the hospital.  She’s banged up but OK.  The DoD is happy with NCIS’s work and the moths are accounted for.   Sam says in all his years as an agent, moth recovery was a first.  Kilbride admits that what he loves about working with NCIS is that he does something new almost every day.  Sam starts to talk about Kilbride’s job offer.  Before he can say much, Kilbride hands Sam the envelope he was working on earlier.  It was what he was given when he took over the job.  He thought Hetty sent it but couldn’t prove it.  Kilbride wasn’t thrilled with the idea of working with “a bunch of misfits” but Hetty knew the office needed him and that he needed the office.  Handing Sam the envelope, Kilbride doesn’t want Sam to open it until he’s sure he is going to take the job.  Admitting that in the past he’d have been an automatic no, Sam admits his life has changed “into something that I barely even recognize.”  He’s reevaluating – setting “conscientious objectives”.  Sam will give the Admiral an answer soon.  Kilbride wants one in case he has to “leave this godforsaken job” for some reason.  Besides, the Admiral tells Sam, “it is never too late to explore other pathways.”  He learned that from his son, proving “you can teach old dogs new tricks.”

Sam gets into his car and starts to open the envelope.  Thinking better of it, he says “You haven’t gotten me yet, Hetty.”

What head canon can be formed from here:   According to the internet, “Sensu Lato” means "In the broad sense".

This was an incredibly talky episode.  The basics were interesting but my attention kept floating away and that’s not usually a problem I have.

Callen’s absence was one of the best explained ones in a while.  Of course the San Diego office would want Callen for a Russian arms dealer case.

If Dr. Howard thought someone was after him, wouldn’t he be more careful about his exit from the lab.  He’s there late, it is dark, he leaves without his keys or anyone from campus security.  Back when I was in college, if a student didn’t feel safe leaving, security would walk them to their car or to the bus stop.  A fancy entomologist would get security if he asked, military background or not.

Sam’s future was interesting.  I think his lack of interest in Rountree’s real estate dreams in the cut scene was Sam weighing being a field agent with someone young like Rountree and maybe being the Rountree’s boss down the road.

The Kensi and Deeks scenes were great.  While I think Kensi is 100% right, it is admirable how much Deeks wants to be a great father – especially considering his past.

An average episode – the guts of the episode could have worked in any season – with a lot of talking.

Episode number:   This is episode 18 of season 14, the 320th episode of 323.  Winding down here.

[cherrrysue]

Heyy any Larry fic recommendation without very sad moments and has happy endings

Thank u

i'm sure this is a very old question cause it got into the bottom of my inbox and i've been on hiatus for like almost 2 years and sat in my drafts for a few days but i'm gonna answer it anyway lol. so here it is:

comforting fics with happy endings

Escapade by dolce_piccante

M, 146k

In the grand scheme of things, finding a date for a wedding should be no problem for Louis Tomlinson. He's rich. He's handsome. He's reasonably well behaved. But when the wedding is for his lifelong best friend (and former boyfriend), and is happening in under a month, finding a date for the ceremony and accompanying festivities becomes more of an adventure than he ever could have planned for.

Tired Tired Sea by MediaWhore

M, 113k

As a B&B owner on the most remote of all the British Isles, Louis Tomlinson is used to spending the coldest half of the year in complete isolation, with his dog and the sea as sole companions. Until, one day, a mysterious stranger on a quest to rebuild himself rents a room for the winter.

Walk That Mile by purpledaisy

E, 149k

Harry stares at him, the line of his jaw standing out scarily. “I wanted to get the most out of this trip so I planned it carefully.” His voice is low and steady and somehow that’s worse than when he was yelling. “So far, you’ve put your sticky fingers on everything I’ve tried to do.”

“Sticky fingers?” Louis repeats, offended. “Are you saying it’s my fault you got stung by a bee? Had you been alone you would have gotten halfway to the Dotty Diner and ran the car off the road because of an allergic reaction, so don’t go blaming me.”

“Polk-A-Dot Drive In,” Harry spits before getting out of the car. He slams the door shut with a deafening reverb and Louis rolls his eyes. - A Route 66 AU where falling in love was never part of the plan.

we can take the long road home by pinkcords

E, 45k

Late afternoon seeps into the cab, just shy of too warm, and the breeze that crosses window to window tosses their hair in their eyes, around their faces. They ride in pleasant silence, the radio humming softly in the background as they speed down the coast, and when Louis looks over, Harry’s smiling to himself, a private happiness born from whatever’s going on in his head. Louis likes to think it has something to do with him, or at the very least, this adventure they’ve embarked on together, chosen to see through to San Diego. Or, Harry and Louis fall in love down the coast of California.

where the tide takes you, i will follow by pinkcords

E, 53k

There’s no way around his departure, their inevitable fate. Harry will leave and he will return to London and when he sits in his new flat, wherever it might be, he will think of this summer and the warmth the sun brought him and the way it felt to be loved. He will compare all his future relationships to Louis and when they fall short, he will be disappointed. Harry knows this. Or, Louis lives in Gloucester and Harry tries to find a way to stay.

Chasing Empty Spaces by Lis (domesticharry)

E, 79k

The year is 1934 and Harry Styles was to inherent the largest tobacco firm in the south. His parents have picked out the “perfect” girl for him to marry and he has the privilege of receiving the highest education possible. The problem was, Harry hadn’t realized he didn’t actually want any part of that future until he met a mechanic named, Louis Tomlinson.

Adore You by isthatyoularry

M, 66k

“We invited our new acquaintances from uptown. You’ve simply got to meet their oldest son!” said his mother with a flourish, and suddenly it became abundantly clear as to why his parents had so adamantly demanded he join them in Deansville for the entirety of the summer. Against his wishes, Harry spends the holidays at his family’s summer estate, and is reluctantly pulled into a courtship he didn’t ask for. Harry doesn’t want to get married, but Louis does. They don’t fit, but then again they really, really do. Vaguely set in the 1920’s. Headpieces, jazz, fashionable canes, and flapper dresses, and that.

Falling For Me Won't Be A Mistake by Rearviewdreamer

M, 58k

Harry is married to his job and so overworked that he doesn't know how to stop. All it takes is a forced Hawaiian get-a-away, the warm tropical breeze of the island, and the most beautiful, elusive man he's ever seen to make him remember what living is like outside of work. Well, that, and the little souvenir he accidentally takes home with him.

Sodalite & Aventurine by forreveries

E, 80k

The one where, in his travels to find Swan’s elusive treasure, Captain Louis Tomlinson of the Black Dagger discovers he has a stowaway onboard - a stowaway who is rather tall and pretty and pouty and can spout off Shakespearean poetry as though he had written it. A stowaway who is also, unfortunately, secretly Louis’ biggest threat. Captain Harry Styles.

Paint Me In A Million Dreams by green_feelings

M, 112k

Harry's one of Hollywood's biggest actors, has made a name for himself in prestigious films and lives the life of a superstar. There's just one thing missing to make it picture-perfect, but the one Harry's in love with is completely out of reach for him. Enter Louis, one of Hollywood's biggest actors himself, who just came out of the closet and taps new genres in the industry. When Louis sacks the role Harry auditioned for in Scorsese's next big film, their irrational feud starts. Who could have guessed it would get even worse when for promo season, their teams decide to present them as a couple for publicity? In short, Harry's in love with someone and doesn't care about dating anyone else, Louis never felt home in L.A., Liam writes love songs for someone he shouldn't write love songs to, and Niall makes everything better with good food.

Our Lives, Non Fiction by indiaalphawhiskey

E, 113k

Heralded as the next Neil Gaiman, Louis Tomlinson does not appreciate being told that his very serious novel is in dire need of a PR boost. Even worse, that it comes in the form of a joint book tour with the UK’s #1 online romance-writing sensation Marcel Styles. Already turbulent at best, their partnership takes a drastic turn when, overly stressed about his looming deadline, Marcel accidentally blurts out a secret: though he’s famed for his scorching hot literary love scenes, he is, actually, a virgin. Convinced that the only way to rid himself of writer’s block is to gain some experience, Marcel asks Louis, author-to-author, to sleep with him – for Science. And of course Louis agrees because, well, what on Earth could possibly go wrong? Or, a lesson in romance that proves that sometimes the best love stories aren’t always by the book.

Time Passed by coffinofachimera

E, 66k

Louis struggles with their relationship as Harry grows into his identity.

beautiful sound beautiful noise by delsicle

M, 53k

Louis is a washed-up pop star who has spent nearly a year hiding away from the world. Harry is a guardian angel who is assigned to live with him for the summer. Neither of them quite get what they’re expecting.

the impossible now by stylinsoncity

M, 64k

A wish on Christmas Eve sends Louis to an alternate dimension where Harry is a member of One Direction

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[things-that-altered-my-brain]

TRACKING MY EYES

(LIST OF MOVIES SERIES BOOKS AND WEBCOMICS I HAVE SEEN READ and want to remember(rating out of 10) (incomplete rn)

( E-english, H-hindi, K-korean)

MOVIES

Animated-

nimona (10)

TANGLED

the Mitchells v/s the machines

spirit untamed

frozen 1

next gen (8)

the willoughbys

over the moon

wreck it Ralph 1 and 2

encanto

frozen 2 (6)

Hindi

barfi (10)

chor nikal ke bhaga (10)

Darlings

ek main aur ek tuu

ek vivah aisa bhi

forensic

hasee to phasee

Lootera

om shanti om

Qala

queen

Uri

7 khoon maaf (9)

dear zindagi

dil chahta hai

dil dhadkne do

Wake up Sid

doctor G (8)

kal ho na ho

zindagi na milegi Dobara

gori tere pyaar m (7)

kuch kuch hota hai

kabhi khushi kabhi gham

plan A plan B

Tamasha

OMG (oh my god) (6)

Ye Jawani Hai deewani

fitoor (5)

I hate luv stories

kabhi alvida naa kehna

dilwale 2015

jaane tu ya jaane na

dil se (3)

hum sath sath hai (no ratings for these lol)

happy new year

hum apke hai kaun

sooryavansham

english

good will hunting

BARBIE

Half of it

fundamentals of caring

edge of seventeen

red white and royal blue

the baby sitter killer queen

crazy rich asians

Enola holmes 1 n 2

knives out 1 n 2

confessions of a shopaholic

the intern

love at first sight

korean

tune in for love

love and leashes

kill boksoon

SERIES

lockwood n co

looking for alaska

heartstopper

Carmen San Diego

extraordinary attorney woo

blue birthday

run on

celebrity

true beauty

see you in my 19th life

our beloved summer

my ID is Gangnam beauty

because this is my first life

business proporsal

nevertheless

masaba masaba

my demon

destined with you

vincenzo

reborn rich

start up

Heeramandi

its okay not to be okay (goingon)

gilmore girls (going on)

BOOKS

the unhoneymooners- Christina Lauren

nothing lasts forever- Sidney Sheldon

Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

turtles all the way down- john green

to all the boys I've loved before (book 2 and 3 specially)

One of us is lying- Karen McManus

One of us is next (sequel)

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-hour bookstore- robin sloan

tbr-

one of us is back (triology)

lockwood and co

PLAYS

mujhe amritaa chahiye (yogesh tripathi)

WEBCOMICS

the omniscient reader

i love yoo

the greatest estate developer

get schooled

operation true love

seasons of blossom

morgana and oz

reunion

to tame a fire

muse on fame

maybe meant to be

wished you were dead

lost in translation

lets get divorced

the fox club

raven saga

bad signs

daytime star

completed

secretary out of order

see you in my 19th life

take me im yours

your letter

til debt do us part

our beloved summer

unholy blood

sweet home

long after the ending

the make up remover

age matters

a chance at last

gourment hound

the nuna at our office

cherry blossoms

my boo

her bucket list

super secret

oh!holy

mom, im sorry

lilac 200%

scorching romance

garden club detective squad

the hip guy

kind of love

unTouchable

witch hunt

cinnamonroll

[placidca]

Your Dream Vacation Awaits: Beach Home Rentals San Diego

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Emmeko Celine Reed, 29 (USA 2002)

Before she died, Emmeko Celine Reed underwent an abortion at Family Planning Associates. She didn’t know it, but the abortionist inflicted internal injuries that would later kill her.

The abortionist left a permanent scar in Emmeko’s uterus, creating a defect that a coroner measured at six centimeters long. The uterine lining was scraped away down to the myometrium, which was left dangerously thin.

At some point after the abortion, Emmeko was pregnant with her last child. She would never have the chance to have another one. At 32 weeks pregnant, she suffered horrible pain and had to be taken to Grossmont Hospital in an ambulance. The ER doctors performed an emergency C-section, but Emmeko’s son was stillborn. Emergency surgery found that Emmeko was bleeding internally and all efforts to save her life failed.

Emmeko died of a ruptured uterus. Even though she’d had a previous C-section, the rupture site had nothing to do with the C-section scar. Instead, the strangely linear “defect” tore open. It was noted that Emmeko had been using drugs, but her cause of death was confirmed to be internal bleeding from the uterine rupture at the scar site. (This is similar to the death of Bimbo Onangua, who also died during a stillbirth because of ruptured uterine scarring from a past abortion.)

Emmeko’s family sued FPA. She was one of many abortion clients killed by the corporation. They did not improve and killed Kenniah Epps later, continuing a pattern of malpractice and death.

Emmeko’s death was not included in CDC statistics on deaths from legal abortion because California does not submit abortion statistics to the FDA. This means that the official statistics on legal abortion deaths are once again missing information.

ESTATE OF EMMEKO REED vs FPA 2003 GIC810851

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The senator tasked with overseeing federal antitrust enforcement is urging the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate whether a Texas-based company’s price-setting software is undermining competition and pushing up rents.

Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota Democrat who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumer Rights, sent a letter to the DOJ’s Antitrust Division this month. It was also signed by two other Democrats, Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey.

“We are concerned that the use of this rate setting software essentially amounts to a cartel to artificially inflate rental rates in multifamily residential buildings,” the letter said. It encouraged the DOJ to “take appropriate action to protect renters and competition in the residential rental markets.”

In mid-October, a ProPublica investigation documented how real estate tech company RealPage’s price-setting software uses nearby competitors’ nonpublic rent data to feed an algorithm that suggests what landlords should charge for available apartments each day. Legal experts said the algorithm may be enabling violations of antitrust laws.

ProPublica detailed how RealPage’s User Group, a forum that includes landlords who adopt the company’s software, had grown to more than 1,000 members, who meet in private at an annual conference and take part in quarterly phone calls. The senators raised specific questions about the group, saying, “We are concerned about potential anticompetitive coordination taking place through the RealPage User Group.”

RealPage did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

RealPage has said that the company “uses aggregated market data from a variety of sources in a legally compliant manner” and that its software prioritizes a property’s own internal supply and demand dynamics over external factors such as competitors’ rents. The company has said its software helps reduce the risk of collusion that would occur if landlords relied on phone surveys of competitors to manually price their units.

The DOJ declined to comment on the letter.

The department five years ago reviewed RealPage’s plan to acquire its biggest competitor in pricing software, but federal prosecutors declined to seek to block the merger, which doubled the number of apartments RealPage was pricing.

The senators noted that transaction, saying RealPage has made more than 10 acquisitions since 2016. They said in data-intensive industries, “the ability to acquire more data can result in the algorithms suggesting higher prices and can also increase the barriers to entry” for other competitors. The lawmakers encouraged the department “to consider looking back at RealPage’s past behavior to determine whether any of it was anticompetitive.”

The letter follows two others sent by lawmakers urging the DOJ or Federal Trade Commission to investigate RealPage. Since ProPublica’s investigation was published, three lawsuits have been filed on behalf of renters alleging that the software is artificially inflating rents and facilitating collusion. RealPage has denied allegations in a lawsuit filed in San Diego, and it has not responded to calls for comment about the other two legal actions, filed in federal district court in Seattle.

[moorerealestategroup]

California Certified General Real Estate Appraiser | Matthew Moore

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About me:

Business Administration graduate, MBA candidate in Strategic People Management, Leadership & Coaching, and Postgraduate in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with experience in introducing new products, processes, and systems as well as monitoring company’s performance. Business Consultant with international experience in the field. Strong economic and accounting principles. Proven ability to expand companies' sales and operations worldwide, ability to build influential relationships and deliver results in a cross functional/matrixed environment. Excellent written/verbal communication/presentation skills, with the ability to plan, pitch, and execute a territory strategy.

I was trained by the CEO with a view to future management and was assigned the task of raising the company profile by creating partnerships with the e largest wholesale retail companies in Brazil, helping them expand their operations into the Northeast region. Strategic Planning & Execution. Conducted market and industry research in real estate, participated in high stakes business negotiations, helped refine business and marketing strategy. I worked with sales and rent of commercial real estate in Brazil.

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I lived in the United States for 4 years and studied Management Science and Marketing at the University of California San Diego. I lived in Israel and I studied Business Administration and Entrepreneurship at the IDC Herzliya. I learned to speak, read and write Hebrew fluently. I graduated from my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the Universidade Estácio de Sá in 2022. I also studied Economics at the Universidade Estácio de Sá for two years. I did a Spanish course at HIBRA in Buenos Aires, Argentina to learn to speak, read and write Spanish fluently. Also, I worked as the Regional Account Manager for Northern Europe helping two start-ups expand their operations to the Nordics and create business with the largest companies there in the areas of Energy, Banking, Industry, Business and Services, generating a great increase in sales and creating value for the company. I also helped them to create business with the largest IT service providers in Europe enabling a stronger go-to-market approach to increase market coverage. I also worked with Airlines, Embassies and Tourism Ministries helping them expand their operations in Israel and generating a great increase in sales and revenue. I also did research about the Northern European Market and emerging technologies. I also did research about the Israeli Real Estate Market and I helped a start-up introduce a new technology in the market.

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