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Just before dawn giant elevators moved EVA Units 02 and 07 up from the GeoFront, as equally giant land carriers then tracked them to two waiting C-5Ms on Runway One. With the NERV ground crew by now having gotten used to deploying the Evangelion by air the crews worked quickly and efficiently to carefully load each EVA into the C-5's rear cargo bay.
Loaded inside Unit 02's entry plug, Asuka waited impatiently for the EVA to be loaded onto the aircraft. It was still dark outside, but she could see the runway lights flashing as other aircraft began to take position on the tarmac.
Beside her the blue and yellow Unit 07 was already locked and loaded in position in an identical C-5 transport. Rei said nothing as the transport began to taxi onto the runway. She let her mind delve deeply onto other topics, grateful for the solitude of the entry plug.
At the lead of both transports were a pair of Thunderbolt VSTOL aircraft, each with their running lights on and moving slowly ahead of the larger aircraft. One of the aircraft carried Misato as mission commander while the other served as wingman and escort for the group.
Asuka felt the EVA being locked into position and saw status lights on the tactical display that indicated that the air transport was cleared to travel. Misato's face came up on the video display. "Locked in position," she said. "Rei, Ready to go?"
"Yes, ma'am," her voice reported back in a monotone voice.
"Asuka, ready to go?"
The redhead looked at the wider video display which showed the area around the transport aircraft. Most of the view was obscured by the C-5 itself but Asuka could see behind the aircraft. Several yards away from them were the service trucks of the ground, with technicians all around them locking away fuel and maintenance equipment as the aircraft were cleared to travel. Asuka noticed one solitary figure that was running around them, shorter than the ground crew and wearing a blue jacket and pants.
She increased the magnification on the view to another ten times and saw that it was Shinji. He had run along the cargo vehicles, looking up at the EVA loaded inside of the aircraft and waving his hand excitedly at them. The sight of him made Asuka sick to her stomach.
Jerk. Just leave me alone.
"Asuka," Misato asked again, "ready to go?"
Asuka closed her eyes in painful disgust. "Get me the hell out of here!"
Without making any other comment Misato closed the video screen and gave the order to the combat group. "Units 02 and 07 ready for takeoff," she said over the radio.
A moment later the aircraft were cleared for takeoff, with the two small Thunderbolts rapidly running down the runway and then climbing up into the sky, followed by the lumbering C-5 transports. As they took off the sun began to creep up from the eastern edge of the horizon, providing a brilliant glare behind them as the squadron made its way west.
Shinji stood next to the runway tractors and watched the four aircraft go into the distance. Feeling a vibration in his jacket pocket, he picked up his mobile phone and hoped that Asuka saw him and perhaps left him a message from her own phone which he knew she would be carrying in her plug suit. He looked at the display and to his surprise there was a message indicator. Hoping for something positive, fearful that it was not, Shinji keyed the message icon on the phone.
There was one message from Asuka, send a minute before. It read: "DIE SIE SIND VERDAMMT ARSCHLOCHER SCHWEIN!!!" Unfortunately Shinji knew enough German to know the meaning: Die you pig!!! Actually there were worse words as well but Shinji didn't really need the full translation, the message it conveyed was crystal clear. Upon reading the text Shinji keyed the message closed and hung his head low. It's really over, he realized in sullen sadness.
Patrick woke up fairly early, about seven in the morning, and went about his usual routine in getting up. After a few minutes of bathroom detail and changing into casual clothes he opened up his bedroom door and entered the living room. Kensuke Aida was again already up and dressed in Alliance camouflage.
"Good morning!" Patrick said to Kensuke. "You headed to tactical training again?"
Kensuke's grin was a mile wide. "Yes, but today it's with live ammo." Patrick couldn't help but smile at the other boy's realized dream. "Well, don't shoot someone's eye out!"
"It's just simulated targets, but still I cannot wait!" Kensuke replied, practically giddy as a grade-schooler. "Oh, by the way," he said to Patrick, "that was on your door this morning." He pointed to a small envelope that was neatly taped to Patrick's bedroom door.
Patrick hadn't noticed it when he opened up this morning but now walked back to the front of his door and removed the envelope. It was a small white envelope that had his name PATRICK FORRESTAL handwritten neatly in ink. "What is this?"
"I think it's from Ayanami-chan," Kensuke told him. "Unit 07 got deployed with Unit 02 late last night." Patrick's eyebrows shot up in surprise. "Rei? Deployed?!"
"Taking Unit 01's place. Actually there was a post from Colonel Katsuragi before they left, us boys are now considered a new Combat Team: you, me, and Shinji."
That news came as a bigger surprise to Patrick. "So, what happens to Mari then?"
"That I don't know. I guess there's a girls team too, but," Kensuke knowingly tilted his head, "you know." Patrick nodded in acknowledgment. "Okay. We'll have to adjust."
"Cool. See you later, then," Kensuke said and then went promptly out the door, humming some military march that Patrick didn't recognize.
The news of the new combat team unsettled him as after several weeks Patrick was very used to fighting together with Mari. He felt the both of them worked quite well together, knowing each other's strength and weaknesses and learning over time how to fight and destroy Harpies with better and better efficiency. While he liked both Shinji and Kensuke, it would take some getting used to a new combat team for the EVAs, and a three-unit team at that.
Patrick pushed that news behind him for a moment and focused on the letter from Rei. He opened up the plain white envelope and saw two sheets of NERV letterhead. Rei's note was handwritten very neatly and entirely in English. Since he had known her Rei had not written anything to him at any time, so receiving this now indicated that the note was of great importance. He carefully unfolded the letter and began reading.
Misato-san has asked me to take Ikari-kun's place for the next EVA deployment, so unfortunately I can only communicate with you by this note before I leave Tokyo-3. I have counted now three deployments in which we have not said "goodbye" to each other, and perhaps it is good that this is so.
While I am confident that I will see you again with each separation there is always the chance that I will not, and that something will intervene to separate us. By knowing me as much as you do, you already realize that communication is not a strength for me and even by writing in this way it is difficult for me to express myself in the way that I want to. Every day it is a challenge for me but I strive to meet it.
When I first saw you I did not think much of you, except for wondering why you continued to attempt to speak to me. It was not until the first time in Hakone that I better realized the connection you wanted to make with me. At that time as my earlier self I could not reach out to anyone very well. Looking back on the memory now I realize the way I responded to you then must have broken your heart. I am sorry that I did so.
Yet then you asked me something I could not forget: "What did I want?" Then I didn't know, but every day afterward I thought about it. It was when I was at my lowest point that I determined what I truly wanted, and what I wanted most was to be me.
You asked me why I accepted you and I answered that I simply wanted to. This is true, but there is more to it. Despite our struggles to understand and connect to each other, with you I have always felt that I never needed to be The First Child, or Pilot Ayanami, or anyone else, that instead I could just be me, Rei, and that you would always accept that. For allowing me to be me I am grateful.
It is difficult to specifically describe the way that I feel towards you in simple language and I've tried to determine the most appropriate words. Once while reading I found the expression "Warm and Fuzzy Feeling." This is a very suitable phrase for the feelings I have towards you, and I have these feelings quite often.
Ever since we met I've known of your longing to restore the connection with your sister. The thought of her is always present with you even when we are alone together. To now see her reject you in this way is painful even to me, yet in this matter I sense danger.
Forri-kun, please understand what I am now saying. Use your mind in dealings with your sister, and not so much your heart. I once saw someone else destroy himself in trying to get back what he had lost. I do not want to see you become as he became, as something less than yourself. I fear that even now I may be losing you to this.
I wish you every good thought and feeling that my heart can wish to you. These days we have spent together have taught me not to be afraid to be happy. I close my eyes and imagine myself in your arms, being able to let myself go as if drifting in calm waters. Whatever path I choose I know you are there for me, and it gives me great comfort. I always wish I could do more to let you know these thoughts and feelings that are inside of me.
I look forward to when I can be with you again and hope that it is soon. Please take care of yourself.
PS: There is something else I want to say to you but I can't quite say it yet. Please be patient with me and it will come in time. Thank you. -R
After finishing Patrick re-read the letter to make sure he understood everything in it, then he let out a long breath and slid down the wall to the floor. On one hand he was very glad to receive Rei's letter: they had not kissed good night last night as he was still brooding over what to do about Erin and Rei had avoided him. He had in fact felt horrible about what his own struggle must be also doing to Rei and he was glad to see so much encouragement in a letter that he guessed must have been very difficult for her to write.
The other meaning of Rei's letter was clear to him, the warnings about Erin. He knew there was something very wrong: why had Erin pushed back at him so hard, and why has she come to Tokyo-3 now. His inner sense told him that Rei could be right: Erin, at least this current version of her, seemed scary. The memory of the first time he had seen her months ago at the mountain cabin kept coming back to him, how then she had seemed so dazed and how she clung to him in terror as she gave him her terrible message. Patrick felt that he had to unwrap the mystery of why Erin had changed, and what had changed her. He somehow also knew that only he could actually do this, and didn't want to ruin his chances by alerting the others to what they already had discovered.
Patrick read the letter again, going slower this time to absorb each and every word of Rei's neat and delicate handwriting. He knew the soft and gentle hand that wrote it and wanted nothing more in this moment than to hold that hand again inside of his own. Experienced in the EVA and with a connection to them unlike any of the other pilots, he was sure Rei would be alright. Even so the pressure of separation from her and the anxiety over her being in any possible danger became just one more set of weights on his increasingly weakening shoulders.
Alongside the shoreline of Lake Ashi, Kikuchi drove the khaki-painted Land Cruiser along a coastal road at a hurried pace. With Kaji gone he was temporarily in charge of all NERV personnel security as well as that of the pilots, and when patrols made a startling discovery by the lake shore he had come immediately to see for himself.
He parked the Land Cruiser among a group of other security vehicles, including several cars used by NERV security as well as an armored vehicle from the Alliance and a couple of regional police vehicles. A wagon from the Coroner's office had also just arrived and as Kikuchi got out of the SUV he saw black-suited security personnel wrapping yellow tape around the scene.
The agent jogged down to the shore where a group of others from various agencies stood around something that was on the rocky shoreline of the lake. When he arrived at the gathering, several other agents stepped aside so he could see what they were examining. It was not a pretty sight.
"How fresh are these?" was his first question, directed to another NERV security agent in a gruff voice.
"No rigor yet," the agent replied. "This was pretty recent, perhaps two to four hours."
Kikuchi sat on his heels as he saw the two bodies in front of him. Stripped naked, the bodies each consisted only of a torso completely disembodied of its limbs and head.
"Anything on them?" he asked the agent in charge at the scene.
"No ID of any kind, no clothes even," the man replied, pointing at the bodies. "Both male, obviously. One is Caucasian, one is probably Japanese. The Japanese body had no identifying marks, but the Caucasian had burn marks on his lower back." The agent motioned for two other men with latex gloves to slowly turn over one of the bodies. "See here," he pointed with a ball-point pen. On the lower back of the white man's corpse there was a large red and black burn mark.
"Great," one of the other agents said in dark humor. "With everything else going on we've got a serial killer on the loose too."
Kikuchi stood up. "This wasn't a serial killer," he rebutted the other agent. "The white guy had a tattoo: that's why they burned it off."
"What for?" asked the first agent.
"They slice off the hands and feet to get the prints off of the bodies," Kikichi quickly concluded. "The heads are off because they're taking the retinas for the eye scanners. They wipe out the tattoo to prevent us from identifying the body so we can trace how they're infiltrating." He quickly picked up his mobile phone and called the Security command center within the GeoFront. "This is Kikuchi. I want a status on all pilots now."
The operator on the other end of the line took a moment before replying. "01 is suited up in Cage One, on standby alert," the operator told Kikuchi, referring to Shinji Ikari. "04 is on subfloor 7," which Kikuchi knew to be the level with the pilot suites, where Patrick Forrestal currently was. "05 is on A Deck up top. 08 is in the tactical training simulation area in the GeoFront Area 66, and both 09 and 03 are in the pilot lounge," the operator finished, referring to Mari, Kenskue, Hikari, and Toji.
"Double the protection on all pilots immediately," Kikuchi ordered, "and triple it on 01. Also, I want the word to go out to all departments heads that we may have infiltrators. Do it quietly: anyone acting out of the ordinary I want them to report to us first before doing anything. I don't want to tip them off. Get on it," Kikuchi commanded and then shut off the phone.
To the group around the two bodies Kikuchi said "Get some DNA off whatever you can and then get it to the lab to run against the NERV personnel records. I want to know who they're trying to impersonate." The other agents nodded as Kikuchi immediately turned around and walked quickly back to his Land Cruiser. Somehow he knew today would be a very long day.
In Central Dogma, Makoto Hyuga stood on the operations deck as his new controller staff ran through diagnostics on each of their stations. With Maya and Aoba now re-assigned to new positions with greater responsibilities, Hyuga was made in charge of training replacements for them as Evangelion controllers, himself with the new title of "Assistant Chief of Evangelion Tactical Operations". Watching the three new young women work through the paces of their stations was an odd feeling for Hyuga, as over the last few months he had gotten very accustom to his old position in operations. "Agano," he called out to one of the new controllers. "You need to keep the tactical display active while you run the diagnostics, otherwise you can't ensure you're on status green."
"Sorry, sir," Lieutenant Kaede Agano replied. Now sitting in what was formerly his position, Agano was a petite young woman with short hair with long bangs. She quickly corrected her display. "Is this correct, sir?" she asked Hyuga. He nodded and then went over to the next controller.
"Ooi," he asked a medium-height woman with long flowing brown hair. "Did you get the network alert map active?"
Satsuki Ooi replied to the captain. "It's here, sir." she quickly keyed over the dynamic keyboard and then pulled up another screen. "All remote stations are checked out and responding. Defense network and alert grid is operating normally."
"Good," Hyuga replied and then he moved onto the last station, which was formerly Maya's. "Aoi? What's the data network's status?"
Aoi took a moment to study her display before giving an answer. "Network is at yellow status but the data availability rate is only at 49%," she said. "I'm not sure why isn't not higher."
Hyuga moved in closer to her station. "We're still not able to fully access MAGI data banks, so the data is less than 50% at all times. As long as it doesn't go below 15% we're still able to operate. Aoi, who wore glasses and was taller than the other two girls, nodded in understanding. "Right, sir."
Despite some misgivings on giving up his previous job Hyuga was beginning to feel at home as a leader of staff rather than just an operator. It didn't hurt that all three of his new operators were all fairly attractive as well, and while he hadn't selected them for their positions the new trio certainly wasn't going to be any harder on his eyes. Bridge Bunnies indeed, he humorously thought to himself.
"Okay everyone," Hyuga told the other three with a tone of importance, "we're going to run through some drills today and get you used to the flow of combat operations. Please be ready for it!" All three operators replied "Hai!" in response and sat at attention at their stations.
Oh, I am going to love this new job!
Over twenty thousand feet above ground EVA-02 hugged the side of the mountain it was perched on as Asuka kept careful watch of the two Harpies that were positioned on another mountain across from them. To better blend in with the landscape a giant netting of white and gray fabric was thrown over Unit 02, and Asuka kept the unit motionless as she watched and waited above the clouds that were drifting among the massive mountains.
"Asuka," Misato called out over the audio channel, "any new movement from the targets?"
"Not a damn thing," she pouted. "They just stand there on that mountainside like they're looking for something to go maw at."
"Any sign of some sort of installation, or opening on the mountainside."
"I don't see anything," reported Asuka, "but there's so much snow and ice there you wouldn't know what's underneath unless you got there."
There was a silence on the audio as Misato considered her options. The mission to the Himalayans was supposed to be a "reconnaissance in force," with a primary mission of finding out if there was a SEELE base for their Harpies there without being detected. While they had confirmed that Mass Production EVAs were indeed operating among the giant peaks, if that also meant there was a base carved into one of the mountains was still unknown. The only way to really find out might be to go where the Harpies were now and that meant engaging them in combat. Fortunately Misato had considered that possibility as well.
"Understood," she then said to Asuka. "Stand by for a close-in attack. Unit 07 will provide covering fire to take the enemy down while you proceed to the target. Don't move until I give the order."
"Got it," replied Asuka. After the voice message clicked off she commanded Unit 02 to carefully draw out her progressive knife and stood ready to pounce across the mountain range.
"Rei," Misato then called out, "do you have your weapon in position?"
"Yes, Colonel," came her reply. Across from the mountain with the two Harpies Rei had positioned EVA-07 behind another mountain alongside in a prone stance, her positron cannon shouldered up against her right arm as she took careful aim. Like Unit 02, Unit 07 wore white and gray camouflage netting all over the EVA to allow it to blend in with the mountain it was using as a firing position.
"Engage when ready," Misato told her.
For the next minute and a half Asuka waited impatiently as Rei took her time to line up the shot against the two white beasts on the mountain across from her. "Jeez," she carped to Rei on the audio channel, "Hurry up and take them out already. It's freezing up this high!"
Rei ignored the comments and concentrated on her visual scanner in front of her. She could see her weapon cross-hairs in front, and two target markers that indicated the position of each of the enemy EVAs on the mountain across from here. She waited patiently for all three objects to converge.
Asuka's voice again came over the audio. "Damn it, First! Get it the hell over with already!"
Seeing the solution that she wanted, Rei simply reported "ready," and then a half-second later fired a single shot from the positron cannon and at the two Harpies on the other side. A second afterward her patience was rewarded with the visible signs of two heads simultaneously exploding in a red splatter on the side of the mountain. "Targets hit," said Rei.
"Asuka, go!" ordered Misato. Immediately Unit 02 bounded from her mountain hiding place and ran up the peak, then flung herself off the mountain and sailed several thousand feet into the peak across from her, landing within yards of the two Harpies.
Despite the debilitating head shots, both of the Mass production EVAs were now growing back their heads, sickly protruding from their shoulders as their bodies excreted white and red fluids that spilled all around. Asuka didn't wait to see what happened and immediately swung her progressive knife into action, stabbing one Harpy on the ground and again slicing off its half-grown head, then bounding off the rock they were at and lunging at the second Harpy, which had just grown its own head back. The second Harpy thrust a lance at Unit 02 and as Asuka dodged it she watched its chest burst out in red blood. Unit 07 had shot it again from behind.
"Thanks," Asuka said cheerfully while she followed the second Harpy as it tumbled down the mountainside. She quickly pounced below it, and then again used the progressive knife to stab it in the chest. As blood and fluids oozed out of the Harpy Unit 02 rolled it over and Asuka quickly dug the knife into its back, pushing until the orange fluid of the entry plug splashed out. She pushed away from the dead EVA and then bounded back to the first Harpy, who was still sprawling on the giant rocks trying to recover its damage. Asuka could see that Rei had put in another two rounds from her cannon into the white EVA and the wounds were now slowly closing up. Not wanting to wait she jumped on it with the progressive knife in hand, stabbing deeply until the internal organs were shredded. With the progressive knife stuck in the first EVA's ribcage, Asuka then pulled out Unit 02's own Lance from its back holster and then stabbed the Harpy repeatedly until the entry plug was cracked open.
With both of the enemy EVAs killed, Asuka stood EVA-02 up and cleaned its hands of the mess. "That's that," she said with a satisfied look on her face.
"Asuka," called Misato. "Any sign of their base on that mountain?" The pilot took a long look around. "I don't see anything," she said. "Just a bunch of rocks and snow."
"Keep searching," the colonel ordered. "Rei, join her. Try to find out why they were here." As Unit 07 moved towards the peak where Unit 02 was now at, Asuka kept scanning to find any sign of a man-made object or opening on the peak. "Misato?" she asked the colonel as they searched, "if there wasn't a base up here, why the hell did they send two of those things to just hang out?" Rei answered the question for Misato. "They wanted us to come here," she quickly concluded.
Misato considered Rei's answer as well. "Any signs of a trap?" she asked both pilots.
"No, but the view is pretty good from up here!" said Asuka as she looked out on the Earth below them. Enough to make you forget about all of that shit down below.
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I just texted my colleague Lynn over at the egg design group about this movie (I have not heard back from her but my guess is she's seen it and knows all the great lines - she's a flick chick) ... but she may want to revisit it for inspiration for her lighting blog. Nelson lights everywhere . . . and I count on Lynn to identify the myriad of other illuminators.
I loved the movie for its style but even more for its message. Shoot straight. Be calmly honest. It takes Tom Rath (Peck) some struggling and encouragement to find his voice. But when he does it's magic. I'd like to think that it's like that in design. It takes some time, some dues, some struggling. But in the end if the design is honest and straight . . . it will take flight. Watch this movie, all 2 hours plus . . . it's a design gem in many ways.

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Dallas Stars Defeat San Jose Sharks 3-1
Jason Arnott had a goal and an assist as the Dallas Stars beat the San Jose Sharks 3-1 Saturday night.
Scott Young and Brenden Morrow also scored for the well-rested Stars, 7-3-2 in their last 12 games against the Sharks. Dallas played its first game in a week.
The Stars also extended their unbeaten streak to 10 games (8-0-2), their best run in nearly two years.
Dan McGillis scored for the Sharks, who fell to 1-5-2 in their last eight games.
Right wing Claude Lemieux played his first game for the Stars since he being traded by the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday.
Arnott gave the Stars a 1-0 lead with 4:29 remaining in the first period. Pierre Turgeon took a shot from the right side but Sharks defenseman Scott Hannan skated behind goalie Evgeni Nabokov to block the puck. It dribbled to the top of the crease where Arnott had an easy tip into the open left side of the net.
Dallas opened a 2-0 lead less than three minutes into the second period. Arnott stole the puck and passed it ahead to Young along the right boards. Young went in alone on Nabokov and punched the puck between the goalie's legs.
The Sharks scored less than two minutes later when McGillis' shot from the point bounced off the pads of Dallas goalie Marty Turco and dribbled across the line.
Morrow put the Stars up 3-1 with 11:21 remaining in the second period. Nabokov blocked Rob DiMaio's shot from the right circle but the puck rebounded in front of the crease to Morrow, who tipped the puck past a sliding Nabokov.
Notes@: Nabokov is winless in six games. … Sharks forwards Owen Nolan and Teemu Selanne have not scored a goal in eight games. … Turgeon has a point in nine of 12 games against the Sharks. … The Stars are 20-2-5 when scoring first and 22-1-3 when leading after the second period. … Dallas had a 13-game unbeaten streak (10-0-3) in March and April of 2001. … The Sharks are 3-of-49 in power plays the last 13 games.


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SCOTTSBORO, Ala. (WHNT) -- A Jackson County camp hosted 78 kids of north Alabama tornado victims for a week away from worry.
For the second summer since the devastating storms of April 27, Camp Maranatha near Scottsboro welcomed the kids for free.
"We have a few kids from last year and a lot of the kids are new and that's great for us because we want them to have the experience," director Gene Joiner said.
"There's a lot of coping that goes on with the storms, after [Thursday's] storms in particular."
Thursday night a thunderstorm with heavy winds toppled trees, and blew inflatable water toys and rafts throughout the camp.
The kids and staff were all at a worship service in what Joiner said is the safest building on the property.
However, the storm brought some kids to tears and Joiner said there was a lot of praying.
"it was evident to us that the kids are still dealing with the stress of the storm and so it was really nice that our counselors were able to be there and let the kids talk through their fear and do it in a safe environment," he said.
It was a brief blemish on a wonderful week.
"It just gives us a chance to be out and enjoy life again," Sydney Flowers said.
She is from Harvest and came to Camp Maranatha in Summer 2011 as well, and got to see some old friends and make some new ones.
"Camp Maranatha is amazing and all the activities are fun," Flowers said.
"All the counselors are fun and the food is amazing. Amazing!"
Shawn Moore of Huntsville agreed and said his week at camp was great.
"This was my first time but I can definitely see I'm going to try to come next year," he said.
"This was the best camp I've ever been to."
The camp and several church organizations raised money to provide the opportunity to the kids for free, and Joiner said the Harvest Youth Central was also integral in making the week a success.


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I saw that Susan had posted photos of her TBR mystery piles on her blog You Can Never Have Too Many Books and I thought it was such a good idea to bring them all together that I've done the same.
The photo below shows my TBR crime fiction books, which I've now collected together on my bookshelves – previously they were scattered amongst all the other TBRs. (I have more on my Kindle!)
I had no idea how many I had as I've never separated them from my other TBRs before. It doesn't look that many, but there are 50 books on those shelves. If I didn't read any other books I could possibly read them all by the end of the year – that would be an achievement!
Now I've just got to re-shelve the other TBR books I took off the shelves for these books! At the moment they're in piles on the floor, needing to be slotted into the rest of the non-crime fiction TBRs.


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The Minnesota Timberwolves' offer to the Cavaliers for Kyrie Irving reportedly did not include Andrew Wiggins.
According to ESPN's Darren Wolfson, the Cavs would want Wiggins "and more" from Minnesota.
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Senate Republicans have crushed a Democratic blockade, approving a rule change dubbed the ''nuclear option'' to allow for conservative judge Neil Gorsuch's confirmation by Friday. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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St. Louis now has four members of its ten-man draft class under contract.


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Monday, June 21, 2010
Saint Michael & All Angels Church, 8 p.m.
Organ Recital
David York, organ
John Thiessen, trumpet
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Prelude and Fugue in D Minor,
BuxWV 140
Three Chorale Preludes
on Herzlich tut mich verlangen
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Op. 122, No. 10
Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
Op. 122, No. 10
Giovanni Viviani (1638-1692)
Trumpet Sonata Prima
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Passacaglia and Fugue in C
Minor, BWV 582
Two settings of B-A-C-H
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
No. 3 from Six Fugues on B-A-C-H, Op. 60
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Fugue on B-A-C-H, H 373
Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
No. 3 from Six Fugues on B-A-C-H, Op. 60
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
Fugue on B-A-C-H, H 373
Giovanni Pergolesi (1710-1736)
Sonata per Organo
Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
Trumpet Sonata in C
César Franck (1822-1890)
Prelude, Fugue and Variation,
Op. 18
Henri Mulet (1878-1967)
York's recital offers us Baroque organ masterworks, extended
to concerted pieces with John Thiessen's valveless Baroque
trumpet, then to Romantic literature based on 18th-century precedents.
was a Danish-German who eventually settled in the Hanseatic League
city of Lübeck as organist at the Marienkirche. J. S. Bach
actually walked approximately 50 miles in 1705 from Arnstadt for
a three-month visit in Lübeck to learn from him there, and
he was visited also by Handel (then interested in succeeding to
Buxtehude's position, but unwilling to marry the old man's
daughter, already about 30, as a stipulated part of the agreement!).
Buxtehude's influence on late-Baroque North German music,
especially Bach's, is extraordinary.
This Prelude and Fugue clearly reflects the composer's brilliant
foot technique, surely inspired by the massive pedal division of
the Marienkirche's famous pipe organ. BACK
Bach, Brahms and many others have set the well-known chorale Herzlich
tut mich verlangen ("My heart is filled with longing"),
the Passion Chorale prominent in modern hymnals. Its introspective
nature is reflected in these three treatments, most obviously in
the Brahms, where the chorale tune is heard in the pedals under
highly emotional and constantly flowing stream-like harmonies.
name and fairly slender compositional output are obscure, but the
career of this 17th century Florentine took him to Innsbruck, Austria
as director of the Hapsburgs' court music there, then to Venice
for opera, and to Rome where even Corelli participated in one of
his oratorios. Elevated to nobility, he continued writing operas
in Naples before becoming maestro di cappella at Pistoia
Cathedral. Both of his trumpet sonatas are heard in this season's
Festival, the other on Friday in the Gardens. BACK
Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor ranks as one
of the monuments of Baroque organ literature, immediately recognizable
for its grandeur and inventiveness. The passacaglia form
originated in 17th-century Spain as a kind of ritornello
for song forms, played on the guitar. It became a series of variations
over a constant harmonic pattern in 18th-century Italy and Germany,
usually with a repeated melodic phrase, making it similar to and
even confused with the chaconne, which emerged originally
from a dance.
Bach's masterpiece begins with an unaccompanied pedal theme
that is reflected throughout the tightly connected variations that
Robert Schumann described as being "intertwined so ingeniously
that one can never cease to be amazed."
adored the music of Bach, and, like his friend Brahms, acknowledged
that inspiration in some of his own compositions, most obviously
in six fugues on the name of Bach as termed in German — the
pitches B flat, A, C, and B natural. Johann Sebastian set his own
tuneful surname, as did his famous composer son, Carl Philipp Emanuel,
and many others, later including Franz Liszt. BACK
Pergolesi was born 300 years ago, suggesting notice in this recital
and also in Friday's Music in the Gardens II for a repeat
performance of Stravinsky's attractive neo-Baroque Suite
Italienne, based on themes by Pergolesi as arranged by Piatigorsky.
This sonata, apparently Pergolesi's only work for organ or
even for solo keyboard, hints at pre-Classical characteristics in
its simple texture and light melody over slow harmonic progressions.
lbinoni attained great fame during his lifetime,
in his native Venice and throughout much of Europe. He supported
his operatic soprano wife and their six children through a prolific
output: 80 operas, 40 solo cantatas, 79 sonatas for various instruments
for church and chamber, 59 concertos, and more. His publications
were well known to Bach, who copied and used his music for teaching
The key of C in this sonata is uncommon, most trumpet music of
the period being in D. The slow-fast-slow-fast arrangement of movements,
normally found in church sonatas, has the trumpet resting as usual
in the slow movements, even the first, before it has uttered a sound.
The fast movements are in modified ritornello form. BACK
ésar Franck, born in Liège, Belgium,
moved at age 13 to Paris with his parents, and attended the Paris
Conservatory, where he studied piano, organ and theory, and won
prizes in organ and counterpoint. He later taught at the Paris Conservatory,
his pupils including Chausson, Duparc and Vierne, and he held the
organist post at the famous Ste. Clotilde until his death. Franck's
operas and oratorios are little known, although we often hear his
Variations Symphoniques for piano and orchestra, and his
Symphony in D minor.
His adoration of Bach is apparent in the forms of this Prelude,
Fugue and Variation, and perhaps even in his late-Romantic
chromaticism. BACK
enri Mulet as a boy played for services at
Paris's Sacré-Coeur under his choirmaster father. At
the Paris Conservatory, he studied cello and harmony and, under
Guilmant and Widor, won a prize in organ playing. His compositional
output is little known, but this Carillon-Sortie is a favorite
of modern organists and proves immediately attractive to audiences.
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Students might not agree, but the Dublin school administrators are looking forward to a new state achievement test.
Students might not agree, but the Dublin school administrators are looking forward to a new state achievement test.
The Ohio Department of Education last week announced Ohio�s place in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, which will mean new achievement tests that gauge how well students are prepared for college or a career.
PARCC is a multi-state partnership that has received federal money to develop assessments for the Common Core State Standards for English/Language Arts and Mathematics. The Common Core Standards have been adopted by Ohio and 43 other states.
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The new tests also could combine tests that use speaking and listening components, thus testing more skills, Meade said.
District officials like that the tests would be done online.
�It will take away all the paper. Right now we�re using forklifts to haul around those papers,� Axner said. �There will be huge benefits. We won�t be lugging all that paper around and the cost to lug it around. But secondly, the plan is instead of the district waiting 60 days for the results, you�ll have the student results within 60 seconds. ... That will improve the ability to provide intervention and remediation.�
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The online component of testing will be something the state has to look into, Axner said.
�We have equipment to implement something like this, but there are schools in rural Ohio and other spots that don�t have Wi-Fi access. It�s something the state is working toward and has until 2014. It�ll be a good thing,� he said, adding that the more districts that have online access, the more likely it is that digital learning will be combined into classrooms statewide.
�If they push to get more schools web access there are more opportunities as a district when they start to make more changes state wise.�
�Ohio has a long commitment to high expectations for all students and improving education through meaningful reform,� PARCC governing board chair Mitchell Chester said in the ODE release. �By becoming a governing board member, they will play a vital role in the development of high-quality assessments that provide meaningful data to teachers and parents about student achievement and readiness for college and careers.�


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New Leaf Winter Farmer's Market this Saturday
The New Leaf Winter Farmer's Market is back for it's fourth year! The market is held inside the KI Convention Center in downtown Green Bay from 8 am to Noon on selected dates.
More than 100 vendors are being featured including local meats, cheeses, produce, jams, jellies, pastries, breads, and coffee. There will even be live music on hand.
Here are all the dates of the remaining for the New Leaf Winter Farmer's Market:
• December 14th (Special Extended Holiday Market)
• January 11th
• February 1st
• March 1st
• March 15th
• March 22nd
• March 29th
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Genre: young adult, romance, mystery, contemporary.
Series: Crush #2
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Hunter, however, can't stand being away from the girl he really loves, and he sneaks away one night to meet her across town. He doesn't know the gang leader, Ripper, has suspicions about him already and he's following him to see where he goes. He surprises Hunter and Cami, and Hunter quickly introduces her as his foster sister who is having some car trouble. He thinks all is well until he discovers he has one serious problem. Ripper likes Cami and decides to pursue her, drawing her into the same dangerous world he's supposed to bring down.
Can he keep his cover without having Cami get caught in the crossfire? Will the two of them survive having to watch each other fake it in the arms of another? Or will their hot stolen kisses destroy everything?
My review:
I seriously can't get enough of this series!Cami and Hunter are still so sweet together. I liked the way they tease each other ;)
Oh and I loooooove Russ!! :D He's so funny. I hope he will get some happiness too.
I liked the plot a lot. I actually made me think of Fast&Furious! Which, in my opinion, is never bad ;)
I would have given this book 5 stars, if the ending didn't bothered me a little. For me it felt a little too rushed (view spoiler).
But otherwise: great book! I can't wait to read the next one!


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Jeremy Corbyn forced to abandon plans to call for Turkey to join EU
Jeremy Corbyn has been forced to withdraw plans to give a speech calling for all Turkish citizens to gain access to the EU amid concerns it would increase the chances of Brexit.
Labour sources told the Telegraph that the Labour leader had planned to travel to Turkey later this month and call for the country to join the EU, but the speech has now been scrapped after it sparked a furious internal row.
Pro-EU campaigners fear the prospect of Turkey's 80 million population being allowed to take advantage of freedom of movement rules could increase support for a Leave vote.
One senior Labour source said: "The party needs a laser focus on the referendum and this level of malevolence from the leader's office is not helping. Labour members will not tolerate these stunts.
"Jeremy won't get away with such a malicious and naive plan to sabotage the campaign to keep us in Europe."
Mr Corbyn's spokesman confirmed that he had delayed plans to travel to Turkey until after the EU referendum on 23 June.
Earlier this week, David Cameron told MPs that Turkish membership of the EU was "not remotely on the cards".
"I will be absolutely frank with you, I don't think the accession of Turkey to the European Union is remotely on the cards.
"I don't think it will happen for decades. "I would say very clearly to people, if your vote in this referendum is being influenced by considerations about Turkish membership of the EU, don't think about it.
"It's not remotely on the cards. It's not an issue in this referendum and it shouldn't be."


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Since antiquity, Portugal has excelled in upholding its own unique culture; many people outside Europe fail to realize the distinctions between it and it. peer Spain. The country has, for the most part, fended off Spanish interests and influence, and it makes a vacation to its capital city of Lisbon worthwhile. Lisbon escorts are adept at touring the city for patrons as well as sort of unofficial tour guides. They are capable of other services as well, and the package make them very alluring, in all of their attractiveness, much like the city they live in.
Lisbon is the westernmost cosmopolitan city in Europe, and has recently undergone major immigration from the rest of Europe; in fact, there are sections of the city where more French people dwell than Portuguese. This enhances the experience for gentlemen on his travels to Portugal, as Lisbon escorts have a diverse pool of talent, with women who can usually speak multiple languages, and all of them know English. The first scheduled event to proceed with is a tour of the Lisbon Bridge, so dial Lisbon escorts, and arrange a tour soon. The bridge is stunning in its architectural perfection, and is perhaps the most cutting edge bridge in the entire world, as the 25 de Abril Bridge is the 5th longest suspension bridge outside of USA, and it resembles a Portuguese Golden Gate.
After the tour of the outdoor wonders of the city, Lisbon escorts remind their clients that restaurants in the city rival those of any other countries in Europe. Italy, France, and even Spain get much of the credit in regards to world-class cuisine, but Portugal has borrowed from all of those places, as well as Africa, so the cuisine of Lisbon escorts country is perhaps more diverse than in anywhere else in Europe. Casa da Comida, located at Jardin de Las Amoreira, is possibly the best eatery in the entire city. It serves splendid seafood, and the decor inside is what Lisbon escorts love to come for. This restaurant is famous for it marinated dishes, and when paired with wine, the patron may think he'd died and gone to heaven.
Antonio Clara is a different experience, but almost compulsory in Lisbon escorts city if the patron has never been here. It is actually situated on the former home of a once elite architect, Miguel Ventura Terra. Inside the restaurant, famous paintings hang on the wall, and the provided candles add immense romance to the already dreamy atmosphere. On the menu, the Beef Wellington is said to be world-class. Lisbon escorts revel in the fact that there are two eateries in the city that routinely impress clients so much that a return visit is all but guaranteed.
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It is a young team, but Porto is definitely not short of skill, and the players proved it by capturing the latest Portuguese league title. Manager Andre Villas Boas helped conquer the illusive dream, and helped regional fans realize that talent really does prevail in most cases. The Portuguese native football fans, and particularly Porto supporters, have long since been conservative with the aspirations of their teams' future successes. Some joke that they await failure, but all humour aside, the reality of the league is absolute parity.
Externally, football fans and Lisbon escorts have, since the inception of the revamped roster, always viewed Porto as a prospectively potent young squad. With players like Hulk, Falcao, and Maicon, many argued that the team couldn't go wrong. Escort Agencies in Lisbon contemplated ticket sales to FC Porto and Benfica matches, but feared legal repercussions. Indeed, the energy in Estadia do Drogao was tense at the outset of the season, but from then on the fans seemed to relax, as the Portuguese football mind is typically an intelligent one. Portuguese escorts tempered rumours that Hulk had plans to play in the English Premier League, but given the economic upside to that option, it can never be ruled out as a possibility altogether. Hulk, who's real name is Givinildo Vieira De Souza, has been on record to claim that he had no intentions of leaving, but that was at the season's inaugural game and different agents have certainly phoned him since then.
If players do leave, the lineup will still feature Maicon, one of the most brilliant young players in the world. Fans need not fear; even if the worst-case scenario were to transpire, and multiple players departed, the rebuild process would be not only painless, but quick. The publicity generated by FC Porto's league title and escort frenzy has been proven to augment the recruiting process. Simply put, the team has more prestige, and if it had a stock, it would have seen its value skyrocket over the last twelve months. It should also be remembered that every young local star began his career in Portugal. Ronaldo, Figo, and Alves started in his own country, and although they left, other players, like Pauleta for example, played their entire career at home for fans to enjoy.
Lisbon provides a more cosmopolitan fan base, thus more attention is typically focused on the Spanish, English, and Italian leagues. But much love resides with its local teams as well, and people generally appreciate the players that display heartfelt effort, regardless of short tenures, even with the blue blood fans who heckle Ronaldo. The sole reason why Ronaldo's reputation has suffered with escorts in Lisbon is due to his diva qualities. Those in the Iberian Peninsula tend to find him disingenuous, thus the reason for his brief stop in Manchester.


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Glendale firefighters successfully defended their basketball championship title on Sunday, outscoring police 58-33.
A three-point shot from the Glendale Fire Department at the buzzer ended the third annual Hoop Heroes Basketball Championship Game at Glendale High School, officials said.
PHOTOS: Glendale Fire vs. Police charity basketball game
The event also raised more than $5,000 for the Salvation Army's Zone Academy, according to event chairman Rick Dinger.
The after-school program provides tutoring and improves literacy for students ages 8 to 14.
More than 200 pounds of canned goods were also donated to the Salvation Army during the basketball game.
[For the Record 9:25 p.m.: An earlier version of this event stated the incorrect amount of money raised.]
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RAWALPINDI: Brilliant bowling display by Imran Khan Junior followed by explosive batting from Iftikhar Ahmed and Mohammad Rizwan helped the spirited Peshawar Region to beat a star-studded Karachi Blues side by seven wickets to clinch the national Twenty20 title here on Tuesday night.
At one stage, the required run rate had climbed to almost 12 but both Rizwan and Iftikhar kept their composure to win the match for their side with seven balls to spare.
Iftikhar made 57 not out in just 40 balls with two fours and four towering sixes while Rizwan remained unbeaten at 58 off 34 deliveries with eight fours and a maximum.
Opener Rafatullah Mohmand also contributed well scoring 43 off 23 balls with six fours and two sixes.
Earlier, Peshawar skipper Zohaib Khan elected to field after winning the toss.
Superstar wicket keeper batsman Sarfraz Ahmed made unbeaten 47 off 26 balls, hitting six fours for Karachi Blues. Opener Khurram Manzoor scored 41, Khalid Latif 23, Asad shafiq and Fawad Alam 19 each and Shahid Afridi 15 to help their side reach 177 in 20 overs.
Both Imran Khans lived up to the legacy attached to their names with the junior taking three wickets for 26 and the senior grabbing two for 35 in their 4 allotted overs.


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I happened to be in India at the time he took sick. Purely by chance. It makes me wonder, sometimes. The co-incidence I mean. I could go more into it but then I may lose you.
So, and this is a digression, but oh well. Emirates did me a favor on the way back. They thought. Maybe this was just an accident, but they did know the reason whey I postponed my trip twice before. So I give them the benefit of humanity. Somehow they assumed I wouldn't be up to chatting up a stranger for the next 18 hours to Houston!
I got a row to myself in the middle of the plane. A row, you say excitedly! There. I knew I'd have your attention there. It was almost business class. But not quite. Come on, you knew there was a catch. The row was in the back. Fair enough, I thought. The plane was ready to take off when I realized my luck. I lay down immediately after the plane leveled, before anyone got any ideas about the open seats next to me and closed my eyes. (To be fair, there was barely any space to straighten your knees before they end up on the other side of the stomach of the passenger directly before me.) (Okay, I lied, before they poke through the rib of the mullah-like-passenger in the seat four inches to the side before me.)
Don't make me justify this so much.
I'll never finish the story.
Then where will you be?
In any case, I must have been exhausted. I fell asleep. On those three mis-aligned seats in that pinched waist of the tail of the plane where one feels every shudder of cross wind, where every passenger stops on the way to the toilets in the rear.
By the way I woke up feeling like a shrimp, curved in a not so attractive way, a crick to one side.
But back to the story, and here, I'll alert anyone who's beginning to nod off…we're back to my story now, a little blurred perhaps, but do focus.
I came home to my husband, my son, and to my very inviting bed where I could actually stretch out, and slept for ten hours straight. The next morning I woke up early. As always when I return from India, for the first few days I always wake up in time to watch the last stars in rotation.
Awake, clear, alert.
I think, I write, I'm replete. (I must do the jet-lag thing in a weird way.)
I did my usual thing that morning. I took account of the changes that had occurred while I was gone:
In the three weeks I was away, the late exuberance of summer had turned to fall. My plants had clearly suffered from my absence. Everything seemed in remission.
The jet-propelled humming birds had vanished. Their feeders were drained and stuffed with miscellaneous insects. A thin frost lay on the skeleton deck.
From out of our expansive windows in our bedroom I tracked the upward movement of the sun. The view of the sunrise is always amazing whether I actually see the sun between the gap in the Hogback or not. I can imagine why the Vedic ancients worshipped that daily arrival.
The morning was glorious on that first day back.
I stood by the window, on the cold tile of the bathtub surround and watched the light change by fractal degrees. In micro-seconds on the clock, it went from that watery blue that gets distilled between midnight and dawn to the murky rouges of stirring dust, to flagrant reds that blaze behind the hulking hills and the towers of DTC blurring in the distance, to the gaudy pinks flashing steadily across the ocean sky. I waited until the sun cracked and spilled, dense and liquid in the haze.
By the time I made tea, the drama was over. The sky was normal again. I sipped my tea. Hot. Black. Sweet. Purely caffeine. Stepped carefully out on the deck, leaving footprints down the stairs to the unfinished pond. It was the one thing that hadn't changed. Still without prospects of completion and filled with melting snow and an apron of animal tracks in the white dust.
I watched a different sunrise everyday that I was back.
On the thirteenth morning of my father's passing low lying clouds settle in. While I slept, back home in India, there had been a gathering of family and friends, a large meal, food packets distributed to the home for the aged. An observance of my father's life. My night, their day. The house, silent, emptied of a singular presence beyond all others.
I look out from my window at the valley below. The horizon is close. The DTC towers are nowhere in sight. In thirteen days, snow has fallen and melted several times already. Rooftops hunker down for the coming winter. Now the valley is filled with the tops of trees filtered by smoke, by mist. From my window in my valley full of shadows and stubbly evergreens, some 6000 feet above sea level, I observe too.
The sun has come up somewhere. I am sure of it.
The clouds register its passage.
I wait with bare feet on the four inch square standard beige tile, until the light shifts.


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|Christine Budke
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OK, so let's be honest, as a society we're infatuated with the downfall and corruption of others' lives. Whether it's Lindsay Lohan's latest trip to rehab, or Charlie Sheen's latest public outburst, we just can't help ourselves—we're obsessed.
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But why? Why is it that we're so attracted to celebrity life and the supposed "reality" media we're surrounded by? Maybe it's a subconscious security blanket; we know that no matter how bad or unhappy we may be with our own lives, there's always someone else out there to distract us with their self-inflicted chaos. A bit cynical, yes, but not insane. Regardless of what the true allure to viral media may be, it is just that, viral. We love to gossip no matter how much we claim to be "above it", which in turn leads us to sharing viral media content because we enjoy the hype of another's failures, and we need to share that shock value with a friend.
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Honey Boo Boo is great example of our obsession with viral media. I know it's terrible, but I can't stop watching. I guess it's like that saying, "it's so awful that you just can't look away." If you're not familiar with the show, Honey Boo Boo is a reality show on TLC about a young pageant girl from rural Georgia. Her show is actually about a low income family that does some pretty crazy things. For example, Honey Boo Boo's mother gives her "Go Go Juice," which indeed is a mixture of Red Bull and Mountain Dew. She drinks this to get prepared for pageants and dinners—yeah, let's just say, NO COMMENT. The harsh reality is that this is one of the most popular shows on TV. The next reality is that it's absolutely humiliating and revolting.
Just as television shows go viral, so does content. People love to be shocked and awed. This is why the celebrity breakdowns and aspiring teens desperate for attention, have our attention. As a writer or blogger this can be a powerful tool for driving traffic to your site. Celebrities that have a personal blog just to ramble on about their atypical lifestyles have often gone viral. Society loves drama, so the more dramatic, the better. It starts with one fan or follower and then spreads like wildfire. Within minutes, something that was once unknown, has now become a viral disease that the rest of society is forced to tolerate. By following trending keywords and topics on Google analytics you can attempt to learn your audiences' behavior and predict what will get them clicking and infecting their social circle.
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In the same regard, content that is contradictory can also be viral bait. In this recent presidential election, we saw firsthand how contradictory media affects the way people feel and react. From social networks to blogs, to TV commercials, the routine battle of Republicans versus Democrats was eminent on every medium. For every "true promise" or accusation came a lie to stir things up. Even knowing that these very people we followed and attached to their every word were the very people who would be running our country for the next four years, we still found a way to make it all "entertainment news."
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So whether it's a television show or online content, anything can go viral spontaneously if it has the fresh perspective, emotional influence, or shock value to back it up. For celebrity news, the more morally wrong it is, the more traffic or views it typically receives. Whether you like it or not, society IS obsessed with humanity at its worse. But as long as the Britney Spears and the Kim Kardashians of our world still exist so will our obsessions. Now, if you'll excuse me I have to catch up on my Real Housewives of Atlanta episodes—Just kidding.


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I'm the mother of two amazing little boys and the wife of the most supportive husband in the universe. We are lucky enough to live on the Southern coast of Oregon enjoying daily coastal sunsets right from our living room windows.
We enjoy hiking, camping, beach combing and gardening. We love doing things as a family and enjoy sharing the beauty of our natural world with our children.
I have always adored photography, as it is a medium that quickly captures the world around me. I hope you enjoy these photographs as much as I do. They are my favorites.


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Jimmy Albert Wyatt, 45, was fast asleep in his car, parked in a spot in front of a Walmart. Port Richey police were given a false report that Wyatt was a fugitive. They attempted to confirm the report but they were unable to find any firm evidence that the report was true (ah, perhaps because it was false). But in spite of this, three police arrived and tried to wake Wyatt.
Please keep in mind that as we join the report, Mr. Wyatt is fast asleep.
...the officers stood at Wyatt's window, trying to wake him. He didn't stir. They opened his car door and shook him. That's when ... Wyatt said, "F--- you," and struck his palm into Sgt. Kern's chest. [LINK]
Now, wouldn't any rational person immediately jump to the conclusion that Mr. Wyatt perhaps wasn't expecting to be rudely awoken from his deep slumber at oh-dark-hundred in the middle of the night? Obviously the officer should step back and protect himself, but an instinctive reaction and movement under these circumstances hardly constitutes intentional action. And that should be bleedingly obvious to anyone.
But no...
The officers ripped Wyatt from the car. Officer Donald Velsor fired a taser into his lower abdomen. Officer Justin Lee fired at Wyatt's stomach and collarbone. Kern issued a "drive stun" shock to his hip. All told, Wyatt was struck with three taser shocks within three minutes of the officers' arrival. They charged him with battery on a law enforcement officer after the palm strike...
Perhaps this department should invest $20 in a large wind-up alarm clock with the two old-fashioned bells on top. Set it to ring in a minute or two, place it on the dashboard of the subject's car, and then (this is important) back away out of arm's length before the alarm clock rings.
More seriously, it's plain stupid to:
1) Be within an arm's length when waking a stranger from a deep sleep. You don't know what their reaction may be; perhaps they're in the middle of REM sleep and are vividly dreaming about 'who-knows-what?'. Use common sense...
2) And equally stupid to interpret the reaction to being awoken as anything more than what it is - a probably unintentional response. The correct reaction by the police Sgt (having put himself into this situation) should have been to step back and say, "Whoa there fella! Police."
Anyway, the department is reviewing the actions of the police officers involved in this incident. [ibid]
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