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Hey Everyone I've finally got the 4th story for The Protectors series done!c: So I hope you guys like it!
Genre Of Story: Fantasy/Drama/Family/Romance.
Title Of Story: The Protectors Book Four: Summer's Fires.
"Yes, Mike! I'll marry you!"Lois cheered a she hugged the male fox.
Mike smiled widely and slid the engagement ring onto Lois's finger.
"I love you!"Both Foxes then said unison as they grinned ear from ear, and then kissed each other deeply.... Ever wanting the moment to end.
"I can't believe Freshman year is over!"Rexie barked.
"Me neither,"Wind, Hunnie, Snow and Trixie replied together.
"This is gonna be an awesome summer!"Wind added with delight.
"It sure is,"Rexie agreed as the others smiled brightly.
Then the happy group of friends made their way to Rexie's house... For an evening of none stop fun!
When they arrived at Kairi and Rexie's home the Orange and White nine tailed, opened the door and let her pals inside and then entered after them.
"Hey girls!"Kairi greeted cheerfully as she pulled Rexie into a tight hug.
"Hey, Awesome Master,"Rexie replied as the others greeted the redhead.
"So the last day of school was good then?"Kairi questioned.
"Yep!"The young Foxes howled happily together.
"Hey wheres, Katie?"Rexie added seeing that her older sister... Wasn't in the room with them.
"She's in the living room doing homework,"Kairi answered as she let go of her pet.
"Gosh I'm so happy for her!"Rexie squeaked.
"Same here,"The redhead replied as she pet her Fox gently on the head.
The Princess was busy doing work when suddenly... One of her many guards came running into the room.
"News from South Starlight your highness!"The guard roared.
"Yes?"The Princess asked calmly as she put her papers down.
"It had returned..."The guard Fox responded nervously.
"Find the other guards and go there! I'll meet you there with others!"The Princess ordered.
"Yes your highness!"The guard agreed as he ran out of the room quickly.
Then the Starlight ruled used her magic and picked up her pen and a letter sheet.
"My dearest, Elements of Weather... You all must come to the castle at once..."The Princess wrote.
---Fifteen Minutes Later at Rexie's house---
"Come on we've got to go!"The Amber-eyed Fox growled.
"We're coming, We're coming!"Snow replied as she and the others reached the open front door.
"Good now then le-"However Rexie didn't get to finish her sentence... When she saw Katie, Kairi, and Trixie walking outside.
"We're coming with you guys!"Kairi added.
"Are you sure?"Rex asked knowing that her sister and master both had college classes.
"Yes! We can make up for our school work when we get back! Now come on!"Kairi answered.
And with that... The group headed to catch the next train... To the castle!
"We came as fast as we could!"Rexie barked as she and the others met their ruler, outside of her home.
"Thank you all,"The Princess replied sighing heavily.
"So what mission do we need to go on?"Snow added.
"This mission is for you four to help me protect The Fallen Empire!"Their wise ruled responded.
"The what...?"Everyone else questioned in confusion.
"The Fallen Empire... It was once a land ruled over by a queen named, Queen Of Light... However this ruler had a brother named Shadow... Who wanted to rule over the Empire... So then he got jealous enough he became evil... And gained the power of dark magic! Then he killed his sister and took over the land, and in slaved the Foxes who lived there... During that time... I used all the spells I knew to defeat him... But nothing worked... However until one day I learned how to use Dark Magic without being cursed with it... Using its power I banished the king far from Starlight, but not before he was able to put a curse on the empire... One that caused it to vanish into thin air... It was said that the empire would come back, but no one knew when... So this also means that Shadow might be returning... And if he does... Well he cannot take The Fallen Empire again! Which is why I need all of you to help me protect it... I'll use my protection spell for as long as I can... However not even the elements can save the land... There is said to be a relic called The Empire Star... Which is supposed to keep the land from harm so I need all of you to find it... Shadow had hidden away in the Empire before anyone could look for it,"The Princess explained.
"Don't worry, Princess! We'll find The Empire Star!"Rexie replied.
"Good! Now there's a train awaiting us! So let's get going to The Fallen Empire!"The Fox ruler added.
And with that the others followed their Princess to the train, and climbed a bored wondering... Just how hard this mission would be.
One the way to the Empire Rexie and Trixie began talking, about how the fat fox could lose weight without making herself throw up her food.
"So I think that if you do running, push ups, jumping jacks, and all that stuff for the rest of the summer... Well you might be all nice and fit by the time school starts up again!"Rexie said.
"Sounds pretty promising! And I'm sorry again about... Eh you know making myself throw up my food,"Trixie responded. Thinking back to when Rex had caught her making herself sick in the bathroom.
"It's alright, Trxie! I already told you I'm not mad,"Rexie pointed out.
"I know... But I still feel bad,"The heavy Fox sighed.
"Don't be! It's alright I swear!"Rexie said.
"Oh... Alright then,"Trixie replied as she saw her crush smile a little.
"Good! Now about the mission..."
One the way to The Fallen Empire, Trixie and Rexie talked about the mission... And soon enough everyone else joined in giving their thoughts, on how they could find The Empire Star.
So when the group arrived at The Empire... Well everyone had an idea of where to find the one and only, thing that could ever protect The Empire.
"Okay everyone! We're gonna have to walk to The Empire... It's only-"However The Princess didn't get to finish her sentence... When there was a loud noise... As black smoke suddenly filled the air all over... And there out of the smoke... Came Shadow's head which seemed to be apart of the horrible Black subscene.
Then... Shadow lunged for the group who quickly began to run as fast as they could...
"COME ON WE'VE GOT TO MAKE IT TO THE EMPIRE!"The Princess yelled wanting her subjects to move faster.
"WE'RE RUNNING AS FAST AS WE CAN!"Wind screamed as Shadow began to get insanely close to her!
Then The Empire came into view and everyone ran faster... And luckily for Wind she was able to get far away, from Shadow and made it into The Fallen Empire, but they weren't safe yet... As The Princess turned around and preformed her protection spell... Shadow was almost right outside the large see through, clear, blue shelter that The StarLight Ruler had put up.
"T-That was a close one..."Rexie managed to choke out as the others nodded in agreement.
"Well we better get moving though if we're gonna find The Empire Star!"Snow added.
And then as everyone began to move out across The Fallen Empire... The Princess called the nine tailed Fox, over to her.
"Yes, Princess?"Rexie asked as she walked up the tall, wise ruler.
"I would like you show you how to use Shadow's Dark Magic! Because I beileave that you are the only one, who may know how to find The Empire Star,"The Princess explained.
"But... How would his magic help me?"Rexie asked clearly confused.
"Well... Let's just say for one Shadow may have used his Dark Magic to hide The Empire Star, and well... If that's true I want to give you that chance because I trust you the most with it,"The Fox Ruler responded.
"Alright then! I'll do it!"Rexie replied.
Good now watch me!"The Princess smirked as she began to use The Dark Magic.
The Ruler's eyes went purple and green smoke appeared in the air... Then The Princess was lifted into the air... And then the green smoke hit the ground loudly and three tall, sharp, black rocks suddenly grew on the grass.
"Whoa..."Rexie mumbled as The Princess then broke the black rocks with the dark magic... And then was placed perfectly on the ground.
"And that is how you use Dark Magic!"The Kitsune Ruler said.
"That was amazing! Thanks, Princess!"Rexie cheered.
"No problem! Now go and don't forget to use all the other magic you and friends learned from me, in the past couple of weeks!"The insanely tall crowned Fox added.
"I won't forget I promise!"Rex responded as she ran off to look for The Empire Star.
As Rexie walked into the town of The Empire, she saw that all of the Foxes living there... Looked very depressed.
They walked with their ears back, their tails down, and their heads hung low... Yep they definitely were not in the best of moods.
"I wonder where I should look first,"The nine tailed Fox thought to herself, now wanting The Empire Foxes to feel better as soon as possible.
However... A moment later, Rexie glanced to the left and saw a library beside some shops.
Perfect! A book on The History Of The Fallen Empire, it's sure to help us find The Star in no time!"Rexie cheered brightly as she ran for the building full of books.
When Rex got inside the library she groaned, at the shelves filled with millions of stories.
"Now... I've just to find the history section,"Rexie sighed... Knowing that it was gonna take her a while.
"Okay let's get to it,"Rexie thought as she walked towards the book sections.
And so Rexie began to look through the shelves... Hoping that she'd find something that could help her, and the others as well.
However despite looking for over an hour... Rex could not find the book she had in mind.
"Ugh... I'm never gonna find it!"Rexie hissed.
But then... Just as Rexie felt like giving up... Well a book fell off of one of the now messy shelves, that she had made from insane book searching.
"Oww..."Rex sighed as she picked up the book with her magic.
Then when the nine tailed saw the book that she had been looking for, she grinned widely and then ran out of the book building happily.
"Now then! Time to find out more about The Empire Star!"Rexie smirked as she put the book down, on the sidewalk using her magic and then opened it.
Soon enough Rex had read through the whole book... And had found something out that she'd never known before... The Empire Gift Exchange of love and friendship! It was an event that The Empire Foxes held every year, to renew The Empire Star with hope and love so that they could protect the land from danger!
"This is wonderful information I must get the others!"Rexie thought as she picked up the book... And ran down the streets hoping that her friends and family weren't too far.
Finally Rex had found the others and soon enough... She was explaining everything to them!
"So... I think this would be a good idea! While some of us look for The Star... Well the others can make The Empire Foxes happy!"Rexie barked.
"That sounds amazing! I love it!"The Princess replied.
"I'm glad cause it wasn't easy to find this book,"Rexie responded.
"I can tell! So this is what we're gonna do, I want Katie with Rexie to find The Star while Kairi, Snow, Wind, Trixie, and Hunnie set up the gift exchange as I use my spell to protect The Empire!"The Fox Ruler added.
"Sounds good!Everyone else said in unison.
"Alright then let's get to it!"The Princess said.
And with that Rexie gave Snow, Wind, Hunnie, Kairi, and Trixie the book for the gift giving event, before the nine tailed headed off with her sister.
"So where do you think... It's gonna be?"Katie asked as she walked along with Rexie.
"I'm not sure, but this empire is huge! It could very well be anywhere,"The Amber-eyed fire element answered.
"Yeah that's true,"Kate sighed knowing it was going to take them a while...
"Don't worry though! We'll find The Star soon enough!"Rexie howled.
"I hope you're right, Rexie... I hope you're right,"Kate mumbled under her breath.
"Okay according to the book, The Empire Foxes were given the gifts by their queen... So it looks like we're gonna have to find things to wrap and then put them by the Fox's doors,"Hunnie explained.
"Hmm... Looks like we're gonna have to search for some nice things then,"Wind pointed out.
"So where should we look for some stuff?"Trixie questioned.
"Anywhere,"Hunnie replied as she took another look through the book.
"Well then we better get to it!"Kairi added as she went to search The Empire.
After that Hunnie, Trixie, Snow, and Wind all set out to look for gifts as well!
"Ugh! Where is it!"Rex roared as she looked through one of the many empty shops...
"I'm not sure... I can't find it either!"Katie responded as she looked up from under a table.
"Let's go look somewhere else!"Rexie ordered as she headed for the door. Kate sighed heavily and then followed her sister outside.
Soon enough Trixie, Hunnie, Wind, Snow, and Kairi all found good gifts, for The Empire Foxes to give to each other.
"Okay looks like we've got everything ready! So how should we get them out here?"Wind asked.
"Hmm... Well we could use this thing I found it around a store... And well I took it for a gift, but turns out we had enough already,"Snow replied looking at the Flugelhorn next to her.
"Sounds good! Blow into it man!"Wind laughed.
Hunnie rolled her eyes and then picked it up with her magic... Then put the object to her mouth and blew into it loudly.
With hearing the booming noise... All of The Empire Foxes began to open their doors and step outside.
"Hello! The Princess of Peace does invite you to attend The Empire Gift Exchange!"Wind yelled.
The Empire Foxes then smiled as they ran to the big pile of gifts, as Wind, Snow, Hunnie, Kairi, and Trixie all stepped back watching The Foxes begin to give to one another, talk happily, and laugh.
"Perfect!"The group said together in a whisper as they all high fived.
"Well looks like everything's in order!"A voice said from behind.
"Princess! We did it!"Wind cheered as she and the others ran up to their ruler.
"I'm very glad..."The Kitsune Ruler said slowly.
"Are you okay?"Wind added with concern.
"It's just... This protection spell has been making me real tired.... I don't know how much longer It'll be able to work... And its strange because I can control the spell for a long time... But for some reason its fading,"The Princess explained.
"But Rexie and Katie haven't found The Star yet!"Kairi pointed out.
"I know... But if they don't find it soon... Well there will be no way to stop Shadow..."The Ruler sighed.
"Well do you want us to go help them?"Snow suggested.
"No you all need to stay here and keep The Empire Foxes happy! They could very well find The Star anyway,"The Princess responded.
While Kate searched a book store for the star, Rexie was outside looking around... Trying to get an idea of where the object could be. Then suddenly as she looked around, The Orange and White nine tailed glanced up at the near by Castle... And her eyes widened as she got an idea.
"Katie! Come on I think I know where The Empire Heart is!"Rexie cheered as she ran into the bookstore, where her older sister was looking around in.
"Where?"The older she-fox asked as she got up and followed Rex out of the store.
"The Castle!"Rexie howled in delight as she began head towards it.
"Hey! Wait for me!"Kate added as she tried to catch up with her younger sister.
"So are you sure it might be here?"The green-eyed fox questioned.
"Yes! Because Shadow would've been counting on the fact, that no one would dear coming looking for it here!"Rexie barked as they arrived outside of the Castle.
"Well... Alright then,"Kate said as Rex led her inside.
---Back At The Gift Exchange---
"So how much longer until your magic fades?"Wind questioned nervously.
"N-Not much longer... I think the spell is wearing out because of Shadow,"The Princess responded.
"Is there another spell you could do?"Wind added as she bit down on her lower lip.
"Sadly there isn't,"The Kitsune Ruler sighed in response.
"It's fine, Princess! You're under a lot of stress right now! Just try and relax!Snow squeaked as she dragged Wind away.
"Okay what are we gonna do?"Wind groaned as she looked up at her sister.
"I'm not sure, but we'll think of something... Come on let's go see how the others are doing!"The white furred Fox sighed.
---Back At The Castle---
Katie and Rexie were running around like crazy... Trying to figure out where The Empire Star might be... But sadly no matter where they looked it wasn't there.
"We're never gonna find it!"Kate groaned.
"Kate we'r-"However Rexie did not get to finish her sentence... When she remembered what The Princess taught her... Shadow's Dark Magic... Which could somehow help her find The Star!
"Of course! I've got it! Katie, stand back for a minute..."Rexie howled.
"Uh... Okay,"Kate responded as she backed up from her sister.
Then Rex began to use Shadow's Dark Magic... Her eyes turned purple, the green smoke appeared in the air... she felt herself being lifted from the ground... And then the green smoke hit the castle floor and suddenly... The ground melted and under neath it came a dark black staircase... Which appeared to be very long.
"Wow... Where did you learn that?"Katie asked in pure shock.
"That was a little trick The Princess taught me,"Rexie answered as she hoped onto the stair case.
Then Kate gulped as she took a closer look at the stairs... Not long was the stair case very long... It went so far into the darkness you couldn't see how far down it went.
"You stay here!"Rexie added as she began to walk down the stairs.
"Okay!"Katie replied as she watched Rex walk down the stair case carefully.
Rexie sighed as she stepped slowly onto the stairs... It was so dark she could barely see a thing, but knew that she had to take a risk in order to save The Empire.
"Just one stair at a time, Rex..."The Nine Tailed thought to herself as she walked down them.
"Sis, Are you okay!?"Kate called from the top of the stair case.
"I'm fine!"Rexie yelled back to her sister as she kept her eyes, on the stairs... Trying to make sure she wouldn't trip or fall.
"If only it wasn't so dark... Then I could use my magic,"Rexie muttered under her breath, as she continued to take slow steps down the stairs.
And so Rexie just kept walking down the stair case very carefully... Hoping that soon enough she'd reach the bottom.
---Fifteen Minutes Later---
Rex's paws were aching... It had taken the Fox fifteen minutes to walk down the stair case, and now as she walked off of the deep dark steps she crashed onto the floor.
"I'm so tired..."Rexie groaned to herself as she stood back up, knowing that she couldn't waste anytime resting even though she wanted to.
Then as The Amber-Eyed Fox looked around the dark room... She saw a door that would seem to lead to another castle room.
"Yes!"Rex cheered to herself as she ran over to the door, hoping that The Empire Heart would be on the other side!
However as she went to open the door with her magic... Suddenly it began to move to the other side of the room...
"What the heck..."Rexie thought as she ran to catch the moving door.
However the door was moving too fast for the nine tailed... So Rexie used Shadow's Dark Magic which stopped the moving gateway... It then opened allowing her to run into the next room.
However... As The Fox entered the room... She found herself back at her house, in her living room where she saw Kairi.
"Huh?"Rexie thought to herself as she saw her surroundings.
"What are you doing here!?"The Redhead asked as she glared at the fox.
"I don't know... I opened the door and-"But Rexie didn't get to finish her sentence... When her master cut off.
"And now you must go! I don't need you anymore..."Kairi replied harshly.
"But... Why?"Rexie questioned as she stood there frozen in shock.
"Because... I've got him again,"The human girl answered as a guy who was wearing, skinny jeans, a black t-shirt, and shoes, who had green eyes and white hair entered the room.
"Max..."Rex mumbled under her breath as she began to sob on the floor.
"Rexie! Rexie!" Katie yelled as she came walking down the stairs quickly... The Orange and White Fox shook her head back and forth... And found herself sitting in front of the door which she used The Dark Magic on...
"I know you told me to stay up there, but you were down here for so long and you weren't answering when I called for you! So I got worried and I came down here and you were just staring at that door..."Kate added.
"And why were you looking at it? I mean it's just a door..."The older Fox said as her sister backed away from it.
Then Katie who was now confused walked up the door slowly and looked at it... Then suddenly a green light glowed from the top and the older sister's eyes turned black.
"Lake vill... But how did I get-" What! No please Rexie! Don't kick me out!"Katie screamed as tears filled her eyes, but before she could see anymore... Her surroundings changed back to the dark room seeing that her little sister had kicked the door shut.
"Shadow's Dark Magic... A door way that leads to your worst fear!"Rex barked as she looked up at it.
"Yo-You said you were kicking me out! Sending me back to mom..."Kate stuttered as she shaked in fear.
"I'm never gonna kick you out or send you back to mom!"Rexie responded as she pulled Katie into a hug.
Kate smiled as she relaxed and hugged Rex back... Happy that the scene she had saw wasn't real.
"Now then let's do this the right now!"Rexie howled as she used her own magic, and opened the door that not move away anymore.
"So... What was your worst fear?"Kate asked nervously as Rexie walked through the door, that now led to another room.
"It was about Max... For some reason he was at our house... And Kairi was with him again so she wanted me gone..."Rexie managed to choke out as she looked around the new room.
"I'm so sorry you had to see that!"Kate said.
"It's fine... It wasn't real,"Rexie slowly responded as she eyed a glass cabinet, on the other side of the room.
The Amber-Eyed Fox walked over it and looked closer... Seeing that The Empire Star was inside...
"Kate! It's here! It's really here!"Rexie cheered as she jumped up and down.
"Well get it out already!"Kate added as she smiled happy that they had found it.
"I'm getting it, I'm getting it!"Rex smirked as she used her magic to open the cabinet doors.
However... As soon as the doors opened... Sharp, Dark, and Tall Rocks suddenly came out of the floor... Caused the cabinet to break, which sent The Empire Star flying across the room as Rexie found herself trapped in the middle of the tall dark magic rocks that now surrounded her.
"Where is The Empire Star!"Rex cried as she began to panic.
"It's right here! I was able to catch it!"Katie answered.
"Kate! Bring The Star to the Empire Foxes! We're not sure how everyone's doing out there... They might really need us! I just have to find a way to escape this trap,"The younger Fox said.
"On it!"Katie replied as she grabbed The Empire Star in her mouth, and ran out of the room hoping that her sister would be okay.
Then Katie's eyed went wide as she reached The Stair Case... Still as dark as ever... It was now her turn to take a risk in order to save The Empire.
And so the college aged Fox began up the stairs carefully, but then started to walk as quickly as she could... Knowing she had to get it to The Empire Foxes.
---At The Gift Exchange---
Everyone had finished passing out gifts... So the Empire Foxes were now talking to one another... And had no idea that their home was under attack again.
"I-I won't be able to preform my spell for much longer..."The Princess said weakly as she fell to the ground.
"It's okay... Just remain calm!"Kairi responded as she and the others, watched their ruler with worry...
"Oh come on Rexie and Katie! Where are you two..."The Kitsune Ruler thought to herself... As she tried her best to hang on.
---Five Minutes Later---
Meanwhile back in the castle ... Kate had just gotten up the stairs and ran as fast as she could... Just wanting to get The Star outside.
However as she got out of the castle... The sight before Kate made her freeze in her tracks... Shadow was attacking The Empire... Everyone was demanding The Empire Star as they gathered by the town square
"Here I've got it!"Kate yelled as she came running over to The Empire Foxes.
Then Snow, Wind, Kairi, Trixie, Hunnie, and The Princess who were standing together... As Shadow slowly walked towards them looked up to see The Star.
Shadow then growled as he saw Katie... His body was now not smoke, but full Fox... Katie noticed this as she got closer to the Empire Foxes. But the evil male wasn't about to let some other person take his power from him... So he ran towards the female Fox who began to run faster away from him and threw The Star to The Empire Foxes... One of them caught it, and then they threw it into the air as a bright light shined from it. As that happened Shadow had nearly caught Kate when he stopped running... He saw the light and gulped... Then suddenly The Empire glowed all over and high winds picked up... This sent Shadow flying away into the air, and The Star floated back down where a glass stand appeared, and The Empire Star sat its self perfectly on top. Everyone began to cheer loudly as then Shadow's body broke into pieces... He was dead and The Empire was safe.
And in the castle The Dark Rocks from The Dark Magic had broken, so Rexie quickly made her way to the stairs ready to get outside.
"Goodness! This was really something,"Snow squeaked.
"It sure was,"Wind responded as she walked beside her sister.
Everyone was chatting up a storm as they left The Empire, everything was now perfect and sorted out. Since The Star had been found The Empire was safe! And The Princess decided to not have anyone ruler over The Empire, so instead she would watch over it as she did for The Rest of StarLight!
So everyone boarded the train... The Princess Of Peace headed back to her castle, as the others headed for Lake Vill thankful to finally be going home.
---Three Days Later In Lake Vill---
After returning home Rexie began to help Trixie lose weight, just as they planned to do. Katie and Kairi went back to school and caught up with lessons they missed while away. Snow, Wind, and Hunnie all relaxed, and of course hung out with the others, Leo and Weezy had began to move into a house they got in Lake Vill, happy to be near their sisters who was helping them move in! Yep everything was fine...
"So where do you guys want this?"Rexie asked as she picked up the box, from Weezy and Leo's car.
"In the kitchen please!"Leo answered as helped Weezy pull some more bins out of the trunk.
"Got it!"Rex replied as she padded over to the front door. Once inside the nine tailed Fox went to the kitchen, and put the box down. Both her and Katie were every excited to have their big brothers live in the same town, ever since they found out about them they really wanted to get know them better.
"Hey! Sorry it took me a while to get here! I had to finish homework,"Katie said as she walked up to Weezy and Leo.
"It's fine, sis! Here take this bin and put it in the basement,"Leo responded as he pointed to one of the many, large and heavy things they had to carry inside.
"On the go!"Katie smirked as she grabbed the bin and began to drag to the door.
"Hey sis!"Rexie greeted as she stepped outside. "Here let me help ya out!"The younger Fox added as she used her magic, and made the bin float right through the air and into the house.
"Thanks, Rex!"Katie barked as she walked into the house with ease.
"No problem! So where do they want this?"Rex replied.
"In the basement... Mind helping me out?"Kate sighed.
"Not at all!"Rexie howled as she used her magic once again, to make the bin lift off of the ground and sent it down the basement stairs where it landed on the floor perfectly.
"Thanks!"Kate cheered as she hugged her sister.
"You're welcome,"Rexie smiled as she hugged her sister back.
"Alright now let's get back to work!"Katie said.
"Yes let's!"Rex agreed as she followed her older sis outside.
---Five Hours Later---
Weezy and Leo finally had everything unpacked in their new home, and so they along with Kate and Rexie relaxed in the living room after a hard day's work.
"So when are you two going to start going to college around here?"Katie questioned.
"We're planning on starting next week!"Weezy answered with joy in his voice.
"Awesome! Cause our college here is great!"Kate responded grinning from ear to ear.
"So we've heard,"Leo added as Rexie let out a yawn.
"Gosh... Today has been exhausting,"The Amber-Eyed Fox groaned.
"Yeah we all worked really hard today,"Leo replied as he too let out a yawn.
"I'd say! My gosh we've never had such a hard move,"Weezy pointed out.
"Indeed we haven't!Leo said as he put his head back against the sofa.
"Well we better get going now! It's nearly nine and Kairi doesn't like me out too late,"Rex added.
"Alright night night you two!"Leo and Weezy responded in unison as their sisters gave both of them a hug.
"Night!"Katie and Rexie said together as they left their brother's house.
"Hey you two!"Kairi greeted as Kate and Rex walked through the door.
"Hey!"The sisters greeted back with a hint of tiredness.
"Long day huh?"Kairi asked as she bent down and picked up Rexie.
"Very!"Kate hissed as she yawned loudly.
"Why don't I fix us all a nice dinner before bed?"The redhead suggested.
"I'd love that!"Rex squeaked as she nuzzled her master, who smiled at the act of affection.
"Alright! I'll get dinner cooking!"Kairi smirked as she kissed Rex on the forehead, and then set her down the floor gently.
And with that the human girl left went to the kitchen, while Rexie and Kate went into the living room to watch TV.
"So whatcha wanna watch?"Katie questioned as she looked through the guide.
"Degrassi?"Rexie answered as she smiled brightly.
"Sounds good!"Kate replied knowing the show was always good. So she picked an episode from on demand, that her and Rexie hadn't seen yet.
Soon enough though dinner was ready! So Kairi, Katie, and Rex all ate and then talked for a while, but soon as the time got around midnight the three went to bed.
"Hey! Cuddle time tonight!?"Kairi said as she picked her little Fox up, before she could follow her sis up the stairs.
"Of course!"Rexie squeaked cheerfully. "Well goodnight then, Rex!"Katie called from a new stairs up, hearing that she'd be getting the room she shared with her sister to herself.
"Night, Katie!"Rex responded as Kairi began to walk upstairs.
Once they reached Kairi's room the redhead put her pet down on the bed, then went to change and brush her teeth.
When Kairi got back to the bedroom, Rexie was all curled up fast asleep under the covers. The girl couldn't help but smile at her pet... Rex was really adorable. And so Kairi got in bed, pulled her little Fox into her arms and held her tight as she too fell asleep.
---The Next Day---
As morning arrived everyone awoke for the start of a new day! Rexie left the house around Nine to go help Trixie, with her weight problem while Kairi and Kate got ready for their classes.
"Alright! Run five laps up and down the sidewalk!"Rex ordered.
Trixie nodded and then took off down the street... The nine tailed Fox watched her friend carefully. She was still so fat... And couldn't run fast at all, but Rexie still had faith in making Trixie skinny again.
It took Trixie ten minutes to run up and down the sidewalk five times... She had to stop and catch her breath a lot.
"Well done! Now let's get on and ten push ups!"Rexie barked.
"Very well..."Trixie sighed as she got down on her tummy, and began pushed herself up as high as she could go.
"Come on... I know you can do this girl!"Rexie cheered as her friend slowly, but surely did the push ups.
---Later That Day---
Snow, Wind, Hunnie, Trixie, Leo, and Weezy were all at Katie, Rexie's and Kairi's home. Everyone was hanging out, laughing, and talking! However at one point... There was a knock at the door.
"I'll get it!"Katie said as she jumped up from her chair, and padded out of the living room.
Then Kate reached the front door... Opened it and right there stood Mike and Lois. The young adult Fox froze for a moment as she looked at them. What were they at her house for!?
"Um... Can I help you?"Katie growled as she glared at her parents.
"Katie! We're hear be-"However Lois did not get to finish her sentence... When all of the sudden everyone else walked up to the door.
"Mom... Dad..."Weezy and Leo managed to choke out... As Rex who was scared as hell of her father, stayed right beside Kairi who had an arm around her protectively.
"Leo, Weezy my sons! What are you two doing here?"Mike asked as he went to step inside the house.
"HEY! YOU'RE NOT COMING IN HERE!"Kate snarled as she stood in her father's way.
"Fine..."Mike hissed as he shook his head.
"Look! What do you two want!"Kairi added sharply.
"Well we wanted to tell Kate and Rexie that we're getting married again!"Lois answered as she hugged Mike.
"WHAT!"Everyone yelled in unison.
"That's right! Lois and I have been dating and realized we are meant to be together!"Mike cheered.
"NO! YOU'RE NOT MEANT TO BE HER! YOU'RE A ******** MONSTER! I JUST WANT YOU TO DROP DEAD! YOU CAN'T MARRY HER AGAIN ALL YOU'LL DO IS HURT HER!"Katie screamed as tears slid down her face.
"Would you and your sister just come to the wedding?"Mike pleaded.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? YOU'RE GONNA INVITE YOUR DAUGHTERS TO A WEDDING WHEN THEY'RE CLEARLY UPSET?! HOW DARE YOU DO THAT TO THEM!"Wind snarled as she gave the whole 'if looks could kill look' "YES BECAUSE AS OUR DAUGHTERS THEY GOTTA SUPPORT US!"Mike yelled.
"DON'T YOU YELL AT MY SISTER!"Snow hissed as anger took over her whole being.
"I'll YELL AT HER IF I WANT TO!"Mike yelled as he now glared at Snow.
"YOU KNOW WHAT! JUST GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THIS HOUSE! YOU TWO AREN'T GETTING TO HAVE YOUR DAUGHTERS AT YOUR STUPID WEDDING! NOW GO!"Leo screamed loudly.
"FINE!"Mike screamed as he and Lois turned and walked away from the house.
And with that Kate slammed the front door closed... Made sure it was locked and then sighed heavily.
No one really knew what to say at that point... Everyone just stayed quiet standing there by the door...
However the silence was soon broken when Rex began to sob. "Shh It's gonna be okay, Sweeite.."Kairi said gently as she pulled Rexie in for a hug.
"Well... If I could I'd go and hit Rexie's parents with a baseball bat..."Wind mumbled under her breath.
Hunnie, Snow, and Trixie all glanced at each other with worried looks... They hated this as much as Wind did.
"I can't believe this! Why would they do such a thing!"Kate roared as Leo and Weezy sighed.
"Cause they're stupid?..."Leo answered as he shook his head back and fourth.
"They're even more messed up then I thought! Showing up here and wanting Rex and Kate at the wedding!"Weezy hissed as his blood boiled with anger.
"And I thought my dad was horrible!"Trixie growled as she looked over at Rexie, who was still sobbing in Kairi's arms. The fat Fox wanted nothing more than to go over to her crush and comfort her... But seeing that her master was already doing that... Trixie knew she couldn't do anything.
------------One Week Later---------------
Ever since seeing how much pain Rex was now in, due to her parents getting married again... Well Trixie began to work out everyday! More then ever before! Because Trixie knew that Rex was stressed, and what better way to ease some of it than taking some time to do work outs yourself, so your friend could stay at home and relax?
"Yes! I can do this! I can do this!! I've already lost five pounds!"Trixie cheered to herself as she ran up, and down the streets of Lake Vill.
"Rex! Lunch is ready!"Kairi called from the bottom of the stair case.
"Coming!"Rexie responded as she headed down the kitchen, where Kate was already seated as Kairi put the food on the table.
"Doesn't this look amazing!?"Katie asked as Rex sat down and saw the fruit salad, sandwich's, and nice cold glasses of ice tea.
"It sure does,"Rexie replied as she smiled a little bit.
---Back In Cinder Valley---
Lois was over at Mike's house they hadn't moved in with each other yet, but they still spent a lot of nights together.
However... Ever since the day that Lois and Mike, had gone to Kate, Kairi, and Rexie's house the mother Fox was feeling a bit guilty... And had also been thinking about marriage... Realizing that Katie was right! She was being stupid... Mike was dangerous she couldn't marry him!
As all these thoughts were going through her mind, Lois knew she had to tell Mike as soon as possible... So when he came back into the kitchen after using the bathroom... Well the female Fox sighed and let it out.
"Mike, we can't get married... I've been thinking about what Kate said and well... She's right! I can't marry you!So much has happened it wouldn't work... Plus I need to put our daughters and sons first! I'm sorry, but the engagement is off!"Lois said as she took the ring off of the her right paw's left finger, placed it on the kitchen table, grabbed her bag and headed for the door, but before she was out the door... Mike spoke up.
"YOU'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS YOU c**t! PUTTING YOUR DAUGHTERS AND SONS FIRST WILL BE THE DEATH OF YOU! I'LL TEACH YOU NOT TO BREAK UP WITH ME!"Mike screamed just as Lois was out the door.
"I won't let you do anything, Mike!"Lois thought to herself as she headed right for Lake Vill... Knowing she had to fix the biggest mistake she ever made.
It was about ten at night... Kate, Rexie, Kairi, Leo, and Weezy were all in the kitchen chatting, when they heard someone knock three times on the front door.
"I think I'll get it this time!"Rex smirked as she walked out of the kitchen.
Then the Orange and White Furred Fox reached the door, and opened it up to see her mom standing there.
"REXIE! I'M SO SORRY FOR WHAT I'VE DONE TO YOU AND YOUR SISTER!I WANT MAKE THINGS RIGHT!"Lois explained in a high voice.
"Oh mom..."Rex replied as she pulled the older Fox in for a hug.
"I'm so sorry!"Lois added as looked up to see Katie, Kairi, Weezy, and Leo standing there.
"Oh... My dears!"The mother Fox added as she ran to her sons, and other daughter... Bringing all three of them into a hug like no other.
"Hey it's okay mom! I forgive you!"Kate responded.
"I do too!"Leo, Weezy, and Rexie agreed in unison as Kairi smiled at the family before her.
"Also Weezy and Leo... I would like spend more time with you two! You're my sons I want to put you both, along with your sisters before anyone else!"Lois sqeaked as she pulled away from her oldest daughter, and two sons.
"Sounds like a plan!"The two male Fox replied.
And with that... Everything for Rex's family went back to normal! Katie moved back to Cinder Valley to be with her mom, got a job and went to Cinder Valley College! Leo, Weezy, and Rexie visited a lot! Snow, Wind, Hunnie, Trixie, and Rexie went on enjoying their summer! And soon enough in late June... Trixie was now skinny again! She looked great and was a lot happier.
But everything was about to go from Perfect... To down right ugly...
One night Rexie and Trixie were out on a walk together, just strolling through town, talking, and having a lot of fun when they wanted to cross the street and head back to Rex's house... They waited for the walking signal so they could cross safely, but... A car who was being driven by a drunk driver drove through the red light, just as Trixie and Rexie were walking across the road... When the two Foxes saw the car they tried to make a run for it, but the car was getting too close... So Trixie pushed her friend out of danger's reach... Sending her landing on the sidewalk, and just as Rex was getting up she heard a loud scream and as she turned around she saw Trixie laying there... Covered in blood... Looking as lifeless as ever.
"NO!"Rexie cried as she ran over to her friend. "COME ON, TRIXIE WAKE UP! WAKE UP!"The Fox yelled as her eyes filled with tears.
But there was no answer... And there never would be...
---Two Weeks Later---
Everyone was back at school beginning a new year of learning! Rexie, Snow, Wind, and Hunnie were now Sophomores in High School. But the end of summer break was horrible... Trixie had died, Rexie had fallen into a deep depression and still wasn't out of it yet... Also the funeral did not help... It only brought more tears, and even Trixie's dad came to the ceremony where he cried, and was telling everyone how he should never of abused his daughter. Just a lot had happened... Snow, Wind, and Hunnie were all very sad too, but no one took it as bad as Rex did... The day after Trixie's death... Rex confessed that she had a crush on her dead friend, which led to all four elements of weather telling one another that they all were indeed bisexual and all had girl crushes before, as well as guy ones.
So the four friends joined in a group hug, promising to always stick together no matter what! Through all of the fire's that were to ever come their way.
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Virtual communities: A marketing perspective
Increasingly, consumers interact through the Internet to share their knowledge, experiences, and opinions. Consequently, 'word-of-mouse' has become a significant market force that influences consumer decision-making. On the basis of extensive quantitative and qualitative research, the authors sketch how consumers make use of virtual communities as social and information networks, and how this affects their decision-making processes. We present three studies that address (i) determinants and effects of virtual community influence on the consumer decision process; (ii) virtual community participation patterns; and (iii) discussion practices of the most active community members. Key implications for managers, marketers, and market researchers are discussed.
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de Valck, K, van Bruggen, G.H, & Wierenga, B. (2009). Virtual communities: A marketing perspective. Decision Support Systems, 47(3), 185–203. doi:10.1016/j.dss.2009.02.008

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The Final Four are going home! Becky's in a limo pulling into Benton, Arkansas, and she's coming home as a brand new person. Antone's heading for Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he played all his games while attending the University of Tennessee. It symbolizes where his life started. He's back down to his NFL playing weight, and he's not sure how people see him anymore. Needless to say, he has butterflies and is hoping people are willing to accept him for who he is. John's limo is speeding for Mesa, Arizona. He knows he's changed inside and out. Now he believes in himself; he has strength, energy and desire. Vinny's cruising the streets of Nashville, and he's feeling like a champion.
Becky's limo pulls up to Benton School's athletic complex. Wearing a svelte red dress, Becky greets a cafeteria packed with cheering friends and family. Her daughter Samantha is blown away by how hot her mom looks. Antone runs up the stadium's bleachers to meet his friends and families, bringing tears of joy to his daughter Cailyn's eyes. She's so proud of her father and so happy that he's going to stay in her life. Son Dakota is pumped; his mom told him Antone has never been as skinny as he is now. The gym of the high school where John coaches is packed with people, and it erupts in cheers when he enters. Meanwhile, Trailer Choir is onstage at the club where it all started in Nashville, with Vinny's girlfriend Lori in the audience. They're playing a brand new song as Vinny's limo pulls into the alley. He walks onstage and picks up a mike and starts singing as Lori tears up in the audience.
Back in Benton, Becky talks to her students about her experience, advising them to finish what they start. John explains that the ranch taught him things he didn't know about himself, like that it's okay not to be perfect. And he discovered he was a food addict. He knows he has a long way to go. He wants to feel good and be healthy for the rest of his life. Antone was living a life of excuses, and at the ranch, he focused on getting rid of them. Vinny tells his audience that he's been heavy all his life - and always said he would start next Monday. Twelve weeks ago, he finally did start the hard work, diet and exercise.
Once the contestants get home, they each pull out a DVD given to them by Alison, meant to be watched together with their families. Each DVD is personalized with a message from the trainers and includes footage shot when the contestants first got to the ranch. Each contestant pre-recorded a message to be listened to this very day. Antone promises his family he's never going back. Becky is thrilled to see how far she's come.
Vinny sits with his mom while listening to himself talking about the abuse he suffered as a child and how she stood by and did nothing about it. After the video's over, Vinny asks his friends to step out of the room so he can talk to Lori, his mother, brother and sister. He asks his mother why she let terrible things happen. Vinny claims he's cool with the fact that his mother doesn't really have an answer; his goal is to plant a seed, in hopes of breaking down the walls they've built up over the years.
Vinny sets up a date at the Grand Ole Opry House - he and Lori will have the entire place to themselves. He takes her to a spot that contains a circle of wood from the original Opry stage, gets down on one knee and asks for her hand in marriage. Lori says, "Yes, yes, yes!" Antone takes his family to the gym for a family workout and bench presses each of his children. In the meantime, Bob hits the road, with only seven days left until the marathon. He's going to hit three cities in three days. First stop is his hometown, Nashville, to visit Vinny. Bob admits that Vinny was the one he'd been worrying about, but it seems like Vinny's locked into what he has to do. Bob immediately focuses on Vinny's older brother Shane, who's clearly struggling with his weight. Shane has five kids, and he admits he'd like to get healthy for their sake. Bob's impressed with Shane's honesty. Change is right around the corner, and it's Vinny's responsibility to help make it happen.
Dolvett drives through Mesa, Arizona, delighted to surprise John at home. He wants to check in, find out where John's head is at. John admits he lost focus for a moment. Luckily, his wife is dialed in; she's been doing his laundry and cooking his food, so he can focus on training. Dolvett's concerned that John's not learning to adjust to daily life, but John insists he has a finale to win. Dolvett hopes John's not forgetting about balance. His biggest fear is that John will gain back all his weight after the finale. Meanwhile, Bob jogs up to Becky's middle school in Benton, Arkansas with a wicked smile on his face. Of the Final Four, Becky's the only one who's gone back to work. Next stop for Bob is Neyland Stadium. He gets on the PA system to let Antone know he's arrived - and they're going to have one hell of a workout using everything the stadium has to offer.
All across the country, the trainers work out with the Final Four. It's almost like Bob is in three places at once. It's not long before the Final Four are wearing their grey shirts and back in the same place Season 12 began, in the desert at the starting line of the marathon. There's a long, long way to go - 26.2 miles. Alison points at the big bus in the distance, which is loaded with 11 previously eliminated players. Once again, everyone lines up in order of the numbers on their shirts. Whoever wins today will earn a spot in the Final Three - but they'll also be competing for money. The fifth place finisher will win $2,500; fourth place, $5,000; third place, $7,500; second gets $10,000; and the winner takes home $25,000. Bonnie's pleased to attend the marathon, but she's going to sit this one out since she's having knee surgery next week. The marathon begins on a dry lakebed, travels down three miles of pavement, then along seven miles of dirt road. The final 14 miles are a loop back through the dry lakebed. The horn blasts, and the runners are off!
Courtney takes an early lead; Ramon runs alongside Jessica; and Joe, Sunny, Antone and Becky strategize a cycle of running followed by walking. Joe's having trouble with his right knee, which has no cartilage left, and his ACL is partially torn. Johnny's walking and having fun, while Patrick's running along in the middle of the pack, and Jessica's drafting behind Courtney. Jessica and Ramon trained together for a few weeks at home, and they're both feeling strong. Courtney's the first through the course loop and first to run into the trainers at a water station. Dolvett decides to join her, telling her how proud he is and encouraging her to maintain her pace. Bob joins Vinny, and Anna joins Joe and Sunny. Jennifer breaks down in tears when she spies Bob on the course. He was the first person to believe in her, and she holds him responsible for changing her life.
About halfway through the course, Jessica's stomach starts hurting, a signal for her to slow down. She tells Ramon to go ahead, and he's determined to catch up with Courtney - even though they've been running for about an hour and a half now and are only just nine miles in. Vinny's beginning to wonder how much further he'll be able to go. When Courtney starts walking, Ramon sees his opportunity to pass her. Antone notices when Joe starts lagging behind their group. The sand is having a bad effect on his injured knee. At mile 14, Ramon's still in the lead, with Courtney right behind him. Suddenly 40 mph winds kick up, blowing sand and dust everywhere. At mile 18, John spies someone ahead of him. This, he explains, is like blood in the water for a shark, and it's not long before he passes Jessica, confident that he just earned himself an extra $2,500. Seeing Vinny in pain, Dr. H meets him out on the course and pulls him out of the race, even though there's only a few miles to go.
Joe's limping badly too, so Dr. H pulls him out of the race. The goal of the show is not to hurt joints. Everyone knows Joe has the heart to finish what he started. Joe cries, even though he knows the right choice is to stop running. Coming up to mile 25, both Ramon and Courtney pick up the pace. Ramon is already cheering himself on as he passes mile 26. The trainers are waiting at the finish line with Bonnie, and Ramon runs right into Dolvett's arms. Ramon is back - and he's in the finals! Courtney's next to cross the finish line, followed by John. Dolvett runs out to meet Jessica, who makes a beeline for Ramon. Dolvett escorts fifth place finisher Patrick across the finish line, and the top five pose for pictures with their really big checks. Sunny's next in, followed by Antone and Becky who cross the line hand-in-hand. Mike's next. The sun has set when Anna runs out to meet Johnny and Debbie, who are beyond thankful to finish. Alison sends everyone home to get some sleep before the weigh-in, when the remaining two finalists will be determined.
The pressure's on for the final weigh-in on campus, and Ramon has the best seat in the house, because he's going to the finals no matter what! Tonight, there's no yellow line and no vote. There's only a red line, and the top two that land above it will be joining Ramon. Of the Final Four, Becky's weighs in first. She's lost 10 pounds since going home, and her percentage is Vinny's eager to weigh-in. Since leaving campus, he's lost a whopping 28 pounds at Vinny feels that he's proved that the trainers have provided him with the foundation that will change his life forever. He's thrilled to weigh 286 pounds - he hasn't seen the 200s since the eighth grade.
John's up next, and he'll have to lose 26 pounds to stay in the game - and he's lost 29! John cries in gratitude for making the finals. Dolvett reminds him to stay honest, and he'll never have a weight problem again. Bob calls John out for his competitiveness and tells him to own it. John owns it, claiming he wants to be The Biggest Loser, and he won't be happy until he's pulling confetti out of his hair. He'll go toe-to-toe with anyone in the entire history of the show. Since beginning the show, John's lost a total of 178 pounds, and his percentage tonight is This means Becky won't make the finals, but she will compete for the at-home prize. Antone's up next. In order to guarantee a spot above the red line, he'll need to lose more than 28 pounds.
Antone shatters expectations, losing 30 pounds, bringing him down to 293. Alison claims it's game on, since John threw down the gauntlet. Antone explains that he's not going to talk about what he's going to do, he's just going to do it. Antone knows this will be a battle royale among him, Ramon and John. And quite frankly, he's sick of John and ready to take him on. Antone has lost 154 pounds since the first weigh-in, and his percentage tonight is 9.29. Vinny has been eliminated, but he'll still compete for the at-home prize. Now there's only one thing left to do - weigh in live, at the finale, to determine Season 12's Biggest Loser!


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Dennis Crandall, MD, Founder and Medical Director of Sonoran Spine Center, Mesa, Ariz.: The success of Obamacare depends on physicians accepting deep discounts, and making room for 30 million additional patients to be seen at those discounted rates. Hiring more PA's and NP's would be our response. Adding more physicians at those reimbursement rates would not be economically feasible.
Ara Deukmedjian, MD, Founder, Deuk Spine Institute, Melbourne, Fla.: There will most likely be more insured going to seek care for elective spine and pain management services and therapy. I anticipate elective spine care volumes will increase because the "newly" insured will want to receive medical care since they are paying the premiums.
Donald R. Johnson, MD, Founder, Southeastern Spine Institute, Mt. Pleasant, S.C.: The individual mandate will not directly impact patient volumes in spine practices however the effect of the many other facets of the Affordable Healthcare Act could be damaging to all medical practices especially surgical practices. Faced with greater uncertainties more surgeons including spine surgeons will become employed and leave or never enter private practice. Physician recruitment is already more difficult for private practices as hospitals offer more money and fewer work obligations right out of fellowship training.
Isador Lieberman, MD, Spine Surgeon, Texas Back Institute, Plano: The individual mandate is meant to ensure health insurance coverage for all and distribute the cost of such over a broad population. Most look at it as adding insured individuals to the healthcare demand pool with the subsequent result of more available patients and therefore more potential patients to care for; I strongly suspect it will have the exact opposite effect. Sure there will be more patients in the pool, (even though a relatively small proportion compared to the size of the current pool) however as insurers standardize their reimbursement coupled with the downward trend in reimbursement value, more physicians will leave the supply side with the subsequent result of less care provided; this is exactly what the authorities want and anticipate so as to cut overall healthcare spending, this phenomena will be borne out in spine practices.
Paul Slosar, MD, President, SpineCare Medical Group, San Francisco Spine Institute: The landscape will be altered across all fields and not likely for the better. Patients will eventually realize that they, individually, will receive fewer medical services (this is the literal translation of "cost savings") in order to expand "coverage" to almost everyone. So if you, as an individual patient, are comfortable with sacrificing your utilization for the "greater good" of society then this is your kind of plan. In my experience with patients, that idea sounds good until you are the one whose actual services are denied as "unnecessary" then the concept becomes less palatable.
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At NLM I saw another photo of my preferred style of concelebration.
At NLM I saw another photo of my preferred style of concelebration.
Not Concelebration but COINCELEBRATION!
The long line of alcoves reminds me of bee boles, which you may be familiar with.
That's just awesome! Can you imagine the graces received in that church throughout the ages? Wow!
No, on the face of it, there's something that just doesn't seem right. It's mass Mass production, if you will. [I won't.] We should all be together at the Mass, one altar, one chalice, one consecration. [And you are a priest who needs to say Mass, as are the men in the photo? Perhaps that choice is best left to the priests.]
Yes, Ann Maureen, That is what the people ARE doing,…out in the abby church with the one priest designated to say mass at the high altar.
I know, there's another mass-Mass picture on another blog: a photo taken at a seminary from like around the 1950's. I gather it doesn't sit right with you either, pseudpmodo. My concern is that it seems to diminish the communal aspect of the Mass. Btw, I don't care for NO concelebrationed Masses, either. I hope that too goes the way of the wind someday.
My son who visited Clear Creek monastery reports that this is how they say Mass there, with a Mass at the High Altar for visitors, plus individual priests saying private masses at the side altars. They use the EF exclusively of course.
From a subjective viewpoint . . . When last I witnessed (at the ICK Oratory in St. Louis) multiple not-quite-simultaneous private Masses (each with a single server), the experience of 10 distinct elevations with 10 minutes seemed very powerful and intensely spiritual.
I've heard the account (perhaps not entirely apocryphal) that, when Card. Ratzinger (several years before his papacy) witnessed a similar scene at Fontgombault, he said "Now, this is the real Catholic Church!"
Henry Edwards: a similar scene at Fontgombault
I have been part of that "similar scene" several times. When I visited Fontgombault we priests said our Masses in the morning, with one of the brothers serving. It was very quiet but I felt a kind of electric pulse in the shadowy silence. A great experience.
Many years ago, and I need to go again, I visited the beautiful ruins of Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire, my most favourite place on earth outside Rome. I saw the ruins of the famous nine altars in the abbey church and realized the many voices of priests who had been silenced by violence and hatred. The magnificence of so many ruined altars struck me as prophetic. However, it is not those outside the Church who hate the glory of the Mass being said all at once by many priests, but those enemies inside. There is a nine-altar chapel at Durham, which I need to see. Perhaps, next year. Here is a link to the view of the Chapel of the Nine Altars at Fountains.
That is one of my favorite memories of Clear Creek, as well. The great reverence shown by each of the priests, assisted by a brother monk and the low murmur of the prayers of all the priests celebrating was like a hum of holiness, punctuated by bells.
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CHARLOTTE, NC — It was part New Year's Eve, part Fourth of July, with a little Mardi Gras thrown in.
By the time President Barack Obama finished his rousing speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night the city was rocking.
As people poured out of the Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte resembled nothing so much as a giant street party, and every face wore a smile.
It had been a long time coming. The evening was carefully planned to stir the emotions, from the entertainment to the speeches.
Mary J. Blige belted out "One," the Foo Fighters performed "There goes my hero," and even the normally soporific Sen. John Kerry primed the crowd with an address that was as much comedy routine as political diatribe.
By the time Obama took the stage, the tens of thousands of delegates, journalists, guests and onlookers went wild. The Time Warner Cable Arena could barely contain the ovation.
What they heard was an Obama like they'd never heard him before. His speech had inspiration, exhortation and an undertone of acid.
Gone is the Great Post-Partisan Compromiser. This man is angry.
"When you pick up that ballot to vote, you will face the clearest choice of any time in a generation," said the president. "And on every issue, the choice you face won't be just between two candidates or two parties. It will be a choice between two different paths for America."
Those two paths lead to radically different futures, he explained. The country can go forward, to a new and brighter future where every child has the gift of opportunity, seniors have a dignified and assured retirement, health care is affordable and no one is limited by race, gender or sexual orientation.
Or it can go backward to an America where the privileged few run the world and dictate how the hoi polloi can live; where women have no control over their bodies and the social values of the most conservative dictate the behavior of the rank and file.
The choice is yours, he said.
"If you turn away now … if you buy into the cynicism that the change we fought for isn't possible, well, change will not happen," he said. Instead, Americans' lives will be dictated by "lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election, and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should be making for themselves."
The themes were vintage Obama; he dotted the speech liberally with the words "hope" and "change," but he spent just as much time targeting those who have stood in the way — the elite, the special interests, the intransigent opposition — in short, the Republicans.
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"Now, our friends down in Tampa, at the Republican convention, were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right," he said. "They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan. And that's because all they had to offer is the same prescription they've had for the last thirty years: 'Have a surplus? Try a tax cut … Deficit too high? Try another. Feel a cold coming on? Take two tax cuts, roll back some regulations, and call us in the morning.'"
The crowd loved that. One of the biggest hands Obama got was a seemingly throwaway line toward the end of his speech.
"I recognize that times have changed since I frst spoke to this convention," he said. "The times have changed, and so have I. I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the president."
The crowd stood and roared, interrupting his delivery for more than a minute.
The central theme of the speech was, of course, that nothing was impossible with grit and determination, and the backing of the voters.
"But know this, America: Our problems can be solved," said the president.
"If you believe that new plants and factories can dot our landscape; that new energy can power our future; that new schools can provide ladders of opportunity to this nation of dreamers; if you believe in a country where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same rules, then I need you to vote this November," he concluded.
Judging by the crowd, the message was well received.
Obama was preceded by a carefully selected roster of speakers who reinforced the basic message. Over and over, various dignitaries, including the vice president, drove home three basic points: General Motors is alive and Osama bin Laden is dead, and Mitt Romney is a soulless plutocrat who does not care about ordinary people.
Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, was perhaps the most forceful on the latter issue, as she narrated the horrors of the auto plant closings:
"[Romney] loves our cars so much, they have their own elevator," she said. "But the people who design, build, and sell those cars? Well, in Romney's world, the cars get the elevator; the workers get the shaft!"
Raucous laughter and applause filled the house.
"Mitt Romney says his business experience qualifies him to be president. Sure, he's made lots of money. Good for him. But how did he make that fortune, and at whose expense? Too often, he made it at the expense of middle-class Americans. Year after year, it was profit before people."
Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who ran against George W. Bush in 2004, was unusually animated on Thursday, and had the audience in the palm of his hand. Widely accused by the Republicans of being a "flip-flopper" in 2004, Kerry returned the favor with interest.
He went into Romney's frequent policy shifts, especially regarding international affairs. Kerry is the chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
"It isn't fair to say that Mitt Romney doesn't have a position on Afghanistan," said Kerry. "He has every position … Mr. Romney, here's a little advice: Before you debate Barack Obama on foreign policy, you'd better finish the debate with yourself." (Three presidential debates are slated for next month.)
He also excoriated Romney for his gaffe-studded trips to London, Israel and Poland.
"You know … it wasn't a goodwill mission," he said. "It was a blooper reel."
And Kerry combined a common Republican reproach with what is, perhaps, Obama's most memorable achievement:
"Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago," deadpanned Kerry, as the crowd laughed and cheered.
It was a memorable night, with a star-studded cast. Actresses Scarlett Johansson, Kerry Washington and Eva Longoria were all on hand to reinforce the "Get out the vote" message, and also, of course, to add beauty and ethnic diversity to the mix.
Longoria, who told of a difficult childhood where she worked in a fast-food restaurant, appealed for sense in the tax code. "The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers — she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not," she said.
The evening ended with Obama's appeal for support, and his triumphant climax:
"America, I never said this journey would be easy, and I won't promise that now. Yes, our path is harder, but it leads to a better place. Yes our road is longer, but we travel it together. We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth."
The roar of the crowd almost blew the roof off the arena.
Outside the convention hall, a group stood with a large, handmade "Republicans for Obama" sign.
It seemed that there were no holdouts left in the Queen City, the largest city in a coveted swing state. Obama and his campaign can only hope the movement spreads.
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Following last year's sensational Alexander McQueen retrospective, the subjects of this spring's Costume Institute exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art are Miuccia Prada and 1930s fashion legend Elsa Schiaparelli, whose subversive designs influenced her fellow Italian's unconventional aesthetic. Miuccia is chairman, designer and creative force behind the Prada Group, and where she treads, fashion tends to follow. The company's landmark flagship stores in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo have integrated high style and architecture, and travels in India and Peru have inspired Miuccia's trademark craftsmanship and use of sumptuous fabrics, an alternative colour palette and folk touches. With Patrizio Bertelli, her husband, she has created a major collection of contemporary art (which can be viewed at the Prada Foundations in Milan and Venice), and in turn her designs have been influenced by artists - Salvador Dalí's surrealist sofa, for example, inspired her famous lip print. The Met show features several iconic fashion pieces, from a 1938 Schiaparelli 'tear' dress to a 1990s Prada black nylon outfit, and a documentary by the exhibition's creative consultant, film director Baz Luhrmann, will be screened, featuring simulated conversations between the two fashion designers on topics such as art, politics and beauty.
'Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: Impossible Conversations', 10 May-19 August, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York (00 1 212 535 7710; www.metmuseum.org)
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One of the stranger rows since the Coalition formed has been over Tory chairman Grant Shapps/Michael Green, and whether or not businesses he ran before entering politics were engaged in unlawful activity. How To Corp, which Shapps founded before passing his share to his wife in 2008, sold a software called TrafficPaymaster, which copied content from other websites so that clients could make more money from Google advertising. Labour MP Steve McCabe complained about the firm to Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer and the Metropolitan Police, and today the Met have responded.
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Israeli musicians won't be playing Wagner
A German music festival has withdrawn an invitation for an Israeli orchestra to play at its annual celebration of Richard Wagner's music, for fear it could provoke a backlash in the Jewish state.
Israeli musicians have mostly respected an unwritten ban on performing the works of the 19th century musician, who was Adolf Hitler's favourite composer and a rabid anti-Semite.
The Israel Chamber Orchestra had planned to break the taboo and play at an annual festival of Wagner's music in Bayreuth.
But when word leaked the festival's organisers decided to withdraw the invitation for fear the reaction in Israel would be fiercely negative.
One Holocaust survivor had described the orchestra's plan as an "outrageous surrender".
Nearly 20 years ago an Israeli composer led a performance of Wagner in Tel Aviv, prompting many in the audience to storm out.
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To improve dancers' health and performance and prevent injury by researching, developing and providing comprehensive, evidence-based medical and dance science support services. This project is a significant advancement for dance, profoundly impacting dancers' lives throughout the UK.
This project is ongoing but will incorporate a minimum 2 year research project .
Charity information: One Dance UK
80% of dancers incur at least one injury each year which affects their ability to perform. To sustain employability for dancers in the UK and continue to build a thriving dance industry that remains a source of inspiration and aspiration for all, we need to ensure dancers stay fit and healthy enough to cope with the ever more exciting choreographic challenges thrown their way. To do this we need specialist, evidence-based healthcare and dance science support, accessible to dancers at all levels.
The National Institute aims, through shared expertise and a network of multidisciplinary partners, to provide access for all dancers to high quality, evidence-based, dance specific healthcare and dance science services. This project will also provide, for the first time, the large-scale, prospective, epidemiological research needed to more fully understand the multi-dimensional causes of dance injury, in different populations of dancers, and the best strategies for preventing and treating them.
Aim 1
To improve awareness and understanding of the causes, extent and costs of dance injuries
Activities» Recruit participants for large-scale research. Minimum 100 dancers from dance forms including contemporary, hip hop and musical theatre, plus ballet.
» Collect injury history of participant dancers and screen / profile their health and fitness at least twice a year during the 2-year research project.
» Collect data on injuries incurred, time off dancing as a result, and their treatment over the 2 years. Provide individual feedback to dancers.
Success will be recruitment of staff and dancers / companies for the research; the collection and analysis of year one's epidemiological data;, and individual feedback for dancers
Aim 2
New evidence gained of effective injury prevention interventions.
Activities» Analyse data collected in year one and use findings to design injury prevention and performance enhancement interventions. Implement these in year 2.
» Analyse data collected in year two and compare with that in year one. Disseminate findings to all involved in dance through networks and conferences.
Success will be design and delivery of injury prevention intervention programmes and the second year's data analysed for changes / improvements to heath and performance.
Aim 3
Provide the opportunity for knowledge exchange across the fields of dance and sport.
Activities» Work with colleagues doing similar research in sport to design the research project and compare findings across different genres.
» Use existing sports / dance facilities to house the project's researchers and practitioners.
Success will be robust partnerships formed with key sports medicine and science delivery bodies / individuals and sharing of methodology, findings and facilities.
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Enhance healthcare provision and dance science support for dancers working and training in the UK
Activities» Expand and publicize NHS and private specialist healthcare, to ensure dancers can gain access easily and know how to find it.
» Use the information gained from the research to inform plans for cost effective provision of support services for dancers long-term.
» Disseminate research findings widely to ensure dance institutions know how to look after their dancers and keep them dancing stronger for longer.
Success will be provision of new, cost effective, comprehensive specialist services taking on board the findings / recommendations from the research.
This project will be the largest and most detailed of its kind in dance, providing new information for all those working with dancers to inform best practice in dance training and the treatment and prevention of dance related injury. It will kick start an evidence-based way of working and if successful we will see dance organisations continuing to monitor the effectiveness of the services / training they provide, adjusting them accordingly and investing more wisely, reducing the rate of injury.
Insufficient dancers participating or drop out once started the project
- We are in close cummunication with the dance community and have secured many expressions of interest. Participants will sign an agreement to commit to seeing the project through.
Budget overruns due to increase in costs while we secure funding
- We are keeping a close eye on the costs of all project elements and adjusting the budget accordingly as we receive new information.
We will be flexible and able to report to donors in the manner they require. If required we will feedback progress via brief email updates when key milestones are reached, eg recruitment, data collection commenced, initial findings produced etc and following quarterly steering group meetings.
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Amount Heading Description £321,000 Staffing / project management 2 researchers, 2 physiotherapists and 1 medical officer as frontline staff plus project management £183,980 Medical & injury audit costs Insurance, routine consumables, overheads, database purchase / training £38,500 Screening and dissemination Design and delivery of dance specific health / fitness tests. Presentation of reports / papers.
Current Funding / Pledges
Source Amount Jerwood Charitable Foundation £80,000 Guaranteed British Harlequin £30,000 Guaranteed Individual donors £10,000 Guaranteed
There will be medical / science hubs based in London and Birmingham at the project's partner institutions: Trinity Laban conservatoire of music and dance, Birmingham Royal Ballet's Jerwood Centre for the Prevention and Treatment of Dance Injuries, University of Wolverhampton, University of Birmingham and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. These will be where the core research and treatment will take place for the project. Other dance companies will also take part from around the UK.
Research findings will inform those who are teaching, leading and participating in dance activity in all contexts, and treating dance, sport and exercise related injuries in the general public and at elite level: 58,000 medical practitioners and 4.5 million participants / educators. 3000 elite dancers will benefit from improved specific, individualised and generalised knowledge of what causes injury and advice on how to prevent it. Dancers will have better access to specialist healthcare.
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Why Us?
Dance UK is the national voice for dance aiming to improve the conditions in which dance is created, performed and experienced. Its Healthier Dancer Programme is a world leader in the promotion of dancers' health and well-being. Our members include all the major dance companies and colleges. We are therefore ideally placed and trusted as an independent body representing their interests with the necessary contacts and expertise.
Read more about the Charity running this project.
Emma Redding PhD
Emma is the Head of Dance Science at Trinity Laban. Laban will be a London base for the participants to access medical services and screening.
Matt Wyon PhD
An experienced sports / dance physiologist at Wolverhampton University, Matt is key scientific advisor on the project, delivering fitness screening.
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Clinical Director of the Jerwood Centre, which will be the Birmingham base for the participants to access medical services and screening.
Roger Wolman MB ChB MD FRCP
Dr Wolman is a Consultant in Rheumatology and Sport and Exercise Medicine at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, running the dance injury clinic.
will cover a week of physio for an injured dancer
This is so important. I am absolutely behind this. Dance is totally dependent upon its artists' ability to sustain long and healthy careers.


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Did you know that the local New Rochelle Humane Society (which services 17 neighboring towns) is offering a 50% discount on all adoption fees for those wonderful senior (slightly older but really lovable) homeless pets or those who have been in the shelter for 4 months or more?
It's also not too late to post your beloved pet's name in the Memory Tree which will be on display at the New Rochelle Humane Society from December 1 through January 4! With only a $5 donation, the Humane Society will write the name of your loved one (or a friend's loved one) on a white or red ribbon and place it on the tree. Or, you can make a donation in a friend's name and the Humane Society will send a card to the lucky recipient.
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The City of New Rochelle's official Christmas Tree went dark over the weekend as thieves made off with the light bulbs that had adorned the tee. In a daring and despicable act of holiday humbug right out of Dr. Seuss's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, the tree was stripped bare.
The tree has been shining each night since the annual holiday lighting ceremony on December 3rd. The event sponsored by the New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce, the Downtown Business Improvement District and the City of New Rochelle Parks Department celebrated the Holiday season for all faiths. Rabbi Wohl, Father Francis and Reverend Wearver spoke of the significance of the lighting-up the darkness in this time of seasonal observances.
City of New Rochelle saves Christmas. The lights have been replaced.Read more
County Legislator Jim Maisano held a highly successful Toys for Tots event earlier today at Dudley's Parkview Restaurant. Guests donated hundreds of toys while overflowed the large receiving box set aside to collect gifts to support the annual U.S. Marines Reserve Toy Drive.
"This is a lot of presents for a wonderful program of the Marine Corps Reserve," said Maisano, a retired Marine. "I am so proud to see this kind of support from so many Westchester residents".
Over the past 60 years the Toys for Tots program has delivered hundreds of millions of toys to needy children.
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Santa Claus stopped by the Hugh Doyle Senior Center this afternoon, spreading Christmas cheer and candy canes to the good little seniors enjoying the Center's Christmas Party. Santa even took some time to get on the dance floor and shake a leg with a bevy of willing partners.
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Join theTrinity Elementary School's PTA Annual Holiday Boutique
Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010
Time: 10:00AM - 4:00PM
Location: Trinity gymnasium
There will be over 30 vendors.Read more
The New Rochelle Chamber of Commerce in celebrating the Holiday season for all faiths. Rabbi Wohl, Father Francis and Reverend Wearver spoke of the significance of the lighting-up the darkness in this time of seasonal observances. Santa arrived after the lighting to give candy to the children who were eagerly awaiting his arrival.
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