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Sunday, November 14, 2010
Baked Bacon
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- AnonymousNovember 14, 2010 at 10:29 PM
Everything is better with bacon!ReplyDelete
Does the oven get real messy with this technique?ReplyDelete
Sandy - I'm sorry for the delay in replying. However, I wanted to make it again before I answered. I made bacon on the stove top and in the oven (at the same time) for my Mom's potato salad recipe. I just made it on July 4. I would definitely rather make it in the oven because I can cook an entire package at once, and I really don't think it splatters the oven very much at all. I thought it actually splattered more on the stove top and didn't cook as evenly as it did in the oven. However, after the next time I clean my oven I am going to buy a silicon oven liner. I do roast and bake a lot, and my oven does eventually get messy (but not from the baked bacon). I'm going to get something like this http://www.amazon.com/Chefs-Planet-Nonstick-Ovenliner-Standard/dp/B001DTP6G0/ref=pd_sim_hg_3ReplyDelete


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This story is a real page turner. Craig Clyde is a wonderful writer who has had a book published and it's time to take this book right to the top. A good story ia a good story so let's see if we can get this book out there where it belongs. Send this to your friends and see what they think. Sometimes, we have to just help someone get out there...Please let me know what you think? This book was written using characters from the screenplay FIRST WE DANCE.
Thank you
Marsha Cook
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He was sitting there, remembering that scene from the Thomas Crown affair? Not the remake but the original with Steve McQueen, when McQueen was sitting on an airplane looking out the window at the world below. McQueen's character looked pensive as the voice-over tore your guts out and you realized that he'd beaten Faye Dunaway at her own game and it was her own damned fault...and they were never going to get together again...ever.
Jake Samuels felt like that right then. Just like Steve McQueen. And at that particular moment he was on a Delta jet headed for Paris and thinking about a woman he'd never see again. He had beaten her at her own game, just like Steve McQueen. Well, actually he had killed her. After he made love to her.
He sighed to himself. It was a long story and reliving it wasn't all that easy on him right then.
There was a woman sleeping next to him. She was making little baby-like snoring sounds, her beautiful head leaning against his shoulder. She was wrapped tightly in one of those flimsy airline blankets. The ones they always hand you, without being asked, in July but you were forced to beg for in December. She was lovely and she was with Jake going to the city of romance, wine and French bread. He wasn't crazy about French bread.
He touched his jaw gently. His tooth was aching again. It had been aching for nearly two months now. He knew exactly when it started. It started when the murders started. He still hadn't gone to a dentist.
He needed something to do. To keep his mind occupied so he fumbled around for his wallet to make sure he had remembered everything. Jake had never been to Europe before. Hell, he'd never been out of the state except for a quick trip to Vancouver British Columbia once.
He took out the passport and looked at the picture. It was him, a little heavier -- two-twenty and six four in his stocking feet. The widow's peak was salt and pepper. He only weighed 190 now but that's what a bullet will do for you he thought. Six hours of surgery and three weeks eating through a tube. World's fastest diet.
Next to the passport was the shield. It glimmered in the dim airline reading light. A silver badge with an eagle over a star cloisonné. The name read: Detective Sergeant Jacob Samuels, West Precinct, Seattle Police Department.
He felt for the bulge on his right side out of habit but it wasn't there. He knew there was no need for a piece in Europe. Too much hassle anyway even if you were a cop. He missed it. It was his security blanket.
In his line of work he needed that shimmering blue-black, 3 1/2 inch-barreled security blanket. A Smith and Wesson Model 27 .357 Magnum revolver. His "Hammer of Thor." A mighty bolt of thunder and lightning from a small package. One hundred twenty-five grain Federal hollow points packing twelve hundred and fifty foot pounds of energy. It slammed into you like a pile driver and dropped you down like a bad habit.
It wasn't department issue. Seattle PD issues Glock twenty-twos in the .40 S&W caliber. Good round but sometimes not as effective as it could be. He was living proof of that wasn't he? It was the same thing she shot him with and he was still here wasn't he?
Out the window Lake Washington was sliding away to the North, shimmering like a immense blue mirror in the waning light.
Seattle, Washington. Big shouldered, fish-mongering, neon Pacific rim pearl that it was. Jake Samuels didn't grow up in Seattle, he grew up farther East in a insignificant town called Toppenish which sat in the very center of the Yakima Indian Reservation.
But Seattle was home. It was where he killed the woman.
As he watched the city disappear under the wing, his mind wandered back to what happened. He looked at his watch and thought it was ironic that when you forgot the date you looked at your day-date watch. What day was it?
January 24th. Jesus, how'd it get to be the end of January he wondered?
His chest hurt. Ached actually more than a hurt. He felt like that guy in the James Bond movie "The Man with the Golden Gun" -- he was different physically. Had a third nipple. Very rare.
Jake was like him. He had a third nipple. Not so rare though. He got his from a 148 grain slug smashing through his lungs. It was a Christmas present from her, the woman he had killed.
He thought about that, being shot. It had hurt like hell he remembered, but not at first. At first it felt like a small rock had slammed into him harder than anyone in the world could throw it and it just kept going. Didn't bounce off. It pierced him, tearing away the flesh, splintering any bones it happened to run into and finally stopped somewhere in his thoracic cavity.
Broken vessels, ripped muscles, shredded mesenteric tissues spewed blood all over the place. All inside him. Then he had started to lose his hydraulics, a dizzy feeling replacing the initial sting. His head started to swim and he fought to stay on his feet. But he couldn't. Not for long. He was bleeding to death internally and there was nothing he could do about it.
Except fall over.
She shot him and damned if he didn't miss her even then, there on that airplane going to Paris, France at six hundred miles an hour with another gorgeous woman who said she wanted to marry him when they get back. Hard to believe. Impossible really.
And it had happened just one month before, five days before Christmas.
Seemed longer. Maybe it was.
He wasn't there when it all started.
Fifteen Years Ago...
Dr. John Taylor Bennett, PhD. stared at the ceiling and looked bored. He always looked bored. But he wasn't bored so much as perpetually overwhelmed by the patients who came to him for help. And he tried to help. The operative word being "tried." He never did anymore - help them that is - he couldn't. He was burned out.
Bennett slumped, round-shouldered, at his desk looking more like a mushroom than the eminent child psychologist he was. He was a nationally recognized expert who'd been written up in dozens of national publications, everything from Better Homes and Gardens to Playboy.
"I see all kinds," he muttered to a large man who'd just come into his office and taken a seat. "All kinds." It was at least another minute before the old psychologist looked up again. In fact the man wasn't at all sure whether Bennett was even talking to him. He was a troubled and anxious father who sat expectantly, waiting to learn what was wrong with his daughter.
Unfortunately, the renowned Dr. Bennett couldn't tell him shit. Because he had no idea what the seven year-old girl's problems were. Besides, Bennett was bone tired. Tired of anxious parents like the one in front of him. Tired of the traveling and lecturing and book schedules that rarely permitted him any time to himself. Tired of what he had become, a burned-out media shrink living on past glories. He was nearly seventy for God's sake.
But mostly he was tired of looking into the small troubled eyes of his patients. He couldn't take that anymore, their eyes. As the thought took hold, his own eyes opaqued into a thousand yard stare.
The anxious father glanced around the office and noticed that there was hardly an inch of space that wasn't covered by a poster. Posters of sports figures: Michael Jordan, Reggie Jackson, Johnny Unitas, Tiger Woods, even an old black and white poster of Jim Thorpe. All beaming down at him.
Confronted with the daily parade of sick and anguished supplicants, it was like Bennett needed the permanent benediction of all the healthy, functioning, blessed individuals he could cram onto the plaster walls.
When Bennett finally did turn his head, the action seemed to cause him enormous effort.
"Okay," he sighed regarding the man across from him with all the interest a street sweeper has for a dog turd, "Let's watch her."
He stood up and walked to the only section of wall without a poster - a curtained rectangle. A two-way window for observation into the next room. As Bennett pulled the cords the curtains parted and the father saw his little daughter. She sat in the very center of a small playroom, a variety of toys strewn about her, but she only played with two dolls: a boy doll and a larger girl doll. And her play was not play – it was combat.
Over and over she slammed the larger doll into the smaller doll. Again and again. Each time with more force and venom. Her eyes glazed with hatred. Slamming the dolls violently. The odd, muffled "oommph" of the cloth toys battering one another was the only sound the doctor and the father heard. Because, other than an occasional grunt, the little girl never uttered a word. Not a syllable. While most children playing with dolls make up their own dialog this little girl only slammed the two figures into each other repeatedly. As if trying smash them - and what they represented - into oblivion.
"That's all she does during sessions, beat the living shit out of those two dolls." Dr. Bennett said in a low monotone, "I've tried to reach her but she closes herself off."
As the father watched his little daughter, unseen through the two-way mirror, a single tear found it's way down his cheek. In his mind he wondered how had he let her down? Was it her mother's fault? Was that the reason for this behavior? Was that why she was so angry? But she was so little. How could she grasp that? His mind wrestled itself for answers. There were none. He looked at Bennett, silently imploring him for a solution. Any solution.
"I've done all I can." was all the aging psychologist mumbled as he closed the curtain and motioned to the door. That was it, no counsel, no communing, no nothing. No more interaction than you'd get from a toll booth attendant.
The father shook his head sorrowfully and left.
And Dr. John Taylor Bennett went back to staring at the ceiling in his office and looking bored.
Eleven Years Ago...
The same girl stood alone in what seemed to be a great hall. She was tall, thin and awkward-looking now. Her agate-green eyes reflected the only light illuminating the empty studio, a single floor lamp at the far end of the room. A brass and wood railing stretched waist high along the opposite wall. Full length mirrors, staring into eternity, faced each other at one end. Lockers at the other.
In between, the wood parquet floor stretched out into the darkness. Gleaming golden slats laid so closely together that you almost couldn't see the seam which betrayed the perfect marriage of burnished wood boards, one to another.
When she cleared her throat the sound echoed hollowly. She craned her neck, looked around. Nobody.
But she wasn't alone. She knew that.
He would be there. Watching from the shadows of the eaves, his eyes burning at the sight of her. Wearing the crisp white shirt, black trousers and small wine colored beret he always wore.
In her mind's eye she could already see the silver flecked, neatly trimmed mustache - straight as a string - above the razor-thin lips. In fact it was like he had no lips. Instead, a perfectly straight slice across the middle of his face.
If the man never spoke or ate or breathed you wouldn't know he had a mouth at all. Which is why he wore the mustache she decided, so people would know where his mouth was.
That thought made her smile ever so slightly. A quick fantasy skipped across her brain – she was sewing his perfectly straight mouth together, stitch by deliberate stitch. Taking great care.
That was it! She could see it more clearly in her mind now, he was asleep and she was sewing his "non-lips" together.
It made her smile even wider.
In her fantasy she reached up and held his nose. The thought of his anguish and struggling, gasping for air that he wouldn't get, made her feel so much better.
His face soundlessly screaming at her. No air to fill the searing lungs. The muffled death shriek rattling in his throat. The panic in his eyes!
It was a wonderful dream.
And then it was gone, like cotton candy on your tongue, only a hint of it's sweetness left behind in the memory.
She stood there. Waiting. She had nowhere to run. She glanced down at her ragged, bitten fingernails and thought of the way he had touched her yesterday. And every day before that for two years.
The sallow, liver-spotted hands running up and down her leg, (First her right then the left. Always right to left) and each time all the way to the top, caressing the small cleft between her legs. The odd tingling sensation she felt and then the waves of revulsion. She remembered the hurt and humiliation when she vomited. How he had railed at her, bellowing in Spanish at the top of his emaciated lungs about his ruined shirt. The stinging tears she fought back when he slapped her.
She scolded herself for having eaten that morning. Never eat before his instruction. Never. It always makes you puke when he starts touching. If you don't eat - you don't puke! That was simple enough she thought. She must force herself to remember the maxim, "Don't eat before..."
But it was so hard sometimes.
Yesterday the lunch in the cafeteria had been her favorite: macaroni and cheese with a black cherry Jell-O cup, peanut-butter cookie and chocolate milk. Food of the Gods.
She had tried to act like she wasn't hungry but she was famished. She had let her guard down and wolfed the food in record time. She had paid dearly for the indiscretion in the rehearsal hall.
That wouldn't happen again. Never again.
She didn't move when she heard his soft footsteps advancing toward her from behind. She just looked straight ahead and never moved a muscle. She would soon know again the minty tobacco smell of his breath, softly brushing the back of her neck. The softness of his hands as he straightened her shoulders. She stood, waiting. Staring. Hating.
"Should I begin at the bar Master?" she would ask in a soft whisper.
She could already hear the phlegm-coated baritone voice rumbling at her: "No. First, you dance."
And then she would dance...
Four Years Ago...
"She can't stay. The school board has already voted."
Headmaster Clarence Collins' intent was unmistakable. He was the nervous sort anyway. Balding prematurely, the little man was constantly rubbing his hand back across his receding hairline and sucking his teeth.
The girl was now almost sixteen as she watched him rub his hairless "red-as-a-Christmas-ornament" head for the zillionth time. Her eyes, half-lidded from boredom, glanced over at her father. The big bear of a man's face wore the saddest expression in the universe.
"I don't give a shit!" she screamed at him in her mind. "You're the reason I'm here. You're the asshole. You should have known what was going on. You should have understood when I came to you. All you ever did was teach me how to fight. That's why we're here!"
"It's her first offense," her father said.
"And her last at this institution," said the twitchy little man darkly. He raised himself to his entire five feet four inches, "It was a violent act. The school will not - can not - tolerate any violent acts. She is out. Today."
The girl wanted to say something but she just kept her mouth shut and held her mud. "I've learned how to do that, haven't I? Damned straight!"
She knew the score. Once you slide past a certain point in life, self-loathing becomes easy.
There was one thing the girl had become though, more beautiful. Even now she was a woman, not a girl. Nearly sixteen and possessed of the consummate female form.
It was the reason Headmaster Collins was so fidgety. Her beauty was breathtaking. Clarence Collins wasn't afraid for the school or it's students, the little fart was afraid for himself. Because in his heart of hearts he knew that, eventually, he would touch her supple young body.
The fact that one of the school rugby players had grabbed her breast and paid for it by having a Bic pen shoved three inches up his groin, didn't really have any bearing on his decision. This young woman was more alluring than all of Jason's sirens put together.
Collins knew she had to go when he began having wet dreams about her. His wife was getting suspicious. God help him if she found out about his fantasy. No, the girl simply had to go and that was that.
Her father stood up. He said no more, just shook his head and left the office. She supposed that something about the wired, balding little Nazi Headmaster with the electric pupils didn't brook much quibbling today. Good advice. Know when to break camp and get the hell out.
The girl got up and followed her father out. But as she passed Collins she purposely brushed her breasts against his heaving, concave chest.
When she was gone, he nearly fainted.
Two Years Ago...
Troubled masculine eyes watched the beautiful young woman. Twenty-three years old and flawless, her perfect figure in the full bloom of womanhood.
The eyes had spied on her for days now. Had followed her every move: when she went to work, when she went home, when she slept, when she bathed, when she ate, when she had a man over (though the eyes became deeply saddened - and maddened - when that happened).
Whenever the unseen watcher was awake, he was watching her. She was the most desirable woman on the planet. The raven hair, the jutting breasts, the slender smooth legs, the blindingly white shorts pulled right to the edge of that so exceptionally rounded ass.
That was why she must be submissive to him.
He watched as she pulled her car out of the university parking lot, staring at the now familiar Washington State license plate as it got smaller...HrdRkWmn.
"Hard Rock Woman." Nice play on words even though it was her last name. It was also the perfect reverse of how she made him feel—rock hard.
He had to have her. He would have her.
The First Day — December 21st
Jake Samuels was at the Ambrewster School for the Deaf signing with the kids the night everything went to hell.
Signing was something he did to keep his skills sharp and to satisfy that inner urge to be something his mother would approve. It was interesting, he thought, how people continued to please parents even after they were dead and gone. He did. If his mother came back at that very instant and said he was her wonderful, darling, baby boy and everything he did was equally wonderful and darling -- he probably wouldn't have heard her anyway.
Jake had lost most of his hearing when he was six. Oh, he still had about 50% in his left ear but the right ear was an appendage that matched but didn't work. The flu had worked it's way south into his ears that summer in the sixth year of his life and subsequently his first grade of school was spent entirely at St. Elizabeth's hospital in Yakima, Washington.
His parents had taken him to an ear, nose and throat specialist named VanWorden. At the time, he didn't care whether the doctor specialized in ears or assholes. The boy had a raging fever that was so painful it lit up the sides of his face like a arcade game whenever he opened his mouth.
The Belgian-born Doctor told the little boy that they were going to play "telephone." The euphemism was lost on Jake's six year-old mentality. All he knew was that the doctor was going to put something into his ear so the little boy could hear. Just like a real telephone.
Jake didn't realize his inner ear was over-flowing with infection and the 'telephone' Dr. VanWorden shoved in his ear canal was in reality a pointed, skinny, tube-like drainage probe. When the probe hit the bulging ear drum the inner ear exploded.
The pain was brilliant. Beyond anything Jake's young mind could describe. The worst agony he had experienced. He screamed, while inside his head he heard a prolonged "kissing" sound and then felt the hot, pus-filled, yellow fluid spurting onto his shoulder.
He nearly passed out.
procedure he was prepped for a mastoidectomy. A simple After three unsuccessful weeks of this excruciating procedure really where the mastoid bone (that smooth bulging bone right behind the ear) gets infected, starts to disintegrate and finally has to be surgically removed. That's what "ectomy" means -- removal.
And now Jake was essentially deaf in his right ear. He could hear enough to carry on a conversation but if you stood behind him on his right side and told him to go to hell I wouldn't hear it.
Everybody he knew had, at some point or another, done that very thing to him. Ancient news he thought as he headed toward the nearest exit of the school. Ambrewster was essentially one large and very old red brick building with ivy walls, wooden banisters that disappeared into a dark second floor and floors that shine with an amber patina.
Old gold inside and out.
It's principal, Annabelle Marsden, was a waspish woman with severe features and her hair rolled in a bun so tight it made her eyes look slanted. She had never married preferring, instead, to devote her life to teaching deaf children. A noble cause to be sure but somehow out of place in her tightly enclosed world. Still, she was a devoted educator who gave young minds a way to learn in their silent world.
She had approached Samuels a few months earlier to come on a regular basis and "speak" with the children about his work. Kids, whether they could hear or not, were fascinated by cops. And he was a cop who could actually communicate with them in their parlance. After all he had been a teacher. He was on his way out when Marsden stopped him at the door.
"The children love your stories, Detective," she said in clipped precise tones, "I wanted to thank you for your generous offering of time."
"Glad to. I don't get much of a chance to use my signing other than here." he smiled.
"Well, be that as it may, I am very much in your debt. You are the only Seattle police officer I've found with the ability," she said. "It adds greatly to our curriculum here to have various walks of life portrayed individually to the children."
Her voice and diction were always so exact. He supposed that was why he said yes in the first place. On the phone she sounded exactly like his mother.
"We're having a Christmas party tomorrow night. We'd very much like you to come." she continued then, almost as an after thought, "Bring a date if you want..."
As he got into his car Samuels wondered what kind of life a woman like that had outside the school?
He decided not much as he hauled the heavy blue-black Smith and Wesson from the jockey box and slid it back into the well-worn horsehide holster on his hip. He felt better, as he always did, when the scarred revolver was back in its rightful place.
The car engine groaned as he turned it over in the cold. He pulled out of the tree-lined drive and headed toward the city as his mind wandered back.
Jake Samuels was twenty years old, in his Junior year at Washington State University when his parents died. It was one of those senseless accidents that happens to people who don't deserve it. Rain slicked road, headlights that wouldn't pierce the gloom and sheets of water as the car hurtled down the two-lane blacktop.
His father was driving the old Plymouth station wagon trying to get home before the downpour turned to snow. Going too fast. An on-coming automobile crested the hill and the headlights shone into his eyes. He swerved to the right, only just a little, to avoid crashing into two tons of Ford 150 hurtling straight toward him.
But that was just enough.
The big station wagon went off the road, down a sheer one hundred foot drop, and slammed onto the rocks below. The car turned over twice, the headlights making crazy search patterns in the sky, and settled under twelve feet of water.
"You have to be brave," Shirley Conroy, his mother's best friend, said to him as he sat dry-eyed at the funeral. "It was quick and merciful. They never even knew what happened."
Samuels glanced at the assembled multitude in the small church on Second Avenue. It seemed like every cattleman in the state was there. His father, Pat Samuels, was a rancher and well thought of by stock breeders.
His mother, Bess, was an English teacher at the Indian School in White Swan and so virtually all the students from the tribe were there as well. It was SRO as the gaunt Minister (six and half feet of cheap black suit, Adam's apple and ankles) droned on about their great contributions to the small, cloistered community.
The caskets were closed. Apparently, the undertaker had a difficult time putting them back together. And for what? No one comes to visit you when you were six feet under. As a result Samuels wasn't able to say good-bye to either of his parents. He wouldn't have known what to say anyway.
His mother was a dear soul with a penchant for correct grammar. Her main contributions to him were the ability to sign — the language of the deaf — and a solid English background. She had spent a lifetime trying to teach he and his father how speak the language with skill and proficient vocabulary. She was ardent in her pursuit of knowledge and had passed that love of learning on to her only child.
Jake's earliest memories of life were seated on the toilet straining to "do his duty" and reading the vocabulary words she had posted in the bathroom every month from the Reader's Digest's "Increase Your Word Power" section.
"People judge you from your speech Jacob," she would say, "you are only as educated as your language."
He had taken took to heart because, for one thing, his mother wouldn't have it any other way. On the final Monday evening of each month there was always a test at the dinner table. If he answered nine out of ten vocabulary words correctly his allowance was increased a pittance. Fewer than eight and it stayed the same. Fewer than that and it was decreased. Times being what they were he learned quickly that he couldn't afford not to learn the words.
His father didn't share her passion for advanced vocabulary skills and he would never help when his son fumbled for a definition. As far as the boy knew she had never cut his father's allowance and she could have as she was the only one bringing home a salary in those days.
His father had grown up a cowboy, just like the ones people read about in the old west magazines. Pat Samuels was descended from the Scotch-Irish on his mother's side and, apparently, some Jewish ancestry on his father's. And yes, Jake had heard all the jokes about Jewish cowboys and sports heroes. According to Jake's father the Jewish blood was minimal, whatever that meant. The boy didn't know if it was true or not but his progenitors had traversed the continent in covered wagons a hundred and fifty years earlier, crossing the great divide and settling in the Pacific Northwest. As such Pat Samuels was a persevering, hard-working man who knew the value of a dollar and never let any of his family forget it.
Pat was quite a bit older than his wife when they married. She was a new teacher with the shiny ideals and convictions that all new teachers bring from college. He was a dyed-in-the-wool cowboy with colorful language who said he swore because it was the only damned communication cattle understood. She had, over the years, tried to temper his enthusiasm for cursing but with little success. When he did turn the air blue with expletives, he would explain later that it was only the remnant of a far larger vocabulary. As a consequence, Jake learned to swear with perfect grammar.
Pat and Bess had met at a Saturday night dance in the old Armory building of the small town. Pat was in his mid-thirties and only there because his best friend, Tony Lamebull, had nearly forced him at gun-point to come. Pat was not a dancer. To him dancing was just one step away from homosexuality.
Tony was his partner at the ranch in those days, a handsome young Yakima Indian who loved life and women. Tony had set up a blind date for Pat but when the woman didn't show Samuels was content to sit on the sideline sipping tepid punch and watching the couples grope each other on the cracked and peeling armory floor.
Bess Gephardt was of German extraction the only daughter of an austere banker who had six sons. She was the oldest and therefore became the caretaker of the family when her mother died in childbirth.
Grandfather, Hatler Gephardt, was a martinet who insisted on absolute obedience from his children. He too was a staunch believer in education and saw to it that all of his children received University degrees. Though a chauvinist in many ways Hatler, nonetheless, was dauntless in providing the kind of environment that would prove fruitful in the pursuit of knowledge to all his children, including Jake's mother. It was ironic that she was the only one of the children to earn an advanced degree.
Grandfather never remarried which meant Bess literally raised her younger brothers. She had been teaching and nurturing young men's minds long before Jake came into the world.
That night at the dance she had come with her best friend. She wasn't all that interested in meeting men but Shirley Conroy had persuaded her that if she were going to be living in the valley she might as well get to know the current crop of available bachelors.
Jake had seen a picture of his parents from that night. When he was little he would look at the framed black and white photo trying to imagine what they were really like in those early days. Bess was willowy with soft dark curls framing her delicate face and a Mona Lisa-type smile that you could never be sure was a smile. Pat was tall and rangy with rough-hewn features and piercing china blue eyes. Years later she told her son that Pat's eyes were what captivated her. She knew she was going to marry him (even though marriage was the furthermost thing from her mind) that first night they met.
They were, in many ways, an odd match but to Jake but they represented the epitome of the perfect couple. One thing he did know, even from his earliest recollections, they loved each other. Totally and completely.
When Jake's father lost nearly a quarter of a million dollars in falling cattle prices during the late 1970's, his mother took up the financial burden of keeping bread on the table. The boy knew that fact was corrosive to his father's pride but Pat never said a word about it. Instead, he worked day and night trying to make that small ranch a success while dutifully paying back a little each month on the crushing debt and accompanying interest he'd incurred.
The irony of it all was, the week before they died, he had finally paid every last cent of the loss. Jake shook his head in the dark. The senseless, savage tapestry of life. An accident which snuffed out the lives of two loving people who'd done nothing to deserve it.
The rain had turned to snow. Big sloppy flakes fumbling their way down onto the windshield as Jake wheeled his car toward the city center. Jake decided that the real record of your life exists on a cellular level. The mind buries a great many memories and the body is where they're buried. The familiar bulk of his gun was a good example, it always gave him peace of mind.
Something that had been lacking in his life for a very long time. The fact was, he was never sure where his life's journey would lead. Or even where it was going. He didn't know it then, but somehow felt, that he had to make the decent — to crawl into the inferno, fight the beast — then pray to God in His heaven he could crawl out again.
As Jake Samuels rounded the corner to Flannigan's he had no idea the descent had already begun.

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My husband and I stayed at this hotel for 2 nights in September. We enjoyed our stay here and it was easy to get to the center of the city, which was a quick bus ride away. The bus stops right in front of the hotel, and takes you directly to the city center. Be sure to ask the front desk, which would be the best stop to get off at. Parking is also convenient, but a 5 minute walk from the hotel.
The hotel has a large grocery store in the rear, convenient to buy water, snacks and other necessities.
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We got him!!! Nevermind either...IM MAD
I am beyond happy right now
he have the right to keep my SO's son at our house...
We got him for wed-sun. and his mom never sent him with a thing for him..no diapers..no clothes..nothing and to stop his tantrums she told us to use a wooden spoon. He has bruises from this..and at her house there are no toys and the 2 boys sleep on the floor...no nothing.
The baby is 4months old and lies in a bassinet all day..no baby toys or anything...sad. He came to us filthy dirty and no jacket (its snowing here)
So we were instructed by the court counselor we saw yesturday to call the crisis intervention line..which we did...they told us to take him to my doctor and get him checked out...so we did. My doc called the line and told them his findings and then the line called us at home. They told us to keep him and not let her know whats going on. They will be going to her home today or tomorrow.
To top it all off she called yesturday to ask for $600 so she didnt get evicted on sunday.
Im just so happy right now. I know she will probably fight it but it will turn out good.
we went to the court counselor today, because the legal aide said to come down to the court and file some papers..so we went...the lady at legal aid told us to go to the court counselor and they would get a temporary guardianship order today in court...sooo we went there..
The first lady said not a problem you will have a court date thursday instead...ok..its fast....but we sat down to talk to another lady and fill out paper work and she told us the judge would look at us like we were nuts and deny our guardianship.
We explained whats going on..she told us to call social services and get him removed...we told her we have called already they are investigating her and told us to keep him as long as we could...which is only til tomorrow. She told us we cant legally keep him because she has sole guardianship and jarvis hasnt seen him in 6months...that same on BS!#@@@ we explained she likes to take off. Its not our fault we havent seen him in 6months.
She told us we have to serve her...and show up in court nov 2 ... and we will only beable to have guardianship so jarvis can see him every 2 weeks for the week. NOW I am mad because there are 4 dif. ppl telling us different stories. I dont want this kid to go back to the same old situation he is in. But our legal system is messed up.
And now we cant get ahold of the social worker because she is on vacation til tomorrow and nobody else is around to help us out.
Im beyond frustrated!
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I have been following this for a bit. I am so glad you guys are advocating and getting him into a better situation. Just remember to document document document everything.
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Good advice, Jenny. Write down everything you find. Every bruise. Every scratch. Everything. If those kids are (God-forbid) sent back to her for some reason, she'll blame it ALL on you and you better have some sort of documentation on it. Even if you believe there is no way he'll ever go back to her, write it down anyway. It'll help HUGELY in court.
I wish you all the best! Will you get both children? I pray they are safe!!
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i have to agree..documentation is the way!..we have written every phone call and taken pictures of his bruises and how dirty he was when he got here.
Last night the crisis lady called and said they dont have enough cause to go to her house for the other 2 kids....dont they count the other 6 times they have been called? or that she takes off? or they are getting evicted today??
so frustrating.
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Im so very sorry ((hugs)) IA to document everything and use it as needed hopefully someone will listen soon.
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Question: adipex, and wellbutrin sr
|steph51179 - Thu Nov 13, 2008 1:50 am
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Ive benn taking wellbutrin for about 6 months, i just started taking adipex on the 4th, im sopossed to take 2 a day, i did this for 2 days and my mouth got sooo dry, my tounge hurt (still does), and i got sores or cuts all over inside cheeks, and inside lips... (I rinsed with proxide untill the sores were gone) so i cut down to 1/2 pill 2x a day did well i tried to take suggested dose today, i made sure i didnt drink caffine just incase that was the problem, after 1st dose i was fine, great infact! a couple hours after second dose my throat felt like it was closing up, i looked in mirror with flash light (its not swelled at all) it is very red, and i see like little red vein type things, (my mouth is not dry this time) do you think its an alergic reaction, or mabey i shouldnt take both pills at the same time, or is it just a coenseadence?
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Adipex and Wellbutrin are safe to use together. One of the side effects of Adipex is dry mouth, which should decrease as you adjust to the medication. Your unusual symptoms are most likely not an allergic reaction, since the lowered dose did not produce the symptoms that you identified after the larger dose. That is, if you are allergic to something, any amount would trigger the reaction.
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20, 1796, it was decorated the title of count. Other family. Noble Sicilian House, born from the union of two noble families. The first is the Pietro family, with residence in Messina, since the sixteenth century. The second is the family Monaco from Palermo. Of French origin, this family came to Italy at the time of King Alfonso, settled in Cosenza, whence went to Sicily. A Francesco had from the same king the offices of short toga, of rational teacher in 1442 and of governor of the "Reginale" Chamber in 1449. Andrea was senator in Palermo in 1406; Antonio, for military services, had an income of 60 ounces in a feud. A branch of this house has also flourished in Messina and another in Trapani. Family names so old, without any doubt, honour not only families but also the cities that welcomed them; seems to be, in fact, very worthy the living members of this family which, with much decorum, carry this noble surname, which has had several illustrious members.
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Party per pale; 1° azure, two keys in saltire or chained together of the same (Pietro); 2° party per fesse; a. azure, three fleur-de-lys or in fesse; b. gules, three palets argent, over all an arm in armour holding a mace, proper (Monaco).
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BOSTON — The regular season wasn't much of a struggle for the Boston Bruins, and neither was their first-round playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings.
Tuukka Rask made 31 saves Saturday, and the defending Eastern Conference champions eliminated the Red Wings with a 4-2 victory in Game 5.
After finishing the regular season with the best record in the NHL, the Bruins advanced to the conference semifinals against the Montreal Canadiens.
"That series was much tougher than maybe the results showed," said Bruins captain Zdeno Chara, who gave Boston the lead for good with 4 seconds left in the second period. "I think that we handled it well, we came into this series ready and we got the job done."
Loui Eriksson opened the scoring for Boston, and Chara's goal on a 4-on-3 advantage snapped a 1-1 tie. Milan Lucic also scored, and Jarome Iginla added an empty-netter.
Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored and Jonas Gustavsson stopped 29 shots for Detroit. The Red Wings scored only six goals in the five-game series.
The Bruins won it all in 2011 and returned to the Stanley Cup finals last year before they were eliminated when the Chicago Blackhawks scored two goals in 17 seconds in the final 76 seconds of Game 6. Boston seems on its way for another long playoff run this year, finishing the regular season with the best record in the NHL.
In Pittsburgh, Jussi Jokinen scored the go-ahead goal in the third period and the Penguins topped Columbus to take a 3-2 lead in their Eastern Conference playoff series.
Chris Kunitz had a power-play goal and Kris Letang scored into an empty net for Pittsburgh, which could close out the series Monday during Game 6 in Columbus.
It hasn't been easy for the Penguins, a team considered by many a Stanley Cup contender. Columbus, which began the series searching for its first playoff win in franchise history, twice rallied to stun Pittsburgh.
Boone Jenner scored the lone goal for Columbus.
Penguins goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury recovered from a game-changing gaffe in Game 4 for the victory on Saturday, making 23 saves. Fleury is 4-1 in his past five games after a playoff overtime loss.
CAPITALS: General manager George McPhee and coach Adam Oates lost their jobs Saturday after the team failed to make the playoffs for the first time since 2007.
McPhee's contract was up. Oates was fired with one season left on his three-year contract.
This season, Washington finished with the ninth-most points in the Eastern Conference, one spot out of a playoff berth.
"I feel a change is needed in order to get us back to being a top echelon team that competes for the Stanley Cup," Capitals owner Ted Leonsis said, according to the team's news release announcing the moves.
Ovechkin has won three league MVP awards and again led the NHL in scoring this season with 51 goals, but the Capitals haven't made it past the second round of the playoffs during the Russian wing's career.
The Capitals reached the Stanley Cup finals in 1998, McPhee's first year on the job, and were swept by the Detroit Red Wings. Later, McPhee oversaw a "rebuild" ordered by Leonsis, including jettisoning top players with big contracts such as Jaromir Jagr.
While McPhee eventually built a young roster filled with offensive stars, he never placed as much emphasis on constructing a rugged, defensive-minded blue line crop. He hired a succession of coaches with zero previous NHL experience running a team, including Glen Hanlon, Bruce Boudreau, Dale Hunter and Oates.
Led by Ovechkin, the Capitals produced terrific regular-season results for a half-dozen seasons, without similar success in the postseason. Four years ago, Washington won the Presidents' Trophy for having the most points during the season, then lost in the first round of the playoffs to the eighth-seeded Montreal Canadiens.
"George has been a terrific, longtime executive for our franchise, and I'm grateful for his commitment to the Capitals organization for the past 17 years," Leonsis said.
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The Capitals went 65-48-17 under Oates in his two seasons.
In 2012-13, they reached the playoffs before losing in the first round to the New York Rangers in seven games.
"We are also appreciative of Adam's efforts and thank him for his devotion, work ethic and contributions to the Capitals the past two seasons," Leonsis said. "He is a smart, tactical coach who improved the performance of several of our players. He is a Hall of Fame player who we believe will be a longtime coach in the NHL."


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I know nothing about him, except that he has enough money to put a ton of signs all over town and that his position on reproductive rights is not at all clear. I have, however, met 27th District state Rep. Jeannie Darneille on a few occasions, and I know she is a compassionate woman who has the well-being of people in mind when making her legislative choices. She has a positive vision of the world and of the future.
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Colorado Rockies vs. San Francisco Giants - 4/12/16 MLB Pick, Odds, and Prediction
San Francisco Giants (5-2) at Colorado Rockies (3-3)
MLB Baseball: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 8:40 pm (Coors Field)
J Samardzija (0-0) (5.07) vs. T Chatwood (1-0) (1.42)
The Line: Colorado Rockies +111 / San Francisco Giants -121 --- Over/Under: 10.5 See the Latest Odds
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The San Francisco Giants hope to continue their hot start when they travel to Coors Field to face the Colorado Rockies.
The San Francisco Giants spotted the Dodgers a 5-0 first inning lead before roaring back for a 9-6 victory on Sunday. Starter Johnny Cueto survived an awful first inning and allowed all six runs on ten hits and a pair of BB over seven frames to up his record to 2-0. The Giants offense launched a 12 hit, three walk attack that saw Brandon Belt homer and drive in three with Angel Pagan and Buster Posey going solo and scoring two times apiece. Joe Panik drove in two and scored while Hunter Pence knocked in a run and scored twice. Jeff Samardzija toes the rubber Tuesday against the Rockies who he sees for the first time since 2013. Samatdzija did not get a decision in a 4-3 loss at Milwaukee with three runs plated on eight hits and three BB over 5.1 frames.
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The Colorado Rockies evened their record at 3-3 and snapped a two game skid with a 6-3 victory versus visiting San Diego on Sunday. The offensive minded Rockies received a great performance on the mound as well from Chad Bettis who was charged with a pair of runs (one earned) on six hits through seven innings to go 1-0. The Rockies totaled nine hits and walked four times with the long ball leading the way with Carlos Gonzalez going deep twice while Trevor Story, Ryan Rayburn and Nolan Arenado cracked solo bombs. Tyler Chatwood draws his second start of the young season when he opposes rival San Francisco Tuesday. Chatwood comes off of a 4-3 win at Arizona where he gave up two runs (one earned) on seven hits over 6.1 innings.
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by: JamieD On Wednesday, February 25, 2015
Here is an idea! Rather than measuring the power of a car using horsepower, perhaps all cars should be measured according to how many buttons that can pop off the top of a gorgeous busty female. According to that measurement system, this souped-up Toyota Supra's button-popping power would be an impressive two.
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Naturally occurring bacterium could reduce tomato Salmonella risk
Scientists at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have identified a harmless bacterial species that may help to reduce the risk of Salmonella contamination in commercially grown tomatoes by inhibiting growth of the pathogen.
The bacterium, identified as a strain of Paenibacillus alvei, was isolated epiphytically from plants native to the Virginia Eastern Shore tomato growing region. Strain TS-15 showed a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity against a number of important foodborne pathogens and bacterial plant pathogens. When it was used to challenge cells of Salmonella Newport on the fruits, leaves and flowers of tomato plants, the number of S. Newport cells on the plants fell significantly and 90% had no detectable Salmonella on the flowers by day five.
The FDA researchers conclude that the bacterium is a highly effective antagonist for Salmonella Newport on whole tomato plants and could help to reduce the risk of contamination during tomato production. They screened a wide range of bacteria for their ability to inhibit or destroy Salmonella, but only strain TS-15 was both effective and harmless to humans. "This bacterium has no known history of human pathology, making it a great candidate as a biological control agent," said study author Jie Zheng.
The study will be published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, but a draft manuscript can be found in full here.
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22 short films directed by technopark employees screened on Saturday, 2014 December 6th 09:30am onwards. Sri M F Thomas, national award winning film critic, Smt. Bhawani cheerath, acclaimed film critic and Sri Sajin Babu, noted young director will also be part of the jury. " Qisa 214 " Awards announced at 7pm by Jury chairman Sri M F Thomas along with other jury members. Please find below the details of "Qisa 2014".
Best Film – "Conscience" directed by Vishnulal S (Envestnet)
*Best Second film – "Emblica" directed by Gokul Narayanan (Infosys) and "Poppykuda" directed by Arun Dev (UST Global)
*Best Director – Vishnulal S (Envestnet) for the film "Conscience"
*Best Script writer – Kiran Prasad R (UST Global) for the film "Inganeyum Chilar"
*Best Actor – Disney James for the film Burning Desire
"Mangiya Kaazchakal" , a film by Ajith Anirudhan[Prathidhwani Executive Member] also screened in "Qisa 2014" in non-competition category
Hundreds of movie lovers in technopark were part of Qisa 2014. Thanks to Jury Chairman Sri M F Thomas and Jury members Sri Sajin Babu and Smt Bhawani Cheerath. Special Thanks to all participants and delegate who all are part of "Qisa 2014"
The awards will be distributed on Wednesday, 2014 December 10th at 6pm at Travancore Hall, Technopark. India's most acclaimed contemporary filmmaker Sri Adoor Gopalakrishnan will distribute awards to winners.
* Best Film – "Conscience" directed by Vishnulal S (Envestnet)


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(2006) Aishwarya walks tall
Being normal is no longer desirable. Balance is boring and neurosis is nifty. If you don't believe me then watch Kareena Kapoor set the screen ablaze with her performance in Vishal Bhardawaj's Omkara. She is the vixen and a victim, vibrantly fused into one.
What's with the sudden spurt of feminine neurosis at the movies? All of a sudden we have a spate of films about women on the brink, driven beyond the point of despair. I could take men making psychotic mayhem in Ram Gopal Varma's flicks. But ladies, give me a break!
Barely had I got over debutant Kangana's remarkable drink-on-the-brink act in the under-rated Gangster when I suddenly had Esha Deol in my face, doing a full-on spirited neurotic act in Vikram Bhatt's honest and unspoilt Ankahee. Doesn't Esha's role remind you of Smita Patil's in Arth? And there is some more of emotionally naked women on the way. I saw at least two of them in the portions of Vishal Bhardawaj's Omkara. There was Kareena Kapoor flashing her eyes like pieces of uncut diamonds in the presence of 'Othello' Omkara and Konkona Sen who screams, sobs and rages against the injustice in the world dominated by men.
Far removed from Vishal's Meerut-inspired fictional UP town where Bipasha writhes in a smoky world of sexually charged men, Aishwarya Rai in London has another story to tell in Provoked.
One thing for sure is that after this film people will stop calling her a non-actress. The critics were quick to dismiss her acting capabilities when The Mistress Of Spices proved to be as bland as soya sauce. But now, Aishwarya is no longer slumbering. I've often wondered why this fragile but strong woman allows her detractors to trample all over her. As someone very respected and authoritative who adores Ash (so do I!) said to me, "That girl just allows herself to be walked all over. People who have worked closely with her talk rubbish behind her back and she doesn't say a word. These people think she is unaware of what they say about her? But it all comes back to her. She just refuses to talk about it. The girl just doesn't want to retaliate! Her silence is often mistaken as a sign of weakness, when in fact, it's the other way around. The day she decides to open her mouth these people won't know where to run for cover."
When I narrated this conversation to Aishwarya she smiled and said, "You know me, na? Bitching just doesn't come naturally to me. I've been tongue-hammered by everyone, ranging from close friends to strangers. That's okay. If it makes them feel good about life I'm glad to bring some sunshine into some people's lives."
Joan of Arc, I had joked. Today I wonder if being so beautiful is a curse. It makes you vulnerable to both verbal and physical assault. Aishwarya has gone through both. Every time I see her suffer I remember what the inimitable Javed Akhtar said, "Like Lataji's voice Aishwarya's appearance is so beautiful that people force themselves to find blemishes in her."
Do we have to create blemishes in Aishwarya's personality, repeatedly wallop her with words if not blows, just to make her feel sorry for being so extraordinarily beautiful?
When she was working in Provoked I remember asking her if she identified with the role of the battered wife. "You know it all, don't you?" she had laughed mirthlessly.
Yes, I've been privy to a lot of her confessions about the tumult she has faced in her personal life. Hearing her talk about it I often wondered how she would (re)act if, one day, she had to play the victim of physical abuse.
I got the answer sooner than I expected it. In Provoked that look of defiant terror that appears in her eyes every time her screen husband Naveen Andrews wants to play football with his screen wife, is not faked.
Make no mistake. This is Aishwarya's most real performance to date. Watch her cower when her drunken husband threatens to poke her eyes with a heated iron and then drags her into the bedroom pulls off his pants and locks the door to rape her.
Did someone say it's easy being an actor when you're good-looking? Those rules don't apply any longer.
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France on Friday called for the United Nations Human Rights Council to set up a "credible and impartial" international probe into reports of large-scale human rights abuses in the Ivory Coast crisis.
"France would like the Human Rights Council to take up the situation in the Ivory Coast as quickly as possible," foreign ministry spokesman Bernard Valero said, one day after six female protesters were gunned down in Abidjan.
"France would like the Council to institute a credible and impartial commission of inquiry under the auspices of the United Nations," he said.
Ivory Coast is divided between two rival presidential claimants.
The incumbent Laurent Gbagbo controls the armed forces, Abidjan and Ivory Coast's all important cocoa exports, but his rival Alassane Ouattara has been internationally recognised as the winner of last year's presidential vote.
Ouattara is recognised by former colonial power France and by the United Nations, and has the support of a northern former-rebel army, the New Forces, but has been unable to assert control of the key levers of state.
The pair have been locked in a dangerous armed stand-off for several months, but rights monitors and the country's beleaguered UN peacekeeping force UNOCI fear a new round of bloodshed has begun.
At least 50 people have been killed in the past week and 365 since November's disputed vote.
On Thursday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said: "I remain extremely concerned about the increasing violence and human rights abuses. A humanitarian crisis is unfolding as people flee the fighting.
"The flaring up of armed clashes in Abidjan and the west of the country puts civilians at grave risk," she said.
The latest skirmishes have forced hundreds to flee the pro-Ouattara Abobo neighbourhood of Abidjan, and unrest in the west of the country has prompted a surge in refugees fleeing into neighbouring Liberia.
The United Nations stepped up its criticism of Gbagbo after his men opened fire on UN workers and briefly detained others on Monday.
"I deplore violent attacks by Laurent Gbagbo's supporters against the United Nations," Pillay said.
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#593 In this 1902 print the considerable enlargement of the 1901 camp building can be
seen through the change in roofing pattern between the two segments of the resulting 1902 building.
The Wrights efforts to shore up the buildings from constant sinking in the sands can be seen in the fairly
elaborate system of under girding and side supports. The method of construction is also clear-a board and
batten design, identical to the life saving stations near by. The pump has returned. But in this image one
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from every direction. There is next in view the 1911 Wright glider. Through the wings of the glider one can see
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I consider myself an avid music listener. One who stays ahead of the curve in discovering new songs, bands, and genres. Still, trying to stay relevant in music discovery seems to be a challenge. Sometimes it almost feels like there are "too many" ways to listen. With that said, the most popular means of discovery still seems to come from the oldest form of mass music media.
This study from NARM and NPD breaks down the purchasing of music by consumer group ("Committed," "Convert," "Comfortable," "Casual," and "Content."). You might be surprised to see that radio pops up as the most common medium.
The part of the study that I found most interesting was not just how we hear new music for the first time, but how little most of us do to hear the songs we like a second and third time. It is suggested that a large majority will just wait to hear the song again on the radio, instead of going out to find it. We are a society that loves to experience entertainment in various ways. But we're also a society that would love to do it without breaking our normal habits. Some might perceive that as lazy, but it's actually just the opposite. We often consider ourselves too busy to fit any additional activities into our lives, which is why radio remains such a strong player in discovering music… It's where we already are!
Let's not downplay the importance of other mediums. The most intelligent people in the business will tell you that while we compete amongst ourselves, different forms of media are amazing extensions of each other. Radio, TV, and digital music players all work together. This is why the most relevant radio and TV stations push their sites and music apps.
Buying music has become very fragmented. It will continue to evolve everyday in our digital world. Albeit, when it comes to music being brought TO YOU, one truth remains consistent. Radio is very much alive and well!