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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007.
Hearing the words, "I'm sorry, but it's cancer," comes as a shock to anyone, and I never thought I would hear them.
I was in my mid-40s, a marathon runner, healthy eater, non-smoker, no family history. The only real risk factor I had was giving birth to my first child after age 30.
I cried (hysterically), I went for a long run the next morning, I got a second opinion, I told only a handful of people and I went about my busy life trying not to think about it.
I made a list of other women I knew who had fought – or were fighting – this awful disease. In a few moments, I came up with more than 15 names of women in my community, most of whom were right around my age. Clearly, I was not alone. If I made that list today it would be at least twice as long.
As a journalist I have an ability to reach an audience greater than just my personal circle of friends. I thought then about how I could have an impact on this new "sisterhood," and those who would (unfortunately) join it in the future.
In the past five years I've helped publish numerous articles, written about my own experiences, promoted early detection, attended and written about mammogram parties, and have willingly been interviewed by several area TV stations.
When I interviewed Barbara Delinsky last year regarding the release of her 10th anniversary edition of "Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors," I realized that indeed I was part of that sisterhood.
There is so much more I could say – and write – about the experience of being diagnosed and treated. I could write about running the Race for the Cure just six weeks after my lumpectomy, or running the National Marathon to Fight Breast Cancer just 11 months after my diagnosis.
I could also talk about the things they never tell you: that the radioactive/blue dye cocktail that's injected as part of a sentinel node biopsy (performed along with a lumpectomy) turns your urine blue for the next day or two and sets off the security alarm going in and out of the drug store when you are just trying to pick up your painkillers.
Or, that getting radiation also involves getting a few tatoos. And getting marked up by Sharpies. If I had known, I would not have worn my brand new white shirt that day!
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"Who cares. This is our night. This is celebrating what we have all gone through," said one of the other models/survivors. She was right. Sharing that experience with those other women was so empowering.
I didn't want to join this sisterhood. But I am proud to call all of these women my "sisters."
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As Bella sat staring out her bedroom window life continued on as if no one was aware of her broken heart. She really had no concern for what time of year it was or what the world was doing outside her bedroom window; the only thing on her mind was Edward and why he had chosen to leave her. She had loved him with her whole heart and every fiber of her being but it hadn't been enough he left her anyway. She had tried to lie and convince herself that she had been better off without him but she knew the truth. The truth was she would never be the same, could never be the same without him. So instead of venturing out to start a new life and moving on as everyone had told her to she sat curled up in her chair and watched life go on outside her window trying to live the memories they had shared. Alice had been by her side and had tried to tell her that Edward loved her and that the only reason he had left was because he had honestly thought it was best for her, safer for her. Bella blamed herself for everything that had went wrong and she blamed herself for the fact that in the end he had gotten himself killed anyway. He had left leaving her behind and not only that but he had tried to take everything that would remind her of him, but he couldn't take her heart. Her heart remembered every touch, every kiss and every moment spent with him and she knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that he loved her, had always loved her. With that knowledge she and Alice had ran as fast as possible to Italy to try and stop him from making the most ultimate of sacrifices but they had been too late. He had stood in the middle of the plaza in the glaring high noon sun amid thousands and thousands of humans as they sat, stood and froze at the vision before them. Edward in the sunlight had been beautiful, magnificent. He was like a god, with rainbow shards glimmering on the sidewalk and reflecting off the windows, sparkling like a diamond. Of course the Volturi couldn't let that happen so he had been seized immediately and taken beyond the palace gates to never be seen again. The crowds began to murmur but in the end they had been led to believe that it had all been an illusion, a trick of the brilliant sunlight. Bella and Alice had arrived just a minute too late. As they had raced as fast as they could down the corridors and up the winding steps that led them to the colorless, cavern like room that held him they could hear his tortured screams as his life ebbed away. As they barged into the room they saw him lying in the floor with his life already gone, his body a crumbled heap on the floor. Bella had held what was left him in her arms and cried hysterically begging for someone, anyone to bring him back to her for she knew she could live without many things but to live without the hope of ever seeing him again was impossible. She had already tried to live without him once and it hadn't worked and she knew it wouldn't work now for now all hope was gone, dead in her arms. Here she sat on the cobblestone floor with the pieces of her one true love in her arms knowing that from that moment forward she would never see his tousled bronze hair, his crooked smile or the love that would shine so bright in his eyes that it was impossible to see anything else. She had held him until the guards had taken him away and she smelled the fire and knew that her life as she had known it was over. So now here she was a lifeless entity with no thought of living but just barely existing. She was a shell of the person she had once been. She asked herself every day how had it ended like this? How was she supposed to go on now? She had given up on life and only wanted to live in her dream world where Edward was as alive as he had ever been. As she drifted further and further away Edward watched her and ached to ease her pain. He only asked for one more day with her or even just an hour he just needed to take her pain away. He too blamed himself for everything that had happened and only wanted to tell Bella that somehow, someway everything would be okay, that she would be okay.
Edward never intended to enter Bella's room, but he could see her curled up on her bed with tears still drying on her cheeks. She was clutching an old Harvard sweatshirt that had once been his. He was drawn inside by the very smell of her drifting through the open window; how many times had he been here before? How many nights had she left her window cracked for his late night entries? He wondered if she did this out of habit or in hope that he would somehow come back. He quietly swung his legs over the window seal and lowered himself soundlessly inside. The room was exactly as he remembered it. The soft sweet floral scent of her lingered in the air and just seemed to pull him in. He could see her Chap Stick and hair clasps strewn on the vanity; she had never been very organized. He laughed as the memories filled his mind, Bella looking for her keys or searching for her i-pod. As he continued to scan the room his gaze settled on a corner shelf and he felt his chest tighten. It wasn't the deep blue corsage from prom or the crumbled movie tickets from their one and only attempt at a normal date nor was it the baseball from their very first date but it was the 5 x10 framed photos. He could see Bella in his mind's eye chewing on her bottom lip and how she had objected to having her picture taken. He had tried to take everything that might cause her unnecessary pain when he left but Bella had clung to every memory like a lifeline. He could see the rocking chair where he had sat so many nights and watched her sleep. How many times had he sat in that very chair and wished to be a part of her world rather than his own? He crossed the room and saw his Cullen family baseball cap on her bed post. He realized that there were traces of him everywhere, as if she refused to let him go. He quickly gathered all these left over reminders and placed them beside the window as if their absence would wash away all memory of him. He had been wrong to think that she would ever let go or forget so easily. He now stood by her bedside and watched the soft moonlight illuminate her perfect face. He could see the faint tracks where her tears had fallen before sleep had finally taken over. His poor Bella, she would always be his Bella and it made his very being ache to see her in such turmoil. Edward tried to imagine what it would be like to never see her again, to envision her with someone else but the vision just wouldn't come. He couldn't think of her as anything but his, she would always be his. He just couldn't fathom not knowing or remembering her. He continued to stand at her side mesmerized by the rise and fall of her uneven breathing and the beauty that was Bella. She began to toss and turn, tangling the sheets and he could see pain radiating from every pore of her body. He heard her call his name as if what was left of her heart was breaking into tiny fragmented slivers that would never be put back in quiet the right place again. He thought of Adrianna the angel of time and memory maybe she was right it would be better for everyone to forget. He could not bear to see Bella in such turmoil and unending pain, if forgetting would heal her and make her whole then that was what he would do. He touched the small flask in his pocket and the leather pouch that she had given him and he knew what he had to do. As he stood and lovingly watched her, trying to memorize every facet of her face and ever sigh and moan that escaped her lips she slowly opened her lovely brown eyes. She blinked twice and then smiled a radiant smile that shone brighter than the sun.
"This dream is much nicer than the other ones."
He smiled as he walked to the edge of her bed and knelt by her side, to clasp her hand firmly in his. He saw the life sparkling back into her once dull eyes. She smiled so serenely and so lovingly it made him ache for what he knew would come next.
"Bella, love I have missed you so."
"Oh Edward I can't even put into words how much the absence of you has turned my world upside down leaving a huge hole where my heart should be."
Edward cringed as the words fell freely from her sweet lips. He knew that Bella had no reason to censor her words she would never lie to him, unlike the blasphemy that had poured out of his mouth when he had left. He regretted the harm he had caused her and would gladly do it over again if he could but he knew that would never happen. He drew a ragged breath and tried to form the words that he needed to say.
"Bella please listen for I do not have much time. I need to share some things with you and I hope that you understand and that somehow you will remember that you once knew a boy who loved you more than life itself."
Edward could see the look of confusion filling her eyes and worry knitting her brow. As she gazed into his eyes she pulled on her bottom lip and he knew she was already fretting about what he had to say. She reluctantly nodded her head and waited for him to continue.
"Bella I know when I leave here tonight you will have no memory of me or this conversation but I still feel the overwhelming need to explain and apologize for the things that I caused to happen. I have always loved you even before I knew you I loved you. I spent my entire existence waiting for you. I was wrong for thinking I could walk away from you and I am so sorry for the pain I caused you. I want you to know that nothing that happened was your fault if there is any blame it falls solely on me. I made my decisions and I alone am to blame for what came next. My love for you was so vast that nothing could measure the depth of my love for you. Bella before you my life was a cold, dark and miserable place and then you came along and pulled me out of the darkness that had become my life. It was you brought my cold dead heart back to life and at times it was as if I could hear it beating. I knew I should have left before things went too far but I wasn't strong enough to leave you or to deprive myself of your company so I stayed. I am so sorry that my selfishness has caused you so much pain."
Edward had to stop before he came completely undone and became a blubbering mess. He rested his head on the edge of the bed and felt Bella's butterfly soft touch as she began to run her fingers through his tousled hair. He marveled at the exquisite feel of her hand and knew that was just one of the many things he would be missing tomorrow. She began to mummer soft words of love and comfort in his ear and he could feel the warmth of her breath and the touch of her lips grazing his skin. Edward struggled to lift his head and see her troubled eyes looking expectantly at him.
"Bella promise me something."
He waited as she looked at him and nodded her head. Edward knew she wouldn't remember him come morning but maybe she would be able to somehow keep this promise.
"Love please don't stop living. You have to promise me you will get up each day and take whatever cards are dealt and make the most of whatever this life has to offer. I want you to believe in the gift of love. I know when I leave you tonight that all our memories will fade and our life together will be no more than a dream that never came true, our lives as we have known them will be over. I know that time will pass and life will go on, but Bella my heart will remember when you were mine and my heart will not let me forget. I know that if there is any possible way for my spirit to come back to this earth that I will find my way back to you. I love you always your name and memory will be etched in my heart for eternity and beyond and I will find my way back to you."
Edward raised Bella's hand to his lips and gently pressed them to each of her fingers, then her palm. He slowly made his way up her neck until he found her mouth that was parted waiting to meet him half way. He savored the feel of her lips and the teasing of her anxious tongue as it assaulted his. He felt very much alive as if a million tiny fireworks were exploding behind his closed eyelids and the sensations that ran through his body had him shivering in want. Edward struggled to bring this life altering kiss to an end even though it was the last thing he wanted to do. He carefully pushed Bella away and let her head fall to rest on his chest. As he held her close he felt the rapid beating of her heart and the shallow breaths she now drew in and out. She raised her head slightly and looked at him questioningly.
"Edward I know this is a dream, your lips are so soft and warm and the touch of your hand so soothing as if you're taking all my pain away."
He sighed and drew her closer to his chest so she would not see the truth hiding in his eyes. Edward never wanted her to feel an ounce of pain ever again. He knew she had endured enough for a lifetime already. He would not let her continue to suffer because of him and his poor judgment.
"Bella, my Bella I love you so much and it is for you I am doing the unthinkable. Please try to get up each day and put one foot in front of the other and see where this new life takes you. You just have to breathe in and out and know that there will always be someone out there who always has and always will love you."
He eased her back on her pillows and stood beside her bed. She was watching him as silent tears began to fall down her face. He held out his hand to catch one and clutched it in his fist as if that would thrust all her pain onto him. He would leave until she fell asleep. He slowly made his way to the window before glancing over his shoulder.
"Edward please come back I don't want to be alone anymore. Just don't go until I have fallen asleep."
He could see her outstretched arms reaching for him. That one simple request was all that it took and he was by her side. He lay beside her and held her close to his heart. He would do this one thing for her before he left, he would stay until sleep came.
"Love close your eyes and go to sleep. "
He lost all track of time as he closed his eyes and tried to ingrain every memory firmly in his mind. He would not let himself forget one second of his life with Bella. He had no idea how long it was before she drifted off to sleep. He lay perfectly still beside her and listened to her strong heart beat until her breathing evened out and her soft mummers fell silent. The time had come. He rose from the bed and gripped the pouch in his hand. Edward quickly before changing his mind shook the memory dust in the air and watched as it fell on Bella's sleeping body. He could see the tiny particles floating like tiny dust fairies in the shimmering moonlight. He knew in the morning any memory or idea she had of him would be forgotten forever. Edward could hear her talking in her sleep and calling out for him. The hardest thing he had ever done was turn away from his heart and walk to the window. He gathered up all reminders of the past before looking over his shoulder one last time. He drank in the sight of his Bella, his love, the only heaven he ever wanted to know. He pushed himself off the window ledge and landed softly on his feet already running to the forest. He found a place to stop and he took the flask out of his pocket. He knew that Adrianna would be here soon and that he had to finish this. He removed the cork and turned the bottle up and drained the dark, bitter liquid it held inside. It took his breath away as he felt a burn going down his throat and then back up again. He had never felt such pain not even as a new born. He threw the empty flask watching as it shattered into the bushes. He cursed the vile fluid that by the light of the morning sun would have erased all memory of his heart.
"Edward come we have to leave."
He looked up to see Adrianna standing before him. She was so graceful and beautiful in a majestic kind of way. When she took him in her arms and unfolded her golden wings it was mind altering. She was indeed a sight to behold. She took off and within seconds they were in Heaven's gates. Edward looked around and nothing had changed it was just as it had been earlier. He could see the streets of gold, he could hear choirs of angels singing the most beautiful hymns ever written but amid all the beauty and perfection he still missed his Bella. He hadn't been sure what to expect but he knew that at some point Bella would be gone from him forever.
He looked at Adrianna waiting to see what was to become of him now. As her eyes rested on Edward he could see mercy and pity shine in her angel's eyes.
"Edward you know that I am the angel of time and memory. I don't think you really understand what that means but I am going to explain it to you. When you went to Italy and begged to be killed I was watching you. Bella and Alice raced to get to you but they arrived too late. I watched as Bella held your broken body in her arms. She was devastated and she pleaded and begged for someone to give back her Edward. I heard her cries and that is why I brought you here. I feel that even though your heart had ceased to beat it was still a good heart and you Edward were a good person. I think you lived an honorable life despite the circumstance you found yourself in. I feel that had you been able to live your life you would have been a selfless person who would have changed the world for the better. It is for these reasons that I think you deserve a second chance. I had to be sure that you had Bella's best interest at heart, so I sent you to see her and to see if you would be unselfish. I know how you wanted to leave and not enter her room but you did it for her. I know how hard that was for you seeing her like that and then to talk to her and touch her for the last time and yet you never faltered you did the one thing that broke what was left of your heart. You chose to make Bella's life better even though it meant her forgetting you completely. I gave you the potion that at first light will wipe your memory clean, at that time I am sending you back to earth for a second chance to be human. I hope you are able to have a chance at love, happiness and the life you were meant to have because you Edward Anthony Masen deserve it. Good luck Edward now sleeps and when morning comes go and find your place in the world for no foot print is too small to leave its mark."
He watched as she began to sparkle so bright he had to cover his eyes and then in a shower of light she was gone. He had so many unanswered questions. He didn't see how he could possibly not remember Bella and even if his human mind forgot he vowed that some way, somehow he would find her again.
He fought to stay awake to not close his eyes but eventually he lost the battle and he succumbed to the effect of the potion. He closed his eyes as visions of Bella filled his dreams.
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Hi CIndy,
Thanks so much for reading and I am glad you liked it. I will keep you updated!
Aro was put in his place! BAM! lol...
but the goodbye is sad. I...I wanted to cry its so sad.
Hi Kristahra thank you so much for reading and yes Aro gotten taken down and by a woman no less all though she was an angel but still I thought it was poetic justice. I am sorry I made you want to cry but I wanted to convey how I would feel if I had to say goodbye to my parents or someone close. Thanks again for reading.
Thank you for posting Sarah! It was very interesting to see Aro of all vampires cower away. It was great! I loved it, I hope I get to see a happy ending for Edward and Bella, and everyone around them. You wrote a very good chapter, (but they're all good!) I'm happy to see the Volturi (finally!) get what they deserve. Okay, I guess I'll talk to you later Sarah! Bye!
--Kallie! (See, my comments are longer! :D)
Hi Kallie,
Thank you so much for the long comment! I an so excited that you liked it and there is still more to come so I hope you keep reading. I have so much planned for Bella and Edward!! More coming soon. Thanks again for reading!
Hi Melissa
Thank you so much for reading the update and I am so glad you liked it. We'll see what happens with Bella and Edward and what his mother gave him. More coming soon thanks again for reading!!
Hi Autumn
Thanks for reading and I will absolutely keep you updated!!
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The FDA held a press conference on 12/15/2010 announcing that it was sending a letter to all dietary supplement trade associations, as well as posting a message to consumers, about the growing problem related to the sale of various misbranded drug products masquerading as "dietary supplements."
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(RNN) – The highest combination of seeds in NCAA tournament history will square off Monday night for the national championship.
No. 7 seed Connecticut will face No. 8 seed Kentucky in a battle of two teams with historic basketball pedigrees that weren't expected to advance this far.
UConn edged overall No. 1 seed Florida 63-53 in the semifinals, beating the Gators for the second time this season. Florida had just three losses all year and two were to the Huskies. UConn also gave the Gators their last lost prior to a 30-game winning streak that ended Saturday at UConn's hands.
Kentucky found its way to the title game in dramatic fashion with wins over Louisville, Michigan and Wisconsin. Saturday's 74-73 win over Wisconsin put the Wildcats in the championship after a 3-pointer with 5 seconds remaining gave them the lead. Wisconsin had missed its first free throw of the game to set up the opportunity and the Badgers' attempt at a game-winner bounced off the rim.
Aaron Harrison has been the go-to player for the Wildcats in the final minutes. His 3-pointer from long range proved to be the difference – the third time since the NCAA tournament started that's he's come through in the clutch.
It was not a surprise for Harrison to be the deciding factor, but the 3-pointer was only the second one Kentucky had made the entire game. The freshman guard leads a team that has lived up to its preseason hype despite it not looking like that way prior to the SEC tournament.
The Wildcats nearly beat Florida in the SEC championship game and were put in the Midwest Region, which most experts considered the toughest one in the tournament. Two No. 8 seeds have made the championship game and Kentucky could become the second to win – tying the mark for the lowest seed to claim the national championship.
On the other side is Shabazz Napier, a senior point guard, leading the only No. 7 seed to make the championship game. Connecticut not only ousted the top-seeded Gators, but led by the largest margin any team has had over Florida all season.
Connecticut won the championship over Butler in 2011 when the previous record for highest seeds was set. The Huskies still have three players from that team on their roster – Napier, Tyler Olander and Niels Giffey – but UConn was ineligible for the tournament last season for academic reasons.
While Kentucky won in dramatic fashion, Connecticut was benefiting from its opponents' struggles. The Huskies survived a tough opening round match against St. Joseph's that went to overtime due to depth, beat depleted Iowa State and excised Villanova and Florida after those teams had uncharacteristic performances. Even so, Connecticut trailed Florida by 12 late in the first half Saturday.
However, Connecticut's road to the championship game was as difficult, if not more so, than Kentucky, which came out of the "Region of Death" and handed Wichita State its only loss of the season.
This is the first time the two teams meeting for the championship were not in the tournament field the previous year since 1966 when Kentucky lost to Texas Western.
Regardless who wins, this will be the first time since 1997 the national champion didn't win either its conference regular season or tournament championship.
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Investigators are continuing to search for the cause of a house fire that claimed four young lives in Conyers on Tuesday night. According to authorities in Conyers, seven people were in the home when the fire broke out in a bathroom on the second floor of a duplex just after 11 p.m. on Pinedale Circle. They say officers arrived within 30 seconds of the call, and found the front door open and could see flames coming down the stairs. The officers tried to use fire extinguishers but couldn't put out the blaze.Conyers police Major Mike Waters says the mother, 28-year-old Reba Glass, rushed upstairs and tried to get her five children out of the home, but was only able to save a 6-year-old boy by throwing him out of a second story window. The boy, identified as Darnell Glass, suffered a broken collar bone, and was transported to Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. Authorities say the mother jumped out of the window to escape the flames, and tried to go back inside to rescue her other children but couldn't make it. A neighbor, Lamonta Stroud, found the injured mother on the ground. Desperate to help, Stroud ran to the back of the home, and climbed on top of a shed to reach the children inside."And I just broke a window and telling them to come to the bathroom, come to the bathroom. I can get you out if you come to the bathroom. But I guess they couldn't hear me or something. I don't really know," said Stroud.Authorities say they tried to airlift the injured mother to a hospital but bad weather turned the helicopter around. The mother was then transported by ambulance to Grady Hospital, with burns to 40 percent of her body. Her condition is described as serious.Rockdale County Fire Chief Dan Morgan says flames were coming out of two windows, with one of the windows on the back side. One crew went into the home to put out the flames, while a second crew got the four children out of the home and unsuccessfully tried to revive them. Neighbor Leslie Slater says others tried to help rescue the children from the home. She says some neighbors were able to make their way into the home, but the thick smoke obscured their vision and they had to run back out of the home.A pastor for the family identified the deceased children as 8-month-old Deon Glass, 3-year-old Amoni Roberts, 7-year-old Dar'Shawn Glass and 9-year-old Ah'Dariya Glass. Morgan says the children were found in two rooms of the home. A grandmother at the home was treated and released.A woman who lives in the neighborhood says the tragedy is hitting the community hard, and that everyone is pulling for the family."One of my grandkids went to school with two of the kids, and my prayers just go out to the family. It's just a loss. We're just going to try to stick with the family," said neighbor Trena Clark.Investigators with four agencies, including the Georgia State Fire Marshal's Office and the Rockdale County Fire Department, are working to determine the cause of the fire.
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By Kelsea Stahler, Hollywood.com Staff
This is a message from the converted: Nicki Minaj is a fantastic American Idol judge. The best. Magnificent. More valuable than she could possibly know.
Yet, if you were speaking to me approximately a week and a half ago, I'd have told you all this Minaj nonsense would be the death of Idol and that her Twitter rants were only the tip of the iceberg. I can say it now: I was so, so wrong. Nicki, I love you.
The rapper is the youngest member of the judging panel at age 30, and compared to the Mariah Carey, Randy Jackson, and Keith Urban (who also judged the Australian version of The Voice), her expertise in judging and producing music is far more limited. Of course we were wary when she burst onto the scene with snide looks for Mariah and her never-ending barrage of ridiculous nicknames (yes, that pasty, boring kid from Tennessee named Joel should definitely go around calling himself Jumanji). What is she bringing to the table? And why does she keep calling everyone she likes "a staaaar"? And what possesses her to speak in a British accent randomly? The answers are: She's bringing Nicki to the table, and she does those things because she's Nicki-freaking-Minaj and that's what Nicki-freaking-Minaj does. And it's great.
Now, naysayers, stay with me for a moment. Since Simon Cowell got tired and tuned out during Season 9 and then left us with the clueless patrol in Seasons 10 and 11 (sorry, Steven and JLo) Idol has lacked that special something. Sure, we've fallen in love with contestants (America sure fell hard for Mr. Phillip Phillips), but the judges have simply been there, woken up occasionally by the loud isms and wasms of Steven Tyler and the periodical misunderstandings of the way things like fish work by Randy and his all-powerful Yo pin. We yearned week in and week out for the wise, and sometimes harsh, words of mega-producer and mentor Jimmy Iovine, because our regular panel lacked teeth. With Nicki at the table, that's not a problem any more (but, don't leave us, Jimmy!). Nicki brings out the harder sides of her fellow judges.
This year, Randy is far more inclined to tell a contestant "You're tone deaf, dawg." And he actually did. Whereas he would mask his true feelings with niceties in the past, or be buried under Simon's avalanche of mean on the original panel, Randy gets to throw his 30 years of music biz know-how around. And it's because Nicki is there. It's because she fosters an atmosphere in which anything goes, from calling a tone-deaf contestant "boo-boo" and giving him puppy dog eyes, to teasing a young woman for her last name resembling a ladies' nether regions (ahem, Bush), to telling Mariah "she's a b**ch" within 10 minutes of their first audition session. Nicki is a loose cannon in an ever-changing wardrobe of technicolor dreams. Plus, she is the most entertaining judge we've seen on this show since Simon.
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Wednesday night's walkout incident was only further ammunition for why: she's an atypical judge and she knows it. The fight that stopped the Charlotte auditions was initiated because Nicki felt marginalized. She felt like her vision for contestants was at odds with Randy's and Mariah's vision, and when Randy threw out his "30 years of experience" as justification, Nicki didn't fire back with some overconfident remark. She was legitimately hurt: She's the outsider, and Randy's retort shook her confidence, so she retreated to lick her wounds. Nicki doesn't have the upper hand. She's the newcomer, the underdog, and very often the black sheep. How could you not love her? She's doing everything she can to make her mark, and she's doing so by being her outrageous, weird self. In what other year would someone like Chicago's androgynous Kez Ban be so heralded? When else would be spend so much time getting to know an outrageous attention hog with a collection of blonde and pink wigs like Ashley Smith from Charlotte? Only during the reign of Nicki.
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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck previously pledged to provide a truck to Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, who were delivering newspapers Feb. 7 in Torrance when officers mistook their truck for Dorner's.
Hernandez was shot twice in the back, and Carranza was injured by broken glass. Their blue Toyota Tacoma was riddled with more than 100 bullets.
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Students were evacuated after 7:00 a.m. as a precaution while a small electrical fire was contained by fire crews. The fire occurred sometime between 1 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. and was discovered by a school employee who opened the building in the morning.
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"The smell was pretty strong from the plastic that had melted in there," said Wasson.
School employees have placed fans in the classroom and hallways to air out the smoke smell and to clean out the air, they said.
Students were held in the cafeteria until they were picked up, playing games and being supervised, school officials say.
"Every teacher has a class list and phone contact information that the parent should have left with us on their emergency cards and that is the way we had those teachers make connections to those parents," said Donnie Cook, Superintendent for Chapel Hill ISD.
Deanna Cook, a parent who picked her child up from the campus, had missed calls from the school, but officials had already sent a school police officer to tell her about the fire."At first I was a little worried seeing the cop. I was wondering why could a cop be coming to my house from the school and she said there was a fire but I wasn't really worried because she immediately told me he was okay," said Cook.
The school was able to clear all the children out of the school."They responded well and got all the kids home safely and quickly," said Cook.
Witnesses at the scene reported students were outside the school building, while at least two fire trucks responded.
No injuries were reported, but the school says the fire alarms did not go off during the fire, and are speaking with East Texas Alarm about the problem.
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Welcome to Charlotte, North Carolina, the secret race car capital of the U.S. and the home of the constructive communication meltdown. Yep, you read that right.
From minute one of the Charlotte episode, it would seem that the producers of American Idol are brushing up on their storytelling techniques. Starting the episode in media res, or in the middle of things a knock-down dragout fight so big, they had to bring the guys from TMZ in to explain it is our introduction to our first stop in the Southern U.S. We don't immediately find out what made Nigel Lythgoe come through the set waving his arms and commanding everyone to go home, but we soon will... dunh dunh dunh.
Luckily for you, I'm not a fan of saving the good stuff for chronological order, so let's talk about this meltdown, shall we? Sure, North Carolina is home to a lot of Idol winners like Scotty McCreery and Fantasia Barrino, so we should probably on the lookout for the person who could take it all this year, but that fight! It's commanding my brain and no amount of Scotty waltzing around the racetrack in Charlotte, running into long-lost middle school friends, can distract me.
The day starts off as cheerful as can be, and Keith in particular is happy and chipper, goofing around with Nicki before delivering the kiss of death to the panel. ""This is going to be good,"" he says. Yeah, good for us at home, not so good for y'all, Keith. After lunch, the judges are all a little testy, even Keith who's apparently tired of being dismissed as just ""the country guy."" When sweet blondie Summer Cunningham is dumb enough to disparage country in front of Keith, saying she's ""done the country thing"" and she's now seeking ""something with a little more soul."" Big mistake, little lady. But at the same time, who'd have thought it would be Keith's ego that set this whole thing in motion? It is, and Keith is instantly annoyed, likening the girl's innocent, yet flippant commentary to a professional insult. ""It's like saying I did the brain surgeon thing,"" he says. Whoa, Keith. We get it, Country music is an intricate profession that requires hard work and dedication. It's not brain surgery though, my friend, no matter which way you angle the scalpel.
That's where Mariah and Randy come in, helping to ease the tension by helping young Summer, who sang ""Lean on Me"" with an unmistakable country music staple: the (young) LeAnn Rimes yodel. (That age distinction is essential. Have you seen that woman's Twitter lately?) They give the girl a ""yes"" and send her through to Hollywood on what seems like the condition that she not fight her natural knack for country and stop trying to become the next Adele. Why else would she sing so country and still insist she's more ""soul""? We can hear you, lady, and you're no soul singer.
Randy and Mariah do their best to mentor this little lady, but it doesn't sit right with Nicki, who's tired of all this country music talk. If it's not about Taylor Swift loving ""Super Bass"" it's not for her, and she sits in her corner of the panel like a petulant, sleepy child until Mariah asks her to speak. ""I didn't know we needed to have a country debate,"" she says. Nicki is miffed that her fellow judges (but ""not you, Keith"") are ""picking apart"" contestants and telling them what they'd be best suited for when she'd rather let love rule and have everyone do whatever they want in a creative free-for-all, which is nice in theory, but not in practice. Randy, who's been in the business for 30 years and makes a point of reminding Nicki of that, knows a thing or two about coaxing a good artist onto the right path. But it's that ""30 years"" comment that sends Nicki, the youngest voice on the panel, into a fit. It's the last straw and her apparently fragile ego is crushed, shutting down production for the day and leaving a crowd of confused auditioners like refugees in the bowels of the racetrack facilties.
This is the Idol the episode seems to want us to believe we've signed up for. But it's only a fraction of what the new panel has to offer, and frankly, it only adds to their effectiveness as an entertaining, yet informative entitity.
Immediately after the meltdown, we return and we're suddenly in a TMZ-sponsored zombie movie/breakup video about how production shut down. Yeah, we got that. Drama, drama, drama. But when we finally return to the contestants and meet Navy Reserve member Brandy Hamilton , a sweet little singer who lights up the room and has what Mariah calls ""pippity pow,"" she leaves the room with her ticket to Hollywood, saying ""Please don't fight, it makes me sad."" It touches Nicki and has an almost cleansing effect; and for the rest of the episode, the judges just work, so well in fact, that I might even be willing to use the words ""adorable"" and ""Nicki Minaj"" in the same sentence. Mariah even starts making an effort to make sure Nicki knows any insult thrown at a contestant's hat doesn't pertain to Nicki's glorious collection. It's almost like magic.
But things weren't even all that bad before the cleansing fight. Well, they weren't bad on the judges' side of the table. Keith and Nicki were sharing trail mix like two best friends on their first school field trip to the Natural History Museum, but the producers brought on the gauntlet of weirdos. That's a surefire way to may anyone a little grumpy.
First up is Naomi Morris, a fashionista from Charlotte who makes her own clothes. She's wearing a spiky bra under a blazer like a Mad Max character on a job interview, but Nicki loves it and gives her a nickname: ""Omi."" It's a good thing the only binding thing about these meetings is that three ""yeses"" equal a ticket to Hollywood, because Nicki's nicknames aren't exactly star-makers. Surprise, surprise, Omi can't really carry a tune. The great thing about the way the judges react is that while Nicki feigns sickness and Mariah can't even look at the girl, once they recover, they're actually quite sweet, making sure to praise her for what she's doing right: designing her own clothes. The moment's overshadowed a tad by Mariah's comment that Omi's spiky gold bra wouldn't fit Nicki, but it's there. These judges are good value.
Moving right along, we meet Joel Nemoyer, a 20-year-old who likes to sing while laying down, a technique he learned by watching Chris Daughtry that one time during a mentoring session on Idol. Of course he's awful, but at least he got that controversial viewpoint out there: yep, Nicki looks like cotton candy with her pink hair piled on top of her head. Move along now.
A brief respite comes courtesy of Brian Rittenberry a 27-year-old from Georgia who's married to a cancer survivor, who happens to be the cutest Keith Urban fan there is. While Brian makes his wife's case to the country singer, Ryan Seacrest is outside asking her about her ""hall pass situation"" with Keith. Don't worry, it's cute. Just trust me on that. Ryan brings her into the room as Brian finishes singing ""Let it Be"" and earns four ""yeses,"" and the moment is somehow not all that obnoxious. It's quick, and Mrs. Brian isn't screaming or losing her mind in order to get 15 seconds on television. She's just sweet and grateful and super proud of her sweet, singing husband. Okay, she's also pretty stoked about getting to hug Keith. That too. This is how an Idol sob story should work.
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[PAGEBREAK]The good fortune continues with four more Hollywood-bound singers, including Michelle Fullins Lovell, who doesn't get to speak on television, but wows the judges with her Mariah-level falsetto range, and Jimmy Smith, a 25-year-old social worker who's so good at singing Rascal Flatts songs, he makes Randy remember history in a whole new light. (Randy, I get that you're super excited, but check these famous quotes before you use them. ""Let them eat cake"" does not mean, ""Go have fun in Hollywood, you guys!"")
But all good things must be interrupted by a little crazy laughter from time to time, so we meet Matthew Muse, whose main talent is immitating Brad Paisley... if Brad Paisley were an animatronic prospector at an Old West musical review. No, he's not a good singer. But hey, at least Nicki thinks he looks like a model. That's got to be worth nothing at all.
Again, the surprise audition strikes, this time with a more climactic ending (if you're going to pick someone up at home and make them audition, you'd better plan on sending them through.) So, the Dawg gets on a school bus to pick up 16-year-old Isabelle Gonzalez at high school. She's got crazy good style for a high school student and sings Sam Cooke's ""Nothing Can Change This Love"" with a sweet, jazzy voice that could use a little coaching, but she's got the raw goods and she's adorable. Naturally, she's going to Hollywood.
Next comes a sassy girl who divides the judges right down the middle, which in Charlotte means giving all the power to Keith Urban. With her band, a buncha cute hipster dudes who call themselves Carson, in tow, Taisha Bethea sings ""Fulsum Prison Blues"" by Johnny Cash and ""You Oughta Know"" by Alanis Morissette, but she can't convince the Randy and Mariah, who see her has a band frontman and nothing more. Keith and Nicki send her through, but these nice judges have to know that girl is going to get eaten alive during Hollywood week.
And the person who's going to gobble her up might be Ashley Smith, the most annoying human in the whole wide world. Okay, that's an exaggeration, but she's certainly trying for the title. She's abnormally away of her need for attention, and shows up wearing a pink pilgrim shirt, a septum piercing, hipster glasses, a blonde wig (it'll be pink in Hollywood, we're told), and white lipstick. And damnit, she's mind-bogglingly good when she belts out Carrie Underwood's ""Cowboy Casanova"" This means we have to see more of her. Let's hope this nonsense is just for auditions, because I don't know if I can handle two people with whatever affliction Nicki has that makes her slip in and out of a British accent. It seems she's here to stay, but we'll see how things go in Hollywood.
Before Keith has to leave (again, this time to hold Nicole Kidman's hand at the New York Film Festival... whipped!) we meet two good'uns. First, Janelle Arthur who sings ""Where the Blacktop Ends"" and is actually phenomenal. Keith is beside himself because she is so perfectly country and it helps that her song choice is apparently one of his favorites. Nicki says she already seems like a star ""which is really hard to come by"" (you wouldn't know it based on the rate she hands that compliment out, but it works this time). Janelle goes to Hollywood, and Keith squeezes in one more audition that will melt your heart, even if it doesn't mean the guy has any shot at the competition. Rodney Barber used to be homeless, and now he shares his earnings from being a street performer with Charlotte's homeless as a way of paying it forward. The man is sweet and his story is touching, but he's just an okay singer. He tries on ""I'll Be"" by Edwin McCain, and it's nice. He's got a strong voice, but it feels a little plain to bring him through the Hollywood gauntlet. He's a sweet guy, so I hope I'm wrong, but it doesn't look like a sure thing from here.
But then, once Keith leaves to hold hands instead of doing his job (seriously, what is the deal, Keith?), Candice Glover, who was cut in Las Vegas during Season 11 has returned and she's more amazing than we could possibly have remembered. It's funny that she says people compare her to Season 10's Joshua Ledet, because she's clearly got her own sound, but after she sings ""Syrup and Honey"" (the Season 9 Idol audition special) the judges give her a standing ovation - Josh's specialty. Nicki says she wants to wear Candice's skin, which is her way of saying she's going to Hollywood. We're fans of the traditional form of communication on this one, but hey, she's just being Nicki and it's so genuine it's almost cute. Almost. We are talking about wearing human skin, here.
In what might be be the best alternative to a sad back story ever, La'Bria Barber shares her all-time favorite hobby: Froggigging or catching frogs for fun and fries up the legs as snacks. Oh, those crazy kids, sneaking out at night, listening to their devil's music and bopping frogs on the head? Apparently. After airing their concerns about La'Bria being wasteful by only eating the frog legs, the 16-year-old shows off her incredible voice, which sounds like it belongs on a seasoned jazz singer three times her age. She's so good, her rendition of ""Pride and Joy"" makes Randy dance back and forth like a Charlie Brown cohort. We'll see this girl in Hollywood, and hopefully on the Idol stage.
After a quick pit-stop with the artist formerly known as Ba-con (pronounced like Akon) and the most boring, sad version of ""A Whole New World"" I've ever heard, we get our inspirational story of the week: Seretha Guinn. The young lady has a boyfriend who endured a life-threatening ""incident."" She's apparently sneaked out to audition for the show, which is why she had to bring their daughter London into the audition to meet her best friend, Nicki Minaj a.k.a. Dun Dun. By all rights, I should have hated every second of this pandering-fest, but it worked. Everything from her singing-songy version of ""Fresh Prince of Bel Air"" to introducing Nicki to her biggest little fan was undeniably adorable. And thus, the episode that started with a TMZ scandal ends its two-hour episode with a genuinely happy, heart-warming moment. This is American Idol. The fighting just puts the rear ends in the seats.
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