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I felt nothing but complete sadness when I read about 9-year old Elizabeth Olten disappearing. Sadly, when kids turn up missing, they always seem to turn up dead. I really hoped that wasn’t the case for this little girl. I was visiting family in the Jefferson City, Missouri area when I read the original article about her missing. She was a local girl and it hit close to home to learn of her disappearance.
“Elizabeth's favorite color was pink, and some who attended her funeral wore pink shirts. Others wore buttons with her photo or ribbons that were pink or purple. Pallbearers wore pink ties and a pink flower. Bouquets with pink, red, white and purple flowers were placed on white stands.”
It hit even closer to home when they found her body the next day. What has happened to this world when kids cannot even walk home from a friend’s house without winding up dead? I really hate the world we live in some days. Kids are innocent, I still feel as if bad things shouldn’t happen to them. I know this is a naïve thought in our todays society, but I still think that way and nothing will ever change that. I don’t understand why people have any desire to molest or kill a child. It makes me sick to even think about it the people who could even do such a thing.
“Two white horses pulled her casket in a glass hearse from the Jefferson City church to a nearby cemetery. Several dozen people stood along the road and released pink balloons when the funeral procession reached the entrance to the cemetery.”
“During the service, a slideshow using pictures of Elizabeth was set to music.”
The funeral services were held across the street from a friend’s house. It is said to have been a beautiful ceremony. Devastatingly beautiful, I imagine, considering the circumstances.
“After a graveside service, mourners released two white doves and more pink balloons”
Even more shocking is the suspect who was able to lead the police to the girl’s body. A 15 year old girl is in custody for her murder. I have only heard rumors as to what had caused her to do it. Obviously, with the suspect being a minor, not much information is being released into the media. A high school teacher is said to have killed himself over feeling guilty that he might have somehow caused or didn’t stop the murder. It has the entire town in turmoil.
Two young lives are affected by this tragedy. One little girl died before she really had a chance to live. The other may be tried as an adult and will lose out on parts of her life she will never be able to get back because of one terrible, terrible action.
Any case where a child is hurt or killed is sad and a tragedy. This type of thing needs to stop. They are innocent and beautiful and should be treated as such. Kids should be able to play outside without fear of turning up missing. Mothers of little girls and boys shouldn’t have to worry about their neighbors molesting or killing their children. The world we live in is truly a sad place when kids are even killing other kids and you can’t even trust your child’s friends to not harm them.
Link to the article I referenced for this.
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-m
It was a pick your own topic this week (from 5 topics). I also added a touch of sexual ethics and "Moments of Devastating Beauty", but that just came about as I wrote. If you like what I wrote, please consider voting for me when it opens up on Saturday. I appreciate feedback, both good and constructive criticism so I can improve as a writer.
AS the New Moon stars hit London yesterday, OK.co.uk were officially on R-Pattz Watch. We sent our roving reporters out to track down the stars and bring you all the gossip from the front line.After a nervous morning deciding what to wear, OK.co.uk were the first to arrive at the press conference and spotted director Chris Weitz outside signing autographs for fans on the way in.
We took our seats in the front row, making sure we were just metres from Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, Kristen Stewart and Chris.
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"More than a week prior to its Nov. 20 release, "New Moon" has sold more than four times as many tickets as "Twilight" at MovieTickets.com at the same point in the sales cycle.MovieTickets.com reports more than 1,300 sold out performances for "Twilight" sequel "New Moon" -- including 900 midnight performances -- with a large number of tickets still available.
"The fact that 'New Moon' is outpacing 'Twilight' at a 4-to-1 ratio really speaks to the incredible fan base the film has built in just the past year," said Joel Cohen, executive vice president and general manager for MovieTickets.com. "That, combined with the increasing number of consumers buying their movie tickets online, could put this film in a position to be one of our top advance ticket sellers of all-time."
"New Moon" also accounts for 74 percent of all ticket sales at MovieTickets.com this week. "
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Robert Pattinson described the Twilight craze as a "virus" last night as he attended an event in London to mark the upcoming release of the second film in the franchise.
Pattinson was joined by co-stars Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner at the event for New Moon in London's Battersea Park. Thousands of screaming fans attended - many of whom had been queuing to get into the venue since early morning.
Pattinson - who stars in the films as vampire Edward Cullen - said the fans' reaction had been gradually increasing as they toured the globe promoting the film.
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"We went to Japan earlier on in the year. There wasn't that much of a reaction - but last week when we went again, it suddenly exploded, the same as here," Pattinson explained. "I don't know how, it just explodes so quickly. It takes seven months to take hold - it's like a virus."
Pattinson added he found it strange having such vocal fans in his home city.
He said: "I'm only here for a couple of hours. I used to live round the corner - it's really bizarre being in Battersea Park. It's so funny being close to home and the same thing happens. I always thought it was a foreign thing."
Lautner, who was also greeted by howls in reference to his character Jacob Black morphing into a werewolf, said he was surprised by the fans' reaction in London.
He said: "I'm stunned - I knew it was going to be good, but this is amazing. The fans in London are surprising me... it's amazing to know we have this support behind us. It makes us feel like we're at home."
Kristen Stewart, who plays high school student Bella Swan in the film, described the fans as "awesome" and said she was getting used to the attention.
She said: "It's really exciting. I used to not know what to do with myself, but now I can actually enjoy it."
Stewart and Pattinson did not answer any questions about their heavily-rumoured off-screen relationship.
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TAYLOR LAUTNER, KRISTEN STEWART, AND ROBERT PATTINSON SIT DOWN WITH ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY TO DISCUSS RUMORS, FANS, MOVIEMAKING – AND HAIR.
NEW YORK – In the Twilight sequel New Moon, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner are at each other’s throats over Kristen Stewart. Off screen, all three are loyal friends. In a candid interview with this week’s Entertainment Weekly, they share thoughts on rumors, fans, moviemaking – and hair.
Below is a portion of the Q&A:
EW: How are you all coping with living in a fishbowl?
Robert Pattinson: It really depends on the mood. When I met you last year [before Twilight came out], I was doing interviews very sporadically and I never got recognized. Now it’s like anywhere I go there’s immediate recognition. So there’s more of a responsibility…
Stewart: I don’t mind working every day. It’s just, suddenly, I have this other role. And that’s really disappointing. All I’d like to do is go outside with a book and figure out what to do with the day. And if I can’t do that, then I’m just going to sit in my hotel room on my balcony and chain smoke. [Pauses] I’m going to stop smoking. I’m not such a good smoker, anyway. It’s not in my bones. I’m gonna drop it.
Pattinson: The three of us have been working for two years [straight]. It does feel like your day has a shape just as soon as you wake up. I just forget what it’s like when you’re free.
EW: Taylor, you’re the only one who almost lost a shot at the sequels. Do you have a different relationship with fame because you had to fight for your job?
Lautner: No, I kept my eye on the prize 100 percent of the time. I was motivated. I wasn’t even thinking about anything else.
Stewart: Thank God you got the job. I wouldn’t have wanted to deal with you if you didn’t. After all those months of working out!
Lautner: I just wanted to focus on what I could control, and I worked really hard.
EW: You mean in the gym? Because I see your abs everywhere these days.
Lautner: Yeah, the gym was a major part, but I really studied the books and the character, too. And it all turned out good.
Pattinson on his hair in Eclipse: I swear to you I’ve never experienced anything like this. It’s every single day. In Twilight, they wanted me to have extensions down to my hips.
Stewart: He’s a liar. He doesn’t remember. He’s remembering how they made him feel, but they were just, like, down to here [pointing to her shoulders].
Pattinson: So I told them, “Look, that’s just not going to happen.” I said, “It looks like this already – I’ll come to set like this.” I sound so stupid, but in a lot of ways the hair is 75 percent of my performance, so in the second one I said, “Listen, I need to tone down the hair. Let’s make it a little more real, a little bit more…Method.” [Laughs] And then in the third one, I’m doing fight scenes and there’s a strand going down my forehead and they’re like, “We need to do it again because no one will recognize you! No one will know who it is!” I’m like, really, is my face that generic?
Stewart: They want proof that you’re doing your own stunts, man!
Pattinson: I have to look like the poster at all times. Just in case they want to use any clip for the trailer. Any clip at all! There were about five people in different departments who, because of my forelock, ended up in tears.
EW: Kristen, it must be nice to watch the guys’ appearances get obsessed over for a change.
Stewart: Seriously, it’s a trip to sit back and look at the sexual objectification of these dudes. I’ve never been asked to do any of this stuff.
EW: You guys are lucky. You clearly all dig each other.
Lautner: The amount of time we have to spend with each other – if I didn’t like these two, it would be exhausting.
EW: Rob, you made Remember Me this summer, between sequels. Was that the set in New York, where you were knocked into a cab by hordes of fans?
Pattinson: That was completely made up. I was walking across the street, and there was one cab going about one mile an hour and it nudged my leg. The story ended up being how I got hit by a cab because of a mob of screaming fans, [but] it was 4 o’clock in the morning and there was one person there – a paparazzi….And then there was another time – apparently they said on the news that I had a drug overdose. The security guy saw it on TV, and I wasn’t in my room, and he was like, “Uh-oh!” It’s just so weird. I wake up and my room is too messy to order room service, and so I end up eating a pack of M&M’s for breakfast – and it takes me about five hours to find it. That’s my first five hours of the day. [Laughing] And then you see the news and think, “Who cares if he had a drug overdose? It would probably make him more interesting!”
EW: Kristen and Rob, why do you think people are so obsessed with the state of your offscreen relationship?
Pattinson: Good question. That’s a little thing I have to think about every day.
Stewart: Maybe it’s just my personality, but I’m never going to answer it. I probably would’ve answered it if people hadn’t made such a big deal about it. But I’m not going to give the fiending an answer. I know that people are really funny about “Well, you chose to be an actor, why don’t you just f---ing give your whole life away? Can I have your firstborn child?”
EW: You don’t think just saying, for example, “Listen, we dated for a few months, it was weird, we’re better off as friends” would end the speculation?
Pattinson: No way.
Stewart: People are deeply judgmental and I’m not strong enough. I would love to be like, “I don’t care what anybody thinks.” But I’m a very private person. And think about every hypothetical answer: “Okay, we are. We aren’t. I’m a lesbian.” I’ve thought about this a lot. There’s no answer that’s not going to tip you one way or the other. I’m just trying to keep something. If people started asking me if I was dating Taylor, I’d be like, “F--- off.” I would answer the exact same way.”
(Cover Story, Page 30)
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Just a heads-up about another upcoming TV appearance of Kristen and Rob that I haven’t seen mentioned on any of the lists on the various boards. I live in CA, and I found a scheduled appearance for Kristen on 11–14 and Kristen and Rob on 11–15 on “Made in Hollywood,” KBCW Channel 44, “The CW.” The one on the 14th is supposed to be at 4 p.m. PST, and the one on the 15th at 10:30 a.m. PST.I’ll try to nail down more accurate details, but I thought you might like to know about this. I’ve not seen this show before.
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I did just get it nailed down. Both Kristen and Rob will appear on “Made in Hollywood,” KBCW Channel 44, “The CW,” at 4 p.m. PST on 11–14. It looks like there will be a repeat of that show on the 15th at 10:30 a.m. PST.
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ROBERT Pattinson has revealed how he starved himself to prepare for his shirtless scene in Twilight sequel New Moon.The hunky actor — who plays Edward Cullen in the vampire movie franchise — says he isn’t entirely happy with his body.
“I didn’t eat anything for a week before that scene,” says Rob of his shirt-ripping reveal.
“I just kept to very healthy food and nothing naughty at all. It was torture. I’ve seen that part of the movie now and I suppose from the front it looks alright but from the side it’s a different story.”
Pattinson, 23, recently revealed that he wants Daniel Radcliffe’s telephone number.
Rob — who starred opposite Daniel in the 2005 flick Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – says he’d like to reach out to the 20-year-old millionaire for tips on dealing with fame.
Asked if he has spoken to Radcliffe since starring in the movie with him, Pattinson said, “I haven’t. I don’t actually have his phone number…
“I’d quite like to talk to him about it [fame]. He has a very good method for coping with it all — well, from what I can see anyway. It seems like he stays completely grounded all the time.”
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( Snip, Cut )So, Booj, how do we all feel about kids tables? Fun idea? Demeaning?
Robert Pattinson admitted that he felt starstruck upon meeting Zac Efron, which is one of the first times Rob had ever been star-struck.The “Twilight” heartthrob was lost for words as he first crossed paths with the “High School Musical” hunk. He described Zac as a really cool guy but it is kind of surreal meeting him because his face is so specific.Robert expressed that he would like to meet Jack Nicholson. Meanwhile, Robert dished that he regrets having dental work for his role as vampire Edward Cullen after the gaps between his teeth have decayed.
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New Moon’ stars and director Chris Weitz were giving interviews when fire alarm went off.“New Moon” stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson and director Chris Weitz were forced to evacuate the Dorchester Hotel in London, after a fire alarm went off on Wednesday in the middle of their interviews with the press.
An eyewitness told E! Online that the entire hotel was evacuated at around noon on Wednesday, and everyone was forced out on the street. “There [Rob] was with his entourage, including Kristen,” the source added. There is no word on what set off the alarm.
A receptionist for the hotel confirmed that the alarm went off, but noted it was a “minor incident.” She added, “It’s all under control now and was dealt with quickly.”On Tuesday night, Stewart and Pattinson were spotted holding hands at a Paris airport as they made their way to London for the next stop on their world tour promoting “New Moon.”
The actors have never actually confirmed or denied that they are dating, and Stewart recently explained why she chooses not to address the rumors. “I probably would’ve answered it if people hadn’t made such a big deal about it,” she said. “But I’m not going to give the fiending an answer. I know that people are really funny about ‘Well, you chose to be an actor, why don’t you just f—ing give your whole life away?! Can I have your firstborn child?’”
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Los Angeles might be getting the official “New Moon” premiere, but Gossip Cop can confirm New York will host a special screening of the second “Twilight Saga” film before it hits theaters.Will any people of interest be there? You might say so.
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Taylor Lautner, Ashley Greene, Nikki Reed, and Kellan Lutz are all scheduled to join director Chris Weitz on Thursday, November 19 in Manhattan for a previously unannounced screening.
Gossip Cop is working on additional details.
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The Colorado River had been a ghost of its former self. For generations during the height of human civilization just five percent of the water that once flowed through the Colorado Delta actually made it to the sea. Even this water was almost entirely agricultural waste. The delta itself, once a lush green marshland of extreme ecological value, was reduced to mostly dried mud flats.
One day, however, a stream of fresh clear water begins to flow again. The flow increases over the coming weeks until the thirsty delta is once again filled with clean water from half a continent away. Many species have been lost forever in the last century, but those that remain quickly bounce back to recreate the lush habitat that once was.
Some 300 miles to the northwest, the suburbs of Los Angeles are vibrant with life. Rabbits and deer chew on the grass growing between cracks on the freeways, and the abundant shrubs in former lawns. Former housecats stalk the former pet rabbits, to in turn be chased by dogs. Native bobcats, coyotes and cougars prowl the bounty as well.
Birds flutter in and out of holes in roofs, and in the evening bats stream out of the shattered windows of houses to be silhouetted against the monolithic hulks of skyscrapers. Possums trundle among the calcified human skeletons in the shrubbery, searching for tasty snails to snack on.
I recently read World War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide, both by Max Brooks. They were a fun read, but I had a major complaint with one aspect of his vision of the coming zombie apocalypse (Don't worry I don't think this is a critical spoiler) -- with humans being overrun by zombies he describes complete environmental destruction. The environment is completely devastated somehow by the upheaval of human civilization in his books.
I think this is a fair bit daft since one of the greatest "extinction events" in history is the very existence of humans. There's even a word for it -- the holocene extinction event. It's estimated 140,000 species a year are currently becoming extinct, with possibly a loss of half of all species by 2100.
Even if you suppose the collapse of civilization entailed nuclear meltdowns, well, see this quote from wikipedia about the Zone of Exclusion around Chernobyl --
There have been reports that wildlife has flourished due to significant reduction of human impact.[3] For this reason, the zone is considered by some as a classic example of an involuntary park. Populations of traditional Polesian animals (like wolves, wild boar and Roe Deer), red deer, moose, and beaver have multiplied enormously and begun expanding outside the zone. The area also houses flocks of European wisent and Przewalski's Horses released there after the accident. Even extremely rare lynx have appeared, and there are reports of tracks from brown bear, an animal not seen in the area for several centuries.
Basically, most animals simply don't live long enough for the lingering effects of a nuclear event to significantly effect them. Or at least, a nuclear holocaust is not as bad for wildlife as the regular activities of people are.
I think I may need to write my own zombie apocalypse book, where the zombie apocalypse actually returns the world's environments to equilibrium.
Several houses on the end of a suburban cul-de-sac have had the fences between them removed and around them reinforced to create a modern hunter-gatherer village out decaying upper-middle-class homes. Around 100 people live inside the complex. They hunt for food and cook it on a fire pit that once was a jacuzzi. They still have guns to hunt with and clothing that was made of durable synthetic fabrics during the high point of human civilization, but in time they'll run out of bullets, and their denim and gortex will wear out, and they will have to re-learn how to make their own tools and clothing. Already they have a younger generation among them that will never know facebook, wikipedia, and blogging.
The evening sun sparkles off the remaining windows of the skyscrapers of Los Angeles to the north. Sadly, the sunset actually isn't as beautiful as it once was when the air was full of colourful pollutants.
A villager looks up at the distant tower and regards it as a solemn reminder of the beauty of how advanced civilization once had been. He then returns to a life that has much more in common with the way humans lived for most of the 200,000 years they've been on this Earth.
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