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                                      Fatal Distraction

                                                            By: Gene Weingarten

Lead paragraph:  The charge in the courtroom was manslaughter, brought by the Commonwealth of Virginia. No significant facts were in dispute. Miles Harrison, 49, was an amiable person, a diligent businessman and a doting, conscientious father until the day last summer -- beset by problems at work, making call after call on his cellphone -- he forgot to drop his son, Chase, at day care. The toddler slowly sweltered to death, strapped into a car seat for nearly nine hours in an office parking lot in Herndon in the blistering heat of July.

 

 Descriptive Writing:  The defendant was an immense man, well over 300 pounds, but in the gravity of his sorrow and shame he seemed larger still. He hunched forward in the sturdy wooden armchair that barely contained him, sobbing softly into tissue after tissue, a leg bouncing nervously under the table.In the first pew of spectators sat his wife, looking stricken, absently twisting her wedding band. The room was a sepulcher. Witnesses spoke softly of events so painful that many lost their composure. When a hospital emergency room nurse described how the defendant had behaved after the police first brought him in, she wept. He was virtually catatonic, she remembered, his eyes shut tight, rocking back and forth, locked away in some unfathomable private torment. He would not speak at all for the longest time, not until the nurse sank down beside him and held his hand. It was only then that the patient began to open up, and what he said was that he didn't want any sedation, that he didn't deserve a respite from pain, that he wanted to feel it all, and then to die.

2012 in Review

My list
2012 Election- Obama won the election
2012 Obsessions -I Phone 5 came out ,
The $656 Million Mega Millions Spurred unprecedented sales of lottery tickets in March ,
 The hunger Games became an obsession for plenty of moviegoers in 2012 selling more that $400 million at the U.S Box office,
Honey Boo Boo a pageant girl from tlc  reality show has her own reality shoe called here comes Honey BooBoo,
Fifty shades of gray a book in trilogy of twilight inspired fan fiction bondage erotica by E.L James Became a reading obsession ,
 One direction a five member boy band took north america by storm sealing more than 15 million albums ,
Gangnam Style a music video that hit it big whit the moves of a south korean rapper named Psy, became the most watched video in youtube racking up more than 815million views and knocking justin beiber off the most views throne,
The one hundred anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on april 12.

2012 in Review

Best 2012 Music Videos(top 25)-1) 1) 25. Sleigh Bells - "Comeback kid"
2) 24. Flatbush Zombies- "Thug Waffle"
3) 23.Perfume Geniuse "Hood"
4) 22.Trash Talk "Slander"
5) 21.French Montana "Shot caller remix"
6) 20.Spiritulized "Hey Jane"
7) 19.Hospitality "Friends Of Friends"

8) 18.Lambchop "Gone Tomorrow"
9) 17.Screaming females "It all means nothing
10) 16.Real Estate "Easy"
11) 15.Niki Minaj "Stupid H*e"
12) 14.tUnE-yArDs "My Country"
13) 13.The Shins "Simple Song"
14) 12.Space Gosth Purrp "The Black God"
15) 11.Soko "We migth be dead by tomorrow"
16) 10. Explosions in the sky "Postcard From 1952"
17) 9. Nas "The Don"

18) 8. The Flaming lips "Supermoon Mad Me Want To Pee"

19) 7. Chair lift "Met Before"

20) 6. Jack White "Sixteen Saltines"
21) 5. Drake "HYFR"

22) 4. Odd Future "Oldie"

23) 3. Grimes "Ovlivion"

24) 2. Bigbang "Fantastic Baby"

25) 1. M.I.A "Bad Girls"

What i think was interesting is that the viedose were good but the lyrics in the music or the music itself wasnt as good as the video.   

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"2012 In Review"

         Categories

•  World Events
• Celebrity News
• Famous Deaths
• Entertainment (Movies, Music, etc.)
• Extreme Weather
• Photos
• Your Choice (Anything that interests you.)

    Best new camera  of 2012-The Nixon D800 was awarded the prestigious Camera Grand Prix 2012 and also won the public vote for best camera .
      
The most interesting item on the list i think was that even  a camera can get an award , and also the way the camera was designed it was disinged  with different parts of other cameras that were older they just combined different parts of different cameras to come up whit the Nixon D800.