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Video: Massive fire erupts in Sharjah tower

A large fire in a residential tower was reported in Sharjah on Tuesday night time. Video Credit score: DailyKhaleej/A number of Sources

A large fire broke out at a residential tower in Al Nahda in Sharjah on Tuesday night time, however no casualties have been reported.

The short response by Sharjah Civil Defence groups averted a serious catastrophe. The reason for the fire has not been decided but.

The fire broke out on the Abbco Tower at round 9.04pm.

Civil Defence personnel from Mina fire and Al Nahda fire stations have been deployed to manage the blaze after the police operations room acquired a name reporting flames in the constructing. The tower has 45 flooring, together with parking, out of which 36 are residential flooring. Every flooring has 12 flats.

The police are utilizing a drone to verify if there are any individuals trapped inside, Colonel Dr. Ali Abu Al Zoud, Deputy Director Basic of Central Operations of Sharjah Police stated.

The constructing was constructed in 2006. 

Residents of the close by buildings have been instantly evacuated for his or her security.

Firefighters have been working to manage the blaze, authorities added. The explanation for the fire is just not recognized but.

From the positioning

Residents informed DailyKhaleej that the fire is believed to have began on the 10th flooring at 9.04pm. “It was a small fire to begin with and we came out of the building as soon as we saw it,” stated one resident.

One other Arab resident from the 17th flooring who was sitting inside his automotive, stated, “Where do we go now?”

Many others too have been taking refuge in their automobiles.

Petal Jaison, dwelling in the following constructing Sahara Plaza, stated the fumes have been blowing into her constructing as effectively. Talking to DailyKhaleej, she stated the fire began at round 9pm. “The entire building was on fire. A smaller building next has also caught fire,” she stated. Sharjah Police and Firefighters have been inside making an attempt douse the fire. At 10.40 pm she stated the constructing was nonetheless on fire. Residents and people in the outlets under have been evacuated, she stated.

Victor Solanki who stays 4 buildings away stated he was having dinner when he heard the police siren. Quickly the Fire vans arrived and when he stepped out of his balcony Solanki stated he noticed a ball of fire engulf the constructing. He added, “It was such a gory sight. Carpets on fire were falling from balconies. Curtains too. I am standing down to see if we can help people out.”

Brief circuits, cigarette butts, random storage and poor electrical connections have been the key causes of fires that occurred in Sharjah final yr in line with a senior official.

Timeline of main fires in UAE

A fire broke out at Duja Tower reverse World Commerce Centre in Dubai Thursday night time. Greater than 300 households have been evacuated following the rifre thogh no casualties have been reported.

Fire broke out on the 16th flooring of Al Majaz Tower on Al Majaz Road in Sharjah on Tuesday night time

A new child child was rescued from a constructing in Discovery Gardens the place an condo caught fire.

Two Asian males are died of suffocation and 5 others have been injured in a large fire that broke out in Al Manama Grocery store in Sharjah.

A five-year-old lady dies in a fire at a villa in Al Warqa’a, Dubai. The lady died of suffocation and 5 others have been injured.

Emirati twin sisters are died in a fire that broke out in a villa in Al Twar space. The 20-year-old sisters died of suffocation resulting from smoke inhalation.

A fire breaks out in Lamcy Plaza in Dubai and contained by the Civil Defence staff inside two hours with no reported accidents.

A fire destroy three warehouses in an industrial space at Dubai Funding Park. Nobody was injured.

Three staff are died in a fire that broke out in a furnishings warehouse in the Kalba industrial space.

A 57-year-old Emirati lady dies after a fire broke out in their villa in Ras Al Khaimah. The girl’s husband, 62, is in crucial situation.

An Emirati mom and her two daughters, together with a high official, are died of suffocation when a large fire breaks out in a villa in Sharjah.

Heavy smoke billowing from a burning air con unit in a 27-storey Spring Tower constructing in Silicon Oasis, Dubai. A complete of 35 residents have been handled for smoke inhalation remedy on the spot,

Two ladies are critically injured and a child sustained minor accidents when an explosion ripped by way of their flat in Al Khail Gate neighborhood in Dubai.

A 75-storey Sulafa Tower, situated reverse Oceana Towers and Westin Lodge went up in flames in Dubai Marina, There are not any accidents or casualties reported.

A mom and her two daughters are died when a fire broke out in their shared home in Al Ghafya space in Sharjah.

An enormous fire gutted at the very least two buildings in the Ajman One residential cluster of 12 towers near the border with Sharjah. The fire primarily broken Ajman Tower 1.

A fire breaks out on the fruit and vegetable market in Port Mina Zayed, Abu Dhabi, 16 outlets are gutted.

A fire breaks out in the primary flooring of a residential constructing in Al Khalidiya, Abu Dhabi. Fifteen individuals sustained minor to reasonable accidents, together with instances of suffocation on account of smoke.

Round 120 households are evacuated from the 23-storey Al Bandary Twin Towers on Al Ittihad Highway. The fire was introduced underneath management in 75 minutes.

A large fire broke out in the Deal with Downtown resort in Dubai, just a few hours earlier than the spectacular New Yr fireworks to start. The fire began on the 20th flooring of the resort from the skin and unfold to the higher storeys. At the least 14 individuals sustained minor accidents and so they have been handled on the web site.

A large fire broke out in the Al Shamsi constructing in Dubai, gutting three blocks, prompting the evacuation of a whole bunch of residents from close by buildings and suspension of Dubai Metro companies.

A large fire erupted in the Nasser Tower situated on King Faisal Road in Sharjah. Round 250 households have been evacuated from the 32-storey constructing consists of 26 residential flooring and 6 ranges of automotive parking.

Two tenants died and one was severely injured in an try to flee a fire that ripped by way of a one-bedroom condo in the England Cluster of Worldwide Metropolis in Dubai.

A fire erupted in the 86-storey The Torch tower at Dubai Marina. The fire began on the 52nd flooring and unfold to the flooring above. The 352-metre Torch was the world’s tallest residential constructing when it opened in 2011. There have been no critical accidents or casualties reported.

A large fire erupted at automotive and tyre outlets situated in a two-storey constructing in Musaffah, Abu Dhabi. Eleven individuals have been killed and 7 have been injured.

Three individuals and two firemen have been injured in a fire that broke out on the 17th flooring of an Electra Road constructing in Abu Dhabi.

Three individuals died and eight others suffered minor accidents when a fire broke out in an Airport Highway constructing in Abu Dhabi. The fire broke out on the third flooring of a nine-storey constructing.

A blaze destroy 10 residences of Hafeet Tower 2 in Sharjah. Residents of the tower in Sharjah’s Al Tawun space have been evacuated when a fire broke out on the 20th flooring.

A blaze intestine 10 residences on the primary flooring of a 10-storey constructing Al Qasimiya space in Sharjah. An estimated 70 households have been evacuated from the burning constructing. The fire is believed to have began in an condo on the primary flooring.

A large fire broke out at Tamweel Tower in Jumeirah Lakes Towers in Dubai.

A fire in a 13-storey Saif Belhasa constructing in Tecom, Dubai injured two individuals and broken at the very least 9 flooring. Two infants have been additionally handled for smoke inhalation and at the very least seven households have been left homeless.

Six individuals have been killed in a blaze that struck a villa in Ajman. Teenager Amr Abdullah was the lone survivor of Ajman fire that claimed the lives of his mom, three sisters and two maids. The official stated that the thick black smoke was most definitely the chief cause behind the victims’ lack of ability to flee the fire.

A whole bunch of households have been displaced after a large fire broke out in the 40-storey Al Tayer Tower close to Al Nahda park in Sharjah. The fire began on the primary flooring and quickly unfold to the upper flooring. A complete of 102 flats have been broken by the fire.

A large wall of flames ravaged Al Baker Tower 4, a 25-storey residential constructing in Al Taawun space, Sharjah leaving 125 households homeless.

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Nightmare on Elm St. fanfic WIP

So I have been working on a little thing and I want to hear feedback on to whether or not I should continue on it

Megan is a normal girl; at least that's what she thinks of herself. Not popular but wasn’t low on the school hierarchy; she had her own clique of friends, her hair was a light brown color that went to her shoulders, and green eyes. All in all she blends with a crowd, never standing out.

She snuck out her bedroom to go to a friend's house, normal teenage things; her parents didn't want her to spend the night at her friend's home, saying something about that house is cursed, or evil, or something.

Megan tuned them out.

Her friend, Milly, had wild red hair in wonderful curls, her father was going to get his mother who had a minor heart attack and was going to live with them.

“I was worried you weren't going to make it tonight! I'm so happy you could come!” Milly said with a bright smile.

“The gang's all here!” another friend of Megan, Bethany, alongside her boyfriend Zack. Both with black hair, Bethany had her hair in a ponytail, while Zack’s hair was a mess.

“What's with your parents being so against you staying the night?” Bethany asked while Zack’s arm was around her neck.

“That's because they think this place is haunted by evil spirits or some shit like that.” Megan said sitting on a lounge chair.

Milly looked guilty, shifting from one foot to the other. “It's true though…” she said meekly.

“Wait hold up! This place is haunted?!” Zack yelled in a panic, almost spilling his red cup of what can be assumed to be alcohol.

“Apparently there was this child killer that lived in this house once upon a time, when he was let go because the cops didn't read his Miranda rights or whatever, the parents burnt him alive. He came back into the dreams of the kid’s whose parents burned him.”

“You really suck at telling ghost stories!” Bethany laughed and the rest of the small group joined in.

A knock at the door scared Megan for a second.

“Oh yeah I invited Kyle and he brought his friend Cody!” Milly informed the group.

The night went on without anything out of the ordinary happening; they played truth or dare, spin the bottle, innocent teenage mischief.

They all passed out in different areas of the living room when it got too late for any of them to stay awake.

When Megan woke to the bright sun shining through the windows.

Only to find out that all her friends were dead.

She called 911 as fast as she could, the wait for someone to show up was the most agonizing elapse of time in her life.

It took exactly 29 minutes for anyone to show up, but it was hours to Megan.

29 agonizing, terrifying minutes of absolutely nothing but dread.

When they finally did show up they talked in the same sort of whispers adults do when they want to keep secrets hidden.

Secrets that they end up revealing anyways.

It was awful, seeing her friends rolled out of the house one by one in the black bags on the stretcher, slowly rolling towards the black Hurst.

People were crowding around the police line; neighbors, reporters, and the policemen trying to contain the chaos.

Megan wasn't listening to the officer in front of her. Focused on everything but him.

“I told you not to enter that house!” her mother screamed hysterically.

Someone in a cheap suit went over to her mother who was by then crying into her father's chest.

“Excuse me miss but I'm going to need you to answer some questions for me.” the officer who by then got through to Megan, who answered the questions.

After they rolled out all the bodies one right after the other; after all the questions were asked; after everyone who in the neighborhood left the scene; was when the man in the cheap suit walked towards Megan.

“Megan, I'm sorry to have to tell you this but...you have to come with me to Westin Hills” he said matter of factly.

She looked over towards her parents, her mom was still sobbing into her dad. He looked at her and only gave her a nod in response.

“We'll visit you whenever we can okay sweetie?” her mom's horse voice said.

She teared up, why didn't she listen to them? Why was she going to Westin Hills? What happened to her friends?

She said her tearful goodbyes to her parents and went inside the cheap suited man's car.

“Excuse me what is your name? I don't think we ever introduced ourselves.” she asked as he entered the vehicle.

He paused for a moment, before answering “Chris Parsons.”

“Why are you taking me to Westin Hills? That place is for those crazies that go around killing people and shit like that. I didn't kill my friends!” Megan spat with venom.

“I know.”

“Then why the fuck am I going to this nut house?! That's for insane people!”

He just nodded at that. Nodded, like her questions were never relevant to him.

“Hey I have the right to know what the fuck is going on here!”

But he ignored her as he drove the relatively short drive from Megan's neighbourhood to Westin Hills.

Megan guessed she could always make a run for it to her house. It never occurred to her how close she was to an asylum.

She entered it thinking it was be trashed all to hell and that there would be screaming...but there was none of that.

It looked like a regular hospital.

Chris Parsons led her through the reception area and to her new ‘bedroom’ where she was met with a nurse. He was of a medium build with short graying brown hair.

“Hello my name is Keith nice to meet you.” He stood with his hand held out.

Megan shook his hand and smiled.

“Let me show you around!” He said cheerfully.

He showed her the recreation room, the cafeteria, where she would have her have group therapy and where she would her own therapy appointments.

“Excuse me but why am I here? I've done nothing wrong and I have no history of being crazy!”

Keith stopped. “You mean you didn't see him?” he asked apprehensive.

“Who? Who are you talking about? You mean who killed my friends? No but if I have any suspicions it would be one of these lunatics!” she said frustrated.

“but you were at the house…” he said distently.

“You mean that oh so spooky house? With the whole ‘there used to be a child killer who was burnt alive because the cops were idiots that didn't read his Miranda rights’? Please that's just bullshit and you know it!”

“It's true.” a woman’s voice said as she walked through the halls.

“Hello my name is doctor Harriet West, I'll be your group counselor as well as your personal therapist. I know you have many questions.” a slender looking women, who looked very frail and had her golden hair tied back into a neat bun.

She gave a nod to Keith who left, and gave a motion to Megan to follow her to a room with books and chairs and a desk with Harriet West’s name plate.

“What do you know about Freddy Krueger?” she asked as soon as the door shut.

“Am I supposed to know him?” Megan asked in a sarcastic manner.

“I mean you were at his former residence, where your friends were killed…” she responded back in her own salty tone.

It took awhile for Megan to place it together, “You mean...all those stories my parents told me of that house was true?”

“You're in Westin Hills because we've found the only way to lessen his evil, so to speak, is to contain those who have been in contact with him here. It's barbarous I admit, but it's really the only way we can help.” she said giving her best sympathetic speech.

“It is a lot to take in I know...why don't you settle down in your room and maybe go to the rec room for a bit?” Dr. West suggested.

“Like I have a choice in the matter.” Megan replied bitterly, getting up and walking out for Keith to escort her to her new sleeping area.

“Yo Keith is that a newbie?”

The voices’ owner, a slightly built female in a grey sweatshirt with matching pants ran up to them.

“Indeed it is Alexa, she is also going to be your new roommate.” Keith said motioning to Megan.

“Hey.” she casually said the roomie.

“Hey.” Alexa replied casually back before addressing Keith “You can leave her to me Keith! Take the day off, she'll be in good hands.”

He laughed “Meg, you will know all the ins and outs with Alexa here...even if she can be a little too much.”

Waving to the man goodbye, Alexa took Meg's hand and walked her to their room.

“So Meg, is it alright if I call you that? ‘Megan’ feels too formal! Anyway my bed is on the left side, but if you want to take it from me you will have to win it.” she said once they got to the room.

“I am fine with the right side.” Megan replied, looking at the relative normal hospital room.

“I keep on forgetting that I am in an asylum” she replied.

“Yeah, Hollywood has really done a number on the mental health industry.” a new voice chimed in.

“Hey Paige! I’m just showing the newbie around. Megan, Paige; Paige, Megan.” Alexa introduced them.

They talking the regular getting to know you questions: favorite color, favorite movie, favorite blah blah blah.

They walked to where Keith said was the recreation room.

When they entered they heard the most agonizing scream ever. One of pure hysteria.

“YOU DESERVED TO DIE!!!”

A woman in what looked like her forties; scraggly, messy graying hair was choking a girl in her mid teens.

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ICHARD was born on July 30, 1958 in Montclair, New Jersey. He is married to Lori Kahn, and they have two sons, Jack and Samuel.

For Richard, a strong interest in music and theater is in his blood. His parents and three siblings were interested in the performing arts and the Burgi home was a fertile environment.

Richard recalls, “…my brother and I had a detective agency when we were kids. We were really enamuch mored with these kids’ novels, the Brains Benton series. They’re rather obscure. They were, I guess, a thinking boys’ alternative to the Hardy Boys. Not that the Hardy Boys were idiots. But, I mean, these were really wildly constructed stories that these two junior detectives went through. So he and I had fashioned ourselves after Brains Benton and his partner, and had a laboratory and all these Erlenmeyer flasks – beakers and condensers. And we’d make this and boil that. And we had gunpowder, and we’d light fires in the basement. And it was total insanity. But the final straw, as far as my parents were concerned, was when… well, the house caught on fire one day. It got messy. So we had to retire early.”

After finishing school, Richard traveled throughout the U.S. and Europe. Though a career in acting was always one of Richard’s goals, it took a while for the goal to become a reality.

He finally ended up in New York City and began studying acting and gaining acting experience with commercials and cameos, which led to regular roles on several daytime dramas.

When Richard left Days of Our Lives, the co-executive producer said “Richard has such amazing timing, whether dramatic or comedic.”

A move to Los Angeles allowed him to read for different types of roles. A recurring role as Lane Cassidy in Viper led to a lead role in One West Waikiki with Cheryl Ladd.

His character, Mack Wolfe, was a man fighting demons, struggling to become a hero. “I think it was organic in that way to take him in that direction, because I think to watch people struggle through their dark ingredients is appealing. Going through it and out and up into a joyful, winning, positive, light area is appealing… and the possibility of sliding back.”

As Jim Ellison in The Sentinel, Richard played “a champion of the light, of the good, that’s where he is, that’s where I am in some way.”

Richard has been keeping busy since The Sentinel ceased production in 1998, beginning with a guest spot on the popular CBS drama Touched By An Angel as well as appearing on E! Entertainment TV’s Celebrity Homes feature. His character in the pilot of the short-lived 1999 FOX comedy, Action — action movie star Cole Riccardi — came back for a second appearance in the show’s controversial fourth episode, “Blowhard.” Richard guested on a 1999-2000 season episode of NBC’s comedy Veronica’s Closet as Veronica’s new beau Mark, as well as an episode of the popular NBC drama Providence as Dr. J.D. Scanlon. He also filmed a Fall 2000 episode of NBC’s Just Shoot Me, appearing as action hero Robert “The Nomad” Gallatin, and joined the recurring cast of the hit CBS drama, The District, in the role of Captain Vincent Hunter. He also appeared as the ill-fated Paul Donovan in the March 18th, 2001 ABC/Wonderful World of Disney feature “Bailey’s Mistake,” opposite Linda Hamilton .

Fall 2001 located Richard in the new FOX drama, 24, playing the part of Alan York/Kevin Carroll in the Golden Globe-winning drama’s first season. In addition to filming his eleven-episode story arc on 24, Richard entired filming the new “indie” feature film, “Wheelmen,” playing former hotshot ambulance driver, Nick Torino. “Wheelmen” is currently awaiting a distributor. Richard joined the recurring cast of the CBS drama Judging Amy in Spring 2002, playing the part of Judge Amy (Amy Brenneman) Gray’s ex-husband, Michael Cassidy. He spent most of May and June with the Matrix Theatre Company’s production of the Neil Landau-written “Johnny On The Spot,” playing dual roles, Fred and Sy. After appearing at the 42nd Monte Carlo Television Festival (July 1-6) in Monaco, Richard rejoined his “Johnny On The Spot” castmates for the July 20th Los Angeles finale.

Richard brought in Fall 2002 with an appearance in the season premiere of Judging Amy, once again in the role of Amy’s ex-husband, Michael. Head writer Barbara Hall revealed that the custody dispute between Michael and Amy would be a continuing theme throughout the season, which proved to be the case with three of his four episodes: “Lost in the System,” “People of the Lie,” and “The Best Interests of the Child” all dealt with and finally resolved the custody issue, while the most recent — “Marry, Marry Quite Contrary” — showed Michael and Amy as friends who still care for each other. In addition to his continuing association with Judging Amy, Richard returned to CBS’s The District in two episodes, appearing once more as Captain Hunter in “The Second Man” and “Good-bye, Jenny.” He has also filmed an episode of the “most watched” CBS show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, playing paragliding instructor Rick Weston in “High and Low,” which aired December 12th. Richard closed out 2002 playing Lieutenant Womack in “The Message,” one of the final episodes of the FOX network’s Firefly, a sci-fi series from Joss Whedon, producer of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Though FOX decided to cancel Firefly before airing all of the contracted episodes, the show was temporarily snatched up by the syndication market; “The Message” aired on the UK Sci Fi Channel in July 2003.

Richard ushered in 2003 with his most recent episodes of Judging Amy and The District, and worked with producer Chris Thompson (Action) on a new pilot for the WB Network. The new show, a comedy titled Trash, was described as “Romeo and Juliet set in a trailer park,” with Richard playing Bud Blue, father of teenager Luna — the show’s Juliet. Unfortunately, Trash was not picked up by the WB for the Fall season.

In addition to his television work, Richard spent part of March and April in Ottawa, Canada, where he joined the cast of the Matt Hastings-directed “Decoys” as Detective Francis Kirk. Hastings described the movie as “‘American Pie’ meets ‘Species'” — a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi thriller set on a college campus. Next up was the long-awaited sequel to “Starship Troopers,” titled “Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation,” from producer Jon Davison, director Phil Tippett, and writer Ed Neumeier. Richard leads the cast as the “hero” mentioned in the title — a tough trooper named Captain V.J. Dax. Principal photography ran from May 14th through June 20th. The film premiered on the Encore Action Channel, part of the Starz! group of Cable channels, on April 24th, 2004, with DVD release starting in May.

Richard enjoyed a brief flirtation with summer vacation, but was at work on “Jack’s Back,” the Fall 2003 season premiere episode of The District by mid-July, after which he headed to Sofia, Bulgaria to shoot “Darklight,” a sci-fi thriller designed by UFO Films for the Sci Fi Channel’s 2004-05 roster of original features. The “Darklight” shoot ran from July 28th through August 20th. The last quarter of 2003 proved to be just as busy, with additional episodes of The District as well as a role in “Cellular,” a thriller from New Line Cinema starring Kim Basinger, William. H. Macy, Chris Evans and Jason Statham. Richard played Craig Martin, husband of Basinger’s character Jessica. Cellular premiered in theaters on September 10th ’04.

February 2004 found Richard once again at work on a major feature film — “In Her Shoes” from Fox 2000 and 20th Century Fox. The dramatic comedy stars Cameron Diaz (Maggie), Toni Collette (Rose), and Shirley MacLaine (Ella), with Richard playing the part of Rose’s love ’em and leave ’em cad of a boyfriend, Jim Danvers. The film is expected to premiere in 2005.

While waiting to film his remaining scenes for “In Her Shoes,” Richard worked on Point Pleasant, the pilot for a new “superall-natural” dramatic series. From producer Marti Noxon of Buffy the Vampire Slayer fame, and 20th Century Fox Television, Point Pleasant has been described as “a kinder, gentler ‘Rosemary’s Baby,'” and “a cross between Peyton Place and ‘The Omen.'” Richard plays Dr. Ben Kramer, a fortysomething husband and father whose family takes in the show’s lead character, a mysterious young girl who washes up on the beach one day.

Point Pleasant was given a 12-episode order (13 including the pilot, portions of which have been re-shot) in late August ’04 and went into production in San Diego in November. FOX launched the show on January 19th and 20th at 9:00pm as a two-part premiere, with 9:00pm Thursday becoming its official timeslot following The O.C.

May 2004 found Richard in New Orleans working on a film for Lifetime Television titled “Torn Apart.” The thriller stars Tia Carrere as Vicki Westin, Dale Midkiff as Jerry Bender, and Richard Burgi as Billy Westin, and premiered in late September ’04. Tia Carrere plays a doctor whose husband (Burgi) and daughter are kidnapped by a man (Midkiff) whose wife and daughter Dr. Vicki Westin couldn’t save. Instead of a ransom, Jerry Bender demands that Vicki decide on whether her husband or daughter will die.

Richard brought in Fall 2004 with a guest role on the new ABC series Desperate Housewives, where he played Karl Mayer, the philandering ex-husband of series star Teri Hatcher’s Susan Mayer. Next came a five-week shoot on the new Jim Carrey comedy, “Fun with Dick and Jane.” The film, a remake of the 1977 original starring Jane Fonda and George Segal, stars Jim Carrey and Tea Leoni as Dick and Jane Harper. The Harpers are a young couple who turn to a life of crime to pay the bills after Dick loses his job. Richard plays a new character, Joe Kleman (we’re uncertain of the exact surname spelling). The movie is slated for a June 2005 release in the USA.

The last quarter of 2004 saw Richard working on a second episode of ABC’s breakout hit, Desperate Housewives, before starting production on his new FOX series, Point Pleasant. The episode of Desperate Housewives, “Move On,” premiered just over a week before Point Pleasant launched on FOX. Richard also filmed an episode of ABC’s midseason drama Eyes sometime in late 2004, roughly concurrent with his work on Desperate Housewives. The Eyes role was intended as a recurring character, but Richard’s commitment to Point Pleasant prevented his continued involvement with the show.

The first quarter of 2005 found Richard still hard at work on Point Pleasant. Though FOX decided to cancel the show in late March with five episodes unaired, 20th Century Fox kept the show in production and finished all thirteen episodes. With the complete season available for broadcast, Point Pleasant aired in a variety of international markets. FOX later released a Complete Series DVD boxed set, as was done with Firefly. Late March found Richard being featured in launch promos for ABC’s Eyes, which premiered on March 30th. (Sadly, ABC pulled the show before Richard’s episode could be aired).

The second quarter of 2005 saw Richard finishing the last episodes of Point Pleasant in mid April and, roughly a week later, returning to Wisteria Lane and Desperate Housewives, where he took part in the season finale episode, “One Wonderful Day.” As it turned out, the finale appearance also served to reintroduce the character to viewers — by July, Richard would be confirmed as a series regular for Fall 2005. Richard started a six week feature film shoot in Shanghai, China in mid-June, where he worked on “Shanghai Red,” a joint venture between MAR de ORO Films and Shanghai Film Studios. Richard costars with Vivian Wu, whose husband Oscar L. Costo is the writer, director, and producer of the film. Richard plays an expatriate American named Michael Johnson. As described for us by Oscar Costo, “‘Shanghai Red’ is a dramatic film about the journey of a young, modern Shanghai mother Meili Zhu (Vivian Wu) who suffers the loss of her husband and how she comes to terms with her state of depression. In her murderous journey of revenge, Meili meets Michael Johnson (Richard Burgi), an expatriate American from Chicago escaping his own dark past. Even though Michael’s motives for being with Meili are originally laced with deception, he ultimately finds hope, love and honor through her.”

Late July 2005 found Richard home from China and once again at work on Desperate Housewives, this time as a series regular. As suspected, Karl spent the Fall 2005 season stirring up trouble on Wisteria Lane by becoming romantically involved with neighborhood vamp, Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan) while still pining after ex-wife Susan (Teri Hatcher). By the end of the season, Karl had secretly remarried Susan to provide her with medical insurance coverage while still stringing Edie along with a sham engagement. He had also been hired by Bree (Marcia Cross) to serve as her lawyer in her son Andrew’s emancipation case. Richard’s work as Karl was often mentioned in the press as a highlight of the season. Sadly, a reorganization of the Desperate Housewives production and writing staff led to a reprioritizing of storylines for the Fall 2006 season, which led to Karl being sidelined and essentially excised from the ongoing saga.

While waiting for news of his fate on Desperate Housewives, Richard spent the summer of 2006 working on movies and making public appearances. “Firestorm: Last Stand at Yellowstone,” a telemovie for A&E, was filmed in May in British Columbia, Canada. After a quick June trip to Rhode Island and the Newport International Film Festival, Richard was once again in Canada — Ontario, this time — to work on “In God’s Country” for CTV and Lifetime TV. August found Richard at the All*Star Cup charity golf tournament in Newport, Wales, and by October, he was hard at work in Prague, Czech Republic, on “Hostel: Part II,” the sequel to Eli Roth’s horror blockbuster “Hostel.” In addition to “Hostel: Part II,” Richard filmed a short scene for a Sweeps episode of Desperate Housewives, “Children and Art,” which has been his last appearance on the show to date.

2007 found Richard working on a mix of television guest spots and movies, beginning with three back-to-back episodes of NBC’s Las Vegas, which were filmed in January and aired in late February and March. A fourth Las Vegas episode — the conclusion of the previous season’s cliff-hanger finale — was filmed in May, after which Richard was once more Canada-bound for another movie role. “Thomas Kinkade’s Home for Christmas,” scheduled for a Christmas 2008 release, found Richard playing Bill Kinkade, father of famous American painter Thomas Kinkade. Richard filmed an episode of the CBS legal drama Shark in July, playing an unscrupulous plastic surgeon. The episode, “Eye of the Beholder,” aired October 7th.

Richard’s last role before the WGA (Writers Guild of America) strike effectively shut down television production for the rest of the year was in ABC’s Big Shots, playing billionaire adrenaline junkie Gavin Carter. The episode, “The Way We Weren’t,” aired November 29th.

Thus far, 2008 has gotten off to a slow start for Richard, due largely to the strike-related industry shutdown. He filmed a commercial for the 2008 Cadillac DTS DeVille Touring Sedan in mid-January which, as of mid-February, has yet to premiere. Now that the WGA strike has been resolved and television production resumed, Richard and his peers should soon be back at work.

Right now, Richard cherishes his time with his family. Marriage and fatherhood agree with him; in fact, they “changed my life around,” he says. “I’m more in love than I’ve ever been. I can’t imagine anything that surpasses this.”

Time with family dovetails beautifully with Richard’s other loves — music, surfing, nature and bird-watching. Richard is the proud owner of a vintage Buddy Miles drum-set and enjoys playing it whenever possible; during a Spring 1999 appearance on Access Hollywood, he revealed that get-togethers in the Burgi household often turn into impromptu concerts, with adults grabbing instruments and children singing along.

An enthusiastic surfer and nature lover, Richard spends as much time outdoors as possible, either at the beach or hiking through the hills with his family. Introducing his sons to the natural world is an added pleasure. He feels a strong connection to nature and is an advocate of environmental protection and preservation.

Richard was involved for a time with the Yellowstone Ecological Survey,an organization devoted to educating the public on the delicate Yellowstone ecosystem. The Bozeman, Montana-based organization is best known for its part in the reintroduction of wolves to the Yellowstone ecosystem. Richard now supports the work of the Surfrider Foundation, a San Clemente, CA – based organization which works to protect and preserve shoreline and coastal environments. “Life comes and goes, and I think we require to save our planet and not hurt it,” he explains. “I like to be proactive, but at the same time I like to work in a grass roots way and impact my environment as best I can.”

Richard is also an avid bird-watcher, an interest he discovered as a ten-year-old. Sharp-eyed viewers of The Sentinel may have noticed a variety of bird-watching books and framed bird prints scattered throughout Ellison’s Loft; many, if not all, belong to Richard or were selected by him. Perhaps the most noticeable is a National Audubon Society print on the wall of Jim’s bedroom.

Richard’s interest in and commitment to preserving the environment for future generations, his preference for “grass roots” work, and his passion for and devotion to the sea and the marine mammals common to the waters of his California home led him to the Pacific Marine Mammal Center, a Laguna Beach, CA – based, volunteer-run and funded organization which tends to the needs of sick or injured seals, sea lions, and other marine mammals. The RBFC is delighted to join Richard in his support of and interest in the Pacific Marine Mammal Center.

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How to Get in Shape for Military

The hardest component of going after any type of health and fitness, diet regimen or health objective is getting going. A great deal of individuals utilize the brand-new year as a jumping-off place to begin toning up, yet no matter the moment of year or your existing degree of health and fitness, the very best time to obtain approaching acquiring ideal wellness is currently.

What brought you pleasure as a youngster? Locate a means to re-create that feeling of play in your life.

Diane Downing, M.D., Arizona-based board-certified family doctor

Leading Tips to obtain You in Top Shape

It’s in Your Head: Prepare on your own emotionally for success. Understand any type of self-sabotaging ideas that could hinder your health and fitness objectives.

Stretch Your Workout: Steve Heller, co-creator of FORE-MAX Golf Training Systems, claims extending is one of the most vital point you could do if you’re brief promptly for an exercise.

Believe Mediterranean, and also Eat Often: Eat 5 to 6 tiny dishes daily with lean, high healthy protein and also complicated carbs.

Going Organic Doesn’t Have to Break the Bank: If you can not pay for to go entirely natural, inspect Environmental Working Group (ewg.org) for a checklist of the “Dirty Dozen” generate things probably to be polluted by chemicals and also a checklist of the “Clean 15” create products.

Salt Worth Its Salt: Dr. Carl Amodio advises Premier Pink Salt, a mix of 2 costs sea salts, to his people.

1. Obtain Your Head in the Game

When you’re altering a behavior, it’s additionally crucial to alter your frame of mind and also stay clear of adverse idea patterns, claims Carl Amodio, chiropractic specialist as well as creator of Whole Body Health. Adverse self-talk holds us back from doing just what we wish to do, he states.

2. Select Activities That You Enjoy

Another element to think about when beginning an exercise program is to determine just what you take pleasure in doing, states Diane Downing, board-certified family doctor and also clinical supervisor for Well as well as Being, an integrative health facility at Fairmont Scottsdale Princess.

“What brought you happiness as a child? Discover a method to re-create that feeling of play in your life,” she claims. “Exercise does not indicate mosting likely to the health club on a daily basis. Take a vigorous stroll and also venture out in nature. Exercise yoga exercise in order to help with equilibrium, muscle mass tone, mindfulness as well as breathing.”

3. Establish Small, Attainable Goals

Rheumatoid joint inflammation finished the expert tennis occupation of Cindy Lane Ross at age 19, yet she continuouslied function as a physical fitness instructor. A number of years later on, as she took care of her passing away mom, the Ross ended up being clinically depressed and also her weight swelled to 220 extra pounds.

Within a year of her mom’s fatality, nevertheless, Ross shed greater than 100 extra pounds and also began Bodies by Cindy.

“I recognize just what it’s like to be hefty due to the fact that I’ve existed, as well as workout is exactly what maintains me well,” states Ross, that currently has greater than 400 customers. “How you care for on your own actually matters.”

Whenever a brand-new customer involves her, Ross does a fitness analysis. Initially, she suggests customers established obtainable objectives. “If somebody states she wishes to shed 80 extra pounds, at first we focus on an extra pound a week, which is a sensible objective,” she claims.

Prior to you begin any kind of workout routine, it’s vital to talk to your physician – particularly if you have a clinical problem.

4. Concentrate on Flexibility

If you have just 20 mins to exercise, one of the most essential point you could do is utilize that time to extend extensively, claims Steve Heller, physical fitness supervisor at the Westin Kierland Resort and also Spa in Scottsdale, Ariz. “Flexibility is the basis for whatever else,” he states.

Heller stresses hip, back and also shoulder adaptability. He suches as yoga exercise and also Pilates since you do not require a great deal of devices to do either. “I desire my customers to be able to do their exercises simply utilizing their body weight and also without requiring a health club,” he states.

5. Provide Circuit Training a Try

When a customer is dedicated to extending, Heller includes cardio, yet he does it making use of circuit training.

“The traditional of idea was placing individuals on the treadmill for a hr and also having them remain in an area based upon their age as well as weight,” Heller states. “What’s even more efficient for weight-loss is having the individual obtain his/her heart price up truly high for 2 mins, and after that transferring to weightlifting for a couple of mins. The weight leaves.”

He recommends 30 mins of extending, 30 mins of core workouts and also 30 mins of interval/strength training, however if you’re strapped for time, choose 20 mins of extending and also 10 mins of core job.

5. Bear in mind What You Eat

Your diet regimen make up a great deal of exactly how you look. Therefore, Heller asks his professional athletes to maintain a sincere journal for a week. He targets treats, alcohol, coffee and also refined foods.

Dr. Downing relies on taking the aggressive action of throwing away anything in your cupboard that’s refined as well as has hydrogenated fats, sweetening agents or high-fructose corn syrup.

Additionally, see to it you’re obtaining lots of great fats in your diet regimen, Amodio states. Take a fish oil supplement and also make use of olive oil in your food preparation. Consume avocados. Do not hesitate of consuming the entire egg, he states, due to the fact that the nutrients remain in the egg yolk.

He advises a diet plan of 20 to 30 percent excellent fats, 20 to 40 percent facility carbs (primarily fresh veggies as well as fruits with very little starches) and also 30 to 40 percent healthy protein.

As well as beverage fifty percent of your body weight in regards to ounces of water each day. “Most individuals walk dried,” Amodio claims.

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“Always Do Your Best.”  It was timeless advice Suzy Roholt received from her parents.  As a child, she was inspired by their work ethic and ability to provide for their family.  From being an example to her four younger sisters to reaching the top of her industry,

Suzy applied her parent’s work ethic and made it her own.  It’s the same drive that she brings into everything she does.

  A Strong Foundation

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This approach sustained a 30-year career in national sales, where she was often named the company’s top salesperson.

Up the Ladder

Always in touch with her small-town values, when Suzy visited Franklin on a routine sales call, something about the town spoke to her.  She instantly felt at home and connected to the people here.  While the New York City and corporate lifestyle was exciting, Suzy saw the best of her in Franklin and was determined to move here.

Once she and her husband, Bruce, did, they quickly established their prospective businesses in the community and began making lasting relationships.  “I’m at my peak when I can improve the lives of my neighbors and the community at large.”

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The Georgia Dome got the farewell it deserved

Monster Jam was the last memorable event in a stadium that begged to be forgotten.

Monster Jam fills up enough of the Georgia Dome — most of the bottom bowl, and a good chunk of the mezzanines and upper deck. There is competition in town — but there also probably isn’t a lot of Sunday night overlap between the monster truck crowd and the people across town at Georgia Tech’s Bobby Dodd Stadium watching Atlanta United lose its first game ever to New York Red Bulls.

There are mostly dads, myself included, towing kids there with the promise of monster trucks and multiple concession stand runs.

One of these runs: for a $20 Monster Jam official Grave Digger sno-cone with commemorative Grave Digger cup with molded grinning skeleton face and flashing lights triggered via a button in its plastic forehead. I bought it; one $15 commemorative non-truck-specific Monster Jam sno-cone; a $15 pair of headphones/ear protectors, with rubber tires mounted around the ear cups for one child; a $20 pair of less-elaborate ear protection for the other kid, who could not be persuaded to get the cheaper ones because, “I need different daddy”; at least $30 worth of bribes in the form of food and drink to keep them in the stands for half the show; $0 in alcohol, somehow, because two children at a monster truck show keep you so busy and running that you cannot find the time to get drunk enough to deal with the children.

While waiting, a towheaded 3-year-old behind us pointed to the beer man selling $12 oil cans of Busch Light.

“Daddy, you could get a beer.”

“You know Daddy only drinks crown.”

The Omni

The first thing I can remember about going to a live sports event involves DeBarge, and the memory is wrong. Wrong may not be the right word, actually. Better put, I misremembered because I was probably 6 years old, and 6-year-olds can’t be counted on to provide accurate testimony in a court of law or in a recollection involving the Atlanta Hawks and Philadelphia 76ers.

My dad took me to a Hawks game at the Omni. The Omni was the least-lovable building ever constructed, a black cube with tented pyramids of black sheet metal jutting from the roof, weird angular corner windows, and the street presence of a giant, menacing blast furnace. I thought it looked cool because it reminded me of the doomed spaceship in Disney’s The Black Hole. Kids have bad memories and deplorable taste in architecture.

The Omni was built to rust, to be an uncherished memory before it ever happened.

The first claim there is literal. By rusting, the steel elements of the building would become even more fused to each other. In its later years, it started to look like an overturned running shoe or waffle iron left outside to the elements. The designers reportedly did not factor in Atlanta’s subtropical climate, and the Omni kept rusting and rusting until the entire building had an incurable form of architectural arthritis. Holes appeared in the building’s frame, holes big enough for people to pass through without tickets or permission. Rather than fix the gaping holes in the building designed to rust in one of the United States’ most humid places, management instead put up chain-link fences along them.

The second claim, that the Omni was designed to be an uncherished memory, is a guess. The Hawks played there either way. My dad drove me down into the city with the radio on — never the rock station, but always the R&B station with Switch, Brick, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Gap Band, Roger and Zapp, or Kool and the Gang on. I knew the Hawks had a player named “Tree Rollins.” This was enough all by itself, but I would also get to go to Burger King for a kids meal, which, for a kid who was avowedly not into sports, was a low, low bribe bar to clear.

Tree Rollins totally looked like someone named Tree. I remember the Omni very much looking like the inside of a doomed spaceship, and that everyone was very excited that someone called Dr. J was there, even though he was evidently some off-brand version of Dr. J not equal to a previous version. There were men there with giant Jheri curls and Magnum, P.I. sunglasses and mustaches indicating that they were serious, wealthy, and just dangerous enough to wear a mustache. I remember the hair across all races and genders being massive and more carefully constructed than the arena they were standing in; I remember being one of the few kids in the building, and thinking that maybe, sometimes, my dad might just be taking me to stuff he liked in order to get out of the house and have a few too many beers by himself.

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On the way home, I remember passing the few super-distinct pieces of the Atlanta skyline: the Peachtree Westin that Dar Robinson jumped out of for a Burt Reynolds stunt, the UFO-shaped alien cake of Fulton County Stadium where the Braves played and where my dad would later take us to sit in empty seats and pick up fiendish sunburns, the Georgia Capital that always seemed completely out of place in all that retro-futurism and brutalist forestry around it. That’s the kind of place Atlanta was and still is — a place where the past is what seems unnecessary, not the future.

The music had changed. My dad drove in silence and smoked Vantage cigarettes with the window cracked even though it was winter, I think, and cold enough to have the heat cranking. It was Quiet Storm time on the radio, and that meant Jeffrey Osborne, Marvin Gaye, Rita Coolidge, and Gladys Knight, Stevie Wonder, Teddy Pendergrass. DeBarge’s “All This Love” came on and the nylon string guitar solo played and I looked up and thought how the streetlights were on but still looked so dark against the streets and the houses of what I now know was a decimated Techwood.

I’m pretty sure since that song came out in 1982 that we’d already moved to Tennessee by then, but at a certain point emotional memories are immune to fact-checking. The fadeout and ride in the song is endless over the background singers going say you really love me baby/ say you really love me darling/for I really love you baby/sure enough love you darlin’

At the Georgia Dome, there is some of exactly what you think should be at a Monster Jam show in the South.

There was, for example, a terrifying man in the sleeveless Confederate flag shirt eight rows below our seats. I asked him if he knew where I could get ear protection before the race. He looked at me for about five seconds before responding because he:

comes from someplace where there is a daily quota on words for interpersonal communication

thought I was a godless bearded urbanite hitting on him

or was very drunk and hearing me talking on a built-in beer-induced tape delay.

I hope he was drunk, and also that he thought I was hitting on him.

The trucks have names ranging from the super-uninspiring and corporate — the FS1 Cleatus Truck! the Team Hot Wheels Firestorm! — to the classic and menacing (Bounty Hunter and El Toro Loco). There is a truck called Obsession and its unimaginatively named partner, Obsessed. One is called Ice Cream Man, easily the least-intimidating monster truck of all time because it comes out to tinkly ice cream van chimes, or the most unsettling because it plays a song synonymous with the sketchiest non-related regular cast member of most people’s childhoods — the neighborhood ice cream man who might have lived in the van he worked in.

There is a Monster Energy truck with green neon lights built into the undercarriage. I am here to report against my will that it looks absolutely and positively sick. It is called “the Monster Energy Truck” because there are two good monster truck names in the universe, and both are taken. (Grave Digger and Bigfoot, to be specific.)

The anthem is sung while a bald eagle flaps in slow motion on the end-zone video boards.

The Georgia Dome was built in 1992, and it will be imploded in the summer of 2017. It will never see its 30th birthday, and it will not be missed because it, too, was built to be forgotten. The last event in the dome will be Monster Jam. If you are from outside of the state, you will think it is appropriate because LOL REDNECKS; if you are from here, you will probably also think it is appropriate because LOL REDNECKS, but will get mad when anyone else says it.

For the record, the Dome didn’t even try to be interesting on the level of the Omni or Fulton County Stadium. It was fine but unmemorable as something you drove past, sat in, or saw in shots of the city skyline. Take a hotel bathtub, preferably one of the cheap ones, too shallow to do anything in but sit unhappily for five minutes before giving up and draining the water. Cover it with a large golf umbrella blown inside out by the wind. Solder the two together. Paint it first teal and maroon, because someone in 1991 thought putting the bedroom color scheme from a Florida vacation rental on the outside of a stadium in Atlanta was a good idea.

When you remember the Atlanta Falcons play football there, paint it in a new scheme with red and black in it to remind everyone of their existence. Don’t do this until 16 years after you open the stadium, and only nine years before its eventual demolition.

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Monster Jam is the last event here. Other things happened before that. The Atlanta Falcons played mostly forgettable football here, unless you take out the Vick years, which you might want to given how they ended. If there were some way to keep the part where all the mostly African-American fans in the upper deck went bonkers the minute they started playing “Bring ’Em Out” for those teams, you should do that. That may be the most excited single concentration of minutes you could salvage from the team’s history at the Georgia Dome: Before the team played, but after they remembered they were going to watch the fastest player in the NFL touch the ball on every play. This is a happy memory. There aren’t a lot of those there.

It hosted a lot of college football, including the annual SEC Championship game. Tim Tebow cried on the sideline there after Alabama clipped Florida’s undefeated streak short in 2009; Les Miles in 2007 used his backup quarterback to win an SEC title there, and then a national title LSU somehow got with two losses later in New Orleans. Before that game he hustled every reporter in reach to a press conference where he denied Kirk Herbstreit’s report that he was going to take the Michigan job, and then with his chest at full inflation demanded that the room “have a great day.” I was there for that and, yes, it was just as confusing in person as it was on television.

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LSU coach Les Miles after defeating the University of Miami, 40-3, in the 2005 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl.

There was Wrestlemania in 2011, when the Rock returned and I nearly flipped my laptop off a table when the glass broke and Stone Cold Steve Austin ripped down the entry ramp on an ATV like the Pope of All Shitkicking Rednecks. In 1994, Deion Sanders and Andre Rison punched each other while wearing helmets in fight during a football game, an event that easily clears the hurdle to being one of the top 25 most memorable moments in Atlanta history, and was also incredibly dumb. Those two circles overlap a lot here.

There were two Super Bowls in the Dome. The first was a forgettable one in 1994 where the Cowboys beat the Bills. This beating was different from the seven other Bills/Cowboys Super Bowls in the 1990s because the pregame show featured Kriss Kross, Charlie Daniels, the Georgia Satellites, and the Morehouse Marching Band doing a tribute to “Georgia Music Makers.” Charlie Daniels is from North Carolina but did a song about an unenforceable contract between the Devil and a mentally ill violin player, so by any standard he counted.

The second is best remembered for an unseasonably brutal ice storm and Ray Lewis picking up two murder charges from the Fulton County District Attorney after a very bad night out on the town with his friends. The Tennessee Titans came up a yard short in Atlanta, but most Nashville things measured in Atlanta terms fail by much, much more than that. Feel better thinking about it in those terms, Nashville.

There was also the time the tornado struck the Georgia Dome while I was inside it during the 2008 SEC basketball tournament, rippling the ceiling like water and throwing the scoreboard around like a weight on a fishing lure. That happened, too.

Other than all that, there’s not much else. Monster Jam will close out the building’s life, if you like to anthropomorphize a stadium no one ever thought to give a personality or memory. The seats will be auctioned off or sold to high schools for repurposing. The innards will be sold in stages, right down to a yard sale of whatever’s left in the building getting gutted and gaveled out right on the sidewalk outside the Dome on Northside Drive.

Sometime during the summer it will be imploded and become a parking lot for the new stadium. It’s a corporate-sponsored metallic oculus someone will probably remember as looking like a very old future. The Falcons and Atlanta United will call it home, and the Georgia Dome will be gone and not mourned. That’s fine, and I don’t want you to think for a second it isn’t. Some things are built to be forgotten, and the Georgia Dome is one of them.

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The trucks spend the first half of the show racing by pairs in heats. They can sort of drift a corner — sort of, as much as a 10,000-pound truck can slide on dirt. The drivers don’t hammer the gas so much as they get up to speed, and then feather the throttle to keep the trucks moving with careful blasts of the engine. It’s like watching extremely short rallycross races run by farting whales in track shoes.

Finishing fast is interesting. Finishing sideways doing something reckless and badass is better, but finishing first and flying sideways across the finish line is best. This is particularly true if you can roll the truck over, hit the throttle, catch one enormous tire in the dirt on the end of the roll, and flip the entire vehicle back onto all four tires for a save, a round of WOOOOS and applause, and a pass to the next round of racing.

This happens twice in the racing segment of the show, which is two more times than anyone should be able to pull that off in the aforementioned 10,000-pound trucks. Grave Digger sacrificed itself for the crowd’s pleasure early — it hit a massive jump while trying to speed across the finish line, bouncing sideways, blowing out one enormous tire and a mess of important-looking metal stuff in the chassis on impact, and then rolling to stop on its ceiling while soaking up the applause. Grave Digger left the arena with three good wheels, one completely destroyed tire, and the limp of a champion who’d given their all. If I had been drinking, I might have teared up a little.

The second half is the freestyle, the more entertaining part where Monster Jam ditches the entire concept of racing, and just lets drivers try to tear apart their cars for the crowd. The drivers have two minutes to run through their routine. The most popular runs don’t even make it that long, though. They end abruptly and satisfactorily when the driver rolls their truck onto its roof off an ill-advised but spectacular jump, breaks an axle or blows out a tire, or cripples the thing trying to land a backflip.

The Monster Energy truck — the one with the absolutely sick neon — whipped itself around during the freestyle event with such force that its flimsy body panels sheared off in every direction. One truck just did donuts for the last 20 seconds of their routine. If a monster truck rips donuts on dirt, there is an involuntary response from the body. “WOOOOOOOO” leaps from the diaphragm. You can’t fight it, and wouldn’t want to if you could.

The MCs yell out this or something like it repeatedly.

“DOIN’ IT ONE LAST TIME FOR THE GEORGIA DOME.”

It doesn’t have much effect, not even when a local DJ yells it out during a bike race between three audience members racing on children’s bikes. But then, the Georgia Dome is used to quiet echoing off its cavernous walls, or having fan noise piped in to ricochet between its empty seats. There is nothing more to give from this afternoon’s audience, for one: Being at Monster Jam is getting blasted in the face for three hours with engine noise, and then coated with a gentle drizzle of dirt floating down between runs. Maximum audience participation is clapping and yelling just loudly enough to be heard over engines that burn a gallon of fuel a minute. There is no 11, or giving it up any harder than one is already giving it up.

Very few people seemed to realize this was the end, or at least attached any significance to it, or cared whether anyone would begin gutting the building the instant the last earth-mover carried out the dirt.

We had to leave three trucks into the freestyle when both of their attention spans wore out, and were unrecoverable. We left before the Georgia Dome paid one last tribute to itself: A grease fire broke out in a concession stand, which was quickly put out only after filling a concourse with smoke and scaring the hell out of a few patrons. Remember that on the way out: that the building tried to save everyone the trouble of demolition by burning itself down.

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A tear in the ceiling of the Georgia Dome is visible after severe weather passed over the building during the SEC Men's Basketball Tournament on March 14, 2008.

Walking out with my kids, they were about the same age I was when I left the Omni with my dad at the Omni in 1982, or 1983, or whenever it was in fuzzy kid-time. They saw the new stadium next door and thought it looked pretty much like a spaceship, or like someplace where Skylanders would live.

That is exactly what the Omni and Fulton County Stadium looked like to me as a kid —so much so that later, when my dad and another dad would awkwardly hang out for the benefit of their sons’ juvenile need to socialize with other dudes, my friend Jim and I would sit in the backseat as they drove and point out the buildings we would own in the future. He’d take the Westin, and keep all his Legos there. I’d take Fulton County Stadium, and reserve it exclusively for my collection of helicopters. A city was a place to be had, a thing to be purchased for your convenience.

Kids, weirdly enough, understand that a city is just something to be bought and sold.

Later, weirder, less-tenable ideas creep into your head: That it could be home, that the buildings you can name mean something beyond the names, that there might be some kind of resonant harmony between you and this random system of properties and spaces. Sometime someone might superimpose a sports team into that imaginary relationship, making this city not just a place, but a place for you, and people like you, and that all of you can thrive here. It is special. You are special, and the team, its players, and all the spaces they pass through and live in are special and remarkable and unlike anything else in the world.

There is a magic you can believe about a place as an adult that children do not even begin to believe or accept. A 7-year-old would laugh you out of the room, probably while telling you that the new place was much better, both because it looked like a place where Skylanders would live, and also because it was new. New things are better, and you should always take the new thing.

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That shouldn’t be hard to accept. Take the new thing, even if the nagging, haunting feeling of living somewhere boils down to a problem with you, with that thing where you’re looking for something in tangible space to consider a landmark, a guidepost. To consider something significant, if only so that you, in relation to it, can have a bit of that significance. The city I live in makes that hard to do, though there’s an honesty in that constant self-digestion and auto-demolition. Do not get attached. It, and everything in it, will eventually move, just like the teams and the people who call it home.

That’s the rational, reasonable thing to think, yet even with an intentionally blank, mostly unmemorable empty space like the Georgia Dome I want something to be there, to definitively have happened there. There should be a definite something there, thinks some deeply schizophrenic part of my brain that doesn’t want so much as a garden shed to collapse around me without some memory attached to it. Otherwise it’s just a thing — and by extension, so is the city, and the very personally important me I’ve attached to it.

I have a definite thing to attach myself to here. After all, I thought for a few seconds on March 14, 2008 that I was going to die on the floor of the Georgia Dome on press row at the SEC men’s basketball tournament.

I thought Kentucky fans were stomping their feet in unison on the bleachers at first, but the noise swelled, and swelled more, and grew so loud and limitless all at once. It felt limitless in the sense of being infinitely powerful with no range or end to the noise, so loud and yet so obviously just getting started on the way to a theoretical full volume. What do you think a tornado at pace is? It’s actually just clearing its throat and warming up, volume-wise. It’s whispering, holding back. You just hear it as a roar.

There wasn’t even a shudder from impact. There was just the sensation that the entire building was next to an immense floor buffer, spinning and vibrating at thousands of RPM. When that vibration turned into waves the roof flapped like a subwoofer, the air vents started spitting out pieces of insulating foam, and for one second I weighed the options of dying standing up and being crushed by the falling roof and lighting, or taking my chances ducking under a table, only to be crushed by all that plus one flimsy plywood table. The lights swayed 10 to 15 feet in either direction. The waves got stronger, and the entire overturned bathtub of the stadium was now being thumped by a very pissed off janitor pushing that giant floor buffer into the side of the Georgia Dome.

I was sitting next to Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery. That would have been memorable for me, at least, getting crushed next to a legendary announcer, in the few seconds I had to have a last memory. If I’d heard Verne say “oh my” as it collapsed, it would have been my last tweet, and the RTs and favs would be infinite.

Instead of bearing down at full speed and colliding with the Dome, though, the tornado drunkenly staggered into the Georgia Congress Center next door, then down Marietta Street and into Cabbagetown before dissipating into the night. Not knowing what else to do, I walked out and took pictures of holes in the walls of the Congress Center, and thought about how great I felt about not dying in the Georgia Dome that night.

Leaving the last event at a building that was designed to be forgotten, I didn’t even really think about the one thing I should remember and attach to the spot.

Instead I thought about the only song I think about when I think about the irrational need for a place to give me something only a human can — especially this place, the first place I did so many things, like leaning my head against the window listening to DeBarge after a Hawks game. That need will never make sense, no matter how many games you watch there, or how many moments you spend there. It won’t make sense, not even after years of silently asking a place to just talk back to you once after you spend years monologuing to it. To look at a place that eats its own every day, and buries its stadiums and buildings and places under like daisies beneath a plow, and ask it, as if you were some exception to the rule, to sing the outro to you:

say you really love me baby

say you really love me darling

for I really love you baby

sure enough love you darlin’

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Book Blitz: Grand Finale: The Cowboy's Twins by Tara Taylor Quinn (Giveaway)

On Tour with Prism Book Tours

Book Tour Grand Finale for

The Cowboy's Twins

By Tara Taylor Quinn

We hope you enjoyed this tour about a charming cowboy, his twins and a TV producer! Grab a copy for yourself while it's on sale and if you missed any of the stops, go back and check them out...

Launch - Note from the Author

Welcome to The Cowboy’s Twins tour!! This is the third and last book in the Family Secrets Cooking Show series. It’s fun. The twins entertained me from the beginning of the book until the end. And, in typical ttq fashion, it’s emotionally intense, too.

underneath the covers - A Letter from TTQ

Welcome to the Family Secrets cooking show, and the episode where you’re going to see everything that goes on behind the scenes, straight from the show’s creator, producer and director herself, heroine Natasha Stevens.

Nicole’s Book Musings - Review

"I really enjoyed this one. What's not to like about Spencer. He will do anything for his children even have a cooking show descend on his ranch. I liked Natasha as well, she has a big self discovery while working on this location for her show. It helps her work through some inner battles she didn't realize she had."

Hearts & Scribbles - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 1

The things you do for love...

Every single thing he did was for love. Love for his children. And love for his ranch.

He didn’t much love the idea of waking up the glamorous city woman at two in the morning. But a deal was a deal.

Angels with Attitude Book Reviews - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 2

A figure moved just outside the front door.

Tall. Slender. She was in shadow, but there was no doubt in Spencer’s mind, the second he saw movement down the steps, that the body belonged to Natasha Stevens.

“I’ve heard of cowboys sleeping in their clothes, to be ready to ride on a second’s notice, but not a famous television producer,” he said, meeting her a few yards from the cabin.

Thoughts of a Blonde - Review

"With Book 3 in the Family Secrets series, we finally get to hear Natasha’s story. We’ve seen her producing the show and wondered what made her tick, and now we find out! It was a bit slower moving than the previous books in the series, but still an enjoyable cast of characters."

Wishful Endings - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 3 (Review here)

Natasha’s long legs made it easy for her to keep up with the handsome cowboy’s strides. She just wasn’t used to tromping across dusty ground in new cowboy boots in the middle of the night.

Though she’d lived on the West Coast for most of her adult life, she’d never succumbed to that particular footwear—having just purchased her new shiny red boots for the show. She’d figured boots were boots. Not so.

"Heartwarming and romance fans alike will find much to love here. . . . Sweet, charming, with a little heartbreak that ends in happily-ever-after was exactly what I was hoping for."

Katie's Clean Book Collection - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 4

She didn’t need a man. Or his strength. Didn’t even want one. Her strength of character—okay, her innate need to run her own show, whether it be on television or in her home—was like a coffin in waiting for any relationship.

Becky on Books - Review

"Ultimately, The Cowboy’s Twins was a highly satisfying romance. Though it did end a bit abruptly, it was a good ending, and since the series is based on Natasha’s show, I’ve got high hopes of seeing more of Natasha, Spencer, Tabitha, and Justin in future books!"

Rockin' Book Reviews - Review

"I really liked this book. It caught my attention from the beginning and held it throughout the book.

I also really liked the characters. They were well developed and easily visualized. I felt like I could be right there with them living that life."

Falling Leaves - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 1

HE DIDN’T WANT the woman there. Spencer took a deep breath. And didn’t like what he smelled. A sixth sense told him something wasn’t right.

And he knew what that something was. The city woman sitting in the corner, staring, while Ellie labored.

Book Lover in Florida - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 2

Nodding, Natasha jumped into the fray. She grabbed when she was told to grab. Pulled. The calf didn’t budge. Her arms ached. Using her entire body weight, she leaned back. And managed to keep the hooves outside the cow’s body.

Everything happened in seconds after that. One minute Ellie was in obvious stress with Spencer on the ground by the struggling cow’s tail. The next, Spencer was pushing Natasha aside, grabbing hooves, and had pulled a calf out into the world.

Her new red boots were going in the trash.

Getting Your Read On - Review

"It was sweet though, and clean, which I really appreciate!"

Heidi Reads... - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 3

“You’re supposed to be brushing your teeth.”

“We did.” Justin’s immediate response was followed by a drop in his gaze. And then his chin met his chest. “No, we didn’t,” he corrected himself before Spencer could take the breath necessary to challenge the boy. “But...do we gotta?” Justin’s eyes widened as he gave Spencer an imploring look. “They’ll just get dirty again, and I’ll brush it all away tonight.”

Spencer pressed his lips together, hoping he looked stern.

The hardest part about being a single parent was having no one with whom to share the laughter.

I Am A Reader - Excerpt/Chapter 1, Part 4

And he made no pretense to himself about the reason for that.

He wanted to spend as little time as possible with the city girl who’d invaded his space.

In more ways than one.

And enter the giveaway below if you haven't already...

The Cowboy's Twins

(Family Secrets #3)

by Tara Taylor Quinn

Adult Contemporary Romance

Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 368 pages

January 3rd 2017 by Harlequin Heartwarming

It looked so good on camera… If it weren't for the money, Spencer Longfellow would happily drive Natasha Stevens and her TV crew right off his ranch. But his land, and his kids, mean the world to him—and he'll do anything to secure their future. Even cohost Natasha's cooking show, Family Secrets, in his barn. Even play the token hunky cowboy to her sophisticated city slicker and flirt with her on national television… It could never amount to anything real anyway. After all, he was fooled and left in the dust by a city girl once. And he will never let that happen to him—or his kids—again

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Other Books in the Series

For Love or Money

(Family Secrets #1)

by Tara Taylor Quinn

Adult Contemporary Romance

Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 384 pages

August 1st 2016 by Harlequin Heartwarming

She can't afford to lose this…or him

There's no way that struggling single mom Janie Young is going to lose Family Secrets. Not even to Dr. Burke Carter. The prize money and media exposure from the cooking-competition show will secure the future for her and her son, who has special needs. Sure, Burke is a talented chef with his own reasons to win, but he already has so much: wealth, a beautiful daughter, great looks…and definitely her attention. As their families become closer, Janie is beginning to care too much about him. But she can't afford to get involved. Not when everything is riding on beating him.

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Her Soldier's Baby

(Family Secrets #2)

by Tara Taylor Quinn

Adult Contemporary Romance

Mass Market Paperback & ebook, 368 pages

November 1st 2016 by Harlequin Heartwarming

Will the truth heal him--or tear them apart? 

The baby she gave up for adoption long ago is a secret Eliza Westin has concealed from her husband. With good reason. Wounded soldier turned police officer Pierce Westin was Eliza's high school sweetheart. He's also her son's father.

Seventeen years ago, Pierce went off to war unaware that he'd fathered a child. Eliza's shot as a contestant on the Family Secrets cooking competition show is her chance to reconnect with the past. But once she finds her long-lost son, she can only hope that Pierce will embrace their newfound family. Or will Eliza lose the love of her life all over again?

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About the Author

The author of more than 70 original novels, in twenty languages, Tara Taylor Quinn is a USA Today bestseller with over six million copies sold. A 2015 RITA finalist Tara appears frequently on bestseller lists, including #1 placement on Amazon lists, and multiple showings on the Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller list. She has appeared on national and local TV across the country, including CBS Sunday Morning.

Tara is a supporter of the National Domestic Violence Hotline. If you or someone you know might be a victim of domestic violence in the United States, please contact 1-800-799-7233.

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Tour Giveaway

1 winner will receive ebooks of the first two books in the series, FOR LOVE OR MONEY and HER SOLDIER'S BABY

Open internationally

Ends January 17th

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