nextgen_media:

Hollywood, California There’s news of a new teen drama coming out of Hollywood and it’s being reported as being the next big thing. Scripts for the first few episodes are in and now the roles have to be cast. The production company has announced that there will be casting calls in Hollywood, New York, Miami, Chicago, Dallas and Las Vegas. People interested in auditioning for the show should go to the shows website at http://www.newteendrama.tv for details.

New York, New YorkIt seems like New York’s pranksters are at it again. This time they have unleashed their mischief on Times Square. By some means, dozens of people, citizens and tourists alike, were made to believe they were mimes. People were unable to speak and were only able to use pantomime to express themselves. The citizens and tourists were turned back by some mysterious means and the culprit of this dastardly deed still remains at large.


New York, New York Sources have it that there has been a shake up at the top level of Stark Inc. Tony Stark, now former CEO, is still out of action due to last week's car bombing incident. Sources inside of Stark say that an unknown half-sibling of Tony's appeared almost out of nowhere and swooped in to take advantage of Tony's absence. Stark Inc stock fell when the rumors started but has since stabilized, still well below the price from before the bombing. CONT ON PAGE 2.

awesome_andrea:

Andrea, to the untrained and unfamiliar eye, seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time watching television.  And it was true that she enjoyed television very much and did spent a lot of time watching it.  What this ignored, however, was her ability to multitask and process different strands simultaneously.

At this moment, for example, she was watching the news, using approximately 30% of her processing power to pay attention to it.  A full 40% of her processing power was devoted to her on-line education classes, including a portion devoted to research for an assignment.  A surprising 20% of her processing power was being devoted to Vincent, including several recursive strings that she did not fully understand and that had, in fact, begun to worry her to the point where she should likely ask Kristoff to run a deeper-diagnostic.  And the remaining 10% was devoted to basic systems funcationality.

All of which basically meant she could split her attention several ways without the loss of performance that an ordinary human might have.

Even still, it was several moments before the TV-watching strand connected with other parts of her processor, signaling a high-priority alarm. She redistributed her processing power to give her complete attention to the television.

"....amateur video from the random attacks on the Fantastic Four showcasing "Awesome" Andrea of the young Fantastic Four fighting the criminal know as the Thinker.  "Awesome" Andrea, also known as Andrea Denker, appears unusually effected by a localized electromagnetic pulse and then..."

The video continues, showing Andrea being decapitated (she shuddered at that memory), leaving a shower of sparks, circuits, and wires.

"This raises serious questions about the most mysterious and least-known member of the Fantastic Four.  Their public relations officer declined to comment when questioned earlier this week..."

Andrea's processing faculties largely failed to notice just how tightly she was gripping the arm of the couch.

soothsayer:

Ezekiel was moving as quickly as he could to track down the source of the drug that was killing these kids. His partner was trying to be helpful but had no idea why Zeke was taking it so passionately and personally. He tried to say it was because of the fact he was a father. But no one really seemed to believe him since everyone knew his son didn't like seeing him.

No one blamed the kid. Zeke was a weird guy and just didn't come off as normal. At least he was a goods cop. Which was why he was talking to some known drug dealers. Wanting to know if they ever met the kids that had died. Nope sorry officer but they had no idea who they were but did you know Mr Fuzz that a new Churchy group was in the area handing out food?

That had his attention and had him moving. Purifiers. He could tell who they were from a dozen yards and wanted to get the hell out before they saw him. His partner just thought they looked like trouble.

Ezekiel would figure out how long they were in the area and go from there. He was still nerved up enough though to let it slip he never wanted to meet a Purifier. That made his partner wonder why.