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This is one of the most chilling stories to come out of the shooting in Colorado. Jessica Ghawi Redfield, a victim of Friday's massacre, narrowly missed last month's shooting in Toronto that killed one person. An eerie feeling came over her that day. She left the Eaton Center with her sushi and poutine  minutes before a gunmen opened fire on the crowd just a few feet from where she was sitting minutes before. She wrote about the experience in her last blog, a strange twist of fate and eerie coincidence that forshadowed exactly what we are thinking about her and the victims of this senseless tragedy.

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Today, the nation is reeling after a gunman went on a shooting rampage during a midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises‘ in Aurora, Colorado.

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We’re now getting our first look at James Holmes, the alleged shooter in that horrific massacre in a Colorado movie theater early Friday.

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The world awoke Friday (July 20) to the horrible news coming out of Colorado that armed gunman James Holmes entered a Friday morning showing of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ in Aurora, Colo., tossed a canister of tear gas into the showing, and while wearing a gas mask he proceeded to fire random gunshots into the crowd.

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It's easy to understand how movie-goers in Aurora, Colorado were confused when 24 year-old James Holmes entered the midnight screening of Dark Knight Rises and began shooting people. The movie has some intense and violent opening scenes, even at the local opening people were dressed like characters from the trilogy. At least 12 people are dead and 50 injured and unfortunately the incident played out like a scene from the movie. Only Batman wasn't there to stop him.

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Before cats are able to tweet for themselves, maybe we should focus on using this technology to help tackle the issue of homeless pets. If we can match humans with humans and dogs with dogs, why can’t we match humans with dogs?

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Who can remember what life was like before the Smartphone? Your phone might already be your compass, your calendar, and your alarm clock. Now, it’s your doctor, too.

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As news broke on Thursday about a report on the sex abuse scandal that’s rocked Penn State, those on the university campus who gathered around TVs in the student center to watch the announcement found they weren’t able to — because those televisions suddenly switched to a public access channel instead.

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Last week, we reminisced about the decade of Crystal Pepsi and The Backstreet Boys with the Old Man From the 90s meme. So to continue this trend, we’re going to go back to the ’90s today, but instead of remembering our old technology fondly with a jolly old man, we’re cringing over problems that could only (and very often did) occur in the age before smartphones and the internet. 

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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve no doubt heard the story of 68-year-old Karen Klein, the school bus monitor who was mercilessly bullied by middle school children, and the oodles of money that were raised through Indiegogo.com to send her on a well-deserved vacation. Klein appeared on ‘Today’ this morning and discussed her plans for the more than $640,000 raised so far.

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After two consecutive years of being named the most bedbug-infested city in America, New York City has passed the torch. So who can now lay claim to the dubious honor?

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According to most estimates, the 2012 presidential election will be the most expensive ever held. Much of that money goes to TV ads, which will air increasingly as we get closer to November.

Do they really make a difference?

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