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I was never much into horror when I was a kid. My best friend, Becky, and her older sister were hugely into it – they'd seen every Stephen King adaptation going by the time we were 12, and I remember reading the copy of It she'd lent me… or trying to, anyway.
I think I got as far as page 24 before I had to close the book and put it in a drawer. On the other side of the room. Under another book. And then put a cushion in front of the drawer. Just in case.
I wasn't exactly a robust child.
The aversion to horror evaporated soon after: literally, overnight, when I saw "The Lost Boys" for the first time.
I can't remember quite why, but we (my parents and I) were staying with my aunt & uncle overnight. The house wasn't that big, and my parents were sleeping in the spare room, while I had the sofa in the living room. I was 13, and my aunt put a video on.
No prizes for guessing what that was.
After everyone else had gone to bed, I remember opening the living room curtains and looking out of the window at the night. My aunt's house was opposite a large area of open ground – a sort of common-slash-playing field – and I stared straight at the dark. To this day, I have no idea what I thought (hoped? feared?) I was going to see. And yes, I do feel like an idiot every time I think back to it. But I was 13. We're all idiots when we're 13.
The thing about "The Lost Boys" was how immediate it felt. As a teen horror-avoider, I was vaguely aware of vampires in the sense that they lurked in mansions wearing big black capes and… stuff. It wasn't scary. It wasn't particularly interesting, either.
But my encounter with these particular vampires coincided with my American phase. I had pictures of American landmarks stuck on the ceiling of my room, and was planning my roadtrip. Beyond that, even: I had it in my 13 year-old head that America really was the city on the hill (yes, not only was I an idiot, I was probably the only teenage girl in Wales to be obsessed by JFK). So suddenly, I was seeing vampires in a whole new way – a way that dovetailed with the stuff I did care about.
Blew. My. Mind.
I fell in love with the Frog Brothers' comic shop; with Santa Carla's boardwalk (my husband, all too aware of my love for the film, is convinced this is why I love Brighton's pier as much as I do…).
I fell in love with the cave David & his boys carved for themselves, all candles and Jim Morrison posters (along with vampires, my love for The Doors was another infection that stemmed squarely from the film). I fell in love with the utter amorality and absolute freedom the Lost Boys stood for. And I was quite taken with the bikes, too.
I was completely oblivious to any subtext – there's the usual vampire themes rattling around in there, but being a film of the 80s, and a West Coast one, there's more than a hint of gang mythology in there (the dinner in the cave smacks of a hazing, and the attack on the Surf-Nazis on the beach is a gang initiation if ever I saw one). But that was what made it frightening – particularly so. Not because this was the first time you saw the vampires for what they were, but because you saw them through Michael's eyes. These were his friends: the people he thought he belonged with… suddenly become truly monstrous. When you're a teenager like I was, the idea of belonging is so important, the desire to belong so all-consuming that it made Michael's dilemma even worse. Lose your soul or lose your friends… you'd actually have to stop and think about that, wouldn't you?
"The Lost Boys" was my vampire gateway-drug. After that, I convinced my dad to buy me the first three of Anne Rice's vampire books. We were on a ferry, and the newsagent-slash-bookshop happened to have all 3 of them in the wire spinner-rack outside. I knew enough to realise that if my parents were to pick one up and really look at it, I'd never be allowed to get the rest… so I went for broke. I read them back to back through northern France. I still have those same copies, broken-spined and dog-eared and smelling of teenage rebellion.
I scoured bookshops for vampire collections (chief among them, Parragon's 1994 edition of The Giant Book of Vampires, edited by none other than Stephen Jones… Sometimes, I wish I could go back and explain to my younger self just how amusing I find that. She wouldn't get it: how could she?) and smuggled them into the house, under the nose of my by now disapproving mother. I watched every vampire film I could get my hands on – and even waded my way through a not-terribly-well-dubbed version of "Der Kleine Vampir".
It wasn't all bad: watching all those vampire films meant I eventually discovered Near Dark – which I maintain is the best vampire movie ever made. It's better than "The Lost Boys", I admit… but while I love it, it's never quite managed to edge David, Marco, Paul & Dwayne out. Nothing has. In such appalling affection do I hold that film, I've bought it three times (once on VHS, when I wore out my aunt's copy; and twice on DVD. It was the very first DVD I bought).
If it had been the film it was originally intended to be, complete with the tweenage, not teenage, vampires and the set-up for the sequel that never happened, "The Lost Girls", I don't think I could have loved it as much. Perhaps if I'd seen it at a different time, it wouldn't have had such a hold on me – a hold that has lasted 17… 18 years thus far and shows no sign of letting up.
But these are moot points. I saw it when I saw it, and it was the film it was: noisy, snarky, silly, flashy, bloody in places and heavy on pop-culture. I've written about my love for it before, and a lot of what I've said here echoes that earlier article. I'm consistent, you have to give me that. This particular outpouring of Lost Boys love stems from two places: the wonderful article on Ghostbusters from the Guardian's site, and Damien Walter's piece on vampire novel, "Stainless" (as well as his referring on Twitter to "The Lost Boys" as "Probably [the] most influential vamp movie ever.")
It certainly influenced me.


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Heart of Glass
When folks say "art" in Seattle, they reach for their Chihuly.
The New Northwest's distinguishing feature isn't rain or money or coffee. It's Chihuly. Not "Dale Chihuly." Not "glass art by Dale Chihuly." Chihuly is all you need to say, whether you're talking about a particular glass piece ("a Chihuly") or evoking the movement, the institution, the aesthetic, and the regional identity epitomized by the Northwest's (and the glass world's) most famous artist. Not since Bernini decked Rome with fountains, or at least not since the Wyeths became Maine's official art family, has an artist so exemplified the spirit of a city or region--and it took three generations of Wyeths. Chihuly's work doesn't say anything outright about us, but he's the best mirror we've got for divining what we've come to today.
A little background, with apologies to anyone who lives here and already knows it all. Dale Chihuly is the artist/celebrity who gets most of the credit for elevating glass blowing from one more craft to a bona fide--and wildly popular and lucrative--art form. He grew up in Tacoma, Seattle's soporific little-sister city, and headed first back East, and then to Venice, to study in the emerging studio glass movement. In 1972, on a tree farm north of Seattle, he founded the Pilchuck Glass School, which made that movement an institution even as he turned it into an industry.
Try as we may, we can't escape the glass Chihuly makes (or rather, has others make): the lurid "Venetians," writhing "sea forms," and extravagant, candleless "chandeliers" resembling giant wasps' nests or clusters of water-filled condoms. The loftiest galleries and living rooms out here have their Chihuly bowls; the crasser tourist galleries stock copycats. To gain "Seattle credibility," the apartment set in the sitcom Frasier sprouted one. No new cultural palace or festival shopping experience is complete without a Chihuly (click
Chihuly himself is just as much a fixture as his Chihulys, especially in of the Seattle Times' gossip column. (Sample: "While a tour of the [Chihuly] studio is standard for celebrities, Bono did it one better. He tried his hand ... at glass blowing.") The Seattle Opera commissioned a set (in Mylar) from Chihuly. Only Leonardo da Vinci and King Tut have topped the attendance record set by Chihuly at the Seattle Art Museum. The first project Paul Allen picked for his new film company was a study of artists' inspirations, including ... you guessed it. But the ultimate confirmation of Chihuly's stature is the lottery hometown artists stage to mock Seattle's star-struck provincialism and celebrity fawning: The winner gets to "smash a Chihuly."
But Seattle still lags behind its erstwhile rival Tacoma in Chihuly-mania. For Tacoma, glass is a last chance at world stature. Its grandest landmark, the Neo-Baroque Union Station, has been renovated and reopened as a Chihuly showcase, with the mother of all chandeliers in its atrium and more big pieces scattered around. This is just the warm-up to the International Glass Museum (originally the "Chihuly Glass Center") being built on Tacoma's waterfront, reached by a 474-foot "Chihuly Bridge of Glass." Tacoma's captains of industry and finance all ponied up for it. As one of them told the Times, "Every downtown needs a niche."
Chihuly is the natural choice for Tacoma and not just because he's a native son. His is the perfect art for boosters, wannabes, new money, and self-conscious arrivistes. In other words, perfect for the precociously wealthy, culturally callow New Northwest. Glass has the museum seal of approval, but it's supremely and (as practiced by Chihuly) almost purely decorative--blissfully unburdened with threatening, ambiguous, or other meanings. "You don't have to be smart or art-historically sophisticated to understand these," a Chihuly's assistant explains in one of several documentaries on him by Seattle's public TV station. "They're merely beautiful." Forget Sister Wendy and her gloomy paintings; glass, shimmering and vacant, is the ideal TV art, a match for Riverdance and the tenors.
Glass also suits a money-drunk, technology-intoxicated place like the Northwest. It's showy and luxurious, as glittery as jewelry and a hundred times bigger. It's hard, slick and, literally, edgy. At the same time, Chihuly taps an earlier, earthier ecotopic sensibility. His forms evoke not only phalli and vaginas but sea squirts and anemones--the marine biosphere that sustained the first Northwesterners, which we still delude ourselves into thinking we're sustaining. His "baskets" mimic Native American basketry outright. The implicit, if wishful, message: We can have our machines and money and preserve the wild, unspoiled Northwest.
But beautiful Chihulys are just part of the Chihuly phenomenon. Chihuly himself is the main show. With his rampant curls, bluff growl, black eye patch, and bright-colored pirate shirts and scarves, he's the perfect foil to geek chic, a year-round version of the "Seafair Pirates" who frolic at our big summer parade--the artist for the new buccaneer capitalism, the jester who amuses (but never challenges) the geeks. He reprises the Renaissance role of artist as courtier, standing like a third senator onstage when President Clinton visits, partying on Paul Allen's yacht with Robin Williams, Candice Bergen and, of course, Bill and Melinda Gates. This year, when Gates hosted his annual CEO Summit, the world's most celebrated gathering of tycoons, who provided the entertainment? The Vienna Philharmonic and, with "an exhibition of glass-blowing art," Dale Chihuly.
Not that he blows glass himself, though he still says things like this, from the 1994 book Chihuly Baskets: "Glass blowing is a very spontaneous medium, and its suits me. ... I've been at it for thirty years and am as infatuated as when I blew my first bubble." Chihuly hasn't actually blown since 1976, when an auto accident cost him an eye and his depth perception--and made his career. He acquired the trademark dashing eye patch, without which he'd be just another chubby little guy with frizzy hair. And he hired other people, including top Italian masters, to blow more glass than he could alone--enough to make him the Christo of glass, decking Northwest streams and (you've gotta admire the chutzpah) Venetian canals with bright globes and tubes.
The Eye-Patched One has gone far, and so has this town. How far? Consider the other time, 50 years ago, that Seattle had a distinctive, defining artistic tradition--and not one but two celebrity artists. Morris Graves, Mark Tobey, and others in the generation later dubbed "Northwest visionaries" drank deep of both the drizzly, mossy natural scene and of Asian art and philosophy. Tobey sketched spinach hawkers and bums at the downtown Pike Place Public Market and was sometimes mistaken for one. Graves hid out in the deep woods. Tobey painted calligraphic "white paintings" and Graves bodhisattva birds, in delicate gouache and pastel--media notably unsuited to large atriums. Today these seem as quaint as hand-bound books or handwritten letters.
Chihuly succeeds because he's not a maker of art in the usual sense; he's a coach, ringmaster, and impresario--and, above all, an entrepreneur. No one expects entrepreneurs to do the production work. No one argues anymore over whether Gates is really a techie or worries about Jeff Bezos' literary taste. And no one cares whether Chihuly blows glass.
Like Seattle's software, bookselling, and coffee tycoons, Chihuly has triumphed by marketing and branding the hell out of his product, elevating it to something at once precious and ubiquitous. The Northwest trick is not so much to create something out of nothing as making something very large out of something small, and then repeating the process. A hundred million PCs, a billion "personalized" book and CD sales, a zillion cups of coffee ... or hundreds of chandeliers made of brittle blades of glass. Which is, after all, just melted silicon.


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It is possible to cruise Alaska at any time of the year. However, the most popular time of the year is between May and September. Alaska typically doesn't handle the amount of tourists the same way as other popular vacation destination spots. Therefore availability can be limited at times and it's important to book your trip as early as possible so that it doesn't sell out.
There are many advantages to traveling to Alaska in May. May is considered to be the early part of their tourist season.
1. The weather in May is considered to be the best time of the year in Alaska.
2.The wildflowers in Alaska are in full bloom in the spring.
3. May is also a good time to view the wildlife in Alaska. The snow has melted in the lower elevations causing the larger breeds of animals to start migrating, making them fairly easy for tourists to view.
There are also many reasons to visit Alaska in September.
1.The leaves on the trees in Alaska are in full bloom by Labor Day.
2.The ground will be dry in September, but there will be fresh snow on the mountain peaks. It's a beautiful view.
3. Large breed animals are out and easy to view in lower elevations, they are in their feeding time as they try to gain weight for the winter months.
Picking a cruise line to fit your needs
You can have different vacation experiences cruising Alaska depending on which cruise line you pick. If you go with Holland America you will have the most traditional cruising experience. Formal dining rooms, assigned seating etc. If you are looking for a less traditional cruising experience then Norwegian Cruise Lines is the best option for you.
There are many cruise lines that make the trips to Alaska. People have numerous options available to them.
1.Carnival Cruise Line
2. Celebrity Cruises
3.Cruise West
4.Crystal Cruises
5. Holland America Line
6.Norwegian Cruise Line
7.Princess Cruises
8.Radisson Seven Seas Cruises
9. Royal Caribbean International
Another, slightly more expensive option, is a smaller boat that holds only 75-114 passengers. These smaller ships can be found within Cruise West Cruise Lines and they do have some advantages that the larger ships can't offer. For example, closer sailing to glaciers with a very casual atmosphere onboard. For example, you can dine when and with whom you chose. Travelling on these smaller ships tend to cost more than the bigger cruises on the bigger ships.
The length of Alaskan cruises can vary from 6-30 days, depending of course on the amount of time you have and the amount of money you want to spend. Many people choose to extend their trip by also adding a land tour to their vacation. This can be done at the beginning or the end of their trips. The land tour allows tourists to see the interior parts of Alaska they wouldn't have access to on the ships ports. For example, Mt. McKinley, Denali National Park and the city of Fairbanks. These land tours range in time between 3-16 days.
It is suggested that if you want to visit Alaska on a cruise ship that you spend a little more money and get a room with a balcony. When you cruise the Caribbean or the Bahamas the view stays the same throughout the trip. When you cruise Alaska the view is always changing. Depending on where you are cruising you could see glaciers, waterfront communities, mountains, whales, and even wildlife. Also, remember that because of the extended daylight hours of Alaska you can enjoy these views a lot longer than other places. A private balcony is also a great way to enjoy the views with some privacy. While up on the main decks you will be fighting the crowds to catch a glimpse of the view, while you could be enjoying the view in privacy.


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Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things."
"I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), Through the Looking Glass, Chapter V, "Wool and Water." 1871 (Gutenberg edition)
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'Only it is so VERY lonely here!' Alice said in a melancholy voice; and at the thought of her loneliness two large tears came rolling down her cheeks.
'Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. 'Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!'
Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. 'Can YOU keep from crying by considering things?' she asked.
'That's the way it's done,' the Queen said with great decision: 'nobody can do two things at once, you know. Let's consider your age to begin with—how old are you?'
'I'm seven and a half exactly.'
'You needn't say "exactually,"' the Queen remarked: 'I can believe it without that. Now I'll give YOU something to believe. I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day.'
'I can't believe THAT!' said Alice.
'Can't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. 'Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.'
Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said: 'one CAN'T believe impossible things.'
'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'


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Vicky Tauli-Corpuz (Igorot Kankanaey, Philippines), a long-time activist and UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, shares her experience with successes of small, local groups reaching out to the international community to collaborate in better defending their rights. She explains how her experience as a nurse led to community engagement, which quickly turned into a passion for advocating for the needs of community members as an activist.
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This program is dedicated to Joan Carling, an activist from the Kankanaey people of the Philippines. She has served as an Expert Member on the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues during 2014 and 2016, and as the Secretary General of the Asia Indigenous Pact. In this interview, she explains the benefits of the participation of Indigenous Peoples in local and global decision-making, which would bring a diversity of perspective and solutions to pressing issues.
Dr. Dawn Lavell-Harvard (Anishinaabe, Canada) explains how the concerns that have been labeled as "women's issues" are in fact central to the progress of Indigenous rights. Often, concerns such as domestic abuse, schooling, and healthcare are often sidelined in favor of focusing on issues that are seen as more universal. Dr. Lavell-Harvard places them at the center of her activism efforts, showing that there is no need to compromise or postpone the rights of Indigenous women in Indigenous movements globally.
Dr. Dalee Sambo Dorough (Innuit, Alaska, USA) discusses her early engagement in the politics of Indigenous Peoples land rights, and shares her insight into why the defense of land merits extra international legal attention. She urges leaders to have optimism, and take "the long view" approach to making progress in the protection of Indigenous rights.


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I believe this team — hardened by difficulty — can finish this season as strong as they finished last week against the New England Patriots. I believe they can beat the Bills on Sunday and the New York Jets in the regular-season finale and get into the postseason for the first time since 2008.
I believe this team can break the late-season cycle of failing, flopping and folding.
And, I believe, once the Dolphins go into the playoffs, they can, as offensive coordinator Mike Sherman said last week, "make some noise."
It won't seem easy at any point the next few weeks — except maybe if the Jets decide they're not showing up and playing hard in the regular-season finale because they have nothing to play for and their coach might get fired.
Maybe even then, the Dolphins are bound to give you heart palpitations along the way because that's how this team plays practically every game and has authored this entire season.
But that will only make the end result seem more fitting.
This last-possession team that plays to the level of its competition — no matter how high or low — has waited until the season's last month to show its mettle.
The next few weeks should be fun.
"The games, really our season, guys, have really come down to the fourth quarter," coach Joe Philbin said last week. "The fourth quarter of virtually every game, if you look at our season, literally we've had about 10 games that have almost come down to the last play.
"We talked to the guys on Dec. 1 and said, 'Hey, it's December. We have five games left. There's nothing to wait for. We've got to start playing our best football of the year.' Hopefully we can continue to do that."
I understand the naysayers and skeptics because all they have to do is merely point at history and their argument against the Dolphins completing a successful run to the playoffs is made.
These Dolphins, 8-6 and just two victories against unimpressive teams shy of that certain playoff spot, are in the same position previous Miami teams were in just before they broke the hearts and trust of their fans.
The 2009 Dolphins were 7-6 and needed three wins to clinch a playoff spot. They lost all three games, including two at home.
The 2010 Dolphins were 7-6 and had outside hopes for the playoffs with three games to play. They also lost their final three games, including two at home.
So I get it.
The franchise has conditioned you to expect a disaster.
Even some people within the Dolphins organization last week were privately taking a seeing-is-believing attitude about the grand possibilities ahead. That's safe thinking. That's the smart approach.
But who said I'm smart?
Rather than point at history, it's better to point at the present to better understand Joe Philbin's and Jeff Ireland's Dolphins.
First, they seem impervious to adversity and have actually responded to every difficult situation by adapting and overcoming and seemingly coming out better than when they went in.
They lost veteran tight end Dustin Keller, who had already become quarterback Ryan Tannehill's go-to receiver, in the preseason. Well, Charles Clay, who had averaged 17 catches his first two seasons, stepped in and has delivered a 61-catch season.
Clay's growth has come so far that last week in trying to shut down Miami's best weapon in the pass game, New England coach Bill Belichick's game plan concentrated on neither Brian Hartline nor Mike Wallace.
The Patriots deployed their defense primarily to stop Clay, who had scored two touchdowns the previous week against Pittsburgh.
The Dolphins then lost slot receiver Brandon Gibson for the season and that was a blow because he had begun developing great chemistry with Tannehill.
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And the Gibson loss seems to have forced Tannehill to look more to Wallace, which is as it should be since the Dolphins signed him to a $60 million contract. Wallace caught 29 passes and one touchdown the first seven games. He has caught 34 passes and three touchdowns the past seven games.
That snapshot of how the Dolphins handle season-ending injuries is only part of this team's family portrait.
The team had a scandal that reverberated throughout the NFL and still might bring suspensions or firings when the report is completed and released after the Super Bowl. And yes, the Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin situation shook the team, ownership, everyone's schedule, and the depth chart.
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Brown is an Ivy League power that has always been one of the strongest water polo programs east of the Mississippi. Brown won the CWPA Northern Division regular season title and suffered its third loss of the season when it dropped the CWPA Northern Division Tournament Championship to St. Francis. Despite that, Brown is still one of the teams favored to make December's National Championships.
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Despite your loss to St. Francis in the CWPA Northern Division Championship, Brown has been the strongest team in the East throughout the season and has an solid chance to be a top three seed at the NCAA Championship in December. What does Brown need to do to win the East?
Mercado: We have been playing well all season, though we ran into a tough St. Francis team. We made a couple mistakes and St. Francis was able to take advantage of them. The good thing about Divisionals is that you can make mistakes here and you still have a couple weeks to correct them before Easterns. Princeton and Navy finished in third and fourth place at Southerns so there was really no reward to winning Northerns because we will be playing a very strong Princeton team in the first round of Easterns.
You mentioned the loss to St. Francis. What are you able to take from that loss which will make you better going forward?
Mercado: It was the fourth time we played them this season and every time we have played it has been a one-goal game. We have been [playing] one-goal games for as long as I have been here. It is really tough to beat a team like that four times in one season. This game showed that we have some things to fix. This will help us and our focus. This loss was our first loss since the second week of September. I am not saying we let our guard down, but it does help us pick out our mistakes and correct them.
Brown and Princeton looks to be an exciting first-round matchup at Easterns. Can you let us know your preliminary thoughts on it?
Mercado: It is an interesting scenario for a first-round matchup, but we knew that [to win] an Eastern Championship we would have to go through the defending champs. The fact that they are hosting it will present even more of a challenge, but nothing that we will not be ready for. They are very talented and have great experience. We will show up on the day ready to play our best water polo and I'm sure they will be as well.
Your team has tremendous depth. How do you use that to influence games?
Mercado: Last year our biggest problem was when we got into foul trouble, not being able to bring in consistent guys off our bench to maintain our game plan. We only lost two seniors from last year's team, [so] everyone returning understood the importance of being able to be called on to perform. They worked very hard this summer and fall and have made our depth one of our strengths. We know we are able to bring five to six guys off the bench to rest our starters and pace our defense without skipping a beat.
Senior Svetozar Stefanovic is one of your best players. What makes him so good?
Mercado: I don't know that there are any centers in the country better than him. He came to Brown from playing at the highest levels in Serbia. We have put a good team around him with good shooters. Being on a more complete team has made him more of a threat. He has shown great patience and has made great adjustments to drops and zones. Svetozar is still scoring -- he scored over a hundred goals this season for the third time in his career."
James MacNamara is the other part of your two-headed monster. What does he bring to the team?
Coach Mercado: James is one of the best perimeter defenders in the country. He is our safety, he always guards the other team's best player. James can also guard two-meter. His goals might be down this season, but his assists are way up. He is a great help defender as well. James is just so valuable and is such a force.


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In this day and age where celebs and everyday folks take to their social media pages to share every little detail of their lives, there are still some stars who like to keep their private lives very private.
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Denzel Washington got his start in television before switching over to the silver screen. Soon becoming one of the most talented actors in Hollywood, Washington married wife Pauletta back in 1983 after meeting on the set of the television movie Wilma and she has been by his side ever since. While rumors have floated around of his infidelity, Washington and his wife have remained together for over thirty years, not an easy feat in Hollywood. In an interview with Ebony magazine, the couple said overcoming trying times has strengthened their marriage. "For me, the 'love' in the love story is how you come through the trials," said Pauletta. "The passion, the lust — that's easy. The love story is how you come out in love after hardship."
Jennifer Lawrence and Nicolas Hoult
Jennifer Lawrence was the talk of tinsel town in 2013. While she was praised for her stellar performance in American Hustle, her relationship with actor Nicolas Hoult has received less attention. The pair met in 2011 while filming X-Men: First Class together and were together for two years before splitting up. Lawrence and Hoult reunited six months later to rekindle the romance but don't expect to see the couple walking the red carpet hand in hand. They are known for arriving separately and meeting up inside to avoid being photographed together.
Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha
We didn't even know these two were together until Kerry Washington's friend spilled the beans saying she and former NFL player Nnamdi Asomugha had tied the knot. An actress since the early 90's, Washington saw her career reach new heights after starring in the widely popular ABC drama "Scandal." Pregnant with their first child, Washington still insists on showing up at red carpet events without her husband. Washington flew solo arriving at this year's Academy Awards by herself but Asomugha met up with the I Think I Love My Wife star later on at the exclusive Vanity Fair Oscar after-party.
Nicki Minaj and Safaree Samuels
Nicki Minaj made a lot of noise in the rap industry when she first emerged several years ago. Her outlandish wigs and shapely figure helped her gain a lot of attention immediately. There for her rise to the top was Safaree Samuels — a high school friend turned personal assistant and hype man. But soon word got out that the two had more than just a working relationship. He has several Nicki Minaj tattoos on his body. Although Minaj has yet to confirm the two are together, she often wears a huge diamond on her left ring finger, something she's done for the last few years. Recently the two were spotted wearing matching diamond wedding bands.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis met as co-stars on the popular sitcom "That 70's Show" when they played high school lovers and they remained friends after the show went off of the air. But shortly after it was announced that Kutcher's marriage to Demi Moore was over, he and the Black Swan actress apparently took their friendship to the next level. Paparazzi caught the two canoodling in Central Park confirming the two were an item. Recently, Kunis has been spotted with an engagement ring on her left hand but in true Kutcher-Kunis fashion, no official word from the couple about becoming engaged has been released.
Beyonce and Jay Z
Two of the biggest stars on the planet have managed to keep their relationship relatively quiet. Jay Z and Beyonce have been together for more than 12 years but the first time fans really got an inside look at their private lives together was when Beyonce's HBO documentary premiered. In "Life Is But A Dream," the former Destiny's Child member finally opened up about her relationship and shared some never before seen footage of the two interacting. But don't expect the Brooklyn rapper to be just as open and forthcoming about his wife or their two-year-old daughter.
Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow
Besties with Jay Z and Beyonce, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow have followed in their famous friends' footsteps by staying mum on their relationship. Mourning the loss of her father, Paltrow met Martin backstage at a Coldplay concert and they tied the knot the following year. The couple has two children together and while she rarely talks about her marriage, in 2008 Paltrow started her own lifestyle blog to share recipes, fashion tips and everything in between.
Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
After his relationship with Cameron Diaz fizzled out, Justin Timberlake quietly dated actress Jessica Biel. Photographs of the two together started to circulate in 2007 but they were mum on the relationship. Word had it they separated for a while only to find their way back to each other. The "Cry Me A River" singer popped the question in late 2011 and details surrounding their impending nuptials were so secret, the location of their October 2012 wedding was a mystery to invited guests until the last minute.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson
In one of the worst kept secrets of young Hollywood love, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart denied they were an item for years. It wasn't until after Stewart was caught red-handed in an extramarital affair with the older and very married Rupert Sanders and photos leaked of the two making out that Stewart acknowledged her relationship with her Twilight co-star. Stewart released a public apology to Pattinson, calling him the most important thing in her life, and although they reconciled and tried to make the relationship work, the couple soon split for good.
Julia Roberts and Daniel Moder
Julia Roberts has dated her fair share of fellow actors but after meeting camera man Daniel Moder on the set of the 2000 film The Mexican, she was smitten. So smitten that she broke up with boyfriend Benjamin Bratt and waited for Moder to divorce his wife so the two could be together. The pair wed in 2002 and has managed to stay out of the public eye mainly because the Eat Pray Love star relocated away from tinsel town to raise her family in Taos, New Mexico.
Matt and Luciana Damon
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck arrived in Hollywood at the same time after winning Oscars for writing the screenplay for the 1997 film Good Will Hunting. While Affleck's relationships have ended up on the cover of the weekly glossies, Damon's has stayed relatively off of the radar. In 2003, Damon met Luciana Barroso while on location in Miami. The couple wed two years later and are now the proud parents of four children, all girls. Damon legally adopted Luciana's daughter from a previous relationship.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may have hooked up in a scandalous way but the two have managed to weather the storm and build a family together. Many blamed Jolie for coming in between Pitt and his then wife Jennifer Aniston. To their credit both Jolie and Pitt kept their relationship out of the public eye, choosing instead to use their celebrity platform to shine a light on their humanitarian work across the globe. When they first met on the set of the 2005 movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Jolie was a single mother of one. Now their family has blossomed to six children.


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I just unearthed my modest supply of MyDrap linens-on-a-roll yesterday and was reminded how much I love them. Originally discovered at Paris' Merci boutique, I've enjoyed using them for entertaining time and time again (you can also wash them and reuse). In the past I felt a tinge of guilt when I gushed about them on this blog as they weren't available in the US at the time. Well, things have changed! Wonderful news...all these gorgeous hemstitched linens are available online in the US now and they offer more colors than I ever spotted at Merci. Just look at those pretty hues. All I can say is "luscious". I wonder if Santa could fit one of those rolls in my stocking...my guess is "yes".
2 comments:
- Lauren said...
This post makes me miss Paris! It looks like you guys are having a great experience in Washington. I love the pictures from your family photo shoot. You have the most beautiful children.
- December 8, 2010 at 5:22 PM
- Paula K said...
Steph - I'm catching up on your blog. Great news about mydrap available! xoxo
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Q -- Tell me more about the flash gun. Is it difficult to operate, or is it like the weapon on Star Trek, that can stun or kill on different modes?
A -- It is an advanced beam weapon that can operate on three different phases. Phase one, like Star Trek, can stun and maybe kill, if the person has a weak heart. On phase two, it can levitate ANYTHING no matter what it weighs. Phase three is the SERIOUS BUSINESS mode. It can be used to paralyze anything that lives, animal, human, alien and plant. On the higher position on the same mode, it can create a TEMPORARY DEATH. I assure you, any doctor would certify that person is dead, but their life essence lingers in some strange limbo, some kind of terrible state of non-death. In one to five hours the person will revive, slowly; first the bodily functions will begin, and in a few minutes, consciousness followed with full awareness. In that mode the alien scientists re-program the human brain and plant false information. When the person awakes, he 'recalls' the false information as information he gained through life experience. There is no way for a person to learn the truth. The human mind 'remembers' and believes completely the false data. If you attempt to inform them, they would laugh or get angry. They NEVER believe the truth. Their mind always forgets the experience of re-programming. You asked if the flash gun is difficult to operate. A two year old child could use it with one hand. It resembles a flash light, with black glass conical inverted lens. On the side are three recessed knobs in three curved grooves. Each knob is sized differently. The closer the knob to the hand the less the strength. It's that simple. Each knob has three strengths also, with automatic stops at each position. The strongest position will vaporize any thing that lives. That mode is so powerful it will leave NO TRACE of what it vaporized.
Q -- Is the weapon called a Flash Gun or is there a different name in the manuals?
A -- Everybody calls them Flash Guns, or more commonly "The Flash" or "my Flash" when talking about it. In the manual it is first introduced as the ARMORLUX Weapon. After that, it is explained as the Flash Gun.
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Nice thread jkrog08, thanks for the the great post. Star and flag for you.
There are a few small problems that I see with this case, however.
I find it strange that the guy decides to go back to the trailer after the experience he's had. If that had just happened to me I would have been way too scared to spend the night in the woods.
Also, he mentions that feeling comfortable on the ship with them and that the aliens seem like "old friends". But later, he shows concern at taking a job in a remote location in fear of being taken again.
Originally posted by kerazeesicko
Who hunts moose with a motorcyle... Epic fail.....got to love the liars and the gullible who will swallow everything you give them.
Let us first go through some obvious questions the reader may have. Does it make sense to go moose hunting on a motorbike? Was it a moose hunting trip? a fishing trip? or a duck hunting trip? Kevin's intent was to only shoot a moose if he spotted the right animal. He would have waited for his friends to show up who could go back to Ross River for a truck. Kevin remarked that it is the Yukon way to go out into the wilderness and be prepared for whatever opportunities come by. Kevin therefore had both hunting and fishing gear with him.
Originally posted by kerazeesicko
Who do so-called aliens like taking the rednecks of the world... Only a person of less intelligence would actually believe they are being taken by aliens and not realize it is all in thier minds. All in thier minds are the reason there is no evidence to back anything up.


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On April 28, Voronezh Base University (VSTU and VSUACE) held a regional stage of the project «Russian dictation in the sphere of housing and communal services» and an interactive Championship on the online game «Housing and Communal Department»A regional stage of the «All-Russian dictation in the sphere of housing and communal services» was held at the Voronezh Base University (VSTU and VSUACE), which was attended by graduates of the «National Institute» of Voronezh SUACE, students of the institutions of Voronezh and residents of the city who wish to test their competence in the sphere of housing and communal services.The acting Rector of VSTU Sergey Kolodyazhny addressed a welcoming speech to the participants and expressed the confidence that the best results of literacy in the housing sector will be shown in the Voronezh region.- Governor of the Voronezh Region supported program of improving the system of training of specialists in the sphere of housing and communal services. Voronezh Base University became the first university in Russia, which opened the training direction «Housing and communal infrastructure», and there will be qualified specialists in this field in two years. To improve the current situation in this vital area, we opened the «National Institute». Three turns-out of listeners have already graduated. This current educational project proves that close cooperation between the university and the population is very effective. We observe the results and are proud of them, - said the acting Rector of VSTU Sergey Kolodyazhny.The Executive Director of the « Housing and Communal Services Control» Svetlana Razvorotneva said to the participants of the event in her speech:- During the activity of the «National Centre of public control in the sphere of housing and communal services», we have realized that many problems arise from insufficient population literacy in the sphere of housing and communal services. Having understood it, we have developed activities on housing education.Svetlana Razvorotneva expressed gratitude to the administration of Base University for their hard work on the training of specialists in the sphere of housing and communal services and the residents. In her opinion, «National Institute» really increases professionalism of experts.Except active residents, students, graduates and students of the National Institute, heads of profile departments of the city administration, representatives of the district councils took part in testing.The tests presented the most actual questions for the citizens in the sphere of housing and communal services, for example, the mechanism of charge of payment for housing and municipal services, the new system overhaul, and the questions of management of apartment houses.As part of the interactive championship on the learning online game «Housing and Communal Department», the students of the Institutions of Voronezh took tasks of the learning online game «Housing and Communal Department», which is designed by «Fund of assistance to reforming of housing and communal services» specifically for young audiences. The students were taught the basics of saving and legal literacy in the housing sector in simple terms; working in the team, they sought to maintain a «comfortable environment» in the house, reducing the cost of payment for housing and communal services due to the skillful use of energy-saving measures.All participants of the «All-Russian dictation in the sphere of housing and communal services» and interactive online game «Housing and Communal Department» demonstrated a good knowledge in the field of housing, which will serve as a positive example for other residents of the city and the region.
The delegation of experts from Germany, headed by the President of «Helling» company Mr. Nathanael Riess visited Voronezh State Technical University and Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Today the company «Helling» is a member of the «German Society for Non-destructive Testing» (DGZfP), «Russian Society for Non-Destructive Testing and Technical Diagnostics» (RSNDTTD), as well as a leading supplier of high technologies in more than 39 countries. The company «Helling» is a long-term partner of Voronezh State Technical University. The head of the company Mr. Nathanael Riess noted that «Helling», having developed scientific base and unique control technologies, meeting the international standards, would strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation in the training of specialists in non-destructive testing in the framework of the Base University in future, as well as in the carrying of collaborative research aimed at the creation of the latest competitive equipment for non-destructive testing methods.
The company's specialists visited the Center of collective use of the Voronezh SUACE named after prof. Y.M. Borisov, the unique space for realization of research, developmental and technological works of fundamental and applied nature. The most advanced research in the field of building materials, products and structures are carried out in the Center. Center staff showed visitors the latest equipment in the laboratories of building structures, soil science and soil mechanics, non-destructive testing.
During the visit, there was a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Voronezh State Technical University, where the prizes of the Voronezh STU were awarded. The Director of the training centers of the Society for non-invasive monitoring and diagnosis methods (Hamburg, Berlin) Gunnar Morgenstern was awarded by the title of «Honorary Professor of Voronezh State Technical University». Representatives of the company «Helling» Leonid Nepravda and Dmitry Cherkashin were awarded by the medal «For Service before Voronezh State Technical University».
On March, 22 the meeting of students with the coordinators of the State Program «Global Education» was held at the Voronezh SUACE. This program started in Russia in 2014. According to the program, participants receive public funding for training on Master program, post-graduate program (PhD), internship in leading foreign universities. After their study abroad participants of the program are employed in Russian companies according to the acquired qualification. Principles of realization of the «Global Education» are fixed by presidential decree № 967 «On measures to reinforcement of human resource capacity of the Russian Federation».
The list of specialties and profiles of training contains technical specialties including energy, computer technology and other educational programs. A key requirement for participants is to have a bachelor's degree.
Students got acquainted with the presentation of the program with interest. The questions to the coordinators were concerned the conditions of participation in the program, the necessity of the certificate on knowledge of a foreign language, as well as the possibility of selection of university.
Detailed information about the State Program «Global Education» you can find on the official website http://educationglobal.ru
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On March 9, 2016 in the auditorium 3110, Rector of Voronezh SUACE Sergey Kolodyazhny solemnly read the order of Federal Service for supervision of education and science (Rosobrnadzor) on March 3, 2016, № 323 that the Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering is recognized as the university that passed the state accreditation of educational activities of all submitted to the state accreditation levels of professional education, large groups of professions, specialties and direction of training for a period of 6 years.
All declared to the state accreditation such as 72 directions and 43 specialties at the enlarged groups of specialties and directions (training programs for mid-level specialists, specialty, bachelors, master and post-graduate programs) were accredited.
- I congratulate our glorious team of many thousands of professors and students with the important result of our work. We will honorably continue representing the educational space of the Voronezh region, and proudly bear the title of one of the best engineering universities in the country - said the Rector of Voronezh SUACE Sergey Kolodyazhny.
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This is the second post in a series exploring possible reasons why Maji Matone hasn't worked. The previous post looked at the challenge of making the technology fit the context, specifically rural Tanzania. And the final post, (now available), will look at citizens' engagement, risk and apathy.
Why did Maji Matone fail? 2. The world of water supply?
People outside the water sector often take the view that delivering water to people should be easy. Drill a borehole, install a pump and some pipes, and you're done. Those who work in the water sector know that it's not so simple. Just as the difficult bit in Maji Matone was not finding the right technology, the difficult bit in rural water supply is about people - how the borehole, pump and pipes should be managed so that they last.
Part of this is about participation and ownership, ensuring that community members participate in planning for and installing new hardware (and that they contribute to the capital costs) with the intention that they are then more likely to take responsibility for it when the engineers and whoever paid for them have left. But part of it is also about institutions, responsibilities, legal frameworks and money. And it is this aspect that may have contributed to Maji Matone's failure.
If you go to the Ministry of Water in Dar es Salaam and ask people there about sustainability of rural water supply, they will tell you that this "operations and maintenance is a community responsibility". Ask a District Water Engineer the same question and you will get much the same answer. When making the point at numerous meetings that rural water supply in Tanzania faced a sustainability crisis, this was the typical answer I received.
There's a good reason for this. If government takes responsibility for operations and maintenance, history tells us that waterpoints will fall into disrepair, starved of the funds needed to pay for fuel for pumps and spare parts when a breakdown occurs. (And if government did make funds available for these costs, that would mean less money available for communities that haven't yet benefited from public investment in pumps and pipes.) So the Tanzanian government has established a very reasonable policy, that public money will be used for investments in new hardware, and that communities should be responsible for operations and maintenance, funded by user fees.
Of course it's a little more complicated that this, even in policy. District Water Engineers, though not primarily responsible for operations and maintenance, are nevertheless responsible for supporting communities that are having trouble with operations and maintenance - for helping them find spare parts, for providing some technical expertise, advising on what needs to be done, etc. There's still a lot that District Water Departments can do to help communities manage their hardware.
But what does all this have to do with Maji Matone? Well, one effect of this division of responsibilities is that it is used by government officials at both national and local to claim that sustainability isn't their problem. And Maji Matone was designed to mobilise citizens' voices, amplified by the media, to put pressure on District Water Departments to fix broken down waterpoints. So if our programme did what it was designed to do, and put pressure on a District Water Engineer, they could (and often did) simply turn around and say "not my problem".
On one level it's pretty clear that this wasn't the main reason for the programme's failure. We did a good job of turning information provided by citizens into action by District Water Engineers and repaired waterpoints, the problem that we didn't get as much information from citizens as we had hoped. But perhaps these institutional responsibilities were part of the reason why citizens didn't send us messages.
Convincing community members to take their responsibility for operations and maintenance seriously is a big part of what District Water Engineers do when overseeing the installation of new waterpoints. So they put a lot of effort into explaining to people that when a waterpoint breaks down, it's up to them to fix it. Messages communicated to the community are simplified and nuances about local government's responsibility for technical backstopping get lost. And if they've done this work well, there's a possibility that citizens were reluctant to send us messages because they didn't expect the District Water Engineers to take their messages seriously.
It's certainly a possibility, and some of my colleagues put a lot of weight on this point. It's also a possibility that general confusion about institutional responsibilities creates uncertainty, which discourages people from sending messages.
But personally I don't think citizens' understanding of government policy on rural water supply is high enough for this to have been a reason for low levels of engagement. The perception that government is responsible for water supply services is still widespread, even if expectations for government provision of services are very low.


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