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Meester was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Constance and Douglas Meester and lived most of her life in New York City and Los Angeles. Meester's last name is the Dutch word for "master" or "teacher".
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Meester has maintained that her parents gave her a normal upbringing and, despite their criminal past, are good people with experience that has only made Meester more open-minded and non-judgmental, "It made me realize that you can't judge anyone — especially your parents — for what they've done in their past, because people change." Meester has joked, "Look, I could've turned out a lot worse." She has cited her mother as her style icon.

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My wife & I need some advice on which island & hotel would be best for a TRUE, Relaxing, Hawaiian vacation. We have done the Caribbean (Grand Cayman) quite a few times & are ready for an adventure. We originally thought of doing multiple Islands in two weeks but decided one week in the perfect setting would be better. We are not big on crowds & touristy stuff & just want beach, sand, palms & sun. Please give us some advice.
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My wife & I need some advice on which island & hotel would be best for a TRUE, Relaxing, Hawaiian vacation. We have done the Caribbean (Grand Cayman) quite a few times & are ready for an adventure. We originally thought of doing multiple Islands in two weeks but decided one week in the perfect setting would be better. We are not big on crowds & touristy stuff & just want beach, sand, palms & sun. Please give us some advice.
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When are you going? What is your budget?
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You can find a quiet beach with sun, palms and the sun on any of the islands....
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We were thinking March of 2012 with a buget of under $7,000 with airfare.
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Since you are on a Fodors site, I suggest you at least consult the Fodors online guide for Hawaii and then come back to these boards with specific questions. It would also be desirable if you generated a profile. Sometimes that helps a responder to make more appropriate recommendations. For the online guide, see:
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I like The Big Island- Mauna Kea or Hapuna Prince have terrific beaches.
I like Makena Resort on Maui.
You can get an idea of the beaches on www.hawaiigaga.com
It's actually a condo/home booking site, but the photos of the beaches are lovely and fun to look at. I have no affiliation with any of the places mentioned above.
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My parents visit Hawaii twice a year they like to relax on the beaches for vacation. They alternate between Oahu and Maui. On Oahu they stay at Marriot on Ko Olina resort (you'll need a car to stay here). They like KoOlina because its quiet and it has several little bays you can swim in so my mom feels safer here. In Maui they stay on Kaanapali beach which they say is the best beach in Maui- they like the Westin but regular rates are pretty expensive, you might want to check incase they are having a sale. My parents are going there again for 2 weeks in January. They've been to Mexico numerous times but prefer Hawaii for swimming.
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I wouldn't recommend Ka'anapali on Maui for OP if they aren't interested in crowds and touristy stuff. That almost defines Ka'anapali. It's a big beach, but not the best, in my opinion.
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If you want to blow your budget and live it up in 1 week on an island with few resorts, go to Lanai
If you want to have more realistic Hawaiian adventure and have a whole island basically to yourselves, go to Molokai
The best Island if you want activities like whale watching (Maui)
Best Fishing (Big Island)
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Even though Maui is my favorite island - I would suggest Kauai. Stay at the Hanalei Bay Resolt on the north part of the island - overlooks Bali Hai. It's quiet, serene, gorgeous and a beautiful beach. The resort (condo) even has a golf cart to take you to and from the beach if you don't want to walk the slight hill through the property. If you go make sure you take a zodiac raft to the Na Pali Coast. It is to die for. Have a wonderful time. No matter where you stay you will fall in love with the islands. The whales should still be frolicking in the water so be sure to take some whalewatching tours. Aloha!
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Maui, Kaanapali Beach
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I spent a great week on Kaanapali Beach this past summer . I loved it but I am not sure if it would necessarily be what the OP is looking for. It is a stretch of hotels and condos that one could consider "crowded" if you are looking for something secluded. And I don't think it's the best beach in Maui, particularly towards the Marriott and Hyatt. The beach gets better as you move towards the Sheraton. That being said, I thought it was great and would stay there again but I don't have a particular need for seclusion and I liked the convenience of the area.
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Big Beach on Maui is also very lovely. It's huge but even if crowded it's still not crowded because of it's size.
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You can find what you describe on any of the islands. Each has their pluses and minuses.
Oahu is usually the easiest for finding flights (and if you stay outside Waikiki/Honolulu is not particularly touristy or crowded).
Maui is beautiful, again just don't stay in the tourist resorts.
Kauai sounds the most like what you are seeking.
Big Island has the most diversity plus the live volcano.
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But you can't stay on Big Beach, and it has a dangerous break so you must be careful swimming and bodysurfing there.
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quite, not touristy, beach, sun - then choose either Lanai, Big Island or Kauai. Lanai may be too expensive. $7,000 budget - where are you coming from as a good portion might be taken up in airfare. After visiting most of the islands,We concentrate on Kauai as it is pretty low key. We prefer condo's because of the room it offers - not just a bed, ability to eat in for some of our meals and not having to fight over a pool with lots of people that the resorts might have. Check out VRBO for condo's (Luxury Poipu is a great condo as is Poipu Shores) but Hanalei Bay Resort certainly is a good choice. Hanalei is a sleepy little town with just enough to make it funky and interesting, nice beaches. Poipu Beach has grown considerable but still is calmer than other areas on Maui and Oahu (Waikiki area). However, North side of Oahu is quieter as are the beaches there. Aloha - hope you find something you like. It is our favorite place to relax.
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If you want a relaxing week I would suggest Kauai.
It is truly beautiful and very tropical, (it's called the garden island), so IMHO it is the lushest of all the islands (with the exception of maybe Oahu). You can relax on beautiful quiet beaches, go hiking, there is a mini grand canyon to explore, the island is very small if you want to go from one end to the other (they are quite different - the south is drier while the north is wetter and greener). It doesn't have a commercial feel at all.
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Good prices can be found for the 4S's on Lanai. Example 4S Manele Bay for March on Travelocity is $345/nt. If one really looks, there are some sub 3 numbers out there
*I didnt mention Kauai as the nicer N Shore might be wet in March
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For relaxation, solitude, empty beaches and small towns I'd rent a beach house on the north shore of Kauai through VRBO.com. Waking up every morning and having coffee on your own piece of the beach is something I still dream about. My husband and I had a couples massage right on the beach at the Hanalei Day Spa in the Hanalei Colony Resort in Haena. Absolute heaven on earth.
I also love the Big Island for it's dramatic scenery; volcanoes, green sand beaches, black sand beaches, volcanic-heated swimming holes fed by the ocean. At Punalu'u Beach Park we actually swam with giant sea turtles right off the black sand beach.
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Kauai or Maui would meet your criteria.
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I would definitely have to say Kauai. Yes, I am a bit biased living here. But I have lived on the other islands, and there really is no place like Kauai. The Waimea Canyon and Polihale Beach are otherworldly. If any of my friends come I always recommend a few tours. Napali.com is Captain Andy's site, and they have been doing tours on the Na Pali forever and give killer tours. www.safarihelicopters.com is also a must do. I just know them, but I think any helicopter tour would be unforgettable. Also, for great places to stay, I thinke www.hawaiianbeachrentals.com has the biggest selection, and you can find stuff all over the island. For food, I would definitely hit up Sushi Bushido in Kapaa. A lot of people go to Kintaros, but I actually think Bushido is much better and better atmosphere. And spend a few days playing at Hanalei Bay. Sunsets there are not to be missed.
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You can find peace and solitude on the beach at any of the six main Hawaiian Islands. From up on the North Shore on Oahu - private places at Waimea (aee VRBO) or at Turtle Bay - or over at Lanakai by Kailua, to any number of places on Big Island - to such places as Kapalua/Napili on Maui - or our favorite - up at Hanalei/Princeville on Kauai - or down at sunny Poipu.
Hawaii is your oyster - so just google and google and find what fits your parameters.
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BTW - the garden isle of Kauai - does get some rain on the North Shore - 4 sure - that's why it's so lush - but unless is's a huge winter storm - it passes through and then you are rewarded with sunshine and fresh waterfalls streaming down the hills of Bali Hai.
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The amazing thing about Hawaii beaches is that it's fairly easy to avoid the crowds on all of the islands. Kauai is tropical and has mountains and canyons; Maui has great beaches for snorkeling and Haleakela crater; and the Big Island has a mountain, a volcano, and a ton of diverse scenery. All three islands have plenty to see and do in a week's time.
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Miami Heat superstar LeBron James could be mulling a comeback in Cleveland at the end of the season, according to his former Cavaliers teammate Andersen Verajao.
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TCF is a new initiative started to develop a lightweight extensible communications protocol to standardize the way development tools - including debuggers, monitoring, analysis and test tools - communicate with different devices. A number of organizations, including Wind River, Freescale and Power.org are involved with the development of TCF. The protocol is designed to work for target agents, JTAG probes and target simulators, and allows value-adding components from multiple vendors to plug together easily, targeting heterogeneous device configurations like multicore and system-on-a chip (SoC).
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"Power.org is adopting the TCF protocol in some of our debug services for the Power Architecture technology platform," said Chris Ng, the chairperson of Power.org's Common Debug Interface Technical Subcommittee. "These services provide a standardized environment for vendors to interoperate more effectively."
The Eclipse community has quickly evolved to be the center of collaborative development for new and innovative technology that addresses the needs of the embedded and device market. There are currently nine open source projects hosted at Eclipse that specifically address the needs of embedded developers, including the widely used Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT) Project that has been downloaded over one million times in the past 12 months. In addition, more than 30 embedded and mobile vendors are now members of the Eclipse Foundation, supporting and promoting their Eclipse-based products to embedded customers.
For more information about the DSDP projects mentioned above, please visit the links below:
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Device Debugging -- http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/dd/
Target Management -- http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/
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The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects. Full details of Eclipse and the Eclipse Foundation are available at www.eclipse.org.
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Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,538
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Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,471
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Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,542
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Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,469
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Nov. 20, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,451
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Nov. 20, 2014 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,388
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Ugandan troops begin Congo pull-out
Monday 16 March 2009
Some 3,000 Ugandan soldiers have begun pulling out of north-east Congo after a three-month offensive against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
A Uganda-led attack that began in mid-December has so far failed to net LRA leader Joseph Kony or two of his deputies, wanted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The rebels have killed more than 900 people in reprisals.
"All of our soldiers are pulling out of the mission area ... our colleagues in Congo will continue," Lieutenant-General Ivan Koreta, deputy chief of defence forces, told reporters.
"We'll keep on sharing intelligence," he said late yesterday at an airport 25 miles from the capital.
Koreta said he expected Uganda's two brigades or some 3,000 troops to withdraw completely within eight days and that Ugandan soldiers would not enter the Democratic Republic of Congo to help Kinshasa's soldiers battle Kony.
There had initially been some confusion over the timetable of Uganda's pullout. Uganda said the mission had been extended indefinitely, but Congo denied that.
Critics say there is little to celebrate since the Ugandan offensive has failed to capture or kill Kony, who has waged a two-decade insurgency against the government.
Rebel fighters are known for slashing off lips and limbs in a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and destabilised a large area of central Africa.
Kampala says it sent troops into Congo only after Kony repeatedly refused to sign a peace deal worked out in neighbouring southern Sudan.
The operation is sensitive in Congo as Uganda invaded the nation in the 1990s and was accused of backing rebels and looting resources there.
But in a sign of improved relations, Congolese President Joseph Kabila and his Ugandan counterpart met this month on their border to discuss security and oil prospecting on Lake Albert, with estimated reserves of one billion barrels.
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Epicentre of despair: rebuilding lives after the Pakistan earthquake
The earthquake that ripped through Pakistan's North West Frontier and Kashmir was among the worst in history. A year on, 30,000 frightened people remain in tents. Ann McFerran reports
Saturday 07 October 2006
Widow Badshi is close to despair. Nearly one year after the Pakistan earthquake destroyed her home and killed several loved ones, she is living in squalor and deep fear. With 36 other families, Widow Badshi, her sons and their families are crammed, 16 to a tent, in a camp where sickness is rife and, until recently, lacked basic sanitation.
When the earthquake ripped through North West Frontier Province and Pakistani Kashmir, killing 86,000 people, it was one of the worst recorded earthquakes in history. Initially, it displaced three million people, of whom 300,000, like Widow Badshi, had nowhere to go. Today, official figures indicate that about a million people are vulnerable, and 35,000 people are still in official camps, with another 30,000 predicted to come down from the mountains for shelter during the winter.
The 60-year-old widow is sitting between her two sons in a stiflingly hot tent, precariously perched high above the city of Muzaffarabad. "After the earthquake, we were given food, tents and mattresses," she says. "But recently we have had little help from our government, and we are suffering more than ever because we have no place to stay which is safe."
A few weeks ago, Widow Badshi and her family were woken in the hours of darkness by what sounded like the mountain cracking in two. "We thought it was another earthquake," she says. In fact, it was a landslide caused by a lethal combination of the monsoon's flash floods and aftershocks. This time, the family ran for safety and lost little. But Widow Badshi says the children are frightened to go to sleep now, because they say night is when quakes come.
After the earthquake obliterated their homes, on 8 October 2005, Widow Badshi and her family sought refuge in a government camp in Muzaffarabad. Last April, the government decided to disband these emergency camps so the people "could get on with their lives". But many people, including Widow Badshi and her sons, had no homes to return to, and precious little left of their livelihoods.
Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, was once a first stop for tourists, famous for its beauty. Today, it is chiefly renowned for terror and carnage which deters visitors; few hotels have reopened and unemployment is rife.
The government claims to have paid most families the first installment of 25,000 rupees (£220) of the promised 100,000 rupee relief money. But distribution is plagued with corruption. Restitution requires the male householders return to their homes to claim this money. But many potential claimants have gone to cities, like Islamabad, to work as day labourers and are now unwilling to leave their jobs for a relief package that has been historically slow to materialise. Others, like Widow Badshi's sons, refuse to return to their villages because of the real risks of further earth tremors. "We're poor and have lost everything," she says. "Why should we risk all we have left, our lives?"
Last summer, Widow Badshi and her sons came under pressure to move out of the government camp. They complied but the attempt to dissolve the camp resulted only in more misery. "They miscalculated the numbers," she says. "Out of 300 families they forgot 36." Today, these 36 families are paying 150 rupees a month to a private landlord, above Muzaffarabad.
When they moved in, Widow Badshi says: "This camp was filthy, smelly and unsafe for women, because it lacked proper latrines." Today, Concern Worldwide, with Islamic Relief and Unicef, have provided basic sanitation but inside the camp, in the oppressive heat, malaria is rife. There is no electricity, and women worry about snakes at night. Widow Badshi's son, Ghulam Hasan, says: "We're not beggars; we want to work. All we're asking is for compensation and a place to live. The international NGOs, like Concern Worldwide, have really helped us but our own government doesn't seem to care about us."
What the Pakistan government plans to do next to help these people is anybody's guess. "The government is being deliberately vague," says Concern Worldwide's country director, Dorothy Blane. "It doesn't want to attract many people to the camps, so it deliberately refuses to make them an attractive proposition."
Last week, the UN's Kathleen Cravero, said full recovery would take up to 10 years. As winter approaches, NGOs such as Concern which are involved in helping make the camps sanitary, are poised in an awkward waiting game with a government unwilling to reveal how engaged it is. One UN rumour has it that prefabs for the next stage of rehabilitation have been imported from Saudi Arabia, and are stuck in Karachi's docks.
Ms Blane believes the government is well prepared for the next stage of rehabilitation, but those who need to know most - such as Widow Badshi and her family - are being kept, agonisingly, in the dark. She says indignantly: "We've survived the earthquake but we cannot survive these terrible conditions. What will happen when winter sets in and the snow comes?"
As you drive through this staggeringly beautiful landscape, what strikes you is how tents now sit perched on every inch of flattish land. Beyond the tents, the lovely mountains frequently betray the murky outlines of other massive landslides, with all vegetation ripped away.
Sadat Hussain, 48, lost his wife and his seven children in the earthquake. He says he thought at first the tremors must be the outbreak of war with India. He stands stiffly to attention, as he relates how he was buried for four days before he was rescued. With magnificent understatement, he says: "I think it sent me a little crazy."
Today he is looked after by Widow Badshi's community of tent-dwellers. The Islamic code of looking after each other and particularly those worse off than yourself has probably helped the people survive as much as the much-praised aid workers.
Abid Hussain worked and still works for a micro-credit bank. He lost three of his four children. As he climbs up the steep pile of rubble that was the city of Balakot, he points at huge, broken slabs of concrete, the odd fridge and dismembered armchair, saying: "This is the way I used to walk home from work. I'd be constantly saying 'Hello' to family and friends."
At 8.50am, on the day of the quake, Abid wakened suddenly as his house collapsed around him, badly injuring his leg. His youngest son was killed outright; his wife, Samina, pulled her husband to safety, then rushed to the school. All around her was terror, she says. "Bodies of children; dismembered arms and legs. Everywhere people were crying."
That morning, Abid had returned to bed after a 3am breakfast and prayer in preparation for fasting for Ramadan. His greatest regret is that he never kissed his children goodbye before they left for school. "Because you never dream they won't come home."
More than 80 per cent of the earthquake's 80,000 victims were children who were in school. Samina found the body of her eldest son, Hasnan. Her younger son, Shazeb, was alive but he did not speak for weeks. Today he never leaves his mother side and refuses to go to school. It is the place, he says, where the roof falls on your head.
Samina spent eight hours that first day among the rubble of the school, and returned the next day and the next. But she has never found her daughter, and she and Abid still dream of the seven-year-old, Uajia, and cannot quite believe she may one day appear alive and well. When they produce a battered photograph of a smiling little girl you can only share in their vain hope.
Today the family are staying in a tent next to Abid's parents' home eight miles from Balakot. And today Abid and his brothers have hired a bulldozer at a cost of many hundreds of dollars to clear the rubble and to begin rebuilding. Dusk falls and thunder peals from the glowing mountains surrounding the city.
Abid Hussain points to the place where his leg was crushed by a fallen wall. Today, a lemon tree has struggled to life though the rubble. Abid says his family have lived and owned property in Balakot for 300 years and he points out his compensation was a fraction of house's cost of 1.5m rupees. But Abid is even angrier that the government has done so little for Balakot's people. And he points at the people living in absurdly flimsy makeshift shelters among the rubble, saying they need help far more than him.
"The government raised billions of dollars through the images of Balakot after the earthquake but what has it done for Balakot's citizens?" he demands.
Shabir, 22, and his wife, Robina, like their parents, worked the land until the earthquake destroyed their world. An agricultural labourer, Shabir had been tending maize in fields above Muzaffarabad when he felt the earth shake and heard the mountain roar. "We thought it was Doomsday, the end of the world," he says.
Certainly, it was the end of a life for Shabir. He lost his home, and several members of his large family and spent the freezing winter in a tented camp near Muzaffarabad. After seven months, the Pakistani government told Shabir it wanted to move him and his family to Ghanool, 13km from Balakot.
Shabir was greatly puzzled. He had been told that an international team led by Japanese scientists had condemned the area as a critically dangerous "red" zone. He says: "They said only 20 per cent of the earthquake's energy had been released. They fear there is more to come. We felt safe in the camp of Muzaffarabad. We really didn't want to come here."
But the government was adamant, and the family was moved to a temporary home. On 26 July 2006, as the memories of that terrible morning in October were beginning to fade, disaster struck again, and the earth shook for the second time. At 4.30am, as the family recited the Koran, a landslide thundered down the mountain, hit a lake created in the valley by the October earthquake, and released a massive deluge of water which wiped out the family's new home, along with many others.
Shabir says: "We could see the black water rolling towards us. Then we could hear the screams on the other side of the valley. Eight people were killed."
The landslide may have spared the lives of Shabir and his family but its force also washed away 17,000 rupees saved from his initial government compensation of 25,000 rupees.
Today, Shabir and his family share a small tent, where we meet, sitting on pitifully thin blankets, among neatly piled cooking utensils, some clothes and bags of dried foodstuffs. He fears for his family's future. "The first earthquake destroyed our families, our lands, everything. This second one has destroyed our spirit and our hope."
To donate to Concern Worldwide which is working in the earthquake-affected areas, phone 0800 410 510
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