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July 27, 2010
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On Saturday there were several volunteers on site to start doing the hard work of setting up the exhibit area. There was a lot of pitchforking, wheelborrowing, and spreading of mulch. For those of you who have not worked with this mulch it can make everything it touches dirty in a heartbeat. A lot of dirty clothes this day. Because of the heat (+107 heat index) the work was stopped at noon to get in out of the heat.
I arrived on site in the morning. Again another scorching day. Ken Spear, a main coordinator of the volunteers, called me and said to stop and get my parking permit on the way in. Thus starts my Jamboree adventure. Go to the brick building with the big asphalt parking area in front on the way in to the site. OK no problem. Found it. Got in line. It was the line for registration not the parking permits. This only took 20 minutes in 105 degree heat. Go around to the back of the building for the parking permit. OK, will do. There was another line, in the sun (of course) moving at about 1 foot per hour more or less. Then I got to the window. At this point I want to thank Steve Harrison, who helped coordinate for the jamboree. Thank goodness, my name was on the list. I got the sticker and was on my way to the Conservation Trail, at the appropriate military post speed of 25 mph on the nice blacktop for several miles.
When I finally arrived at the site I found that stopping for the permit was a mixed blessing. The work for the day at the site was done. Again several volunteers with axes, saws, hammers and other tools had set up stations, walkways and other areas of the exhibit. The banner was in place, the watershed map was bolted down, tables and chairs were there. That is when they decided to take the rest of the drivers to get their permits. I told them to "be prepared" (Boy Scout Motto) for a wait in the sun. About an hour and a half later they were back. Again Steve Harrison did a good job. This was much shorter than it took me. After that several of the volunteers got into my van and we proceeded to the Econolodge to check in or return as appropriate. Had a nice dinner with several of the group in the evening.
Today (Monday) we all were up and at'em for breakfast around 7:00. We all met according to Tim's instructions at 7:30 by the hotel lobby. We had 15 volunteers today. It took a little organizing to round everyone up. It kind of seemed like herding cats to me. We were finally on our way about 8:00. When we got to the gate of Ft. AP Hill there was a line of cars, buses, and trucks. But since we had our stickers from the previous day we got in fairly quickly.
At the site we continued to prepare for the noon opening of the Conservation Trail. I helped with the site communication system. This was a box with three lights, three switches with two positions (hold, and send) and some wire. With the help of one of the volunteers we laid the wire to each of the three tent areas where we discuss the wastewater treatment process and water quality testing using the World Water Monitoring Day Kits. The basic concept of the system is simple. When one of the tents is empty and ready for scouts the switch is placed in the send position. This lights up a light at the pipe inlet for their "plant". This lets the people at the inlet pipes know they are ready for more scouts. When the scouts have arrived in the tent the switch is placed in the hold position and lights in the box by the pipe inlet go out so they know not to send scouts until the light goes back on. A simple concept right? We are still training on this system.
Fairfax County Wastewater Authority brought down some wastewater treatment plant models for use in the exhibits to explain the treatment process to the scouts. We set these up and were ready to go about 11:00 when we broke for lunch at the concession stand. This has the traditional Scout gourmet fair of, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, chili dogs, nachos, chips & etc. After this we were ready for the Scouts to start at noon.
Noon came and went. Not a lot of people early in the afternoon. Lots of scouts were still arriving on site and setting up. As it got closer to shutdown time more scouts started to show up. Overall it was a slow afternoon with about 125 scouts and leaders going through the exhibit. Which, by the way, was more than most of the other trail exhibits had today.
Evening activity for most of the group included BBQ at one of the local places.
We are expecting a big day tomorrow.
Posted July 27, 2010
Day 1, Saturday: Setup Day. On Saturday there were several volunteers on site to start doing the hard work of setting up the exhibit area. There was a lot of pitchforking, wheelborrowing, and spreading of mulch. For those of you who have not worked with this mulch it can make everything it touches dirty in a heartbeat. A lot of dirty clothes this day. Because of the heat (+107 heat index) the work was stopped at noon.
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Luc meets Buddha
Trip Start Feb 20, 2002
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2500 or so years ago, the great and enlightened Buddha left his Himilayan home, strolled over to Sri Lanka and kicked up his feet to spread the good word of eternal mindfulness. In his karmic wake he left behind millions of devoted Buddhists. Buddhism is the main religion in Sri Lanka. Meditation retreats, peaceful monastaries and Buddhist rest houses dot the Island and having a few days to spare, I thought I'd stay in one to learn more about this refreshingly unreligious religion.
"What's the minimum amount of time that I can stay here? " I asked the head monk of the meditation retreat.
"10 days" he muttered.
"I only have 2 days"
He seemed annoyed and said to me in a calm yet "unmonk-like" patronizing tone "You need at least 10 days to learn the Buddha's teachings". He sighed and looked away dismissing me with a wave of his hand.
10 days of meditation, chanting, group prayer and idle thought seemed like way too much for my racing western mind, even if the meditation center was nestled in a beautiful quiet forest setting.
No thanks. "Maybe there's a 'Learn Buddhism in 5 days' book I can pick up on the Internet" I thought as we shuffled our way out of the retreat.
Back into the van, we puttered our was back to the Lodge in Galle, where Uma had it all figured out already. She knew that I wouldn't be able to hold out for a full 10 day session and had asked her friends for information on a monastery near the town that would be willing to take a curious foreigner in for a day or two for instruction. She'd called ahead and arranged everything with the head monk of the local temple for my visit.
Early morning, I mounted our friendly neighbourhood tuk tuk and after stopping at the gas station to fill his 3 wheeler with petrol from an old coke bottle, we were on our way. 20 minutes from Galle, the quiet monastery tucked into a small corner of a forest surrounded by calm waters awaited.
Once I arrived, the head monk greeted me and then guided me to an english speaking monk who had been spending a few nights in the monastery as a pitstop on his journey trudging through Sri Lanka by foot.
Neannalukela, brought me to a dimly lit corner of the complex and sat me down.
He tried to explain Buddhism, meditation and his own experiences to me. "You must wish all goodness to all creatures" his eyes drifted over my shoulder into the distance, "to all people, to all religions, to all insects, to all monks, to all laymen, to all nationalities..." he went on like this, looking blankly over my shoulder and swaying his head side to side, for a few minutes.
"Alright, so when can we meditate?" I burst into his trance.
He drew his eyes back to mine "Were we not just meditating just then?"
"You see Luc, life's sufferings can only be eliminated by dulling the senses and understanding Buddha's preachings
I was getting antsy and was fighting off the urge of asking "Alright buddy, what's the secret, break it down for me, I need charts! Proof! Spreadsheets! Time is money, common man... Get to the point!" I took a big gulp, and swallowed back my completly 'out-of-place' conditioned instinct to get to 'point B' as quickly as possible.
He continued, "Experiences which you had in the passed, are they not gone? When you learn to focus your energy on this moment, with razor sharp concentration then you will have a deeper appreciation of life" he said in an calm sedated voice. He stood up and walked me to the door.
Stopping to pause at the door on the way out, he said softly, "That experience, sitting and talking, where is it? It is gone no? " he took 2 steps toward the courtyard "... and that one, just now, is it not gone as well?"
Suddenly he stopped walking and asked urgently "Luc, what time is it?"
The monk explained to me that he lived off the coast on an Island with his teacher and another monk. Everyday, they would take their alms bowls and travel to town to get some food. As monks, they weren't allowed to touch money, so to eat they walked down the street with their alms bowls in-hand awaiting offerings from other Buddhists. It was time for his "alms run".
He led me to the group prayer room where dozens of Buddhists sat in deep silent meditation and was off. The meditators were all sitting facing a monk draped in bright orange cloth. As I joined the assembly and tried to meditate, my mind was racing. "Hmm,I wonder how long I have to sit here.", "Should my legs be crossed like this?", "Hmmm, I wonder what my friends are doing back home", " I sure could use a pint right about now..." "Nono, Luc, focus, breath in, out... razor sharp concentration, right." ... My mind wasn't ready for the onslaught of complete silence and mindfulness. Thankfully, lunch time rolled around. They guided me by hand to the lunch room where they had made rice and curry, the staple food for any self respecting Sri Lankanite. Once the monks were done eating, us Laymen were allowed to eat. We squatted and ate with our hands.
I spent the rest of the afternoon with an elderly man who spoke good english. He was kind enough to show me the ropes. When nap time rolled around, I rolled out my mat and passed out.
Sleep helped pass the bulk of the afternoon and left me with enough time to explore the compound, meet some monks eager to practice their english and snap a few pictures
"Ok everyone, say 'Cheese' !" CLICK!
The digital camera was a big hit with the monks.
I even got a saucy private photo-shoot session with the head monk! Now that's more like it.
Not feeling any more enlightened but perhaps a little more rested I hopped back into my intrepid tuk tuk. "Home James"
-- Searching for Sunsets
Alright, perhaps Buddhism wasn't my calling so I needed a clear mission, a purpose to this 9 month absence from reality that I stubbornly thrusted myself into. I was looking for something more than just reckless adventure from this trip but I didn't know what it was looking for, in the meantime this would have to do
First I'd need to set a criteria, some form of measurement to know when the perfect sunrise has been captured. What makes the perfect sunset? Hmmm... Let's see...
... Color, it would have to be the ever elusive red sunset. None of this, far too common, orange glow crud.
... Size, it would have to be big, so large that looking directly into it, even as it faded, would leave sun spots on my retina,
... Height, it would need to be perfectly situated in the sky, not too low yet not too high,
.. and finally, the piesse-de-resistance would be the perfect silouhette. Perhaps the dark outline of a stilt fisherman, a temple, pyramid or castle. This would be the hard part.
"The Taj Mahal in India? Sri Lanka's Sri Pada? Turkey's Capadocia? Egypt's Pyramids? Tibet's Himalayas? Where would this elusive, blissful, crystal clear sunset be?" I pondered. I'd have to trudge my hefty cameras half away across the globe to find out... The search was on.
-- His story checked out
Shopping for a little reading material to keep my mind from idling, I stopped into a book shop in Colombo. Thumbing my way through mounds of crusty, dog eared, old books, I stumbled onto a familiar name "... TIM PAGE". There was Tim, holding his knees pressed against his chest sitting up in a sort of contorted position on a train looking out onto central Vietnam. Tim's books filled the shelves and were bursting with heart wrenching, tragic photos from Vietnam. Seeing the images second hand was emotional enough, I could only imagine how life altering his experiences must have been at the tender age of 20.
Earlier that week, I'd pulled out my digital camera to show Tim some of my meager still shots. "What do you think about *this* shot?" I asked, holding up my camera like a trump card about to be slammed down onto a poker table
He sat up and squinted at the little screen "Where is this line going? It draws the viewer right off the picture! And what the fuck is this bush doing there?" He howled bluntly. I committed his straight forward, unfiltered remarks and advice to memory after seeing his
fabulously authentic photographs. Tim was one of the few talented photographers who crossed the boundary between simple postcard pics to, in your face, shocking, thought provoking shots. Photos that actually said something.
-- Man down
I'd never seen a dead body before but there he was, thrown to the center of the busy street, another victim from the battlezone of traffic that plagued Sri Lanka. The elderly man laying still on the hard gravel, curled into the fetal position almost seemed to be asleep. Blood flowing from his opened lower torso, saturating the road with red liquid, dispelled that illusion instantly. Boys where swirling around him, almost as if in slow motion, waving their hands in the air, faces streaked with tears. As we passed the freshly expired corpse, driving respectfully slow, swirving left to avoid the mob, Affan held his head in his hands and uttered one word, "Shit". Adrenaline flushed from our frozen faces anb for the rest of the ride to the sandy beaches of Hikkaduwa, piercing, uninterrupted silence permeated the van. Before Affan drove off, I shook his hand and looked dead in his eyes to say with utmost sincerity "Please drive safely..."
-- Malaria day
Going to bed, I could just feel that a nightmare was on the verge of creeping in, even before I shut my eyes. Checking the toilet for goblins, I kept the bathroom light on as a preemptive strike.
"Nono, maybe Paris, then Stockholm. Italy, yes, yes, yes! I certainly have to go back to Italy!" it took a full minute before I opened my eyes and identified the bright pink mosquito net engulfing me. My mind, swimming in blissfully warm sleepy thoughts, adjusted slowly as I realized that I was already beyond the "planning phase" of my trip. No, I wasn't back home in my cushy downtown apartment, drooling over an atlas, quaffing a Guinness by the fire. I was in Sri Lanka. Surprisingly, I was quite disappointed at first to make this realization. I had been dreaming of travelling through out Europe again. Subconsiously, I was yearning for easy travel. Travel of familiar food, comfortable wheather and copious gratuitous drinking. My Malaria meds were bringing my homesickness, buried deep in my thought processes, out into the light. Hardly a nightmare, I awoke feeling quite safe, secure, mushy and cozy. Finally I was getting adjusted to the meds! Hoorah!
-- Home, sweet home...
I had called ahead and worked out all the details with Wajira, the kind Sri Lankan man I'd sat next to on the plane 2 weeks before. I would have Affan pick me up at the beach to finally drop me off at Wajira's home, in Colombo, were I would stay with him for a few days.
"Luc, you should come back for the night. You will be my guest, no cost" Uma said. She had phoned me at my hotel on the beach from Galle to invite me back to her lodge for one last night.
I had a quick mental debate over spending another night on the beach versus going back to Uma's for some delicious food and comfortable sleep. Within a half hour I was on a tuk tuk racing back through the very same streets where we had seen the laying corpse just one day passed.
After whipping up a quick web page for her guest house, we gorged ourselves with some of Uma's delicious Chinese food in the darkness of the daily power cut.
Uma held her fork half way to her mouth, about to take a sumptuous bite, "You know Luc, to be a Buddhist you just need to do good things, you don't need to go to the temple and stuff. I think you may be a Buddhist already, you just don't know it"
I stopped eating, thought deeply looking off into the darkness for a second, "Nahh, still feel Athiest I think" I said. We both laughed and kept eating.
-- Colombo
Affan dropped me off at Wajira's brother's, 2 story, open concept condo in a prestegious Colombo District.
Wajira and his friend had been waiting for me in the living room where I staggered in lugging my backpack and threw it to the ground. I spent the next hour breifing them of my eventuous travels through their country. Sri Pada, the Safari, the beaches, the ancient cities, Galle, the dead body from the day before and of course, my journey up north. It was a much needed condiut for me to oncork some of the pressure on the vaste quantities of unshared adventures I'd built up throughout my hair raising, cross-country banaza.
"Tssss, Tssss" they hissed and listened carefully as I went over the trials of the previous week swaying their heads side to side, as most Sri Lankans do to show a multitude of emotions.
Staring at this battered and wary trraveller, they hummed and cringed with every climax I gladly over-dramatized.
"Ahhhhh... that's better" I sunk back into Wajira's lounge chair content with having unleashed my payload of adventures onto them.
Later that night, over dinner at a member's only sports club in downtown Colombo, Wajira's friend stuck his hand out to the waiter, paused, glanced over at me and asked a question. A question I knew was coming even before the food had arrived. "Knife and fork?". I was getting used to this. "Nono, I'll eat with my hands".
Wajira's chuckled and looked at his friend, "Luc's been to Vavunya! He'll eat with his hands like us." Having been to Vavunya set me apart from the typical package tourist. Most Sri Lankans themselves having never been there, this one word would instantly label me as more than just another beach bound tourist. With every Sinhalese exchange that began an introduction to one of Wajira's friends, that one recognizable word, "Vavunya", would trickle in. Vavunya was my medal of honor, and I wore it proudly.
Wajira and his friends spent the night jamming on their guitars to old 70's tunes while we polished off a bottle of Arrack, a yummy, local, potent fermented, coconut liquor.
The next day, slightly hung over, we hit the town. Most of the clothes we westerners gladly part our dollars and pounds for, are made in Sri Lanka. A certain percentage of the gross of exported goodies are sold in town, in a mega-shopping center for a fraction of the cost. It was hard to surpress my trigger like shopping instinct when faced with Colombia, Gap and Nike goods at 10% of what we'd pay back home but not having enough room to fit even another pair of clean socks into my backpack, I left the store with only a tiny sample bottle of cologne. I had been able to do laundry as often as I would have liked to and this was something which was desperately needed.
"Right, shall we go to the estate?" Wajira asked. "That'd be great." I pleaded.
Wajira's coconut estate was 2 hours from town. One nail-bitting, car dodging, rain soaked ride later we arrived. The estate was enormous, Coconut's strewed on the ground and coconut trees shooting from the soil all around us. Luckily, the sheets of pouring rain broke just in time as we arrived. After snapping my "Luc holding Cononut" picture, we headed back to Colombo, arriving back home late in the evening.
-- Don't scratch!
When I awoke the next morning, my now fading rash that had plagued my right arm since Vavunya was in full swing. My entire chest, scalp, back and arms were now a heap of burning, itching flesh peppered with red dots. "Arrrgggg! Poison Ivy? Alergic reaction to last night's spicy Roti? Bed bugs, nonono can't be that" My self diagnosis skills weren't getting any better and Wajira could tell. As I painted Calamine lotion all over my body, Wajira insisted on taking me to a doctor but with only 1 hour before I had to be at the airport, a pharmacist would do.
Since I'd arrived in Sri Lanka I'd had an eye infection, a bad case of flaming bowel movements, atomic diareah, a slew of Lariam induced nightmares and this nasty rash. The constantly itchy rash was the worse afliction by far.
"You must take this 2 times per day." the pharmacist gave me some Claritine to add to my building arsenal of anti-rash meds. If the Calamine lotion, cortizone cream and claritine pills didn't do it, nothing would.
-- India, here I come.
"To Canada, by Sea please" I told the man sitting behind a crusty desk in what seemed to be an old ship yard. I had packed up some books, photos and miscelanous junk into an old box and sent it off on it's adventurous journey over the Indian Ocean, the Arabian sea, the Atlantic Ocean and finally the great lakes of Canada to, hopefully, arrive back at home, safe and mostly intact, I hoped.
Wajira had been the perfect host. Not letting me pay for anything, no matter how hard I pleaded with him to let me buy at least one meal and driving me around Colombo.
It was time for my 3 hour flights to India for my next adventure. Leaving the whole of Sri Lanka, satisfyingly explored behind me, I flew off to Delhi.


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- A 5 MHz Quartz Crystal Microbalance was used to investigate changes in resonant frequency and motional resistance of the protein film during in vitro actomyosin motility on a poly (tert-butyl methacrylate) surface. QCM crystal frequency was found to decrease with adsorption of heavy meromyosin (HMM) to the crystal surface, and with binding of additional protein during the standard BSA blocking step. The frequency and resistance signals after binding of dead HMM heads in actin rigor complexes were consistent with those expected for a film becoming more rigid, but suggested that little mass was added during this step. Addiion of the low concentration of actin used for motility did not cause a significant signal response, but addition of ATP to initiate actin filament movement caused both frequency and resistance signals to increase slightly, consistent with a less rigid protein film of lower apparent mass, suggesting that moving filaments are felt with a lower effective mass than strongly bound static filaments. The frequency signal also fluctuated significantly during motility, consistent with a dynamic process occurring on the crystal surface.
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In two weeks, La Crosse voters will elect the city's next mayor, marking the end of Matt Harter's one and only term.
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Harter: Oh absolutely. I enjoyed it. It's been the best experience of my life. I've learned more than I ever have in my life. I've met more people than I ever have in my life. So it's been a great experience. It certainly has enriched me as a person. I only hope that I've given as much back to the community as what I've received having the opportunity to serve in this position.
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Did city officials act inappropriately in suspending Pasadena Center Operating Co. (PCOC) CEO Mike Ross?
Attorney Dale Gronemeier believes it did. Gronemeier said the city "panicked because the term 'hostile work environment' was being misused and inappropriately took the whole matter out of control."
According to documents obtained by the Pasadena Weekly, city and state employment policies may have been violated when Ross was placed on paid administrative leave without having a formal written complaint filed against him. The city then released a statement about the suspension, which Gronemeier claims impugned Ross' reputation when that statement was used for the basis of stories that appeared in the Pasadena Sun and the Pasadena Star-News. According to California state law, employee records, including disciplinary actions, are confidential.
"The whole process by which this whole thing was handled has a bad odor about it," Gronemeier said.
Ross was placed on paid administrative leave in December, pending the results of an outside investigation, after an employee claimed a hostile work environment existed at the PCOC. According to Gronemeier, the complainant had previously threatened to make that complaint in an effort to get a raise, and later claimed that Ross had made an inappropriate remark to women at an after-work dinner meeting. Ross denied the allegations, which were not corroborated by other people at that meeting.
The PCOC is a city-owned nonprofit that manages the Pasadena Civic Auditorium and Pasadena Conference Center, as well as the city's ice skating rink and the Pasadena Convention & Visitors Bureau. Since joining the PCOC in 2008, Ross and others successfully lobbied for a $150 million expansion of the Pasadena Convention Center.
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Come on Knicks! We need a victory!
I read that Marbury is feeling better and said that he will play against the Heat. But Curry will sit. This is going to be a tough game if every one is healthy. I don't have high expectations for this one.
The Knicks seem to do better when they're in the underdog role but when people are especting them to win they choke as recently seen in the Miami game. No one thought they would have a chance against pheonix without starbury but they didnt do too bad. I think they gotta chance 2nite but im not expecting a win.
Marbury passing first with 10 assists.
Crawford back to form in starting role.
Frye has the shooting touch.
Jeffries playing good.
Lee is Lee.
& JEROME JAMES?! 6 points, 2 rebounds, 3-4 shooting, 1 stl and 2 PFs WTF?
only downer is Q but im sure hell be ok. we need to stick to a Curry/Frye/Jeffires/Crawford/Marbury starting lineup though. With the exception of Curry it seems them four have the best chemistry together.
and win or lose and i of course hope we win.. Crawford makin the 4 pt play at the end.. at least well make Sportscenter haha
#15...So good it had to be retired twice
jamal crawford was awesome! 52 points and 8/9 3 pointers!
i cant believe he had 16 FG's consecutively.
how weird! seriously. monday, heat had no shaq, no wade, we get blown out terribly. today, we have no curry, but blow them out. how backwards.
but i love it.
i love how the whole knicks team congratulated crawford, it shows theyre close knit and it seems like they pull for one another, which i think is one of the most important things when it comes to successful teamwork.
i do have one question, though.
the game on sunday, they kept saying its on delayed tape, but it starts at 6, so will the game be on at 6? i have no clue what delayed tape is.
Congratulations to Jamal! Great game. Some nights he dislpays so much talent. I really think he could be a "Ray Allen" type player if he would just stay under control and play consistently. Regardless, this was a good win. Hopefully they can start putting together a few win streaks. We need to start winning games because Toronto and New Jersey have been playing well as of late, and before we know it, one of those teams could run away with the Atlantic.
Even though I'm not a big fan of Jamal Crawford...I just want to give him his props. He played a superb game and his shot selection is getting better. That's all I want from him is consistency and applying basketball IQ...
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WoW Jamal!!! Talk about being totally unconcious. I like the line-up with Jamal and Q together and looks like "Starbury" has his role figured out. The ex-Bulls Curry and Crawford going crazy for the Knicks and I'm lovin it!!!
it seems the heat has been 'jordanized' last night... hey hey...
Allez les Knicks! (and sorry for my english
if isiah hadnt pulled him out some time during the 4th quarter, im sure he couldve gone for 60+. i think thats what we need. cmon whens the last time a knick besides bernard king or even pat ewing came even close to 60? i think it couldve been something to give the knicks a little more confidence, but a 20 pt blow out revenge game is also sweet too
houston did it 2 times in 2003.. 52 and 50 against the lakers and bucks


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Happy Halloween! - A trip down memory lane...
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- October 28, 2010 at 11:25 PM
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- October 29, 2010 at 2:24 AM
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- November 7, 2010 at 2:51 PM
My KM mom also thought Halloween was the devil's playground so I never got to go trick-or-treating. My siblings, much younger than I, got to go a couple of times.
Now that I have kids, my mom thinks Halloween is great and asked what the kids dressed up as, if they had fun, etc.
But, just to prove she's a KM, she said that I should throw away half the candy so the kids don't eat too much of it. I dutifully said "neh" but instead of throwing it away brought in a stash for me at work. B/c I too am a KM and I worry about my kids' health. Yup. That's why I did it.
- November 8, 2010 at 10:58 AM
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@Bindc: Thanks for making me laugh..haha! Yup. That's why I buy discount Halloween candy November 1st. To protect the kiddies from cavities. Someone has to do it.
- November 8, 2010 at 2:43 PM
- Clare said...
My mom LOVED to send us out trick-or-treating, but of course we never had any money to do it, so we always had to wear those embarassing plastic costume that came in a package---a single plastic sheet that had a PICTURE of said-princess, cowgirl, witch--and the ever-uniquitous plastic mask with large, round holes for the mouth and eyes, and two smaller ones for the nostrils, and a flimsy elastic string to sling around the back of your head. My sisters and I were always so mortified to "march" in the annual school Halloween parade along with the other kids in real costumes, some bought and others made by parents.
- November 12, 2010 at 1:52 PM
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@Clare: Aww Clare, I remember those mylar costumes!
- November 13, 2010 at 11:20 PM
My KM relented on allowing us to go Trick & Treating even though she didn't believe in kids eating candy but...
1) Gave us a radius on how far we can go
2) Told us to take our 3 yr old baby sister (Basically we had to return when our sister was tired)
3) Time when we had to get back
4) All candies had to be inspected. Whatever we got was the candy we can eat for the WHOLE year. Given out 1 day.
But we were used to impossible missions... life long training.
Our Solution:
1) hide last year's costume in the forest. Sometimes even 2 years back or wear our Korean traditional outfit.
2) Pulled baby sister in a wagon and kept telling her "You're not tired"
3) We trained the rest of the year to sprint from house to house
4) My KM couldn't understand how the neighbors could give so much candy but she held up her end of the deal. 1 year it lasted 6 months.
great memories :)
- February 5, 2011 at 4:24 AM
- laurafireball said...
ahhhahahhaa your poor brother!! My brother got the shit end of the trick or treating stick too. Since I was the oldest, I had been trick or treating more times than my little brother before our mother banned us from ever doing it again because it was devil worshipping. Every halloween after that he would lament over the fact that I had gone trick or treating more times than him and how unfair it was.
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There was a time when Sydney Jimason's prospects didn't look bright. She was kicked out of high school, unemployed, and spending time on the streets of DC. But that all changed when she learned about the Latin American Youth Corps YouthBuild program.
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In the new supernatural romance thriller "Beautiful Creatures," acclaimed actress Emmy Rossum plays the pivotal role of Ridley Duchannes -- a seductress Caster (aka witch) who upon her 16th birthday was claimed by the Dark (evil) over the Light (good). It's a destiny that all Casters face, but to the females in group, which direction they go is something they don't have a say in.
Thankfully, in real life, Rossum, 26, has had a say about her career moves. And after her enchanting role as Christine Daae in the film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" and subsequent roles on the wholesome side, Rossum has decided to mix things up with more provocative characters, including the ones she plays in the Showtime series "Shameless" and "Beautiful Creatures."
In short, Rossum says she likes playing the bad girl for a change.
"My career is about where the more interesting roles are right now," Rossum told me in a recent interview. "I fell in love with Fiona (in 'Shameless') and the challenge to play the duality of a girl and a woman at the same time, and I suppose there's some of that in my character in 'Beautiful Creatures,' because in the flashbacks, we see the innocent, scared girl that she was before her claiming, and now she's gone over to the dark side and embraced this deliciously evil way of living."
Opening in theaters on Valentine's Day, "Beautiful Creatures" stars Alice Englert as Lena Duchannes, a mysterious member of the Ravenwood family who comes to live with her uncle, Macon (Jeremy Irons) in the sleepy southern town of Gatin, S.C.
A couple of months shy of her 16th birthday, Lena, like her cousin, Ridley, will soon be claimed by the Dark or the Light -- and if it's the Dark, the world will face a force like it's never known before. The quandary is a lot for Lena to digest, and it's complicated by the fact that she's fallen for a mortal, Ethan Wate (AldenEhrenreich),the only human who doesn't judge her for who she is.
Directed and adapted for the screen by Richard LaGravenese, the film also stars Emma Thompson in the dual roles of religious zealot Mrs. Lincoln and Dark Caster Sarafine; Viola Davis as the town's librarian, Amma, who is also a Seer; Thomas Mann as Link, Ethan's best friend and son of Mrs. Lincoln; and Zoey Deutch as Emily and Tiffany Boone as Savannah -- a pair of high school mean girls who try to make Lena's life hell.
While Ridley is also a mean girl, in a sense, Rossum said she's not entirely about making people miserable.
"She's not your typical villain," Rossum explained. "She has a real spring in her step about being so bad. She's always eating sweets and is this incredibly fun girl to be around, even though she does these horrible things."
One of the horrible things Ridley does is seduce Link with her witchy wiles to help set up a much larger plan. In a separate interview,Mannwas so flabbergasted talking about his hot-and-heavy make-out scenes with Rossum that Deutch had to step in to say, "He's at a loss for words because Emmy's so hot."
Gaining his composure, Mann respectfully added, "Emmy is one of the most giving actresses and is just so easy to work with. She has such confidence and you really have to hold your own against her."
Rossum said working on "Beautiful Creatures" was especially fun because, while the film is supernatural in nature and required special effects, LaGravenese didn't always rely on computer-generated imagery to bring places like family's estate -- namely, the creepy, Gothic Ravenwood Mansion -- to life.
"Richard created set pieces that would actually function with little to no CG help, so actually only 10 percent of what you see in the movie is actually enhanced by CG," Rossum said. "In the scene with the room spinning, that room was actually spinning. It's shaking, and the wind is actually there, so it wasn't something we had to fake on a green screen."
While Rossum said the scene was "incredibly fun" to film, the constant spinning also posed some physical challenges.
"With enough Dramamine, my stomach was fine, but my eyelids were drooping," Rossum quipped.
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Since "Beautiful Creatures" is based on the first in a series of books, dubbed the "Caster Chronicles," by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, it presented the cast members a set of built-it fan expectations with their roles.
Neither Mann, 21,norDeutch, 18, were familiar with the books prior to casting -- but they learned to respect the fan base really fast.
"The books are such a huge deal and have such a large following, that you have to educate yourself in that world," Mann said. "I hope fans of the books can accept the film as its own entity, but I also hope they appreciate it as sort of a companion to the book."
"The film does stay true to the core of the story," Deutch added. "It's not like it's a completely different version. It's a story, and just another person's interpretation of it. Nothing is very far from the book at all ... We know that you can't please everybody, but we hope people see it's a good piece of art and it makes them feel things. That's what you hope to accomplish and I think that Richard has done exactly that."
Of course, "Beautiful Creatures" comes at a time where another hugely successful book-turned-film series wrapped up in "The Twilight Saga." And while both book series involve the supernatural and teen romance, Deutch and Mann say that's really where the similarities end.
"I know our movie is different for its political commentary and social commentary," Mann observed. "And it's also about hypocritical people and exposing them."
Deutch said she loves the material in "Beautiful Creatures" because it spans many genres apart from the supernatural and romantic aspects.
"It's also has comedy, drama and it's its own piece. It does its own thing," Deutch said. "And, since there's a lot of political and social commentary in the movie, and I'm really interested to see how that will be perceived in reviews and by adults that see it. It's not even hidden. It's very honest and open. It has a lot of interesting things to say."
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In the new supernatural romance thriller "Beautiful Creatures," acclaimed actress Emmy Rossum plays the pivotal role of Ridley Duchannes -- a seductress Caster (aka witch) who upon her 16th birthday was claimed by the Dark (evil) over the Light (good). It's a destiny that all Casters face, but to the females in group, which direction they go is something they don't have a say in.
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SULLIVAN COUNTY, NY — Each new moment is an opportunity, each new venture a challenge. For those who engage in the rigors of athletic competition, the most salient time is always the here and now, not what happened last time out and not what may happen in a future encounter. As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
Two weeks into the young season, teams and individuals already have been tested. Some, like the Tri-Valley boys soccer team, experienced their first success as they downed Chapel Field 5-0 under the watchful eye of their new coach Erik Risher, who brings the fire and skill of his Section One experience from Peekskill and, for the past few years, from Haldane to bear on the Bears. Watching a team that has been mostly winless over the past few seasons evince confidence and skill and a newfound understanding of the game, this writer witnessed the priceless pleasure of kids striving to excel in the here and now. Senior Zach Nilsen led the charge with three goals. Gabe Surina added two more. While last week's column dwelt on week-one woes, this week, it's all about moving on with a newfound opportunity to summon one's best.
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Liberty boys' soccer defeated Monticello 5-0 to remain unbeaten. Monticello's volleyball team is also undefeated to date, with big wins over Newburgh and Washingtonville, as well as a victory over smaller S.S. Seward. Sullivan West's volleyball team posted its first win of the season in a four-match tilt over Liberty.


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