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14 times the cast of Friends has reunited since the finale
By Lexi Vollero
May 06, 2019 at 10:00 AM EDT
February 2013: Chandler and Monica's second first date?
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Matthew Perry shared this behind-the-scenes pic of him and his former onscreen wife Courteney Cox hanging out while filming an episode of Perry's own comedy series Go On, in which the two go on (another) date that goes horribly wrong — grand theft auto style.
May 2013: The Ellen DeGeneres Show
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In preparation for her Ellen interview, Jennifer Aniston makes a surprise house call on Matthew Perry at 8 a.m. where she is welcomed with less-than open arms. And for good reason — Perry was not only hiding "lover" Courteney Cox in his home, but Lisa Kudrow and Ellen DeGeneres herself, who are seen trying to sneakily exit out the front door behind Perry.
July 2013: CNN
Matthew Perry guest hosts the show for the day with former costar Lisa Kudrow, who gets into some more serious talks about Friends. Both agree that they were not quite done with the series yet — they would both get in a time machine and continue the show from 2004. Kudrow also admits that at times, it can be hard to rewatch the show that held their lives for a decade.
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July 2014: Craig's restaurant in Los Angeles
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The three lovely leading ladies of Friends put their real-life friendship (20 years later) on display with a night out in Los Angeles. The trio hit the town for a drawn-out dinner to celebrate Courteney Cox's engagement to Snow Patrol rock star Johnny McDaid. (The two ended their engagement but are still together.) In an interview with Jimmy Kimmel in September 2014, Cox revealed the proposal happened at a dinner hosted by Jennifer Aniston!
July 2014: Red Carpet at the CBS/Showtime TCA event
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Literally the next day, Lisa Kudrow ran into both Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry on the Red Carpet at the CBS/Showtime TCA event. The sharp-dressed group exchanged laughs like old times and LeBlanc revealed in an interview that he had FaceTimed the pair at dinner the night before.
August, 2014: Jimmy Kimmel Live!
In a live interview, Jimmy Kimmel asked Jennifer Aniston to humor him in a huge way. He sprung a live reading of his self-written fanfiction script on set. "This is an exact replica of the kitchen in the show," bragged Kimmel, "I actually spent $80,000 making it to the T. Every detail is correct." He cast himself as Ross and Aniston as Rachel to discuss the caliber of his love-making. One-by-one, Phoebe and Monica nonchalantly entered through the apartment door wielding their own scripts, but fed-up with the premise, the women rolled their eyes and exited together.
November 2014: Jimmy Kimmel!
In a jaw-dropping show segment of "Celebrity Curse Off," Lisa Kudrow and Jennifer Aniston engaged in a rapid exchanging of curse words (bleeped out for the viewers at home, of course). Kudrow credited her teenage son with her extensive knowledge of creative cusses.
April 2015: Just Before I Go movie premiere
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Jennifer Aniston came out to the premiere of Courteney Cox's feature directorial debut and embraced her friend, applauding her for her milestone achievement.
June 2015: The Phoenix House's 12th Annual Triumph for Teens Awards Gala
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Lisa Kudrow accompanied Matthew Perry to the Phoenix House's event at the Montage Beverly Hills that celebrated the organization's work with young people overcoming addiction. She presented him with the 2015 Phoenix Rising Award, preceding the award with touching words: "Facing addiction and fighting for sobriety is a very personal battle, one that Matthew fought without the luxury of a moment's privacy. Yet he faced the reality of his situation with his characteristic resilience, stamina, and grace."
August 2015: Jennifer Aniston's wedding
Although there's not public photographic evidence, Courteney Cox was Jennifer Aniston's real-life maid of honor at her wedding to Justin Theroux! The two, who announced their separation in Feb. 2018, were married in the backyard of their Bel Air mansion, and Cox was said to be the last guest to leave the celebration.
February 2016: NBC's Must-See TV
Although Matthew Perry was unable to attend, absent while on a stint in London for his play The End of Longing, the rest of the Friends cast reunited for NBC's Must-See TV: An All-Star Tribute to James Burrows, to honor the legendary director of their sitcom (and many more), for directing his 1,000th episode of television.
February 2018: Jennifer Aniston's 49th Birthday
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A year older, but still just as flawless as her first day on screen! To celebrate Jen's special day, Courteney Cox hosted an intimate, private gathering at her Malibu home for her longtime best friend.
April 2018: Chanel and the Natural Resources Defense Council's "Our Majestic Oceans" benefit in Malibu
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The best-friend duo arrived in coordinated ensembles to the exclusive benefit dinner to recognize the Natural Resources Defense Council's wildlife and ocean protection initiatives over the years. Ron Meyer, the vice chairman of NBCUniversal, hosted the event, complete with a view of the Pacific Ocean from his Malibu estate.
April 2019: Instagram
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Courteney Cox gave a sweet shoutout to Lisa Kudrow via her Insta after a Saturday night hangout.
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Poetry. Passion. Sensitivity. Gentleness. Beauty. Fauré is a favorite of those who seek musical pleasure. Works like Requiem, Sicilienne, Pavane, Berceuse and Après un rêve are shoo-ins on any list of stress-free music.
But saying that Fauré only wrote music for relaxation is only half the truth. When Fauré was born, Chopin was at the height of his career. When Fauré died, jazz and modernist atonality had arrived. His works run the gamut from one extreme to the other.
He began his career early. He was just nine when his family sent him from the Pyrenees to Paris to study music. There, a few years later, he became a student of Camille Saint-Saëns, who was 12 years his senior. The two remained close friends, spiritual kin and colleagues for the rest of their lives. Fauré made his living as an organist, while his popularity as a composer steadily grew among French audiences. The French wanted musical poetry and beautiful sound in short forms, and Fauré's sensual miniatures fulfilled that demand. His most popular works were written in the 1870s and '80s.
But Fauré had ambitions beyond mere pleasing. Over time, he developed a more complex and harmonious style that would later have great influence on his students, among them Maurice Ravel and George Enescu.
Fauré's influence on later French composers cannot be overestimated. In 1896, he was named professor at the Paris Conservatory. From 1905 to 1920, he served as director there and diligently worked to modernize conservative teaching forms and integrate the musical thinking of a new age.
In his last decade, Fauré was France's most distinctive musical personality. He became a national icon and was regarded as the leading and most advanced French composer. In 1922, he was celebrated at a national hommage at Sorbonne University in Paris led by President Millerand.
His late works demand more of the listener than his 30-40-year older favorites. They push the boundaries harmonically and have a refreshing unpredictability. Meanwhile, they maintain the charm and laidback elegance of his youthful works. Fauré's music evolved a lot, but it never became violent or aggressive.
Fauré died in 1924, at age 79. A respected music scholar later described him as "More profound than Saint-Saëns, more varied than Lalo, more spontaneous than d'Indy, more classic than Debussy. Fauré is the master par excellence of French music."
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We've been on the east coast for over a week now but have been out and about so no time for an update. It will be a bit backwards as we are starting with last week rather than all the stuff we've missed out in Thailand (Koh Jum) and Singapore.
On the Monday we picked up a hire car and went for a week driving tour of south east New South Wales with Tim. We packed in quite a lot starting with the lush Blue Mountains National Park. Katoomba YHA is great, a wonderful art deco hostel. Becs in particular got very excited by the cable car descending into the valley, whilst Paul went on the steep train instead. The place, whilst obviously touristy, seems well designed in terms of paths etc that discourage people from trampling all over the place, eroding the plants etc (see the pics of sandstone cliffs and rainforest, as well as the thick mist that thankfully burnt off before our walk). The walk was lovely, though not so lovely for Tim towards the end when he discoverd about 6 leeches had attached themselves to his ankles – see pic of thin leech that we observed looking for a meal, compared with fat leech that was later removed from Tim!
After a stay overnight in Bathurst with an evening drive around the Bathurst motor racing circuit (a public road when not in use), we headed down to Canberra. This is a very open plan city and full of galleries and museums, and we visited the National Gallery as well as a cheeky evening visit into the Parliament to watch a deserted argument reading of some bill or other. We were amazed that they would let us in after hours, but if an evening session is in place then they are able to usher the public in.
Down to and Canberra we headed to Mt Kosciuszko, the highest peak in Australia (2228m). Luckily there's a chairlift up the steep valley but there's still a 13km roundtrip walk to the summit. Becs loved the chairlift! They had provided a walkway all the way, so the 13km was done very quickly and the mist and rain managed to hold off for most of the walk (see the pic of Tim and Becs at the summit).
The rain continued but as we arrived at Narooma on the coast we woke up to a clear warm sunny day at last. Walking on boardwalks around the river mouth and to the beach, Becs spotted huge stingrays swimming in the shallow water, quite an impressive sight. There was some good snorkelling around about as well, although the water was a bit chilly! Narooma was lovely and chilled, with a 1930s picture house where we saw Pan's Labrynth with about 5 other Naroomians.
We headed back up the coast towards Sydney, stopped off at Bateman's Bay (a bit disappointing but very nice food) for the first night of camping (caravan park cabins and YHAs for the previous nights) and Kiama with it's beautiful and rugged point that has a big blowhole that shoots water spray into the air as the waves seem to get sucked up into it. There was a 2-4m swell coming in and someone had decided to install a sea water swimming pool in the rocks, filled up by the waves breaking over the edges.
We're back in Sydney now and spent yesterday (Monday) around town inspecting the skeletons at the Australian Museum – oh and the exhib of BBC wildlife photographer of the year 2006 which had some absolutely breathtaking pics, and mooching around the NSW Art Gallery. Today is a chill out day as we're planning our next road trip, uploading some pics and updating the blog. Hope that you have time to enjoy browsing the photos. We've taken so many with our new camera that it was difficult to whittle them down.


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Grayson Perry's Photo Album, now on view at The Photographers' Gallery
A small display (23 February – 3 June 2018) of photographs and spreads from one of Perry's early photo albums.
'We used to say transvestite gatherings should be sponsored by Kodak' – Grayson Perry
This intimate small-scale display shows a series of photographs and spreads from a private photo album owned by artist, Grayson Perry. Taken with a 35mm Zenith SLR camera, printed at a high street chemist and preserved in a classic ring-bound stick-down album, these personal photos offer a rare glimpse into the development of Perry's alter ego, Claire.
Although cross-dressing had been a part of his life from early childhood, and his first public outing in a wig and skirt was at the age fifteen, Perry was largely uncomfortable and inexperienced with presenting this part of himself at a young age. It wasn't until he went to study at Portsmouth Art School in his early 20s, that he was able to find the confidence and freedom to explore his identity within a creatively supportive and encouraging environment.
Read Perry discussing the album in The Guardian
Image: from Grayson Perry's Photo Album, 1979-1984
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Posted February 15 2018


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Montreal Canadiens Euro Prospect Preview
By Dan Linn – August 31, 2004
With the unknown status of the NHL, fans of the Montreal Canadiens will have the chance to take a closer look at some of the teams current prospects, since there may not be much else in terms of hockey. Starting tomorrow the first of September, the European leagues will officially begin a new season, so here's a preview of what fans can expect from the Hab's Euro prospects.
Russian Super League (RSL)
Alexander Perezhogin- RW It's still unknown if Alexander Perezhogin will end up back in the RSL, but he is listed on the official roster of his former team Omsk, who recently won the Russian Super League Championship. We'll have to wait and see what happens with his future, but Omsk will open their season on the 1st of September against AK Bars.
Konstantin Korneev- D Korneev's team AK Bars will open the season on the 1st, against the RSL champs Omsk. In three preseason games this year, Korneev was held pointless. It will be tough for the recently turned 20 year old to get quality ice time with the defensive depth of AK Bars, but he did dress in almost every single game last season, although with limited ice time.
Alexei Yemelin- D Yemelin may dress for some games in the RSL, or he could end up back in the Upper league, where he played last season as a 17 year old. He turned 18 right before the NHL draft this summer, and has already appeared in some preseason games. Lada is a team with a very young defensive group, with only one defensmen over 25 years of age from an early look at the possible roster.
Mikhail Grabovski- LW Grabovski will enter his second season in the RSL, after an impressive rookie season where he was sixth on the team in assists and seventh on the team in scoring, despite playing less games then all of those above him and being only 19 years old. Grabovski will wear #84 for Nizhnekamsk Neftekhimik, as they also open their season on the 1st of September. Grabovski is a teammate of Canadiens 7th round pick in 1998, Andrei Kruchinin, who is coming off his best season ever in the RSL.
Oskari Korpikari- D Korpikari will return to Karpat to try and regain his full time roster spot in the mens league, as he lost his spot with the team last year after a shoulder injury at the U-20 tournament. The recently turned 20 year old, has played in the mens league for parts of two seasons, which is an impressive amount of experience for his age. He played in 35 of the 56 games Karpat played last season, and hopefully this season will see even more time, he has appeared in preseason games for Karpat along with Habs '97 pick Ikka Mikkola. Karpat opens their season on the 7th of September.
Sweden Tier-2
Christopher Heino-Lindberg- G Heino-Lindberg has been recalled back to his team Hammerby, after being loaned to Valentuna last season, the worst team in the league. Some nights Lindberg would face up to 60 shots, which had to be especially since the team couldn't buy a win with only three wins the entire year. Now that Heino-Lindberg is back with Hammerby, who are one of the top teams in the tier-2 and a team that has the chance to move up to the SEL one day. Hammerby opens their season on the 19th of September.
Johan Eneqvist- C/LW Eneqvist will likely be a teammate of Heino-Lindberg, as he signed on with Hammerby last season and has played in preseason games this year but hasn't signed with the team as of yet. He was one of the top scorers on the team throughout the year, so I'd expect him to be signed shortly, but we'll have to wait and see where he ends up. Look for another solid season from Eneqvist, who hopefully is able to translate the offensive success he had back in '00-'01 in the Swedish junior league where he put up almost a goal a game.
Czech Extraliga
Tomas Linhart- D Linhart spent last season playing for three different teams in the Czech league and the National Junior team as well. The recently turned 20 year old spent most of the season playing in the junior league, but with nine points in twenty four games, he was able to get called up to the 1st league and Extraliga as well. Hopefully this season he plays more in the 1st league, which is similar to juniors and gets more then the six games he played in the Extraliga, the top league.


Within Botswana's lush Okavango Delta sits the standout Sandibe Okavango Safari Lodge, which was designed with its breathtaking surroundings in mind. Architects Michaelis Boyd and Nick Plewman based the curvaceous structure's cocoon-like design on the pangolin, which is an endangered scaly creature that is native to the diverse African bush. The building itself not only blends in with the stunning local landscape, it also contains 12 inner suites that take on the appearance of weaverbird nests, with massive timber arches that are reminiscent of a captivating cathedral. To keep the focus on the incredible scenery and fascinating wildlife, the interior features minimalist decor that cuts back on unneeded materials.
The most important aspect of the lodge's design is that it is environmentally friendly. The outer surface is covered in natural, locally sourced shingles and woven saplings, making the structure concrete-free. Keeping the emphasis on the natural landscape, the building opens toward the nearby Sandibe River, providing for both natural lighting and ventilation. When electricity is needed, a solar panel farm generates the lodge's power, keeping their environmental footprint at a minimal level.
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Пло́щадь 1000-летия Каза́ни () — площадь в посёлке Юдино Кировского района Казани. Одна из самых небольших и новых площадей города, одна из четырёх площадей посёлка, расположенная надалеко от трёх других (площади-аллеи Славы, площади Железнодорожников и Юдинской площади). В центре Казани также есть главная площадь города с подобным названием - площадь Тысячелетия.

Небольшая вытянутая площадь расположена перед путями и производственными сооружениями железной дороги и находится на перспективе окончания улицы Ильича. От восточного торца площади идёт проход к перекрёстку улиц Ильича и Революционная, от западного есть проезд на улицу Революционная. Также от восточного торца площади поднимается служебный переход над путями.

Открытая к празднованию Тысячелетия Казани в 2005 году, площадь была благоустроена по инициативе и на средства Казанского отделения Горьковской железной дороги и стала популярным местом отдыха и встреч жителей посёлка.

Площадь имеет асфальтированную проезжую часть и пешеходную площадку с уложенной плиткой, скамейками и клумбами, в середине которой находятся оригинальный фонтан круглой формы с символом Казани Зилантом и многогранная блестящая металлическая инсталляция символа мира. На торцевой восточной стороне площади расположен мемориальный комплекс из монумента и памятного камня в честь героев и тыловиков Великой Отечественной войны и доски почёта железнодорожников. На противоположной от путей северной стороне площади установлен двухсекционный тепловоз-памятник ТЭ3 голубой окраски с надписью "1000 лет Казани" и эмблемой праздника жёлтого цвета . Вокруг площади есть зелёные насаждения и небольшие постройки.

Через площадь общественный транспорт не ходит. Автобусные маршруты № 46 и 72 проходят кварталом севернее.
Недалеко от площади на улице Революционная находится станция электропоездов Юдино железнодорожного хода направления от Казани.

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Кировский район Казани
1000-летия Казани
Юдино (Казань)

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Magda Rurac (née Berescu;11 July 1918 – 9 May 1995) was a Romanian tennis player in the 1940s and 1950s.

Rurac was ranked in the top 10 in unofficial world rankings in 1948 and 1949. For that reason, she is considered by many to be one of the best female players to come out of Romania. She played for Romania's Federation Cup team. Despite being Romanian, she was ranked in the U.S. Top Ten during her stay in the country. She was ranked No. 9 in 1951.

At the tennis tournament in Cincinnati, Rurac reached seven finals: four in doubles and three in singles. She won the singles title in 1949 and was a finalist in 1950 and 1951. She won three titles in her four doubles finals appearances, with titles coming in 1948 (with Dorothy Head), 1949 (with Nancy Morrison) and 1950 (with Beverly Baker Fleitz). Her other doubles finals appearance was in 1951 (with Sue Herr).

She won the singles title at the U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships in 1948 and 1949.

Magda was married to Vinnie Rurac, who served as the tennis pro at the Concord Resort Hotel in Kiamesha Lake (in the upstate New York Catskill Mountains "Borscht Belt")  during the 1970s.

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1918 births
1995 deaths
Romanian female tennis players
Romanian emigrants to the United States
Sportspeople from Oradea


This book is beautifully woven from personal narrative of political, economic, scientific, educational information and pop cultural depictions. This is a fresh and emotionally charged montage of historical events. DAILYDOODLES 2014 is a treasure trove that clearly illuminates the past compiled into these wonderful pages.
A 400 page year in review of 2014 from the creative mind of PEL.


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Palmer is een plaats (census-designated place) in de Amerikaanse staat Michigan, en valt bestuurlijk gezien onder Marquette County.

Demografie
Bij de volkstelling in 2000 werd het aantal inwoners vastgesteld op 449.

Geografie
Volgens het United States Census Bureau beslaat de plaats een oppervlakte van
1,5 km², geheel bestaande uit land. Palmer ligt op ongeveer 397 m boven zeeniveau.

Plaatsen in de nabije omgeving
De onderstaande figuur toont nabijgelegen plaatsen in een straal van 20 km rond Palmer.

Externe link

Plaats in Michigan


A funny thing happened today (yet again), it's actually not funny because this happens almost all the time.
The gist is, before Friday I sometimes plan what to put out on the blog, sometimes it's a mental plan not that I put anything down in writing but by the morning of Friday, Abba is like, Nope. Talk about something else and he immediately gives me understanding about that topic and I'm just there like, YESSIRR! LEZ DO THIS.
Okay thinking about it now it's actually funny because time and time again God keeps teaching me not to BOX him but I think I usually forget and try to predict God and the way he will manifest not just in preparing posts for the blog or YouTube but in everything and it's really wrong.
It happened again today, I planned the post to be featured for today on the blog, it was a post to debunk a teaching I've heard since I was quite young to show off prove I now had "understanding", but God had something else in mind.
CHECK YOUR HEART! There's a tendency to want to show off knowledge instead of actually wanting to teach because of the passion for souls in your heart. Don't just come and be forming rhema everytime. Analyze what you're about to say before saying it, Is it edifying? Is it really going to bless the listeners?
So today's bible study in my WhatsApp fellowship group is from Colossians 4 and as I was studying, which I wasn't doing this time to "show understanding", something QUITE MINUTE but yet so powerful struck me in verse 14 and the Holy Spirit said yes, that's it! That is what I want you to talk about.
I want to talk about the man LUKE, the beloved friend of Paul who was a DOCTOR by profession but was a change agent in his own sphere and did not necessarily seek a pulpit to fulfil his own part of destiny as paul's wingman. He was part of a divine agenda and he walked with it!
In case you didn't know, Luke (the only gentile writer of the new testament) wrote "the gospel of Luke" and the book of "the acts of apostle" in the bible.
The thing about Luke is the fact that he was a supporter of the gospel anywhere anytime and he didn't feel the need to be in the forefront like Apostle Paul to make his own impact, He was with Paul all through his travails and travels and Paul esteemed him for that.
In 2 Tim 4:11 Paul said "only Luke is with me" it shows the level of this man's commitment to the gospel. He didn't have to be the preacher; he just had to do his own part in the assisting and in the taking account of the events that transpired. That was his ministry, that was his destiny and he recognized it.
By now, you already get my point.
You do not have to have a pulpit to have a "ministry" or be working for God. You do not have to be a pastor or an evangelist to tell of the gospel and influence your own sphere, all you have to do IS TO DO YOUR OWN PART.
Men like Luke who influences their sphere even without being preachers or pastors, men who do not have to be pastors to understand they have their own ministry.
Whether they are doctors or lawyers or accountants, they are still grounded in the word and can devote time to fellowship with the father and can impact others and teach.
Men like Luke who do not care about PUTTING THEMSELVES OUT THERE but understand why they are out there.
Men like Luke who know why they have been called for such a time as this even if it's to, in his own case, take account of the happenings and write books!
Men like Luke who care about the souls of men and so will keep going anywhere souls will be won.
Men like Luke who care about teaching..
Men like Luke who know their purpose and are not in a competition with others.
See, we cannot all be in the spotlight but we can ALL dominate and influence wherever we are. Every one of us are important to the plan and purpose of God if we do OUR OWN PART.
Check your heart today and ask yourself, why are you doing what you doing? Are you really doing what God requires of you or you're just doing what will PUT YOU OUT THERE?
I remember when I tried to start writing a book or at least a fiction series for the blog earlier in the year but it wasn't coming forth, I legit had all the ideas in my head but to write it down was the problem, this is something I do effortlessly on a normal day but God had to show me my heart to realize what was wrong. I wasn't asking God what he wanted me to write, I just wanted to write.
Some people go to certain churches and join certain departments just so they can be SEEN.
You know you can be a simple sanctuary keeper and still be doing the right thing.
I just want us to always remember that it's not about about US, it's about JESUS.
Amazing word !!!!! very similar to my last post on motives. I cant believe I took so long to read this. Thank you for yielding!


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Evidence photo 1-a, 24821 Spicer Dam Spur Road
(Note: This was published a few years ago, I opened it and facepalmed. This is a rework of it. The story is the same, just grammar has been adjusted for clarity and attempts to increase the emotional content.)
Snowed: The Weekend Trip
Jason Best Ph.D. took another swallow from the old whiskey bottle while he pulled on the wrench as he struggled to remove the cap that protected the fill valve.
The cabin, originally constructed during the California Gold Rush. The heavy timber construction was built over an entrance of a horizontal mine that produced small amounts of gold. It functioned as the home of the elderly prospector who continually mined underneath his home until he died and ownership passed, eventually, to Jason.
In the construction style of the era, the first owner built the cabin's foundation out of charred cedar logs on bedrock. The foundation held up better than the modern versions. Remodeled twice, the one-floor abode grew into a split-level, two and a half story mountain home with a hot spring. Built during the Reagan administration, the steam generator used isobutane in the heat exchanger.
Leaks in the plumbing lost much of the volatile gas in the system. Checked and rechecked, he found the valve seal that charged heat exchanger had failed. It Appeared to have been screwed down too tight and the seal developed a slow leak that took a toll over the years. This had the gradual effect of power generation down to zero.
The Doctor studied the concepts of the hot spring and geothermal sources and Jason taught himself enough to rebuild the system, updating the electrical system in the cabin that he called "Mountain House."
After a few moments when he had his doubts of success, the cap gave stubborn creaks as it turned until it was loose enough for him to spin it off with his hand. The threads were in good shape, however, the rubber seal was in bad shape. Cracked and falling apart.
He used the special tool he'd tracked down over the internet to a company that dealt with replacement parts and shipped to him at his house in the city and brought it to Mountain House to rebuild the power system.
While he performed an upgrade in the of the house, Jason accidentally discovered a room below the house. What started as a simple fusebox on a half-rotted board was all the more useful when he knocked a hole in the wall, and discovered to his pleasure, a hidden space carved out of the bedrock. He took full advantage and turned it into a room that an electrical engineer would be delighted to call home.
As an added plus, the room was a wine-cellar of sorts. Stored on dusty shelves in the cool corners of the dark, were bottles of wine. Many he had found dated from just before the prohibition era, two-dozen were stored on their sides.
A few sat upright with the corks exposed, he found these corks to be dried and leaking. Nine out of ten bottle seals failed in that position and he didn't want to try them.
Those bottles, laying on their sides, were all intact. But with so few, Jason opened only one and tasted its treasure inside.
And it was excellent.
A greater discovery, however, was a treasure-trove of rye whiskey. With labels marked "Robert's Rye" and each onion-shaped flask had a layer of rye-seeds on the bottom.
As he drank the potent brew, he conjectured that the rye grains left in the bottom were the reason that the rye whiskey was so excellent. And he had a hundred bottles with seals intact.
He drank half of the bottle of the rare and potent nectar and each sip was even better than the previous, but he was getting hungry and the whiskey had gone to his head a bit. But first he was going to recharge the heat-exchanger.
He tightened the hose to the rebuilt valve and turned the handle, he watched the cylinder's gauge indicate the system pressure.
A delicious smell of food reached his nose. Doctor Tessa Pershing clanked about in the kitchen as she prepared the meal. She was his colleague from the university, they had dated each other outside of work for a few weeks, but Tessa worried about being caught. She didn't have tenure yet and didn't want to jeopardize her position and future, so they kept it quiet and only with close friends.
But here, with the whiskey, wine, and snow so heavy, no one would come by. The storm was dropping four inches of snow per hour on top of the six-feet of the cold white stuff that was already there when he had arrived.
When he drove up two days before, Jason dragged, cussed and pushed the big gas cylinder through the deep snow to the basement door.
Now his efforts of sweat, profanity and bruised knuckles paid off. The hiss of gas subsided and system now showed green lights and the sweep needle gauge indicated the system was full.
Electric power was now available.
He put down the craftsman wrench. The best thing that Tessa thought to buy him in a kit. He walked to the electric panel and read the displays. Lights blinked and flickered as electricity flowed through new wiring in the panel and the house. Everything was green.
He wondered what might go wrong. It was too smooth. Nothing ever went that smooth unless it was broken.
The Professor of Biochemistry laughed at himself. With the power running, he had the good fortune to turn on the hot-tub on the patio. Tessa and he could sip ninety year old whiskey, sit in the bubbling warm water and watch the snowstorm, safe warm and naked.
Maybe they might get a clearing and watch the stars during the night. Then he'd shower with her and, he hoped, sleep with his arms around her.
"Dinner's ready." She called down.
"I have a surprise for you up there!" He said, waited a heartbeat and threw the circuit breaker and energized the system.
The exterior of the house lit up.
LED rope lights he had hidden in the eaves over the last few weeks, illuminated.
The lights gave the optical effect of electronic icicles and made the snow appear to glow blue.
It was breathtaking.
Tessa walked around with just a light work shirt and looked out the window in amazement. She had complained that a bra was too uncomfortable to wear while she did lifted and helped him clean the debris of new construction and century old corners that had not been touched. So she had disposed of the constricting undergarment.
Which was fine in Jason's point of view. With an oversized sleeveless shirt, sometimes he would get lucky and watch her accidentally flash him. Her bare legs were smudged and dust-covered while she wore shorts and slip-on flats.
He sat down with a bowl the chicken soup and warm bread that had baked all day. Tess and Jason used his grandmother's recipe that the elderly woman had taught him in his childhood.
In a conversation about the house, he apologized for making her work when she should have been relaxing and enjoying the sights.
Tessa smiled brightly and touched his lips with a warm kiss. "Helping set up the cabin with you is my pleasure."
He nearly passed out from the thrill of her words and the touch of her lips right then.
They could hear sounds from the upstairs bedroom, the walls echoed with a rhythmic thump as the other couple had gone to organize the rebuilt Mountain House.
Doctor Lettie Hackett and her rebound boyfriend, Kevin Acker, a post-graduate from the School of Pharmacy, were not coming down the stairs for food.
Jason yelled up the stairs for them to give it a break. They were supposed to be setting up the bedrooms, not testing the beds in each one.
That was when the first scream sounded. A sound,like a gunshot, echoed throughout the cabin.
Jason jumped up and left Tessa at the table while he ran up the stairs, taking them three at a time. At the top he ran into the arms of the half-naked Dr. Hackett who screamed that the wallpaper had come to life. Tentacles grabbed at her and tore her clothes while Kevin fought the sticky appendages to save her.
"It sucked him in!" She screamed. "It sucked him in! The wallpaper grabbed Kevin! It sucked him in!" The voice of the calm doctor was a squeak of hysteria.
Jason sent her down the stairs and looked into the room. Underneath the paper, a silhouette of a man moved slowly, as if some crazed worker plastered over an unfortunate person who stood in the way.
Jason grabbed a putty knife out of a plastic bucket to cut the paper-covered Kevin out. The colored wallpaper began to show details of Kevin's form behind the branches and birds, as if he were on the other side of a multi-colored hedge.
Jason called Kevin's name and the young associate professor of pharmacology looked at him for a moment, then faded into the wallpaper. Leaving it as flat and perfect as if just placed by professionals and left Jason with no place to cut.
But he tried anyway. He sliced and slashed over the area where he saw Kevin under the paper, but all he found was wall. Kevin was no longer discernible among the branches and trees of the wallpaper, he was gone.
Screams again, downstairs. Jason sprinted the short hallway, and leaped down the stairs. Tessa was at the door, her eyes bulged in abject terror as if she saw moving shadows in the corners. The muffled sounds of screams coming from a lump in fresh wallpaper. The scene was a horror with Lettie's hands were sticking straight out from the wallpaper. The textures and colors of the wallpaper crawled up the length of her arms towards her fingers while she waved about in the futile effort to grab for something, anything, for rescue.
Jason slashed at the paper with the sharp corner of the putty knife they used to spackle the walls for new paper.
A high-pitched sound came from the wallpaper, a scream louder than the screams of the women came from the cuts. It sounded as the Jason slashed at the wallpaper with the sharp corner of the metal blade of the putty knife.
Lettie screamed that the wallpaper was haunted.
The wallpaper? Jason froze, slack-jawed. He could not accept it, but it moved like something alive. It tried to pull Lettie into a growing wrinkle that looked like…
It looked like a mouth! Just like it did with Kevin. The wallpaper had a hunger.
He grabbed his coworker by her left arm and pulled hard on her, using his right foot to stomp the wallpaper flat against the wall, and tore it away from Lettie's body.
Traces of wallpaper paste remained on Lettie after he freed her and pulled her into his arms, he didn't stop to consider the slime. They ran towards the the front door where Tessa screamed at them to hurry.
Without warning, the door slammed closed as they got close. Jason pulled as hard as he could on the handle, and the door refused to open.
Jason realized Tessa's danger. She was locked outside and wore only the thin shirt and shorts.
And it was lethally cold outside.
He pounded the picture window with a chair with futile effort, the glass just wouldn't break. Jason gave up after the fourth try and pointed to the basement, telling her where to go with sign language. Then he and Lauren ran down the stairs, her long legs lacerated from the branches on the other side of the wallpaper, bled freely. In the basement, stone walls were safe.
Jason showed Lauren where to sit and ran towards the basement's heavy-timber doors like a football tackle and hit them at full speed.
And bounced off.
The gold mine might be a safe haven, but the doors were part of the house and refused to budge.
Tessa's voice on the other side of the door called his name, she needed to come in out of the cold.
His mind raced. They woke a malevolence while they worked in the house.
Tessa yelled his name in a feeble voice and pounded on the wood with a failing strength.
In a near panic, he searched for something to open the doors with and then he looked at his work table.
The table! He had built it using the ore-cart that belonged to the long-ago miner, and it still sat on the rails in the floor. He kept it all clean for the sake of nostalgia. Because it looked "Cool".
Jason got behind the cart and released the brake, he took a last deep swallow from the whiskey for luck and then pushed the half-ton cart as hard as he could.
The ore cart hit the doors with a huge bang and a the door creaked and opened about the width of his forearm from the impact.
Tessa's hand came through the hole and Jason grabbed her and pulled.
Shivering and covered in powdered snow, Tessa struggled and pulled on Jason to get through the gap.
Halfway through, the doors began to shut!
Tessa screamed in pain, the doors trapped her leg between them as they returned to their locked position.
Jason Grabbed a shovel and wedged the width of the narrow trench shovel's blade in between the doors to keep them from crushing Tessa's leg.
He struggled, pushed, leaned on the doors that creaked and groaned with increasing pressure on the blade of the shovel. Ages seemed to pass. Then as if she was a cork from a bottle, Tessa was free of the doors and they collapsed on the floor together. Out of breath, she clung to him while she wept.
"What's happening? Jason? What is it?"
Screams started again. But it wasn't the women.
The house seemed to come awake as Lettie ran down the stairs. Jason took her to sit with Tessa and began to explain, as he started to talk to them, the shocking gray face of Lettie looked around, her eyes haunted.
No, not haunted.
Missing!
Her face was no longer beautiful. It was a horror with a toothless mouth that made a big "O" in a scream that matched Kevin's. A thread of wallpaper extended down from overhead attached to the top of the woman's head.
Jason grabbed a hatchet from his workbench and jumped at the thread that was stealing the life out of Lauren. Time slowed down.
He'd saved her once by cutting her out of the wallpaper. This time, he swung with every ounce of his anger and fear-fueled strength to cut it off.
And missed.
"Oh God!" He screamed as thick white fluids leaked out of the horrid wound in Lettie's skull and dripped to the floor.
"Oh God! Oh God! No! No! No! I'm so sorry!."
They had to leave, and leave now.
Jason looked at Tessa and he knew he was the only one that could make it to the car. But, Tessa would be in this house alone. Even if she was safe for the moment, hiding in the corner behind the work table, between two rolls of…
Two rolls of…
Wallpaper!
He turned to where Tessa was hiding and he could only see a ball of wallpaper where Tessa had been hiding. The big ball of paper quickly shrank, he could see her outline fading under the wrapping that had slid around her like a web.
He leaped over the table with a box-cutter in hand, slashing at the cocoon of wallpaper around her, and found…
Nothing. Just paper, wadded up and desiccated.
Tessa was gone.
He was the only one left and the gap between the doors was too small to allow escape.
Pulling on the work table, he rolled it as far into the deepest part of the mine that he could reach.
He took a long, deep pull of the whiskey bottle.
"Last drink in this house!" He yelled.
Leaning on the table, he pushed.
He had a thirty-foot running start with the thousand-pound battering ram on rails. He pushed for the snow, he pushed with berserker strength. Adrenalin giving him energy, motivation enough to break through the doors.
Ducking the wedged shovel handle he had jammed in over Tessa's head as he and the cart hit the doors at a full run, the left door trembled and creaked open.
He seized the momentary advantage and dove through the opening as the door tried to shut on the table time and again as the house tried to claim another victim.
Laying in the snow, it was strangely quiet, illuminated by the inviting, cold-white LED icicle lights he spent so much time hanging.
A beautiful and deadly structure.
He crawled through the snow away from the devil house. Then his hands felt like they were on fire. Burning hot, like the flesh was going to melt off.
Pain!
It hurt! So much pain. It had to be the snow, it had to be.
Then he looked at his hands, the skin was pale.
In the dim light from the house, was his skin mottling? Or turning into wallpaper?
Doctor Jason Best stood and ran through the snow as fast as anyone could. Slipping and falling, he covered the mile in nearly an hour when he fell and rolled onto Spicer Road. His hands feeling like no other pain he ever had in his life.
As he layed on his back, the ground rumbled, he could feel it up through his spine. Something was coming.
Something huge. House-sizd.
It was the Mountain House! It chased him on cedar pillar legs. The ground trembled with an evil hunger that stalked him down the mountainside.
Too tired and cold to run, he lay supine on the lonely mountain road and began to scream that he was sorry. From the distance, lights from the porch bore down on him, unstoppable and implacable. He had nothing left, his mind broke as he screamed out his last prayers and the lights engulfed him.
Jason Best awoke in a bed to the beeping sounds of a cardiac monitor. It took a long time before he was able to get his eyes focused on a pole that held IV bags that ran into his arms.
For a week, he could not understand all of it. His soul should have been taken or some-such.
It was all like in another world. Soft, but cloying like spiderwebs to drag him back. Nightmares of the events were slow to fade, it kept on. Soft and horrid. Whispers in the shadows that invited him back to the Mountain House to stay, pulling on the spiderwebs lodged in his mind. It was difficult to comprehend all of it.
This room, bed, poles and equipment were solid, real, easy to understand.
After two weeks and the realization that he was alive, Jason was discharged home from the hospital. Then the interviews for days by the police about the three deaths ended.
Detectives took notes, wrote down everything the college professor described in vivid detail, and interviewed the attending physicians.
After a month, a preliminary report was ready for review. Jason obtained a copy and read it while sitting at his breakfast table.
"Jason Best, Ph.D. was found by a snowplow driver, Honey Gareth (See interview notes: Honey Gareth), laying in the middle of Spicer Dam Spur Road. In the two days in question, Dr. Best spent the time alone in the cabin at 24821 Spicer Dam Spur Road. In the course of the weekend, Doctor Best discovered an old wine cellar stocked with wine and rye whiskey. Tests of opened whiskey bottles showed high levels of ergot alkaloids, consistent with acute ergot toxicity causing visual and auditory hallucinations, per the attending physicians. This resulted in Doctor Best becoming convinced that he was with three other people over the weekend who died as a result of paranormal attacks.
Subsequent interviews with the named people, Doctor Contessa AKA "Tessa" Pershing is alive and well, continuing to work at Ocean Bay Community College. Doctor Best is familiar to Doctor Pershing in that they have attended same meetings and office functions but denies any relationship that might exist between Doctor Best and herself.
Doctor Lauren MacKay is friends with Doctor Best, but states no knowledge of anyone named Kevin. Her spouse, Michael MacKay, works at Ocean Bay University as a Fine Arts Professor. Further, no record of Kevin Acker, student or faculty, have been discovered. Searches of phone listings have proved fruitless.
To date, no evidence of any deaths at this address during the weekend in question exists.
Interior of 24821 Spicer Dam Spur Road shows the wallpaper slashed and torn in the kitchen and third-floor bedroom (See attached photos). The barn door to the basement has been knocked off the hinge by a gold-rush era ore cart on rails and a hatchet discovered embedded into a can of white paint.(See attached photos)
A horizontal goldmine dug circa 1850's shows evidence of modern reinforcements and extensive work in a room with a power management center from a self-contained geothermal generator. Adjacent to the power room is the previously mentioned wine cellar. (See attached photo series)
Ninety-six bottles of Rye Whiskey were found with rye grain still floating in the bottom of the bottles. Original labels, dated from 1910 to 1919 of quart-size "Robert's Rye Whiskey." Two bottles were discovered opened, one empty, the second appeared three-quarters full.(See attached photos)
It's the conclusion of the investigation that Dr. Best suffered from accidental ergot intoxication per the attached pertinent physician's notes.
No complaints filed with the evidence uncovered.
Lt. Liewess J. Jonah, investigating."
Tags affair, demons, drinking, egot, gold, goldmine, Horror, mine, Party, Romance, sex, snow, whiskey
Valley of Fear Chapter 1. Three Weeks Ago
Chapter 1. Three Weeks Ago
He sat quietly, an AR-15 leaning out of sight against the rock wall next to him, a branch obscuring its very existence.
Rocky Jorge Picot awaited the delivery of the drug mules from the north, the escort called Rocky's mobile phone rang two-hours before, the truck made it through the gates at the border, the team met the truck at the rendezvous and set out with workers and product to his position on Misty Mountain.
The tunnel, an ancient construction that did not exist on any map. .
They soon covered up the ancient lithographs carved on the walls with boxes of product in one of the rooms of the deep, multi-forked tunnel.
Frightening to Rocky, tunnels that turned off of the main-line collapsed over the untold number of years, but deep in the mine, the warmest it would get was a constant sixty-two degrees Farenheit, he was of Southern-French descent and the cool of the tunnels chilled him to the bone.
That was his excuse anyway.
His job was simply to keep everyone away who was not part of the company of smugglers, and he got the job from his stint as a sniper in the French Army. He enjoyed shooting the rifle chambered for a .338 Lapua Magnum over the .300 Winchester Magnum, for no other reason than he was more accurate with the larger caliber. He did not like the 12.7 Millimeter rifle, that caliber rattled his teeth, although he ranked in the top of his class and qualifications each time.
He was just tempted to miss once in a while, just so he would not have to fire the big caliber, come in the middle of the training list instead of placing first or second.
He liked the middle caliber, he was more comfortable with it and would have stayed in the service if not for incidents with drinking and an offhand threat to shoot a superior officer with his rifle.
"You won't even hear the shot." He had said.
It was a rapid exit from the government service.
Now he waited, watching, his pay off would be enough to retire on, comfortably, in the Caribbean.
There!
He could see heads moving, backpacks piled high with boxes and two mules, loaded down. Two followers dragging car tires behind them, obliterating the track of the mules and men.
Tillman "Tusk" Franks, the only man known that carried a knife made of a boars tusk, walked up to Rocky and spoke with him, motioning to the following men to put the product in the back of the tunnel.
The foreman of the drug smuggling team directed the men to dig in the back, clearing debris that had fallen over the thousands of years since the ancient people dug out the mountain side in the days of pre-history.
Time and again they went in, bringing out rock and gravel on their backs, distributing the tailings of the dig around in the forest.
During the sixteenth trip into the cave, a door was uncovered.
Not a door, precisely, a plug. A solid cross-section of a cut log. Seven-feet in diameter, set in the middle of the one mine-shaft, no hinges, no door. Just a giant cross-section jammed in the mine-shaft.
Like a cork, but huge and solid. With each man pushing and using levers, it never budged. Only a pattern of stones and paints on the butt end of the log.
Two of the men carved out some of the stones with knives, polished and carved, they appeared to have a scrimshaw like pattern of monsters and warriors cut into the semi-precious stones.
"What the hell." Rocky said to Tillman. "All that stuff is, is trouble, if we try to sell it. Let them have the hassles, we have better here."
The two men nodded to each other in a conspiratorial tones. The mules did not know what they had packed in, only that they were well paid.
Tillman left in a different route with the team. Rocky settled down, waiting for his partner, Kaarle Gulliaume, to join him, Rocky grew tired of being on the mountain alone.
He stayed well back with his furnace and cooking stove, knowing that the DEA had aircraft that could detect a fire from dozens of miles away. Thirty paces into the mineshaft, he kept it well out of sight from any federal agency.
In the deepest part of the tunnel, the large wood disk, split.
Rocky found there were more things to fear than the DEA and helicopters that could see in the dark.
He would be the first to scream in fear that night.
Tags canadian, digger, Drug, fear, French, Horror, Idaho, mine, mule, night, scrimshaw, smuggler, stones, tunnel
You're home!
Dancing four legs
a wagging tail
"I missed you, you were gone forever!"
One must pass the sniff and taste test.
"Who have you been near, who did you pet?"
A demand of a scratch by the ears.
Forty-five kilos of love.
Sitting down
Now a giant yellow lap-lander.
leaning against the chest, throwing head back.
The claim of the body. Human! You are MINE!
Canine cackling
Who belongs to whom?
Tags claim, dog, lick, love, mine, sit, sniff, tongue
Dragon Master University Chapter 31. In The Showers.
Chapter 31. In the Showers.
Sprite was laying against Jona's back, stealing the blankets like all girls everywhere do. Jona woke up cold.
But he had time for a shower in his new semi-private room, the only problem was the lack of privacy between human and dragon and genders.
His first experience with this upper level shower room was when his hair was full of soap when someone came in.
This alone was not out of the ordinary, the bathrooms were huge and built to fit all sizes of beings.
But the voices nearly made him slip on the smooth, snowflake obsidian floors.
"Can I use your hair soap?" A female voice said.
Two female dragons had walked in and were showering and talking together.
"Careful, human-boy." The gold dragon said, she smiled. "I know you. You're in the Dawn Room alone, which is very cool in my opinion. But a lot of students hate being alone here."
"My name is Starr, my parents are Polaris ice-dragons. But I am a kind of throwback, I don't like the cold, I like warm showers."
The redheaded human girl who stripped down had put golden scaled boots next to her clothes and stepped into the shower, borrowed Starr's shampoo.
"This is my roommate, Beulah Kate Archi Baker."
"Call me Kate." She said dangerously. "I don't know why you introduce me like that."
"It's that or as Boots. You wear that collection of footwear you have all the time." Starr said.
"I just like my shoes." Then turning to Jona. "You can stop looking now, yes, I am human, yes, I am redhead, yes, the water is cold. Make no mistake, I am willing and able to throw you out of here."
"Kate is a member of the Wild Witch Warrior club. They perform caged magic battles."
"Caged ..what?" For a moment, Jona forgot he was standing naked in a shower in front fo two girls. "I don't understand."
Starr sighed happily as she let hot water flow over her head of fine golden feathers and down her armored back. The scales she had here fine, almost skin-like on most of her body, but the dorsal scales were overlapping armor, each scale the size of his thumb with, what looked like, dentations that interlocked, giving her a silvery metallic stripe down her back.
"That's unique coloring you have on your spine." Jona became more comfortable with being naked in front of the girls. They paid him no mind as each one went to the job of preparing for the day.
"It is my adult scales coming out, it starts on the spine and eventually I will have all these covering me. My mom is the color of the moon. Dad looks like a setting sun. He is all copper."
"They look smooth." Jona said.
"Do you want to touch them?"
"Careful, what is your name?" Kate asked, leaning back to rinse out her hair. She had freckles down her body that looked like she was the victim of someone with a small marker and put dots all over her body.
"My name is Jona."
"Jona! Don't stroke her back, you will lose whatever dignity you have. She likes humans." Kate winked.
"He won't lose any dignity, he will know what dragon loving is like!" Starr said with a wink.
"As I said." Kate laughed.
Jona felt his ears burn at the flirty women as he dressed.
The two girls finished while he was dressing and he could understand why Starr called Kate "Boots" for the colorful footwear she pulled on.
Starr did not get dressed, just wrapping up in a towel then stepping close to Jona.
"She is right, I do like humans, males and females both." Starr winked. "I'm quarter-human myself."
Before Jona realized it, Starr's prehensile tail slid up the back of his leg, touching every part of his back and shoulders.
"Mmm. Nice." Starr winked a jeweled eye at him. "Come see me if you ever cannot sleep."
"Jona, take my word, once you do ice, nothing is never as nice." Kate said. "And you can call me Boots."
"Thanks, Boots."
"Byeee." Starr whispered as she slipped out of the room.
"Sorry about her. She has a heat cycle, when she needs to take hot showers, no one is safe." Boots smiled and waved as she left.
Jona laughed and walked back to his room. This floor was far different from "The Mine".
Tags boots, coed, college, Dragon, flirt, freckles, girls, human, mine, naked, Redhead, sex, shampoo, shower, tail, university, Witch


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Kamilo Kings Villa was designed for comfort and relaxation, boasting tasteful furnishings and elegant Hawaiian-style décor throughout. The large pocket doors in the living room recline into the walls, seamlessly blending the indoor and outdoor living spaces. The tropical setting and fairways surrounding the villa provide residents with a green and pleasant Big Island view!
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Lounge poolside under the warm Big Island sun on the lanai area, on one of the padded lounge chairs. As temperatures rise, take a plunge in the private swimming pool or turn on the central air conditioning and unwind indoors in the spacious family room. In the evening, relax in the outdoor Jacuzzi and stargaze with family and friends. There is also a sitting area outside on the lanai that is perfect for evening cocktails.
With its unique floor plan, and central air conditioning, everyone will have a comfortable place to sleep. You will find three spacious bedrooms located in the main house and a detached guesthouse, which is perfect for adult children or guests who want their own space. Two of the three of the bedrooms in the main house feature king-size beds, while the third has two twin-size beds; the guest house boasts a king-size bed. Each bedroom has a private en-suite bathroom and a flat-screen TV. An extra half bath was added for guest convenience.
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"I bring creativity, dynamism, innovation and diversity of thoughts… perspectives to situations''.
MAGAZINESNEWS
Lydia is a British – Nigerian with roots from Ayere, Kogi State, Nigeria. She is a graduate of Chemical Engineering with a master's degree in Petroleum Engineering. Her 18-year experience in the oil and gas industry has seen her work in Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Foster Wheeler (now part of Wood Group), and presently at British Petroleum (BP). Since joining BP, Lydia has held various operational roles and in the last 7 years, key leadership roles with BP's operations in the North Sea. She is currently the first black person to hold such high-profile position in leadership within the upstream oil and gas sector in the North Sea. She was instrumental to BP being recognised by Oil and Gas UK, when it won the 2018 annual award for Diversity and Inclusion. Engr Lydia mentors the younger generation on the importance of science and engineering, and she has been a registered member of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics network (STEMNet) UK, since 2008.
Her passion to capture the minds of young individuals led her to work with BP North Sea in organising the "Bring-your-child-to-work Day". This has now been recognised as an annual event. Excerpts of her interview with JEROME ONOJA, Managing Editor.
Question: Where did you cut your teeth as a young engineer?
I had my first hands-on experience with engineering during my internship
with West African Portland cement (now LaFarge), in Sagamu back in 1999/2000. Being in a manufacturing environment was exciting and there were lots to learn, hands on. My internship influenced my final year project.
Question: Can you take us through your career journey?
Yes. I started my oil and gas engineering career by serving (NYSC) with the Nigerian Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), 2002. I did a stint in banking by working for Zenith before moving back to engineering when I was hired by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) as a graduate chemical engineer. I was seconded to Shell in 2005 on the Train 6 NLNG project and Otumara development project before relocating to the UK with my husband under the UK Highly Skilled Migrant programme (HSMP) in 2006. In Britain, I interviewed and got a job with Foster Wheeler in January 2007 as a process engineer and spent 5 years before moving to Snaprogetti/ENI in March 2011 as a senior process engineer. I later joined BP as a facility process engineer, in 2011. I have held various roles in BP since then, one of which was offshore rotational role. I have held other technical leadership roles termed broadening such as; Reliability engineer, Deepwater activity team lead which are
considered critical for becoming a well-rounded leader in the oil and gas industry.
I was appointed as Operations Support team lead in 2018 for one of the flagship assets. This is one of the pivotal safety critical roles in oil and gas operation. It requires emotional maturity and good technical depth to be considered for these roles. Some companies call this type of roles asset manager or facilities manager.
" Being the first black person appointed to this role in the UK North Sea oil and gas industry is just humbling.
What are the factors that influenced your decisions? Multiple challenges facing science and engineering globally and my desire to bring simplicity and encourage more women and youths to study engineering is a great influence. Looking at the low level of interests from our youths in studying science and engineering has inspired me to go out and speak up. Being an engineer, my curiosity and desire to find solutions to challenges hold a great factor. My faith and my husband's support had been the secret of my success and influence. I would not have gone for any job, role or position without first agreeing same with God and my husband.
As a member of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Network (STEMNet), what efforts are being considered to capture the mind of the younger generation especially girls in Engineering?
A lot of workshops, bring child to work, scholarships and mentoring programmes are now in place to encourage girls, right from primary and secondary schools. These have opened up the minds of these young talents. Also,
sharing the stories of successful women in science and engineering has helped a lot in this area.
Question: Engineering is a male dominated profession, how have you been able to reach the peak in your career?
Though I am still aiming for the top in the industry, I have always believed that my hard work and determination will be recognised. I don't see myself as a woman in a male dominated profession. Rather,
I see myself as someone who brings creativity, dynamism, innovation and diversity of thoughts and perspectives to situations.
I am truly myself always.
Question: Does the glass ceiling exist for women. If so, do you think enough is being done to promote women in workplace?
Answer: I think a lot is being done to shatter the glass ceiling that used to exist, however there is still more to be done. In the developed world, women are encouraged, and the workplace is adapting to cater for part-time working women to promote inclusion. Even the interview styles and work contracts have been adjusted to promote equality. In developing nations like Nigeria,
there is need to call out and " disagree with corporate bullying of women who want to advance their careers.
My heart breaks when I read news of women in power being made scapegoats for the same crime, we let men get away with. I am a strong advocate of fairness and meritocracy irrespective of race and gender. Let's get rid of the scapegoat culture and create a transparent platform of meritocracy with zero tolerance for corporate bullying and harassment. If this is in place, Nigeria will advance faster than expected.
Question: How can corporate organisations, professional bodies and governments help improve the balance?
Create a fair process of recruitment and work conditions that do not make it impossible for women with families to be ambitious. Encourage flexible working conditions. A mindset change from what has always been the norm to getting on board with the change required is necessary.
Create deliberate targets of " increasing female talents on company's board and management.
Engr Lydia on an offshore platform
The Nigerian government is currently trying its best but I do believe more still needs to be done. More women need to be appointed to critical positions in the oil and gas industry to show inclusion.
Question: What role do you think women can play in bridging the divide?
Women who have advanced their careers must make it a deliberate plan to help other women coming behind them to equally advance.
As a woman, once you get a seat at a management table, don't be silent but use the opportunity to influence justifiable change that will allow other women to get a seat as well.
More importantly, don't try to be like the men you work with but be comfortable being a woman and executing your role differently but efficiently.
Question: Why do you think more women should be involved in engineering profession?
" Women bring diversity of thought to decision making and troubleshooting,
an average woman can multi-task effectively. This is because we think differently. The more women in engineering, the more welcoming we can influence the profession to be.
Question: Do you see any skill gap between engineers in Nigeria and those in the UK? I don't see any gaps between engineers in Nigeria or abroad. What is different is the enabling environment.
Question: What informed Lydia Wilson Foundation and what do they do? It is a charitable organisation that aims to alleviate sufferings of orphans, widows and the aged ones without care. I saw that our society does not have a robust plan in place to adequately support these group of vulnerable people and I decided this was my avenue to give back to the society.
Question: Your dad played a significant role in your journey to Science and Engineering, what is your advice to parents and guardians? My dad took an interest in my schoolwork and educational development. He took time to understand and know me, to be able to influence me.
Parents and guardians need to take time to know their children especially what interests them.
You will find it easy to encourage your children if they see that you are also interested in what they are doing.
Question: What are your future plans? Laughs! To continue to excel in what I do and more. My desire is to get to the top of the oil and gas echelon and contribute to the solutions of advanced technologies in the industry, globally.
Question: How do you combine the home front with your career? I have a very supportive husband who is as busy as myself. We use our calendar diary to manage our career demands and being there for our kids. We have never had a nanny nor extended family support since the children were born. My husband and I are a team and we support each other as co-parents without being rigid on who does what around the home. This has worked for us, made us to understand our kids better and has allowed us to both work full time and raise a family.
Question: How do you relax? Answer: I take time to travel. I love listening to classical music and a spa day at least once a quarter is not missed. I also go for walks with my children and create individual one to one time with them.
Question: A lot of Nigerians in diaspora dream of returning. What are your plans to return, and contribute to the oil and gas industry? If the right opportunity arises at the right time in my life, it would be deeply considered
Question: What is the Nigeria of your dreams? A land of equality irrespective of gender, race or religion. A land that harnesses its God-given resources to make itself great.
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