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Twilight rocks the box office one last time, with their final film Breaking Dawn-Part Two

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Final Twilight Movie Rocket Box Office World Wide Sales

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Map To This Year's Liverpool Fashion Week (October-December)

View The Liverpool Fashion Week Venues in a larger map The Map presents all the vital information you need to know for your Liverpool Fashion Weeks! From October to December, the map not only tells you which venues will hold the fashion events, but informs you of the opening times, the ticket cost, the designers/catwalks each night and also reveals the celebrity guests for the up and coming Christmas Fashion Weekend. http://www.liverpoolfashionweek.co.uk/catwalk-shows-2012.html

Head Chef of the London Carriageworks, Paul Askew

Paul Askew is the Chef Patron at multi-award winning restaurant The London Carriage Works. After more than 30 years in the business Paul has achieved numerous local and national awards, as well as masses of recognition from fellow chefs, including the likes of Raymond Blanc and Marco Pierre White. Also, after a TV appearance on channel 4 and a placing in the Top 30 most influential people in the North West, Paul was recently described by The Times as ‘a genial genius destined for the heights of Michelin.’

A Success Story of an Intern

After all the bad press that internships have been given over the past few years, it's refreshing to hear a success tale. Events and Marketing manager, Becky Todd shares with us her personal story on how being an intern resulted in an enjoyable and stable position at the prestigious company, The Leaf and Tea Shop.

Yes Man (Ahem Woman)

The past few years have been pretty mad busy for me in terms of time, I have found myself being a real-life Yes Woman; 

After College (which was crazy in itself) at 18, I took a year out to go travelling, decided I wouldn't go to Uni as Uni seemed too boring for cool me, (the thought of people describing their first year at Uni as 'the best year ever' sickened me) came back from Australia to Liverpool for my sister's wedding, carried out Chief Bridesmaid duties, had a million just-an-hour catch ups with friends about the past year and then last minute three weeks later changed my travel snob views and went to UCLAN University. I had a surreal year in the place that is 'DePreston' meeting a range of characters (also meeting some gems!) and in between lectures (kinda),nights out, Miss Selfridge, I would travel to and from Liverpool every two weeks to see my boyfriend,friends and basically try to fit everything and everyone in (I am a sucker for saying yes to everything!)

Here is the epic point I am about to get at, saying yes to everyone aka trying to please school/college/travelling/uni/ friends, family and boyfriend was a bad choice. I look back on the last two and a half years and see it's absolutely flown by! When I was younger, I didn't believe older people when they said life goes fast, but with my 21st birthday rapidly approaching in October, I suddenly am having this kinda 20s-almost-mid-crisi thing going on, (dramatic I know). 

Over the past few years I have learnt to make everything count,(here comes the unintended cliches) invest time in the right people! I was trying to catch up with people all over the show and in the end it didn't work because really how many people can you physically keep up friendships with in life?! The friendships therefore had become thin and surface like, something which I really resented and I barely had anytime to do the things I love. 

Here comes the hard part, the part I really am crap at, sometimes it's choosing things over things and people over people. Sometimes going for five different coffee dates a week cannot be done, going out on a night out after a 10 hour shift isn't always possible and you can't always make your friend's party as much as you would love to! I used to think you can do it all, I though I was more super woman than yes woman to keep up with all the different friendship groups I had. (Not that I'm misses popular over here, I think most girls have had a serious problem also of being a 'Yes Woman')

Time and life goes so fast and it's never ever something you can get back. So often,it's easier for us to invest time in the things and people that aren't worth it. So do the things that you LOVE doing and be with the people that you truly want to be with, don't just 'catch up' to 'catch up' and tick it off the long list. Being a Maybe Woman suits me a lot more and I'll leave being a Yes Woman/Man to Jim Carey. 

'The Great Facebook Depression' 2004-2014

Now, call me crazy, but as a generation, haven’t we become so self-obsessed with ourselves, our lives, our opinions, our careers,our hedonistic attitudes, basically everything to do with ‘ME’. So, some may say that I’m stating the obvious here and I know that. Thanks to a little thing called individualism, (we love America) Facebook has high-lighted self promotion. Resulting in people reveling in their new profile photos every week, new statuses every hour and some seriously deep concentration into the art form of appearing both witty and lovely online, not forgetting popular, revealing to the world just what a cool cat you really are.

I, of course, am guilty of all these things. Seeing a flattering photo of yourself on your friend’s camera and pestering him/her to put it up on Facebook. Or, being at a so-called ‘cool’ restaurant or bar and ‘checking yourself in’. Embarrassing, oh yes, unbelievably.

It has become a universal truth now (well for reasonably thinking people) that on Facebook you can be anyone you want, create up a front which in essence isn’t you. You can edit together this wonderful life via Facebook to give off a chosen impression or particular version of yourself in how you want to be perceived by the Facebook world.

This really rang truth to me when a good friend sadly suffered with depression. She would come to me crying about life on a regular basis. However, on Facebook ‘her life’ appeared very different indeed. On her page, she thoroughly enjoyed life, with her beautiful photo shopped pictures, status updates of how amazing the previous night was, the part time career of working in a major high street shop and numerous holiday albums with her boyfriend, she fronted that she was so happy and content.

During 2011 I found myself saying, almost weekly, ‘arghh I’m deleting Facebook.. it’s stupid’ or something to that affect. I considered after Christmas completely cutting myself off from social media, not to be controversial,certainly not, or even to portray a ‘new hipster outlook’ on Facebook, but it was for my own sanity and well-being!

I find it bemusing how people can go on Facebook four, five times a day just to upload a photo or update a status which they think screams to Facebook ‘I’M FUN, SOCIABLE AND BUSY’. When in reality, it screams ‘I’m self conscious, self absorbed and painfully self aware.’ Living a real life and enjoying life to it’s absolute fullest doesn’t include wasting each day promoting yourself on Facebook. I guess the thing I’m getting at is, if you really do lead such an exciting, free life then you are genuinely too busy to update to the world that you’re having such a fantastic time.

I think like most things, Facebook will phase out due to boredom and people generally getting tired of almost proving something to an online audience. Privacy as a whole will be restored, very much appreciated and exercised in future. Implying that the beauty of mystery and curiosity with be gained back into people’s lives-I hope.

So, here’s to the year of 2014.