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Open Thread: Talk About What Matters Most to You
Discuss and debate the issues that mean the most to you.
On the second day of January, my housemates and I came home to find a notice pinned to our door. In 60 days, it read, our landlords were going to hike our rent up, making our monthly bill almost a thousand bucks each. Welcome to the Silicon Valley, suckers. Happy New Year.
I mean, we kind of knew it was coming. Rent prices in San Francisco have skyrocketed 14.7 percent in the past year; in 2012, the average asking price on a one-bedroom was over $2,500 a month. My neighborhood, according to publications like the Wall Street Journal, has become increasingly desirable to the masses of young'uns who work at the Internet Giants 40 minutes south of here. Google even has a shuttle pickup station down the street from us.
A month ago, a Sidewalk Juice replaced the boarded-up CA$H FOR GOLD storefront six blocks away. Woody Allen filmed his new movie smack in the middle of my running route. In our area, things were definitely starting to look up economically.
Meanwhile, our landlords -- who a year ago gave us tequila whenever we paid the rent -- stopped returning our calls. After a string of local robberies, we tried to get the locks changed on our broken front door, which any half-drunk jerk with a credit card and a good shove could open. No response. To us, the message was clear: suck it up, pay more, or get out.
Our sink choked on hair and died, so we replaced the drain system with a bucket. Our pilot light stopped working, and we burned our thumbs on matches trying to put the kettle on after too many glasses of wine. Our dishwasher, always a luxury at the best of times, started to require actual heaving to get into place, and even then only ground the existing food further into the cracks of ceramic plates.
"Your landlord's kind of the worst," my friend Ella, who lives two blocks away, told me.
"Yeah, but it's worth it for $800 a month," I said, because it was.
I don't know if this is true of all cities, but in my circles, people ask, "How much rent do you pay?" at parties with wild, hungry eyes. San Francisco's only seven miles by seven miles -- eventually, survival of the fittest starts to win out. And in this case, "fittest" means "most willing to hand over cash."
I fully recognize the stupidity of complaining about this round of gentrification when it's nothing compared to all the non-white families who have been driven out of my block over the years. But I can't help but feel aimlessly resentful all the same, like my individual grumpiness is going to keep Facebook employees from paying half again as much money for my 10x12 one-window closet/room.
Not that I can blame them personally, of course, because in their positions I'd probably do the exact same thing. Why not?
Aside from the political aspects of the changes, I also just feel sad. I didn't love San Francisco when I first moved here. I'm a neurotic perfectionist with no patience for condescension, and at first glance, this city seemed perversely full of sleepwalkers and busybodies.
But during the last 18 months, I've slipped into a comforting rhythm. I buy arugula and plantain chips from the same bodega every Tuesday; I know the liquor store guy's kids' names. From my house, I can walk to six different bookstores, at least 15 bars, three vegan restaurants, and a store that sells nothing but pirate supplies.
The dudes next door, who used to hiss at my housemates and call us dykes, keep inviting me to play chess with them on their porch in the weak winter sun. We have tomatoes on the roof and ferns in the backyard. Every Sunday, my upstairs neighbors play jazz records as loud as they'll go, and I'll sit on the couch with one of the dogs and listen to the muffled horns filtering through the ceiling.
I'm a bit of a nomad by nature, but this is the longest I've lived in one place aside from the one I grew up in. It's hard not to walk back in the misting rain from the train at night, look at the yellow light from our living room window, and think, "Home."
Now, I guess the question is how much I'm willing to sacrifice to keep that contentment alive. I don't particularly want to leave San Francisco. I could move somewhere else in the city, I guess, but rents are high all over. Fleeing to Oakland like most of the artists and writers I know would add another hour to my already grinding commute, and any farther than that would require me to just work remotely.
This time around, I can probably scrape together enough to cover the increase. What about the next time, though?
I've never minded doing the leaving, but I hate being left behind. This feels like being left behind by someone who isn't actually going anywhere, which almost makes it worse.
When American suburbs first came into being, they were a way for the middle and upper classes to live apart from the crowded, often diseased scrum of local cities while still working in them. Now, it seems like the opposite is happening -- living and renting in the biggest urban areas is starting to become a rich person's privilege.
And like a lot of my peers are asking about New York or Los Angeles, I can't help but wonder: is living in the middle of the action really worth a solid grand every 30 days?
At this point, it's hard for me to imagine being anywhere else. That said, it's amazing how persuasive a rapidly emptying bank account can be. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.
Kate is capturing the zeitgeist: @katchatters.


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How do you sleep? Your favorite sleep position may reveal your personality
We all have our favorite sleeping positions, the ones we like to get into right when we get under the covers and turn off the lights. But according to a study done by a prominent sleep expert, these positions may say more about you than just how you like to sleep.
Dr. Samuel Dunkell has been researching everything that goes on once a human being goes to sleep for over 25 years, and he definitely has some interesting findings. For one of his studies, he came up with personality traits for those who snooze in any of the seven most common sleep positions. Personally, as much as I respect Dr. Dunkell for all his sleep knowledge and wisdom, I don't know if how I sleep really has anything to do with my personality. I just sleep in any position that I find comfortable! That, exactly, is supposedly what reveals who I am. "People sleep as they live," says the doctor.
What do you think? Here are Dr. Dunkell's seven positions and their corresponding personalities.
1. Fetal position — Very protective of yourself, self-conscious and sometimes clingy. You tend to be troubled by human relationships.
2. King position — Self-confident, maybe even arrogant with narcissistic tendencies. But very social, enjoys new experiences and challenges.
3. Face down position — The nervous and sometimes sensitive type, you appreciates tidiness, somewhat of a clean-freak. You get upset if things don't go your way.
4. Buried under the covers position — Tend to look at things from all angles with your profound insight, but you get caught up in trivial matters.
5. Cuddle position — You have very high ideals. But when those ideals are not reached, you can get chronically frustrated. Can't face reality.
6. Half-fetal position — Very cooperative and a well-balanced personality. You have the ability to relax those around you, but you may be indecisive.
7. Knees raised position — You remember the tiniest details, borderline neurotic. Short-tempered at times, you find it hard to just let things go if they bother you.
These all seem a bit silly, but these findings are a result of years and years of research. I wonder how Dr. Dunkell himself sleeps? As for me, I put a pillow between my legs sometimes, but that's because I have a bad back.
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The name calling towards Ron Paul and his supporters must end. I constantly see tweets in my timeline from self-declared conservatives and Tea Partiers who call him a "crazy uncle" or an "anti-Semite." Enough with the ad hominem attacks. It reminds me of liberals who falsely accuse the Tea Party Movement of being racist. Why then are some Tea Partiers calling Ron Paul and his supporters "anti-Semitic" with no substance to back it up? Does the GOP want the youth vote or not? Stop trying to alienate us.
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Suja Jones, the Indian mother who took her French husband to court for allegedly raping their three and half year old daughter, read out a letter written by her child at an event for raising public awareness about child sexual abuse
By Team FI
On the day of Christmas, a candle light vigil was held in Bangalore to raise public awareness against child sexual abuse. The vigil, which started at 6 pm and attended by 80-odd people, was organised particularly to express solidarity with the ongoing legal fight of a four and half year old girl child, who was allegedly subjected to sexual abuse by her influential French father when she was just three and half years old.
The father of the child, Pascal Mazurier who works for the Ministry of External Affairs, France and is posted at their consulate in Bangalore, is now facing trial for raping his daughter. Suja Jones, the Indian mother, is facing systematic character assassination by the powerful and privileged husband, his friends and men's rights activists in India. She is being targeted for protecting her children by keeping him and his family away from the child who is still traumatised by the incestuous abuse.
At the event, a letter voicing the child's anguish, written with the help of a large network of people's / women's movements, was read out in English and Kannada.
Feministsindia is reproducing the full text of the Letter of a child yearning for justice.
I am a child yearning for Justice
I thank you for taking this time to listen to my voice, and to hear my deep cry.
I stand as the voice of all those children who have faced sexual abuse in their lives
I speak for the children whose lives are marred because of violence against our bodies; our spirit
My future stands blurred because the memory of violence follows like a shadow over my head.
I am the child who faced violence at the hands of one, who I trusted and loved,
Who stood before me as a strong ground, and as one on whom I very much depended on to teach what is right and wrong,
I could not cry out against him as he was my own father, one whom others also loved…
I did not know how to differentiate between what is acceptable and what cannot be pardoned.
The pain of the abuse that I experienced repeatedly in secret came to the fore one fine day
When my plea "please don't hurt me there" was once again drowned in the loudness of my own cry…
I could bear it no longer and wondered if I would survive to share this horror story
Of a scarred body and spirit – only three and a half years old – to which you could add a decade to every year!
Listen friends; I speak to each one of you who stand here today: the choice that YOU have
To either address my pain and divide it … or multiply it by your stunning silence, passivity, and ignorance
Do you know there are thousands like me who want their beloved society to understand…
That the scales of justice would work better, if only it would listen to the truth of our experience?
If I have gathered courage to speak today against all forms of violence against children, especially sexual abuse
It is because I believe that human beings can change for the better and realize their utter common oneness.
If Christmas day is celebrated as the day when Jesus the Christ child was born into this world to bring peace
We, as children, need your help, partnership and support to usher in new ways of building a Just Community.
Written with the support of a large network of People's / Women's Movements including Vimochana, Praja Rajakiya Vedike (PRV), All India Progressive Women's Association (AIPWA), Aneka, Bangalore Birth Network, FeministsIndia, Jana Vikasa, Jeeva, Karnataka Sex Workers Union (KSWU), Karnataka Sexual Minorities Forum (KSMF), Samara, Secularism Is A Women's Issue – international network, Siloam Girls Boarding Home, South Asia Citizens Web, Swaraj Network, Student Christian Movement of India (SCMI), UTC Women's Studies Department, Women's Initiative for Citizenship and Universal Rights and many others
Featured photo: candle light vigil outside Town Hall building, Bangalore
Related article: Solidarity campaign for Suja Jones and child


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After an almost two year break, Gryffin Designs is back in business. I spent most of 2009 fighting breast cancer, and then moved cross country where I now have a home and studio in Maryland. I've started a new series of greyhound artwork, this time working in fabric. I'm making original quilted wallhangings and purses in time to vend at Greyhounds Reach the Beach in Dewey Beach, Delaware. I still have my artwork available at my cafepress store, and have a new section for some of my new fiber arts. I hope y'all like them!!!
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Hi Karen..... welcome back. I'm so glad you're able to beat the monster.
I'm going to a dinner this week with my sister in law here in Hamburg, NY - she's a survivor too, as too my mother-in-law.
Anyway...... when you get a chance would love to connect with you regarding our new store http://tinasstore.webs.com/ we'll be hosting some fundraisers very soon and we'll be looking for vendors that would like to list their items to donate 100% or a portion of their sales. You can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com for more information. I started this shop to try to cut down on overhead costs for everyone - so more of the funds goes to helping rather than to pay off fees.
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Take revenge on your father's killer, and become the richest merchant in the kingdom! Immerse yourself in this old-school nostalgia-inducing trading experience.
Step into the shoes of a medieval traveling merchant, whose life boils down to one simple sentence: you got to buy cheap, and you got to sell high. Travel between the cities and villages of the realm in search of cheap goods to acquire, various quests to accomplish and wealth to accumulate. Visit local taverns for latest local gossip. Gain influential friends who may help you along the way. Hire companions to assist you if you run into vile bandits or unpredictable events. Pursue rumors of great harvest and goods shortages to find the best deals. Search for local people in need and they may reward you handsomely for your help. Expand your company, invest in it, and get rich in no time! And if you're for a bit of a thrill, visit ancient landmark and search for valuable artifacts. Take the challenge and become the richest merchantman in the world and get revenge!
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Bring in the Bystander
BITB is a program that is based on a model of community responsibility that emphasizes the fact that everyone has a role to play in ending and preventing sexual violence. The program is run by facilitators who help the coordinator (Jenna Novosad) during the presentations. Presentations last about 1 - 2 hours at a time, during which the coordinator and facilitators introduce the bystander model and apply it to real life situations, talk about sexual violence on a continuum, talk about the culture in which sexual violence occurs and go over some known facts and statistics along with intervention techniques.
If you or your group is interested in receiving the training, please fill out the form below!
If you have any questions regarding the program please contact email@example.com!
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Lists of all steam railways, museums and tramways that are open to the public.
Please select an initial letter from the left margin, or use the search box below.
Please note that this section only lists the official websites for heritage railways which are open to the public at least 10 times per annum. For a more complete list which includes unofficial sites and those not yet open regularly, please use the 'Heritage Railways and Museums' category of the Websites Database.


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SideWinder Strategic Commander
Programmable buttons: The six programmable buttons can
be pressed alone or in combination with the shift ones to execute game
commands faster than ever. When you activate a game profile by moving the
slider button all the active buttons light up like a Christmas tree (they
display an orange color). So you instantly know which buttons are assigned
to a game action and which aren�t. With the buttons you can deploy,
command your forces faster and more efficiently.
Zoom buttons: This two buttons ( + and - ) let you zoom
in or out in your favourite games if they support this feature. For example in
SimCity 3000 you can zoom out to view the whole city you�ve build or zoom in to
view just the life of a district. If you don�t want to use this buttons you can
reprogram them to achieve other commands using the SideWinder Strategic
Commander configuration applet.
Shift Buttons: These three buttons are dedicated to
extend the functionality of the six buttons: you can press simultaneously one of
the six reprogrammable buttons with the shift button of your choice in order to
execute up to 4 commands per button.
Rec Button: The record button that blinks in red when
you push it is here to program buttons 1 to 6 on the fly without leaving the
game or launching the SideWinder Strategic Commander applet. Strategic games
always use keyboard keys to perform a defined action. To program the Strategic
Commander you�ll have to assign a button the keyboard strike. It works like
this: in your game press the rec button, press the button you want to program
(it�ll now blink), push the keyboard key that corresponds to the command you
want to execute and push the rec button again to stop the record process and
save your new command shortcut. It is similar to recording a macro but hands on.
Profile Switch: This lateral 3 positions button allows you to change game profiles during gameplay easily without the need to launch the Strategic Commander applet. Note that these three profiles don�t obviously concern other games. You can use two different profiles in the same game.
Not happy having tons of button combinations to command your troops easily by sending them orders? The SideWinder Strategic Commander upper pad can be also moved in the direction you want to easily scroll long maps like the ones used in Microsoft Age Of Empires II. When using the Strategic Commander to navigate in your favourite games your mouse and keyboard are available to perform other tasks. Always with my fetish game, Age Of Kings, the strategic commander lets me move the battle map while my standard mouse is available to select units at the same time.
SideWinder Software Controller
The provided Strategic Commander Software allows you to
program easily buttons and is your place to create, modify, or delete games
profiles. When you launch the software a very stylish black window is displayed:
at the left bottom part of the window a picture represents your Strategic
Commander device and can be used to test the device: when you push a button,
this button is lighted on the screen so you know everything works great. But
thankfully that�s not all! Once you�ve launched the software four tabs are
displayed as well as a small list in the menu bar. The list lets you select one
of the 30 existing profiles (that are bundled with the device) or to create a
new one. Creating a new profile is very easy: select new profile in the list,
name it and follow the four steps represent by the four tabs. The first tab
provides you with some explanations and with a link to freely download new
profiles on the net. Then you have to eventually write in the second tab some
remarks about the current profile, after you switch to the third tab to program
To do so you have to push a button on the device, type the name of the command you want to associate to the button and jump to the command label: here you have to push the keyboard keys that are required to perform the action you want to execute: when doing so the command label show the keys you have typed. Note that you can insert some special characters into one sequence to add pause, or to use mouse or keyboard special buttons like Tab, Enter, arrows, etc� Each actions associated to a button is shown in a tab and you can obviously program four different actions for each buttons using the appropriate shift keys. Then the fourth and final tab lets you choose the most appropriate navigation mode you want to use in your game. The different navigation modes can be assigned to direction keys, numeric keys (1,2,3, etc.), custom keys and more. When you affect the custom key to the navigation mode you can program for the fourth direction a keyboard command to execute. Finally the Zoom in & out buttons can be reprogrammed to do a totally different thing than zooming in the game while the rotation mode of the pad can be changed. To assign the switcher button a profile simply move the switch to the desired position and select in the Strategic Commander software the game you want to be associated with the switch position. The latest feature offered by the software is the ability to print each profile.
Game Test
Like every new device the SideWinder Strategic Commander requires a period of acclimatization to acquire new reflexes when playing in strategic games. However after a few hours of use you�ll handle it as if you were born with! During our tests we use the Strategic Commander device with the following various games:
During our tests we really appreciated the incredible versatility of the device as well as its unrivalled ease of use that take strategic games to a new level. If the device provides a quick way to do actions faster than ever in games you have to remember what action is associated to the buttons� Indeed with more than 72 possible combinations a button error can be fatal for you. If you�re forgetful you should consider sticking a postit in front of each buttons to remind yourself each button does! More seriously the navigation feature of the device justifies itself the cost of this new equipment since it provides an elegant & easy way to move maps in games without the need to right click and move the mouse at the same time. The only thing we regret is that the base of the device is too light so you can move the whole device instead of the navigation pad while playing intensively.


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The trade deadline has passed in all but the most lenient of fantasy leagues, meaning it's time to focus on the margins using free agency and waivers in order to bolster your roster during the remaining month and a half of the regular season. Those in head-to-head leagues have even less time to improve, with their league playoffs just a few weeks in the future, so with that in mind we'll take a look at pitchers (the most coveted commodity) using
His punch-out rate is one reason we can't expect his current actual ERA to last. Though he's striking out more batters since his first 10 starts, he's still at a below-average 4.9 K/9 for the season. Throw in that he induces grounders just 36 percent of the time, and it's easy to see why Olsen is not a favorite when it comes to this statistic (since ground-ball tendencies are another component of QERA). He's regressed closer to his QERA figure over his last 10 starts, with a 5.19 ERA over 59 innings pitched, even though he's put some space between his strikeouts (4.9) and walks (2.7) per nine, in part because he's started to give up far more home runs, with a 1.5 HR/9, or 34 per 200 innings, a significant increase. Opponents have knocked Olsen around for an ugly .286/.336/.524 clip, and it's tough to survive a ballgame when you're turning all of the opposition into this year's
Olsen isn't the only Sunshine State hurler who is pitching above expectations, as Tampa Bay's
Thanks to his defense, Jackson can survive with his low K rates as long as he doesn't let the walks or homers get out of control. While the walks have not been as much of an issue as in the past, he's struggled with the long ball over his last 10 starts. Though he has a 4.10 ERA (and 4.25 RA) over the 59 1/3-inning stretch, he's given up 1.7 homers per nine, a projected total of nearly 38 home runs over 200 innings. That's a poor showing for anyone, never mind someone with the high walk totals and low strikeout rates he has. At this point, Jackson's defense makes him a worthwhile innings eater on a club desperate for that, but his recent stretch is worrisome, and he's of no help to someone who already has productive pitching in place. He's the kind of guy you dump into free agency if you're forced to make a move for help elsewhere.
Regardless, the defense can't catch the balls that Vazquez lets hitters put into orbit, and there has been far too much of that lately. QERA does not account for home runs, which makes sense when you see that it expects Vazquez to have a sub-four ERA, about a run better than his current numbers. Vazquez's career HR/9 rate is 1.2, and he's matching that this year despite his recent bad patch, but that career rate is somewhat misleading thanks to awful campaigns with the Diamondbacks and Yankees. During his better years, he's usually around the 1.0 mark, right where he was after his first 14 starts of this season. Even with the homers and ERA, Vazquez does plenty of good thanks to the low walk rates and multiple punchouts; if he manages to rein in his homer rate before year's end, it's all to the good for your club.
Silva is striking out fewer than four per nine, continuing a streak that he's kept going since 2004, his first year with Minnesota. Luckily, walks are rare, as he's giving out just 1.7 BB/9 on the year, right around his career rate; the problem has been his BABIP of .331. With Seattle ranking second-to-last in the AL in Defensive Efficiency and converting a paltry 68.8 percent of balls in play into outs, it's no wonder Silva has been unable to pitch to his normal standards. When nearly 86 percent of your opponents end up putting the ball in play, you would like to have a defensive unit behind you that can catch a few of those. The right side of the infield hasn't had too much trouble with his grounders, as the opposition is hitting just .250 there on 25 percent of balls in play, but the left side is allowing a .301 average on 20.1 percent of balls in play, which is far too high for ground balls. The outfield isn't doing him any favors either, with .431, .500, and .531 averages from left to right. The lesson you should glean from these numbers is that Silva isn't the answer for you, no matter how hard up for pitching you may be, not unless Seattle's defense all of a sudden learns how to field. Given how unlikely that is, you'll want to avoid him.


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I had been abused as a young boy by someone who stood for things we are taught that were good. He was a cantor in my synagogue, he was a youth advisor for different Jewish youth groups and he was a police officer.
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1. Welcome, sweet dawning of the morn,
That saw our Savior rise;
Welcome the glorious, sacred light,
That burst yon eastern skies.
Serene and calm at early dawn,
While nature breathed repose,
Ere Mary sought that lonely tomb,
Our dear Redeemer rose.
He rose, He rose, He rose!
Triumphant over His foes!
2. We'll join with angels in their song,
Loud hallelujahs sing;
Come one and all, His praise prolong,
Till Heav'n with echoes ring.
We magnify a risen Lord,
Though once for sinners slain;
He bore our sorrows and our cares,
Yet lives in Heaven again. [Refrain]
3. Sing victory, victory over death,
Our worst and latest foe;
Our loving Savior broke the bars,
That He His power might show.
List! ye redeemed ones, hear the words,
And cease, ye weeping eyes;
First, on the resurrection morn,
The dead in Christ shall rise. [Refrain]
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Eva Longoria Baston is a director and one of the actors on Devious Maids, portraying herself.
Eva Jacqueline Longoria was born on March 15, 1975, in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four sisters. Longoria grew up on a ranch in Corpus Christi and attended Texas A&M, Kingsville, earning her bachelor of science degree in kinesiology while appearing in college plays. In March 1998, Longoria won the Miss Corpus Christi beauty pageant, which came with the opportunity to compete in a talent show in Los Angeles. She headed to L.A. for the talent show, won it, and stayed in California to pursue an acting career.
In 2000, Longoria made her first appearances on Beverly Hills 90210 and General Hospital. The following year, the young actress joined the cast of the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she played Isabella. The role earned Longoria an American Latino Media Arts (ALMA) Award for Outstanding Actress in a Daytime Drama in 2002.
Eva Longoria hit prime time in 2004 as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC dramedy Desperate Housewives. The ensemble show was an immediate hit, and Longoria shot to nationwide fame instantly. A year into the show, she won Choice TV Breakout Performance, Female, at the Teen Choice Awards and the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series. The cast won the SAG in 2006 as well, and Longoria took home the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy and the ALMA for Person of the Year. She was also named one of People's 50 Most Beautiful in 2005 and #1 on Maxim's annual Hot 100 list two years in a row.
All the attention Longoria was getting from Desperate Housewives led to movie roles as well, and she appeared in Harsh Times (2005), The Sentinel (2006) and The Heartbreak Kid (2007), among others.
She was also one of the busiest when not in front of the cameras, as she works on behalf of several charities. She is the national spokesperson for Padres Contra el Cancer, a nonprofit organization that helps Latino children with cancer and their families, and she founded Eva's Heroes, an organization that offers enrichment opportunities for developmentally challenged young people. She is the international face of L'Oréal Paris, a spokesperson for Pepsi and the face of Bebe Sport. She also continues to act, both on TV and in film and has produced a pilot for a new series and a dating reality show, Ready for Love.
Beginning in 2013, Longoria has been one of the executive producers for Lifetime's Devious Maids. In 2014, she made her directorial debut with Devious Maids's second season premiere. In 2015, NBC announced plans for a comedy called Telenovela in which Eva Longoria stars as a popular telenovela actress. In 2016, she appeared in the fourth season of Devious Maids.
Longoria was married to actor Tyler Christopher from 2002 to 2004 and to basketball star Tony Parker from 2004 to 2010. Since 2013, she has dated businessman Jose Antonio Baston. The couple became engaged in December 2015, and were married in Mexico on May 21, 2016.
Devious Maids directing credits
The following is a list of episodes of Devious Maids that credit Longoria as their director.
- "An Ideal Husband" (2.01)
- Following the second season's finale, actress Edy Ganem (Valentina Diaz) predicted that Eva Longoria would portray the as-of-then upcoming character of Sebastien's wife.[1]
Gallery of behind the scene stills released to promote the director/actor.
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