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My Depression Was the Worst It Has Ever Been During My Pregnancy
What is a time of joy for many women was my darkest hour.
Eight years ago, when I left a copyediting job in a publishing house to go freelance, my mother was aghast.
"But what are you going to do about health insurance? You need health insurance!"
At the time, I was 25 and had the delusional belief that the invincibility youth affords. I believed health insurance was effectively taking several hundred dollars a month of my hard-earned income and flushing it down the toilet. At the time, I was still living with my parents in Gravesend and if I was going to be spending money on ANYTHING, it was to get the heck out of there and into my own place.
Eventually, I acquiesced, getting the most affordable group health insurance rate I could find through an Editorial Freelancers Association. As far as I was concerned, it was "in case I was hit by a bus" insurance -- I'd never actually use it, but I'd have it just in case. Issues like limited drug coverage and high deductibles didn't even register on my radar.
Until it became everything.
About 18 months ago, I was returning from a press breakfast when I was overcome by an unspeakable pain in my back and neck. It was the kind of pain where I couldn't walk -- couldn't move -- out of nowhere. I took an Excedrin, assuming I had pulled a muscle while holiday shopping -- and promptly vomited and passed out on my bathroom floor.
Luckily, my mother had come to see me and found me a short time later and got me to the hospital. It turned out a vein had burst in my uterus -- and the pain I felt was more than half the blood in my body pooling in my now-distended belly. I had to have emergency exploratory surgery (the scars haunt me to this day) -- and I spent nearly three days unconscious in ICU.
By all accounts, it's a miracle I'm alive. In fact, I hear my doctor got a sweet passage into a medical journal because of my case. But side effect of being alive is an absolutely suffocating level of debt.
My medical insurance covered my surgery and hospital stay -- following the meeting of a $5,000 deductible. About six months after my first surgery, I needed another one -- and another hospital stay -- it was technically another calendar year -- so it was another $5,000. All this time, I was paying $300+ a month in health insurance, and yet, somehow I still owe $10,000 in medical bills.
Speaking as a freelancer who spent much of the last year with limited mobility and access to our sources of income, I can't even begin to say how much this has destroyed my savings. In fact, I no longer have any savings to speak of.
I speak to my friends around the world, and they are mystified that America -- this allegedly great nation -- is a place where people literally have to choose between their livelihood and their life. A place where people who can't afford healthcare die every day.
Many people -- millions of people -- already have health coverage through their employers. They may or may not care about Obamacare. But it gives them an option -- to choose a plan they like better, that is more affordable. One that will now cover prescription drugs, mental health care -- many things that used to be optional and now aren't.
We shouldn't be afraid to go for yearly skin cancer screenings or routine checkups because we are afraid of a staggering bill. Fear of spending money on the doctor can kill us. It may have killed me -- maybe if I was smarter and better about going for regular checkups, I'd have not gone through the hell I went through. What I'm still going through.
I'm not very much into politics, generally. But I'm into the people I love sticking around -- and with the Affordable Care Act, no one can be turned away from health insurance because of pre-existing conditions or how much money they make. And everyone below a certain income level is going to going to finally get access to free or discounted health care -- and options to shop around and choose the plan right for them. Hopefully, in time to get their life in order.
I think even with this act, the American Health Care system has a REALLY long way to go (what we are getting with Obamacare is simply a watered-down version of what much of the rest of the world already has for free) -- but, still, you know, it's better than being buried. (Or buried in debt, as it is.)

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Born May 20, 1908, in Indiana, PA, Stewart began performing magic as a adolescent. While studying courtly engineering at Princeton University, he befriended Joshua Logan, who then headed a summer stock coterie, and appeared in not too of his productions. After graduation, Stewart joined Logan's University Players, a troupe whose membership also included Henry Fonda and Margaret Sullavan. He and Fonda traveled to New York City in 1932, where they began winning slight roles in Broadway productions including Carrie Nation, Yellow Jack, and Page Mistake Glory.
On the recommendation of Hedda Hopper, MGM scheduled a camouflage test, and promptly Stewart was signed to a desire-term pucker. He original appeared onscreen in a bit role in the 1935 Spencer Tracy vehicle The Ruin Man, followed by another small performance the next year in Rose Marie.
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His next important performance nominate him as Eleanor Powell's concubine in the euphonious Born to Dance, after which he accepted a supporting turn in After the Skinny Mankind. In behalf of 1938's noteworthy You Can't Document It With You, Stewart teamed for the senior time with Frank Capra, the commander who guided him during many of his most memorable performances. They reunited a year later against Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Stewart's breakthrough epitome; a hugely favourite hip morality play jell against the backdrop of the Washington state system, it cemented the all-American character which made him so adored by fans, earning a Budding York Film Critics' Best Actor confer as famously as his first Oscar nomination.
Stewart then embarked on a string of commercial and critical successes which eminent him to the status of superstar; the foremost was the idiosyncratic 1939 Western Destry Rides Again, followed near the 1940 Ernst Lubitsch romantic comedy The Research Round the Corner. After The Mortal Explosion, he starred opposite Katherine Hepburn and Cary Supply in George Cukor's sublime The Philadelphia Facts, a performance which earned him the Master Actor Oscar. However, Stewart soon entered duty in World In combat II, serving as a bomber airwoman and flying 20 missions over Germany. He was highly decorated for his gallantry, and did not fully retire from the services until 1968, alongside which time he was an Air Force Brigadier Non-exclusive, the highest-ranking entertainer in the U.S. military.
Stewart's fight experiences leftist him a changed man; where during the prewar stage he oftentimes played shy, tentative characters, he returned to films with a new intensity. While remaining as genial and likable as ever, he began to inspect new, more complex facets of his acting abilities, accepting roles in darker and more design-provoking films. The beginning was Capra's 1946 constant It's a Wonderful Lifetime, which hint Stewart as a suicidal banker who learns the true value of life. Through years of TV reruns, the coat became a staple of Christmastime viewing, and remains arguably Stewart's master-known and most-beloved performance. Setting aside how, it was not a hit upon its nonconformist dramatic liberation, nor was the replace-up Witchery City -- audiences clearly wanted the escapist fare of Hollywood's prewar epoch, not the more grave material so myriad other actors and filmmakers as spring as Stewart wanted to observe in the wake of melee.
The 1948 thriller Call Northside 777 was a concession to audience demands, and fans responded beside making the haze a considerable make. Regardless, Stewart next teamed for the first time with Alfred Hitchcock in Rope, accepting a supporting part in a tale based on the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder case. His next hardly pictures failed to propagate much admonish, but in 1950, Stewart starred in a join of Westerns, Anthony Mann's Winchester 73 and Delmer Daves' Disobeyed Arrow. Both were hugely successful, and after completing an Oscar-nominated turn as a drunk in the comedy Harvey and appearing in Cecil B. De Mille's Academy Assign-prepossessing The Greatest Show on Earth, he made another Western, 1952's Tractable of the River, the first in a decade of uncountable similar genus pieces.
Stewart out the 1950s in the first instance in the take on of Uncircumscribed, cold anyone of the first interest-main ingredient contracts in Hollywood -- a major breakthrough soon to be followed by essentially every other movement-picture star. He usually worked with top dog Mann, who guided him to hits including The Naked Spur, Thunder Bay, The Inhibit From Laramie, and The Go beyond a thus far Fatherland. Seeing that Hitchcock, Stewart starred in 1954's dominating Lift Window, appearing against type as a disabled photographer obsessively peeking in on the lives of his neighbors. More than perhaps any other guide, Hitchcock challenged the very assumptions of the Stewart identity by casting him in roles which questioned his character's morality, even his saneness.
They reunited twice more, in 1956's The Chains Who Knew Too Much and 1958's bright Giddiness, and together both impresario and star rose to the reason during delivering some of the best drill equal of their own careers.
Not counting from Mann and Hitchcock, Stewart also worked with the likes of Billy Wilder (1957's Charles Lindbergh biopic The Temper of St. Louis) and Otto Preminger (1959's offensive courtroom histrionic arts Anatomy of a Murder, which earned him in time to come another Kindest Actor make an offer for). Lower than drunk John Ford, Stewart starred in 1961's Two Rode Together and the following year's exclusive of The Man Who Chance Overfamiliar Valance. The 1962 comedy Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation was also a beg, and Stewart out the surplus of the decade alternating between Westerns and genre comedies. By the ancient '70s, he announced his semi-retirement from movies, but until this occasionally resurfaced in pictures the 1976 John Wayne agency The Shootist and 1978's The Big Doze. By the 1980s, Stewart's acting had become even more limited, and he all in much of his terminating years writing rhyme; he died July 2, 1997.


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John Legend and his girlfriend Chrissy Teigen cozy up to each other in their seats at the 2011 American Music Awards held at Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE on Sunday (November 20) in Los Angeles.
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For the first time since the dawn of SA's democracy, the judiciary has been asked to force Parliament to debate the future of the executive. None of the three branches of government wants to be in this bizarre situation, but President Zuma's leadership, and the trail of problems it leaves in its wake, has driven them to this extraordinary intersection. The Western Cape High Court could trigger a domino effect that could cause the fall of government; or it could decide to pull everyone back from the precipice. By RANJENI MUNUSAMY.
The parliamentary year is heading towards a dramatic end with the Western Cape High Court set to rule on Thursday whether the speaker of the National Assembly should urgently schedule a debate on a motion of no confidence in President Jacob Zuma.
The DA, on behalf of eight opposition parties in Parliament, made an application to the Western Cape High Court to compel the speaker, Max Sisulu, to schedule the debate and vote of no confidence before the last plenary of the year on Thursday.
This was after the ANC used its parliamentary majority to block the debate by preventing the programming committee from putting the matter on the order paper. The ANC national executive committee (NEC) however decided that the debate should not be blocked but that the matter was not urgent.
The opposition parties brought the motion of no confidence against Zuma earlier this month on the grounds that "under his leadership the justice system has been politicised and weakened; corruption has spiralled out of control; unemployment continues to increase, the economy is weakening, and the right of access to quality education has been violated."
Following the ANC's initial refusal to allow the debate, DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko applied to the high court in a bid to force Sisulu to schedule it before 22 November.
"Should the National Assembly be denied the opportunity to debate and vote upon the motion, myself and other members of the National Assembly will be deprived of our constitutional entitlement to place before the National Assembly a motion of no confidence, the foregoing being an integral part of the function of Parliament to hold the President to account," Mazibuko says in her founding affidavit.
"I contend that the President's leadership is damaging the country in an ongoing basis. The longer the members of the National Assembly are deprived of an opportunity to debate and vote on the motion of no confidence, the worse the potential harm becomes," she states.
Mazibuko says if the debate does not take place this week, Parliament next sits in February 2013. She says in the affidavit that because of the gravity of the motion and its consequences, the National Assembly must debate and decide the motion as a matter of urgency.
"It is not good enough to postpone consideration of the motion for three months. It seems clear that the intention of the majority party leadership in Parliament is indeed to defer the voting on the motion of no confidence for as long as possible if not to ensure that the debate never sees the light of day," Mazibuko states.
When the application was heard on Tuesday, her lawyer, Anton Katz, told Judge Dennis Davis that the motion would lapse if it was not scheduled for debate by Thursday.
"Everyone in this room knows they [the ANC] don't want to debate it and it's not about time in this instance. These [issues] are not things we make up… Peoples' representatives have lost faith in the president. This debate needs to take precedence over other debates," Katz argued, according to Sapa.
The respondents in the case, Sisulu and ANC chief whip Mathole Motshekga, are opposing the application. Sisulu's lawyer, Jan Heunis, said his client's hands were tied and that the DA had jumped the gun by not allowing parliamentary processes to run their course.
Motshekga's lawyer, Nazeer Cassim, asked the court to have faith in the ANC. "You should not make the assumption that the majority party will always do the wrong thing," he said, Sapa reported. "If the majority party does do the wrong thing [by not scheduling the debate], that's where the Concourt comes in."
Davis was clearly mindful of the extraordinary nature of the application and said during the hearing that he did not want to run Parliament.
On Monday the ANC expressed concern about the DA's court application, saying the sanctity, independence and jurisdiction of Parliament should be protected. "By taking a purely parliamentary programming matter to court, the opposition is reducing parliament to be subsidiary of the judiciary and thereby impeding the legislative independence of Parliament," the ANC NEC said.
Davis has reserved judgment. "I'm not going to make this judgment in three minutes. It's ridiculous to put such pressure on judges for matters of this importance. Judges are not just slot machines where you put something in and get something out… At most, judgment is going to be out on Thursday," he said.
Mazibuko said if the judge ruled in their favour, the debate could still take place on Thursday afternoon. Her lawyer had told Davis that a "farewell speech", to be delivered by the whips of the parties, was set down for 75 minutes on Thursday afternoon and that the debate on the motion of no confidence could take place instead.
Mazibuko told the Daily Maverick that although the debate ought to be allowed to take place it would have "less substance" if it took place on Thursday afternoon as the parties would have little time to prepare.
"This all could have been solved last Thursday at the meeting of the programming committee but it debilitated into a discussion about whether the debate should take place, instead of when. This is why we had to approach the court – it was not my first choice," Mazibuko said. "Once the session ends, the motion lapses. That is untenable for me."
She said the option existed to extend the parliamentary session and to schedule a special sitting of the National Assembly to debate the motion.
But this option is not stipulated in Mazibuko's application. If Davis rules in her favour, the court can only compel Sisulu to schedule the debate by Thursday. Parliament will then have to contend with a crucial debate with far-reaching consequences for which MPs have had no time to prepare.
In the unlikely event of the vote of no confidence taking place and, rather more improbably, the opposition winning it, the president and his cabinet would have to resign.
Davis, therefore, is justifiably agitated that he is now under the whip to put Parliament under the whip in order to turn the heat on the executive. Neither the judiciary nor Parliament should have been placed in this predicament – particularly when they are in a race against the clock while having to contend with an issue of such grave national importance.
Is the opposition to blame for bringing the motion so late in the parliamentary schedule. Is this an expedient move to exploit the ruling party's factional battles ahead of Mangaung and draw votes from MPs opposed to Zuma's second term as ANC president?
Or does the blame lie with the ANC for acting like a schoolyard bully and not allowing the debate to be scheduled, only to find out later that this was unconstitutional and then trying to backtrack.
Or does the blame lie with the failure of leadership which created the undesirable situation in which a motion of no confidence in the president is under consideration?
What will it take to stop every institution in the country being pushed to the brink and the independence of organs of the state – the police, intelligence agencies and the prosecuting authority among others – from being compromised?
Something has got to give. And soon. DM
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ST. LOUIS (KTVI) - Republican Eric Greitens and Democrat Chris Koster spent the eve of Election Day canvassing the state in a last minute effort to turn out the vote before voters head to the polls Tuesday to choose the next Governor of Missouri.
Koster rallied with other Democratic candidates, Judy Baker, Russ Carnahan and Jason Kander at the IBEW Local 1 in The Hill neighborhood after stops in Columbia, Springfield and Clay County.
"If tomorrow night I become Governor of this state, I want you to know that I will always have your back and always keep our faith" Koster told a crowd of supporters.
"Now it's time for you to carry on the work into tomorrow. Through 7:00 tomorrow night because we want to go to sleep knowing that we stopped right to work for another four years" Koster said.
"We want to let this state know that we went to sleep knowing we were going to fully fund our schools, invest in our healthcare, work on equal pay for equal work. Reach out across the communities, across the racial divide and make this state a better place. So I thank you for everything you have done and I ask you to put in 24 more hours of hard work and bring home victory tomorrow night" Koster said.
Martin Luther King, III also rallied with the Democratic candidates referencing his father's fight for voting rights for all people.
"If my father were here today, he would say that tomorrow we have to vote like we've never voted before" King said.
Across town in Crestwood, hundreds of Greitens supporters rallied outside of the Greitens campaign office. Greitens campaigned with Lt. Governor candidate Mike Parson and included surrogates who trained in the Navy Seals with Greitens who spoke of his work ethic and fight to be the state's next leader.
Greitens made nearly a dozen campaign stops Monday before his stop in St. Louis; including, Columbia, Kirksville and Cape Girardeau.
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ROCKINGHAM – FirstHealth Richmond Memorial Hospital has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in digital mammography as the result of a recent review by the American College of Radiology (ACR).
Digital mammography is a specific type of imaging test that uses a low-dose X-ray system to examine breasts. A mammography exam, called a mammogram, is used to aid in the early detection and diagnosis of breast diseases in women.
"Our mammography accreditation demonstrates Richmond Memorial Hospital's commitment to providing the highest quality patient care and diagnostic imaging services," says Scott Hees, D.O., board certified radiologist and medical director of diagnostic services at Richmond Memorial.
Richmond Memorial offers digital mammography, which provides sharper, more detailed images to help physicians diagnose, or rule out, breast cancer.
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Oh, and the best part? This dress was at my local thrift store for about $6!!! Apparently whoever priced the dress didn't realize or care that it was vintage since they're vintage selection is supremely pricey. Those dresses can usually range from $15 to $40! So I quickly grabbed it and made my way to the register. I didn't even bother to try it on.
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According to a myriad of rumor sites, Rupert Evans has been offered the part of Superman in the Justice League film. Evans had previously tried out for the role for Bryan Singer's Superman Returns. You may remember Evans as the assistant to Hellboy in the Hellboy movie.
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Not knocking the guy's acting skills, but he's like 5 foot 8. Unless you're going to stand him on boxes like Alan Ladd, that's just bad casting.
Umm… Why don't they use Tom Welling. He's been playing Clark for so long that a lot of people picture him as the Big Blue Boyscout.
It might be nice to see him rewarded for that. His pic of big screen movies hasn't exactly been epic…
I know he's contracted for Smallville, but think of the cross-publicity!
Oh well, I'll get flamed from some Tom-Hater for thinking he can act, and flamed from some Tom-Fan Girl for not screaming his praises from the mountain top.
Love him or Hate him, he's lasted 7 years on Smallville. That's pretty good.
Okay, if Routh and Welling won't do the deed, why doesn't anyone roll back the clock and try to get Dean Cain for the part? A little makeup, a couple hours in the gym, and I'm sure he'll be good to go again.
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Regardless of the industry you are in, you can have Rock Star Power! Now, I'm not talking the Hollywood celebrity kind, I'm referring to the people who tend to give extraordinary service with their work and with those around them.
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Do you have Rock Star Power?
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Your desire to succeed is so strong that you can taste and feel the end result. Want to set up your own business? If you have a deep burning desire to succeed then you will sit up past midnight after everyone else has gone to bed to develop that business plan, do some research, write an article. Rock Star Performers see no other result than the end goal.
Rock Stars push past any bumps and pitfalls along the way including failed attempts! It is well know that most millionaires have lost their money several times over and yet they don't let failure stop them from dusting down and starting again.
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If the desire is deep, you will take action each and every day to attain your goal. You will get up before dawn to educate, read, call the other side of the world, visual or meditation on your success. You know what you need to do. You are crystal clear on the outcomes and you construct your day to include tasks that will get you there. A true Rock Star will also have that work / life / health / spiritual balance as they know the importance of it.
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St. Thomas Law Named Number One Law School in the Nation for Hispanics
St. Thomas University School of Law has long been nationally-recognized for its students' quality of life and the diversity among its student body. Now, the Miami-based law school has been ranked the number one law school in the United States for Hispanics by Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine.
The Top 25 rankings, released in the December 2015 issue, is based on enrollment and completion surveys submitted to the National Center for Education Statistics in Washington D.C., an arm of the U.S. Department of Education.
"The ranking is consistent with our school's mission of access for students from groups that have been underrepresented in the profession," stated St. Thomas Law Dean Alfredo Garcia. "We are proud of our students and alumni who have fulfilled our mission and aspirations."
St. Thomas Law, where 67% of the students are Hispanic, was also featured for the innovative programs created to support our students from pre-admission to post-graduation. The Summer Conditional Program, which is geared towards newly-admitted students and exposes them to the law school experience, and the Active Learning Instructor (ALI) Program which involves, among other things, upper-level students serving as mentors to first-year students, were mentioned.
The learning process is further enhanced through workshops on exam-taking, essay skill-building, and bar exam preparation.
Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education is a national monthly magazine rooted in serving the unique needs of the Hispanic community in higher education. It is notable for its annual Top 100 list of colleges and universities awarding degrees to Hispanic students.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Says Sherlock's Moriarty Kiss Was Like Fistbumping
"We cut it right before the kiss. And the sex."
Disappointing Cumberbitches everywhere (probably), Benedict Cumberbatch and Andrew Scott did not lock lips at any point during the filming of Sunday's season-three premiere of Sherlock. One of the episode's many scenarios laying out how Sherlock might have survived the Reichenbach fall alleged that Sherlock and Moriarty were in cahoots, a deal sealed with a near-kiss. "We didn't actually kiss," Cumberbatch told a journalist Monday at the TCA press tour. Executive producer Steven Moffat said otherwise. "We got the idea to do it from the palpable chemistry between Andrew and Benedict. We cut it right before the kiss. And the sex." Cumberbatch promised it was no big deal. "It was like fist-bumping," he said.
In happier news, Cumberbatch is keeping his busy dance card open for plenty more Sherlock. "I'm going to keep going with it," he said. "I play enough other mad people to vary the palate of what I'm scrabbling around in my head as a storyteller ... I love [playing Sherlock]. I find it very invigorating."


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HBO's Enlightened Debuts to a Very Small Audience, Even for HBO
Rosie O'Donnell did okay.
Over the last decade, HBO has made Sunday its signature night of programming, launching numerous well-reviewed shows that have also done well in the ratings: The Sopranos, Sex and the City, True Blood, Boardwalk Empire, Curb Your Enthusiasm, et al. Last night, the network decided to take one existing show that has done okay on Sundays (the comedy Bored to Death) and move it Mondays at 9 p.m., where it served as the lead-in for a new HBO series (the Laura Dern–led Enlightened). So how'd that work out? Well ...
In other Nielsen news, Oprah Winfrey's OWN got some good news with the debuts of its new Rosie O'Donnell talk show and the debut of Oprah's Lifeclass. O'Donnell's gabfest drew 497,000 viewers in its 7 p.m. time slot, up 238 percent versus what the channel did in October 2010 (when it was called Discovery Health). Winfrey's show actually was less of a draw than Rosie O (awkward!): Her TV lecture was seen by 333,000 viewers on OWN; that's up about 100 percent versus October 2010. While neither show matched the 839,000 viewers OWN drew last spring with the prime-time Sunday debut of Shania Twain's reality show, the year-to-year gains are good signs for OWN, which has struggled since its January unveiling.


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New Breaking Dawn Video: Watch Jacob Freak Out Over Bella's Baby Bump!
Taylor Lautner talks about Jacob's major transformation from teen to grown wolf/man in this new 'Breaking Dawn' clip.
Watching Jacob furious with Edward over Bella's deathly preganancy is mesmerising in this new clip on Access Hollywood. And Taylor Lautner gives great insight into Jacob and his Breaking Dawn Part I feelings.
"He's jealous, he's into Bella and he's hot headed," he says. "It's awesome for me as an actor to try and bring alive the old side and now the new mature side of Jacob."
Lautner is majorly excited about the transformation Jacob makes during the course of the movie. "He starts out as a young teenager, splits from the wolf pack and has to become a man."
So what does Lautner think is the very best part of Breaking Dawn, Part I? "The most exciting thing is to see all the characters in a different light," he told Access Hollywood. "All the characters change so much."
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Nicole Gelinas' column on politicians sucking LIPA dry was very convincing ("Call It 'LIPAsuction'" PostOpinion, Nov. 19).
I'd love to see a response from Gov. Cuomo or the alleged blood-suckers in Long Island.
John Moncrief
The architect of the LIPA failure after Hurricane Sandy is former Gov. Mario Cuomo.
When he made the deal to close the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, he allowed electric rates to be raised 10 percent a year for five years, which made LILCO's rates among the highest in the country.
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Chobani Empowers Consumer Choice With Go Real Chobani Movement
New National Campaign Embodies the People and Passion Behind Each Cup of Chobani Greek Yogurt
Feb 22, 2013, 09:06 EST
NEW BERLIN, N.Y., Feb. 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Chobani, maker of America's #1 selling yogurt brand, puts a stake in the ground with the launch of Go Real Chobani. More than a campaign, the brand's latest work is a movement to empower consumers to choose a brand that stands for something more – an authentic strained yogurt that's made with only natural ingredients by people who have passion for bringing better food options to the masses.
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"Chobani started with the simple goal to make nutritious and delicious yogurt accessible to everyone," said Hamdi Ulukaya, Founder, President and CEO of Chobani. "As a manufacturer, it's our responsibility to make our products the right way, not just the easy way. And we strongly believe that everyone should be able to experience the enjoyment that comes from eating simple, delicious, nourishing foods."
The new campaign will debut nationally on Sunday, February 24, 2013 during the 85th Academy Awards ®. The 60-second "Go Real Chobani- Real Is" spot will run during the ABC Pre-Show and again during the Oscars ® Program. The 30-second "Go Real Chobani- Start With" spot will air during E!'s pre and post-Oscars shows.
"The creative inspiration for the television spots was sparked from the hundreds of real moments Chobani fans share through their social media channels on a daily basis," said John Connors, CEO of Boathouse. "These photos and stories are similar to the ones you would share with your own family – dogs and cats getting the last licks of yogurt, creative recipes, and photos of their kids. We're amplifying those real stories though this creative to give more people the chance to engage in the conversation around Go Real Chobani."
Simultaneously, Chobani will launch a digital and social media campaign across Facebook and Twitter that asks fans to share their memories of the first time they tried Chobani. The resulting images, tweets and posts will be aggregated digitally via #tastereal to create an interactive content mosaic which will live online at Chobani.com. Consumers will also have the opportunity to share Chobani coupons with friends to inspire their own first taste of Chobani. In the coming months, Chobani will continually rollout targeted digital content across channels to support the Go Real Chobani movement.
"Go Real Chobani is an articulation of our company's overall mission and brand essence," said John Heath, Interim Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President of Innovations of Chobani. "The creative work exposes the heart and soul of who we are as a company and a community. It's important to us that consumers know the real people behind our products and understand the care and craftsmanship that goes into each and every cup."
Go Real Chobani was developed by Boathouse and will be supported by Chobani agencies Big Spaceship and Fleishman-Hillard. In addition to TV, digital and social media, the multi-million dollar campaign will include national print, out of home advertisements and other targeted advertising, on-pack, experiential marketing and public relations.
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Maker of America's #1 selling yogurt brand, authentic strained Chobani Greek Yogurt, Chobani was founded on the belief that people have great taste, they just need great options. That is why Chobani produces only the highest quality, best tasting products made with only natural ingredients out of its New Berlin, N.Y. plant and its new one million square-foot production facility in Twin Falls, Idaho. As part of Chobani's nothing but good philosophy, it is committed to supporting local farmers and strengthening its surrounding area economies. Chobani uses milk from local-area farms and gives 10% of its annual profits to charities worldwide through the Shepherd's Gift Foundation, the company's charitable arm. All Chobani products are Kosher certified, made with milk from cows not treated with rBST and provide five live and active cultures and two times more protein than regular yogurt per serving. Chobani products are available nationwide, and in Australia and the UK. Chobani is pleased to offer consumers a variety of nothing but good products: Chobani Greek Yogurt, Chobani Bite, Chobani Flip and Chobani Champions. For more information, please visit chobani.com or connect with Chobani on Facebook at facebook.com/chobani.
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Wind passes right through my skin as I fall down, this furious speed will only destroy me. Crippling and devastating momentum, approaching maximum velocity. And this is how it's going to be, the point of it all. 'cause this is what was meant for me, recklessly I fall.
Hulking, smashing, I come crashing, nothing like when I was small. I am unstoppable, I am the cannonball. That feeble coward that you knew, has undergone an overhaul, I am unstoppable, I am the cannonball.
Thirty-two feet per second I increase as the exponents will multiply. I'll never stop to look back behind me, cutting through the bright blue sky. And this is how it's meant to be, untethered I will soar. I'll barrel towards the earth below, it's what I was made for.
And everyone will say it's just an accident, like some mishap or a tragedy. I think that failure has a purpose, and I don't believe it's chance if I fall. And I know that if I ever do fall, He will catch me. And if He ever lets me fall down, for the good of those who believe Him, He will make me into a cannonball. Unblemished, and faultless. A burning luminescence. Unequaled precision, beyond your scope of vision. Cannonball.
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Welcome to... Crochet by the Sea. It is the simple, beautiful things which capture my heart.Keeper of my home, producer of beauty with hook and yarn, lover of Vintage Beauty and times of simple elegance. Seaside or Woodland, beauty found in nature, the simple lovliness of an uncluttered and treasured life, the simple path is my choice.
About Me
- Faith
- I'm a lover of vintage times and simple elegance of another era. I'm waiting a while for my special little farmhouse. While I'm waiting, I'm making good use of my time creating lovlies with my crochet hook n thread or yarn, and baking and cooking from scratch for my family.
The Guardian Angel
Take your needle my child and
work at your pattern it will come out a
rose by and by. Life is like that...one
stitch at a time taken patiently.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes 1867~
Monday, May 13, 2013
A trunkfull of spring blossoms..
3 comments:
- Stitchy Mc Floss said...
I love it! It's a splash of Spring. :)
Wishing you a day filled with many blessings dear friend.
- May 13, 2013 at 9:40 AM
- Snowcatcher said...
Just amazing! I'd always been taught to pull the little tiny branches off the base of the tree so the growth will be focused on the top of the tree. Now I find out what I may have been missing all these years!
- May 14, 2013 at 10:28 AM
- EvalinaMaria said...
Stunning! Must love the mother nature.
- May 15, 2013 at 8:39 PM


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For someone on a diet due to high cholesterol, a good recipe will contain lean meat or fish, fresh vegetables and fruit, low-fat dairy, increased fiber and whole grains, as recommended by the American Heart Association. When cooking foods on this diet plan, liquid vegetable oil should be used in place of solids such as butter.Continue Reading
Lentil soup with avocado salsa
This delicious soup is full of flavor and cholesterol friendly foods. It makes about six servings and is filling and satisfying. The avocado salsa is great as a topping for the soup.
Prep Time: 30 min.
Cook Time:45 min.
Ready In: 1 hour 15 min.
Soup ingredients:
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Feb 27 2009
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Homemade Vegetable Masala Burgers.
One of the questions I am frequently asked is "what is your favorite veggie burger?" (Guess I should have put that one on my new FAQ's page, huh?) My answer is always the same. There is no better burger than the Vegetable Masala Burger found in the frozen aisle at Trader Joe's.
I don't really talk much about my daily meals here, but you might be surprised to hear that, on average, we eat frozen veggie burgers for dinner two or three nights a week. Gasp – I know! But despite all the culinary talent under our roof, we are busy humans who struggle to fit it all in every day – just like you!
In addition to our gourmet breakfasts, I usually make all my recipe-worthy food for lunch and by the time we get home from the gym it is often close to 8pm – aka vegetable masala burger time! Part of the reason I love these particular burgers is because of the ingredient list – vegetables and spices, with very little in the way of additives or scary chemicals.
Not to mention all the glorious Indian spice and FLAVOR! But last night as I grabbed the box out the freezer, ready to defrost my favorite patties, I wondered why I had never tried to simply make them myself? And so I did just that…
Homemade Vegetable Masala Burgers
Ingredients: (makes 6 burgers)
- 2 large carrots, cubed
- 2 medium potatoes (I used red potatoes), cubed
- 1/2 cup bell peppers, diced
- 1/2 cup corn kernels
- 1/2 cup edamame (shelled)
- 1/2 cup rolled oats
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1/2 tsp ginger
- 1/4 tsp mustard seed
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1/4 tsp garam masala
- 1/2 tsp salt
To Prepare: Start by cubing the potatoes and carrots into small diced pieces. Try to make the cubes as consistent as possible, so that they will cook evenly in the pan. Over medium high heat, sauté the carrots and potatoes in a little bit of olive oil for about ten minutes, or until starting to brown.
For the rest of the ingredients, I stuck with my Trader Joe's theme. For the peppers, edamame, and corn – frozen is fine!
Once the potatoes and carrots are starting to get soft…
Go ahead and add the rest of the vegetables and cook until they are warmed. These burgers take a little more time than a bean burger, since you need to cook the vegetables – but I promise the end result is totally worth it!
While the vegetables are cooking, go ahead and pull out your food processor. The first item into the food processor is 1/2 cup of rolled oats…
Pour them in and pulse them to the consistency of a coarse flour.
Add the vegetables once they are ready, along with the olive oil, salt, and the blend of spices. Spices are what make these burgers so delicious!
Alternate pulsing the food processor and scraping down the sides, in order to ensure that everything is mixed well. Combine until the veggies are chopped into teeny tiny pieces!
Wet your hands and form into patties. Using the same pan that you used to cook your vegetables, add a little more olive oil and cook the burgers over medium high heat.
When you make veggie burgers, you're never quite sure until you FLIP whether or not they are going to hold together or crumble to bits. I am happy to report that these held together really well – probably my best to date! After a few minutes of cooking on one side, use a spatula to flip the patties over.
Once they are cooked on both sides, they are ready to eat! Now tell me that my vegetable masala burger (right) doesn't look ten thousand times more delicious than it's frozen inspiration (left).
While yes – it was a bit more work than simply heating up a frozen burger – this recipe makes six patties! So you can easily make it once and freeze the rest to eat later in the week. Problem solved!
Served my favorite way to eat a burger – on top of an English muffin and piled high with avocado!
And let's just be real here – veggie burgers are really just delivery devices for giant piles of ketchup, right?
I was blown away by how well these turned out, and while I love a good bean burger from time to time, I also love that this bean-less burger provides an alternative with an entirely vegetable base. Not to mention all that delicious edamame giving a boost in protein.
More and more I'm trying to eliminate our house of boxed and processed food. This recipe does just that, while also adding a fabulous new addition to our weekly meals!
Did I mention that they are only 120 calories a piece (same as the frozen variety)? Also pack 4g of healthy fat (TJ's has 8g!), and 4g of vegetarian complete protein (TJ's only has 2). I'd call that a WIN!


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The Neumann Center will host four seasonal retreats: Advent, Lent, Easter & Summer (Ordinary Time) for the Catholic community. National retreat directors will lead a weekend of talks, reflection and prayer timely for that Liturgical season of the Church. Retreat registration information will be posted on our front page, in the Calendar and on Facebook.
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When will I be able to purchase a BatBnB?
BatBnB was successfully crowdfunded on Indiegogo in 2017 and is now available for order. Most orders should arrive at your doorstep within 1-2 weeks. If you ever have any issues with your order when it arrives, just shoot us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com and we'll help you out!
How soon will bats settle into my BatBnB?
Studies have shown that the majority of well made bat houses will be populated within the first or second year after deployment. Best news is that once a bats have moved in, they are very likely to come back year after year. Some researchers tracking bats have documented bat houses being populated as soon as 24 hours after being put up. BatBnB does not guarantee your unit will get occupied, but will offer detailed guides on maximizing your chances for occupancy. We've already had reports from several customers who had bats move in to their unit in less than a month after putting it up!
Are there commercial uses for BatBnB?
Absolutely. Agricultural research reports often footnote bat populations as an important component of natural pest control for farmers. We will be offering special bulk discounts for farmers and other businesses like golf courses, city centers, and state parks that would like to deploy multiple BatBnB units around their property. We also see a use case for hotel chains and even local municipalities to minimize mosquito populations in a stylish and non-invasive way.
How do I attract bats to my property?
Bats live almost anywhere there is moderate climate and insects. The key to getting them to find your BatBnB is in placement. Sun is most important. Each unit needs at least 6+ hours of direct sunlight each day. Placing them on the side of a house, barn, or shed is the best placement. Trees can work, but with less chances of success since they offer too much shade and easy perches for predators. If you do prefer to place it on a tree, make sure it is at least 15 feet from the nearest branch where predators can perch. You must place your unit between 12-20 feet up, higher the better. Having a natural water source (pond, stream, brook, etc.) within a mile of your property is ideal, but not necessarily a deal breaker. Small things like having water features and night-blooming flowers can also help attract bats.
Are bats safe to have in my yard?
Yes. Bats have been culturally misrepresented by popular media; vampires, dracula, halloween, etc. In reality bats are friendly forest critters that just want to stay out of your way and eat insects. Bats are also incredibly clean since they groom themselves like cats, and have virtually no interest in flying into your hair, since they don't even build nests in the first place. It is important to treat bats with respect, and they should never be handled or treated as pets. If you ever want to move your BatBnB unit, wait until the winter when the bats have moved on to hibernation and safely vacated the unit.
Don't bats have rabies?
There are hundreds of thousands of bats living in bat houses across North America, and there's not a single recorded case of a bat house owner being attacked by a bat. You're more likely to catch leprosy or be killed by your lawnmower than you are to die from bat-related rabies. Out of a population of 320 million in the USA, there are only 1-3 reported cases of rabies each year. Only a portion of those can be drawn back to bats, and of the few bat-related cases, almost half of them are from people who actively handled bats when they should have known to call animal control. Less than half a percent of the bat population ever carry rabies, and those that do die off very quickly.
Will bats ever fly into my house?
It's important to treat your new bat friends just like you would any wildlife critters or birds in your yard. Never try to touch or handle the animals. On the very rare occasion that a bat would find it's way into your home, call your local animal control, and do not try and handle the bat yourself. On the very rare occasion that you be bitten or scratched by a bat, go immediately to the hospital. While the odds are infinitesimally small that the bat was carrying rabies, it's better to be safe than sorry.
What if I already have bats in my attic?
That's actually great. Well, other than the not being able to sleep at night part. Several leading animal control professionals advertise that once bats are excluded from an attic, they'll try to find a new home nearby in your shed, barn, or even at a neighbor's house. They recommend putting up a bat house or two further back in your yard to offer the bats an option to quickly relocate without disrupting their summer breeding. This keeps the bats safe and stops them from going back into your attic.
Can I paint my BatBnB?
Yes you can. In fact, experts have shown that painting a bat house can increase occupancy rates by as much as 50%. Bat houses in warmer areas, such as the southern United States, may benefit from light colored paint, while colder areas, such as the northern U. S. and Canada, may benefit from a darker color to help absorb more warmth from the sun.
What do you use for materials?
We are using kiln dried Western Red Cedar and stainless steel screws. We are only using water based finishes and outdoor grade paints which actually increase occupation rates.
Why are bats so important?
Bats are critical. They keep the vast numbers of pests and insects in check, pollinate flowers, and carry seeds for critically important plants. Bats also safeguard our health by reducing demands for toxic pesticides—one of our planet's most serious, but too often ignored, health threats. Furthermore, bats are highly resistant to cancer, arthritis, and many scary diseases lethal to humans. Why not investigate how knowledge of bats can be used to improve our own survival?


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Long before there was such as term as "global market," West Chester was home to the largest industrial company the borough had ever seen.
One newspaper notice from 1906 suggests that reporters were unfamiliar with the concept of the worldwide market strategy. It was explained that the borough's Sharples Separator Co.formed a "business alliance" with a firm in Japan and had begun selling a "considerable number" of milk separators there.
Milk separators, which enabled dairy farmers to separate milk from the cream on the farm rather at the local creamery, were made by other firms. But no one sold them like Philip M. Sharples. Surpassing mere calendar giveaways, the company had 100 account executives whose sole job was to travel throughout the world, attending dairy fairs and exhibits. In the process, Sharples not only made a fortune, he became West Chester's first industrialist.
Postcards became an important way to promote products and good will. This one depicts Greystone in a romantic light
Born in 1857 into an old West Chester Quaker family, the man known simply as "PM" poured his wealth into building West Chester's grandest estate, "Greystone Hall." Surrounded by nearly 1000 acres of woods, trout ponds, open fields, and formal "Italian" water gardens, the mansion remained the talk of the West Chester community in part because its acreage and massive size, with more than 70 rooms.
The present owners of Greystone – only the second family to live there after Sharples – describe the mansion's architecture as "Elizabethan-Jacobean". They have long off-set its costly maintenance by renting out its first floor rooms, mostly as a wedding venue but once also for conferences, according to Velda Jerrehian Moog, whose family purchased the estate in 1942. She has lived there since 1952 and launched the rental business in 1992.
The former Sharples Co. headquarters, which once employed hundreds of men and women, and turned out 200 separators a day, is now the Sharples Works apartment complex. Its history, like that of many early industries and trades, remains preserved in the library archives of the historical society.
Particularly fascinating, for me at least, is "PM's" public persona as an innovator in mass production and marketing. A former machinist, Sharples literally enabled every farmer in the country – and those in Europe, South America and Africa, to name just a few of the places where the company had factories or branch offices – to have a separator for as little as $40.
Even in Sharples' day, the West Chester headquarters was never a Dickensian vision of smokestacks and sooty buildings manned by a poor
and beleaguered working class. But somehow PM began to be seen as "millionaire manufacturer" who lived a storied life far above the common "West Chesterian," as borough residents once called themselves. (Sharples' "outsider" persona was later magnified when newly widowed, he married his daughter's best friend from art school. But I digress.)
Today Sharples is credited for building "much of the northeast section of the borough" thanks to his invention of "the first cream separator" made in America, as one obituary described it when Sharples died at the age of 87 in 1944.
Others hailed Sharples' early work in forestry and developing the state park system. But in West Chester, he was typically remembered both for his philanthropy and eccentric habits. He tooled around in an one-of-a-kind, hand-built car, for instance, and later had a small plane that he kept in a hanger on his property. Landing it, he often nearly touched the tops of the hundreds of Norway pines and Japanese larch that formed the woodlands of the estate.
Partly because of these imported trees as well as "transplanted" animals such as "Kentucky" rabbits, "Chinese" pheasants, and Mallard ducks "raised from eggs secured from the [Mary]Cassatt farm," as one paper reported, few seemed to know what to make of the place.
In the words of one writer, who wrote of the "long rose pergola" at the foot of the mansion's lawn, "West Chester residents can scarcely believe that such a place exists so near their home." As for the estate's "hidden" location, reporters routinely recalled the "Catskills" with its dense scenery or they compared the grounds to Switzerland with its "cool waters" and "woodland glades and dells."
Ironically, given its mysterious allure, much of the estate's extensive grounds were open to the public during its peak years from 1911 to the stock market crash of 1929. There were even posted hours at a gate house, resulting in generations of borough residents treating the estate much like an English country park.
Reached by two long driveways (including one near the Chester County hospital), Greystone was known for its copses of thick woods and "hairpin turns" that threatened to topple old jalopies. Those driven by intrepid reporters, as many news stories suggest, considered the estate open territory for the latest news scoop. Perhaps most descriptive was the sea of "khaki tents" that appeared on Greystone's open fields when a unit of the U.S. Marines was invited to dinner in 1915.
By then, "Greystone Park" included an experimental dairy barn with a famous occupant – a bull that cost $60,000 and was so celebrated it was given its own pen at dairymen's convention held in New York's Waldorf Astoria hotel.
On a recent visit, Greystone's long drive (now reached only from Phoenxiville Pike) was full of twists and turns, reminding me of a landscape design element known as the "ha-ha." Velda Moog, who greeted me at a side door framed by a porte cochere, had a ready explanation. "When they were building estates such as this one, they deliberately had a winding main entrance so you had a longer approach. The idea was to build up your anticipation."
Despite the years Greystone has served as a wedding venue, it still must be promoted and its appeal explained to offset such trends as the informal, country-style wedding, Moog says. Describing the Tutor Manor-style architecture, Moog noted that the mansion is very adaptable especially since outdoor tents can be used, and wedding parties can stage different rooms for each part of the ceremony and reception. (I have always likened Greystone's many rooms to that of a Clue board game, complete with a conservatory and billiards room where "Col. Mustard" might be lurking. )
Walking down one of the long corridors, Moog pointed out doorways designed to be hidden when closed. They were flush with wainscotted walls, some of which are leather lined, and so I immediately concluded that they led to a secret room – and I was somewhat disappointed to learn that they were once used for a practical task, bringing firewood into a room without disturbing the occupant.
As recently as the late 1980s, when plans were first being discussed to develop part of Greystone's 450 acres, newspaper stories told of the era when Sunday drives through the estate were popular and many West Chester businesses closed early on Wednesdays during the summer so that people could boat or swim at one of Graystone's three lakes.
In the early 1990s, the late historian Liz Heed was the first to write about that aspect of Greystone's history in a limited-edition booklet. According to Heed, Sharples lost his fortune and his mansion during the depths of the Depression, in 1934, despite beginning production on a promising product: the electric refrigerator. As Heed wrote, "the paradox of his life was that although he was brought up a simple Quaker, he made West Chester's greatest fortune and built an estate that rivaled many an aristocratic manor house of Europe."
For more information about the Greystone lectures or to purchase tickets, visit: www.chestercohistorical.org/events


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About Philip Hanson
An important figure in the Chicago Imagist circle of the 1960s, Philip Hanson draws on Surrealism, as well as his studies in poetry and architecture, creating paintings of mysterious spaces. His "Shadow" series from the late 1960s, with loosely rendered figures whose faces, obscured by household objects, cast similarly obstructed shadows, elicits comparisons with Magritte. His recent work features bold colors and language, often quoting poets such as Emily Dickinson, Shakespeare, and William Carlos Williams. Hanson molds words into shapes and architectural forms, weaving them into the formalist vocabulary of his paintings while exploiting their ability to lure viewers into the surreal spaces of his picture planes.
American, b. 1943, Chicago, Illinois, based in Chicago, Illinois