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Five years ago, I went for my yearly mammogram as I had been doing for over a decade. As usual, I thought nothing of it until I received a phone call from my doctor advised me that there was "something suspicious" on a x-ray and that I should come immediately to talk about it because I needed to take a closer look close to it. Fear seized me immediately as I began to imagine all the worst situations that could evoke in my mind. I kept hearing his voice over and over again in my saying, "You have breast cancer." However gripped by fear I went to the doctor's office, where he proceeded to explain his suspicions and told me I had to a biopsy. Even in crowds of fear programmed for the procedure performed. His suspicions were confirmed. Had breast cancer. My treatment was a lumpectomy and 8 weeks of radiation therapy. I refused oral chemotherapy, which means I have increased my success rate at 10 percent. When I found my general health and side effects of chemotherapy, she knew she had made the right decision for me at that time. Which brings me to the most important things I learned as a survivor of breast cancer: 1) I had to take responsibility and be involved in my treatment and care, and 2) could not return to life as usual . I had changed. I felt like I had faced the enemy called death and lived to tell. This may sound melodramatic and / or delusional, but has given me a different perspective on my life and what really matters. It was impossible for me to continue with life as usual after facing and surviving the "Big C." Although I felt vulnerable, sometimes I was also encouraged to take another giant who had been around for over 30 years : I was a high school dropout. I decided to return to school, first for my GED and then for my associate degree. Immediately enrolled in school that would take me to a degree GED in one fell swoop. I dived into the school as full-day students, while receiving radiotherapy. My counselor was the only person who committed at school. I knew I was in school all day and rushed to the hospital for radiation. For everyone else it was just another student trying to pass. I managed to get through my first semester in honor to the list of the President. Within a year he had completed the study needed to get my GED and two years who had earned my associate degree. Those two years were the first five years of pain during which I faced my greatest fears and giants. My health was in decline. It seemed like every time I went to the doctor that there was something wrong. All you need to be low was high and what should be high was low. I felt miserable. I had no income, no money and then my mother died, I totally devastated. There I was, a breast cancer survivor and feeling deprived of love and life. I was diagnosed and treated for depression. The cancer had gone away from my body, but the fact that I was a cancer survivor was a constant source of encouragement and empowerment subconscious that kept me even when he succumbed to depression as a means of temporary escape after an old injury fired and unable to me a while. I switched to a school that offers an independent study program that allowed me to study at my own pace at home. I've done my four years of college and got my Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. Meanwhile, writing school papers had awakened the writer in me and I wrote a manuscript, which is then submitted to a publisher. It was accepted and published this year under the title "State dropped -.. It is not a character flaw last but certainly not lease, which just celebrated five years as a breast cancer survivor My life has taken a new direction. I feel like I have given a new lease on life. I am a college graduate, a breast cancer survivor and author on the path to a new life and new beginnings.

There are two new World of Warcraft 10-70 leveling guides recently introduced that I think you're going to want to check out if you're interested in leveling your Horde or Alliance characters quickly in WoW. Zygor both come from and who wrote the separate guides for Alliance and Horde. It seems that every week or two some new leveling guide for World of Warcraft is launched. Most of them I end up ignoring because they have not come up to scratch, nor too short on information or trying to pack in too much material in a small guide. Not so with Zygor's guides though. With two separate guides, both guides for the Horde and the Alliance are just over 300 pages. In addition to the 10-70 leveling guide, each Zygor guides also includes a great map add-on that makes it really easy and this also included are faction-specific gold guides. Approximately 38 pages, the guide does not replace the gold a more detailed gold farming guide, but if you are concentrating on leveling and have decided to worry about the gold-making later, it is a nice addition and useful to put a little 'to loot your pockets like this at 70. Since both of Zygor guides for Alliance and Horde are 300 pages or so, are incredibly detailed and offers tons of quests. In fact, I believe his guides are almost double the size of other leveling guides 10-70. At the same time, however, Zygor purposely eliminates any quests that are a waste of time, slow down or offer little reward for them. Each leveling guide covers levels 1-70 so you will not need separate guides for the Outlands and the guides were designed to go to level 70 in under 8 days if you choose to forgo running instances as Zygor recommends. The Cartographer map-mod is included with Zygor guides and comes with some modifications exclusively for use with the guides. Once you upload the mod-map, makes it very easy to follow along with Zygor's leveling guides in a step-by-step fashion. For each point in WoW that you need to reach, you can set as waypoints and then you will not need to constantly open the map because an arrow on your character will lead you in the direction you should go. Providing complete walkthroughs for each area and including the departure areas of each race, all you have to do is decide whether you are going to play Horde or Alliance and then follow the step-by-step guidance for any you choose to use.

It is a known fact that laughter can make a person's life better, and elminate stress I can remember a Bugs Bunny cartoon way back in my childhood, where the final remark was a very profound statement from Bugs. Don 'do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Yes, I know in the end, none of us get out of it alive, but it's more fun and better for our health if we can laugh every chance we get. And who does not want to live as long as we can? If you are looking for reasons to laugh, they are legion. It might surprise some of the overly solemn people I know to believe this, but there is also encouraging to laughter all around us My Personal Credo: .. If you can not laugh at yourself, make fun of other people no, I'm really just kidding. I do not make fun of other people, just my in-laws, and I would not count as "people" because they are related. And, my relatives and close family gives me more reasons to laugh than any comedy or anything else I can think of, so I'm happy ... I guess. One of the best things about life is all fun stuff that's free, like watching children play, look at the animal they're a natural comedian, and not even know it, even watching people can be entertaining next time you go to the mall or retail trade center, if you have some extra time, just sit and observe. what do your fellow man, you might be surprised. Never give up on a chance to find humor in anything. I'm not saying go out and make fun of other people, but if you can find any or no reason in your day to get an extra smile, it's well worth it. What are some of the healthy benefits of laughter? Studies have shown that rapidly trigger the immune system. A good belly laugh gives positive emotions that have the opposite effect of classical stress. Endorphins, our natural painkillers, are released by the brain and gives a sense of well being. Two researchers from Loma Linda University in California studied the effects of laughter on the immune system for some time. Doctor Lee Berk and Stanley Tan have concluded from their published studies that laughter not only reduces stress hormones, but lowers blood pressure, increases muscle flexion, greater levels of disease-fighting T-cells and proteins called Gamma-interferon and B-cells. How's that for a laugh? I think it's great! Laughter also relaxes tense muscles, think about how good you feel after an intense laughter. .. It's just impossible to laugh and be angry at the same time, so unless you happen to be in my family But seriously, the muscles do not work with laughter relaxes Then, after you're done laughing, the stomach relaxes, and you have this big happy feeling.Laughter reduces four known stress hormones-cortisol, epinephrine, dopac and growth hormone. Laughter is a natural anti-depressant for all of us, better than any pill you can take. Experts also call belly laugh "internal jogging" because it is a good form of cardiovascular exercise, a heart strengthener. This is great news for all those unable to participate in physical training. . Respiration is another advantage of a big belly laugh, it has a cleansing effect on your lungs, pushing out more air than it takes it, similar to the effects of deep breaths, this has proven to be a profound benefit for people with emphysema and other respiratory problems . Experts also feel that when laughter is used as part of a conventional treatment process that reduces pain and aids in healing. If nothing else, it will distract your mind from the pain, go back to an old expression, 'Mind over Matter ", which has a lot of truth. A sick person's state of mind has everything to do with their recovery. And when you're sick, if you can find something to help aid in your recovery that is not only free but also produces no harmful side effects, it is incredible. If you think about it, it might be a reason why you see so many people who have a hearty sense of humor to live to adulthood. Look at the Bob Hope, Milton Berle and George Burns. It sure worked for them. So if you see something funny, not only laugh, but laugh out loud, it's good for your body, mind and soul!

American in Paris, a Black and White Ball as a turning point in the Final Act, which became a popular theme for balls and fundraisers. San Francisco Symphony held its first Black and White Ball in 1956, which continues as the premier annual ball today. In New York, after the 1958 edition of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's starring Audrey Hepburn, Capote held his famous Black and White bash at The Plaza, as chronicled in Deborah Davis's 2006 volume Party of the Century. And Funny Face influenced America's most influential first lady, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Four years after the film's release, Jackie's first official trip to Paris embodied the apotheosis of Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face went in after her previous persona is vividly remade. Dressed in a delicious red Givenchy gown, emerges Hepburn in a white scene at the Louvre Winged Victory from behind, her arms raise the dress material around her as exotic butterfly wings. Like Audrey character, Jackie had also been a bookish intellectual at the Sorbonne in Paris before her 1952 Newport wedding of the then Senator Jack Kennedy. Just like Audrey Hepburn, Jackie was also born in 1929 and 5'7 ½ "tall and thin, multi-lingual, artistic and athletic, soft spoken, and also a client of Audrey Hepburn's lifelong friend and collaborator, the fashion designer Hubert d 'Givenchy. Jackie refined many of his ideas and his own, under the guidance of his mentor and friend, Vogue editor, Diana Vreeland, who later ran MOMA's Costume Institute at Jackie's command. Vreeland expressed in Funny Face as the character Maggie Preston, editor of Quality magazine, played by Kay Thompson who was best known as author of the Eloise series about a girl who lives at the Plaza Hotel. While a college student, Jackie Kennedy won Vogue's Prix d'Paris competition for organizing a full magazine edition. In her submission she imagined herself as that in a way she was that Camelot's Queen, "an art director in the world." |. |. Jackie was loved in France, the world capital of style Two million French people crowded the streets waving American flags, shouting, "Viva Jacqui!" During Kennedy's 1961 Official State visit there. usually reserved President de Gaulle, the French press and public were particularly rhapsodic over Jackie's TV interview in flawless French. Funny Face, expressed what Jackie was by nature. And closed Jackie's favored ceremonial color, white, chosen for her ethereal Inaugural gown, both American in Paris and Funny Face with the female lead dressed in white tulle dresses Waltzing away into the arms of her prince, with Hepburn wearing the chicest wedding dress ever designed Art , Music, Dance, Awards. American in Paris, Funny Face, both utilized sumptuous cinematography, live sets and art design, and contained the Gershwin songbooks The male and female leads in each film began her career first. in dance, rather than singing or acting. At 39-years-old, asked Gene Kelly, 19-year-old dancer Leslie Caron in her film debut as his love interest in American in Paris. And 57-year-old Fred Astaire work with then 27-year-old Audrey Hepburn as her condition to accept the role. Audrey had studied dance throughout childhood, holds dearly to dream of a ballet career. After World War II when she and her mother fled Holland for London, there was a small dancing role which has won her a screen test for Willy Wilder's Roman Holiday with Gregory Peck. Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday in 1953, four years before she was filming Funny Face, and the same year she won a Tony for the lead role of Gigi on Broadway, even after spying by chance, this time passing a hotel lobby in Southern France Author , Collette, honed-in on Hepburn and shouted: "It is my Gigi.! As Willy Wilder said of Audrey Hepburn, "God kissed her on the cheek and there she was." Funny Face won an Oscar for Best Art Direction, cinematography, costumes by Givenchy and screenplay by Alan Lerner (who frequently collaborates with long-term collaborator Frederick Lowe to write hits like Gigi, My Fair Lady, Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon and Camelot, which of course became synonymous with the Kennedy administration.) plus a Director's Guild Award for outstanding director performance by Stanley Donen, also a choreographer (and who later directed Gene Kelly in Singing in the Rain, and Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant in Charade together, on the Donen said there was never a more enchanting couple in movie history.) Funny Face also won a Golden Palm at Cannes. And a Laurel Award from the Writer's Guild of America for Best Written American Musical. American in Paris was nominated for eight Academy Awards and received six, including the Academy Awards and Golden Globes for best film and best director, a Golden Globe Award for best actor, Gene Kelly. Kelly also received his only Oscar, as a special prize that year for "versatility as an actor, singer, director and dancer, and specifically for his brilliant achievements in the art of choreography." The film also received Oscar for best cinematography, best costume, best Musical Score, Best Writing, Scoring and Screenplay and Best Editing, American in Paris' 18-minute phantasmagoria at the end cost half a million to produce, making it one of the longest and most expensive dance pieces in film history. Producer Arthur Freed was MGM's famous Czar of musicals and cheated since the Broadway genius Vincent Minnelli to direct some of the biggest films of the 20s, including American in Paris, where so many scenes echo with Minnelli's stage craft, and others like his Meet Me In St. Louis, Kismet, Brigadoon, and Gigi. The tonal differences in the two films is that Funny Face is wittier, more sophisticated film, with a more absorbing plot that holds up with repeated screenings. Astaire and Hepburn was much more elegant, deft and subtle. Gene Kelly has said that Astaire was the more aristocratic dancers and that his own dance reflected his background in athletics and gymnastics, plus his Everyman persona Pal Joey. He called Astaire to Cary Grant of dance, his Marlon Brando. Kelly designed a distinctly American look. Astaire, and Hepburn was a European at heart. Ironically, Leslie Caron, while French himself, much echoes Kelly's exuberant American-style. The costumes in Funny Face was precipitated superior. Audrey Hepburn's iconic image remains undated fifty years later. In fact, said the director Stanley Donen who Audrey Hepburn was much more about fashion than acting or dancing. One of Audrey's rare disagreement with any board occurred while Donen insisted she wear white socks with skin tight black pants and shirt in her solo dance routine in Paris beatnik club. She was reduced to tears of fear, the white socks would "break the line." Hepburn spoke about the importance of the silhouette and the clothes should be a sleeked down vase containing flowers. The idea of the white stockings she thought was devastating, but later she admitted that it had worked. Arthur Freed at MGM acquired American in Paris title by Ira Gershwin. It was from one of three of George Gershwin's symphonies, (the other two were Porgy and Bess and Rhapsody in Blue) and became the title track. Tragically died in the oil-rich musical genius George too young in 1937 at 38 years after surgery for a brain tumor to see one of his symphonies was a great movie. Funny Face Marketing Snafu (. 1954), Hepburn had just completed King Vidor's War and Peace (1956) and wanted something light that Roman Holiday (1953) or Sabrina She was in Paris when she first got the script, Funny Face. Her first husband, Mel Ferrer said that she usually took three days to decide, but read and agree with Donen project, which was originally called wedding day, in just two hours. Her mother said was Funny Face "Audrey, all the way through," while the musical movie called Funny Face Magazine's most "directorially entry of all American movies," and Rex Reed said it was the "best fashion show ever recorded on film. "But the marketing posters do not project any of this. American in Paris had superior movie posters. Funny Face posters failed in two ways. First it was the varied and never cemented a single strong "brand" in the public mind that the transferred memorable story in a glance. Secondly, it was a wonderfully colorful film but most of the poster images were muddied. It was Audrey Hepburn's first U.S. film did not gross in the top ten films over the years it was released. For many movie fans her titles: Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, conjure distinct images, while not Funny Face. For me, based An American in Paris, on vanity, and seems bigger because of its theatricality, but Funny Face is just ten minutes shorter and beautifully cohesive. And while the budgets for both films was similar, where many scenes in American in Paris, shot on sets. Funny Face, filmed mostly on location, the victim of an authenticity that makes watching it a pleasure, again and again. I can not watch the metamorphosis of Hepburn's character, but to recall that this was the little girl in Nazi-occupied Holland who saw her family breaks up, her beautiful home destroyed, her uncles to be out and shot, which was starved and been on the bulbs. She was grabbed by a machine gun toting guard and put on line for a bus bound to a labor camp, and fortunately broke away. As a child she helped World War II Dutch resistance, grew and became a great humanitarian, an ambassador for UNICEF, and my favorite actress. A fighter strips down to the barest essentials, the essentials. Audrey Hepburn's childhood was a struggle to survive the horrors of war. As Hubert d 'Givenchy said she was a "very thorough person," and this shows in her acting that always conveys the essence. For me Funny Face personifies charm, magic, beauty and the idea that when we open our eyes to eternal everything changes. I find extreme value in what takes me to nice places. Audrey Hepburn in Funny Face. One of my all-time favorite movies. And that's a wrap.