Thursday, June 29, 2017

Serena Williams uncorked on Vanity Fair. Speaks candidly on life, love and pregnancy

It took six tests to convince her she’s pregnant 

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Alex and Serena looking so COOL in their Vanity Fair shoot 
A non-morning person dragged off to breakfast in Rome and a hung over guy seeking the solace of early morning coffee and the quietude of working alfresco is what it took.
Neither had met the other before, knew nothing of each other’s craft, nor particularly cared, yet cupid struck the unsuspecting pair of Serena Williams and Alex Ohanian two years ago, poolside at breakfast in the Cavalieri hotel, Rome.
Fast forward from that chance meeting early in the morning on May 12, 2015.
The pair are definitely an item, engaged to be married later in the year and expecting their first child. 
Serena Williams7.jpgSerena won Grand slam no. 23 in Melbourne, Australia while she was eight weeks pregnant, never dropping a set.
How about the pregnancy that took all by surprise, what with Serena having just won her record 23rd Grad slam title just weeks earlier?
According toVanity Fair, it took six pregnancy tests to finally convince Serena Williams she really had a baby growing inside of her.
Despite the vomiting and enlarged breasts, world number one female tennis player Serena Williams was certain she wasn’t pregnant.
It was only at the urging of her friend Jessica Steindorff did the sporting ace agree to take a pregnancy test in early January, mainly to shut her friend up. The truth prevailed. Serena indeed was pregnant.

Serena Williams gave a candid interview on love, life and her pregnancy in a new interview with Vanity Fair
The tennis superstar  who showed off her burgeoning bump in a glamorous nude cover shoot for Vanity Fair, didn’t think there was a chance she was actually pregnant when she began feeling different physically while practicing in January for the Australian Open.
At 35-year-old, and gunning for record grand slam titles to add to her already loaded trophy chest, Serena who is engaged to Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, had thrown up and noticed her breasts felt enlarged while she was hitting tennis balls one morning to prepare for the tournament.
Her pal, Jessica Steindorff, threw down a suggestion she might just be late and suggested she take a pregnancy test.
“I’ll take it just because (a) to prove you wrong and (b) because it’s fun, whatever,” she recounted for Vanity Fair scribe Buzz Bissinger. “It’s like a joke. Why not?”
But the test came back positive, leaving Williams stunned.
“(I) did a double take and my heart dropped,” she said. “Like literally it dropped.”
Serena Williams was victorious in Australia when she beat big sister Venus for her record open era title
But apparently that wasn’t enough proof to convince Williams she really was pregnant. Steindorff ran to a pharmacy and picked up five more pregnancy tests for Williams. Each confirmed that the tennis great was expecting.
The baby on board didn’t affect Williams’s performance at the Open a week later. The tennis icon, who’s won a record 23 Grand Slam titles, not only won the tournament, but did so without losing a set in seven matches.
Serena looked gorgeous, baring it all for Vanity Fair

Williams and Ohanian, 34, plan to get married this fall after the baby arrives, according to the Vanity Fair feature, which features a cover of Williams cradling her bump.
During her wide-ranging interview with the magazine, Williams discussed how she and her friends were originally annoyed by Ohanian when they first met him in Rome in May 2015, because he decided to sit down next to them by the pool at their hotel even though there was ample seating in the area.
”This big guy comes and he just plops down at the table next to us, and I’m like, ‘Huh! All these tables and he’s sitting here?'” she recalled.
But they quickly hit it off, and a year and a half later Ohanian proposed, at the same hotel where they first met.
Tennis superstar Serena Williams who is expecting a child this fall with fiance, Alexis Ohanian made a splash at the New York MET Gala, a couple of months back
Serena looked gorgeous, baring it all for Vanity Fair

Pregnant Serena clowns her way through a red carpet photoops
“I knew it was coming. I was like, ‘Serena, you’re 35, you’re ready. This is what you want,'” she remembered.
Williams, who is the younger sister of fellow tennis star Venus, revealed in April that she was five months pregnant when she accidentally made a Snapchat photo of her baby bump public after intending to only send it to her friends.
Despite the radical changes to her personal life, she’s not ready to call game, set, match on her tennis career and hopes to return to competing in tournaments as soon as January.
“I don’t think my story is over yet,” she said



Pregnant Serena clowns her way through a red carpet photoops



Friday, June 23, 2017

Going overseas for cut rate cosmetic surgery fraught with life threatening risks - Health Dept warns


NY woman ailing from infection contracted during overseas cosmetic surgery offers warning to women
Linda McFaline went to the Dominican Republic for cosmetic surgery and came back with an infection that almost cost her life 
McFaline, 40, says she has a hole in her breast caused by an infection she contracted after getting implants and liposuction in the Dominican Republic
NY Health Dept has identified a cluster of skin and tissue infections associated with plastic surgery done in that country 
The infections, called Mycobacterium abscessus/chelonae, attack the skin or soft tissue 
It's been found in 10 women, eight in New York City, including McFaline, and two in Connecticut
DOH warns it has isolated a rash of similar infection contracted by patients of named cosmetic surgery clinics
Advises  infected persons to seek medical attention 

I killed them ‘My girlfriend and her daughter cast a voodoo hex on me’ - Carlos Amarillo guilty of 'hammering girlfriend, her daughter to death





Hammer-wielding killer, Carlos Amarillo, found guilty in fatal beating girlfriend, her daughter for being ‘witches’ 
Bible waving Amarillo used a claw hammer to murder Estrella Castaneda, 56, and her daughter, Lina, 25, in their Queens, NY home on Jan. 29, 2014 
Amarillo, 48, told police he killed the two women because ‘the mother and daughter had cast a voodoo hex on him’

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

30 Days 30 Minutes Day 6, Tuesday blues



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Tuesday oh Tuesday, what to write about. 30 minutes of exercise completed. I seem to be enjoying the process a bit more. How about you?  I hope you are keeping up with at least doing the bare minimum, which is taking a 30 minutes walk. This should be your go to activity if you can't bring yourself to do anything more interesting or challenging.





30 Days of Adoration - Day 6 - Resting in His Arms

Read this meditatively (lectio Divina method is helpful)

Psalm 23

The Lord Is My Shepherd

A Psalm of David.

23 The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
    He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.[a]
    He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness[b]
    for his name's sake.





Mariah Walton, 20, who was left permanently disabled because parents refused her medical treatment due to 'Christian Sect' beliefs

...were they brain washed and lost all independent thinking?

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 Mariah Walton (right), whose parents belong to a secretive religious sect, has been left permanently disabled after her heart condition was left untreated for 18 years due to their beliefs. She is pictured speaking about her experiences at a town hall meeting





' Yes, I would like to see my parents prosecuted. They deserve it – and it might stop others.’

Daughter, who was left permanently disabled after her Christian sect family refused her medical treatment reveals how she had to blackmail her father so she could go to the doctors





Crazy controversial Rabbi Pruzansky: says that there is no such thing as rape within marriage - really?

...means you savage your wife at will. Poor woman

New Jersey rabbi Steven Pruzansky sparked outrage with his comments
The rabbi is the leader of the large Orthodox synagogue Bnai Yeshurun
In his blog he claimed marriage would solve the problems of rape culture
Orthodox feminist group called for his removal from synagogue conference

The controversial rabbi  has also written a blog post that calls for Israel to collectively punish Arab Israelis and Palestinians until they realize “they have no future in the land of Israel.”

‘…under what rock did Rabbi Pruzansky crawl out from? This is a call to all right thinking people to rise up and condemn this pre-historic view that has no place in our society, today’






Panama papers continues: ‘Over 200 Americans have been named in Mossack Fonseca papers, Justice will be very busy



Over 200 Americans have been named in Mossack Fonseca papers …Internal Revenue Service advising offshore account holders to get in touch’

  • Investigation gaining momentum following release of documents on April 3
  • Comes after experts claimed Americans have ‘no need’ to go to Panama

‘…Why the soft landing. Any sacred cows? Surprised at the IRS stance considering the vast sums involved here, in contrast to the everyday tax dodges that are ‘routinely’ investigated and penalized’






Manchester United's 3 - 0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur was a bit too much for a youn fan - completely broke his hearrt -see photo

‘Because they didn’t try their hardest’
Photo: MEN

Manchester United’s 3-0 loss to Tottenham Hotspurs last week, hurt the feelings of  their young fans, it  was all too much for this young boy
His mother captures the moment he broke down in tears over the scoreline. She asks him why they were losing he said sweetly

 ‘Because they didn’t try their hardest’






Monday, April 18, 2016

30 Days 30 Minutes - Roaring Monday


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Photo: thebeautyinsider
I started today with a roar. Spent 45 minutes making my body very uncomfortable and sweaty today (okay, I exercised first thing this morning). It is always nice to work out first thing in a day.  That way, the excuse machine in your brain does not have a chance to talk you down or make you postpone this very important activity.





30 Days of Adoration Day 5 Joyful Praise

Psalm 118

‘tone deaf’,narcissistic posturing in politics: Politics of the rich and famous. Was this a rescue mission or just flexing


...is this simply a case of emergency cash infusion?

Photo: Anastasia Beverly Hill/snapchat
 



‘hell on earth’: A transgender woman has revealed she was ‘raped more than 2000 times’ while she was behind bars at a men’s prison in Queensland


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A transgender woman has revealed she was ‘raped more than 2000 times’ while she was behind bars at a men’s prison in Queensland (stock image)