At a time when so many Americans continue to fall through the gaping holes in our healthcare system, it's hard to imagine a more dysfunctional debate in Washington than the charade this week over the Republican effort to repeal President Obama's healthcare law.
Consider that, to name just a few points:
• The number of officially uninsured tops 50 million,
• Half of all Americans are considered to have pre-existing conditions and thus subject to rampant insurance denials (and ways big insurers will surely find to game the system even if the law remains as is),
• Arizona is denying life-saving transplants to poor people on Medicaid,
• Blue Shield is ignoring protests and pushing through premium rate hikes in California of up to 59 percent for individuals
• A UNICEF report ranked the U.S. a pathetic 22nd in health well-being for our children.
Yet Congress is going a though a Kabuki theater that will end without repeal or real, comprehensive solutions to the ongoing healthcare crisis.
Here's a Top 10 list for the inanity of the repeal debate:
1. The public is already rightfully confused. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll last month found that nearly as many people (20%) favor expanding the law as favor repealing it entirely (26%). And, perhaps, most significantly, 43% of the public said they were still "confused" about the law.
2. Despite the rhetoric from the right, the law was not a "government takeover," much less "socialized medicine." In fact, it serves to prop up and protect the broken private system from a more fundamental reform, single-payer/expanding Medicare to cover everyone, just as President Nixon pushed HMOs as an alternative to single-payer 40 years ago (as Talking Points Memo noted last week).
3. Many Republicans do not really care if people are covered, they care about business making money. The "alternatives" discussed by the repeal crowd would unleash more of the same "magic" of the market that created the current crisis in access, cost, and quality.
4. Democrats and liberals have, ironically, become the foremost champions of "individual mandate," a concept first proposed by Republicans and adopted in Massachusetts by a Republican Governor Mitt Romney (with a law which has been steadily unraveling in rising costs with the state reducing eligibility and covered services). Yet Democrats now promote the deception that forced purchase of private insurance constitutes "universal" healthcare, while Republicans wail that idea they once loved is unconstitutional.
5. Though the Republicans publicly say they oppose the law in part because it is unfriendly to business, nearly all the giants in the healthcare industry backed the law.
6. Despite a desperate need for fundamental change, proponents of the most far-reaching reform are dismissed as "naive" and "not serious". Only those who support an unsustainable status quo in corporate control of our health were granted a seat at the table by the Democrats, and anything more than the most token coverage in the media.
7. In an environment where "objectivity" is defined as letting both sides have their say - as long as you stay within the parameters of the story as defined by the media - the side that is willing to tell bigger lies wins the most ink. Thus the debate was distorted by deliberate deceptions about "death panels," seniors being cut off Medicare, and similar fantasies.
8. Challenging the efficacy of healthcare as a commodity is off the table no matter how many lives are compromised and discarded. Thus, we have a law that is not universal, does little to control costs in rising premiums and un-payable medical bills, improve quality or reduce disparities. And the repeal fans want it to do even less.
9. Few are discussing that the healthcare crisis will grow if the law is repealed or left as is. Insurers, drug companies, and providers will continue to price gouge, insurers will continue to cherry pick healthier customers and find pretexts to deny needed care, the medical technology both sides promote as a panacea will put more patients at risk by eroding professional caretaker judgment, long waits for care will remain, and the ongoing recession will produce a further shredding of the frail safety net, especially as more public hospitals and clinics are forced to close.
10. While everyone talks about a global economy, no substantive consideration was given by policy makers or the media to the way other industrialized countries assure health coverage with lower costs and better outcomes through national or single payer systems, all while failing to challenge those who falsely claim "we have the best healthcare system in the world" (we don't).
Instead of repealing the law, let's urge Congress to expand it by opening up the cost-efficient, universal, equitable Medicare program to everyone.
Jennifer Lawrence cried when Winter’s Bone was accepted into the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The picture, set in the Ozark Mountains, might have been tiny, but the actress had recognized that the part of Ree Dolly — a teen struggling to hold her family together and keep their home — was a gritty, uniquely tenacious role. So she pursued it with unabashed commitment, even taking a spontaneous red-eye flight to New York to press the producers for the part. At the time, her highest-profile role had been in Guillermo Arriaga’s stark low-budget drama The Burning Plain, which had just scored her the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Lawrence expected maybe a dozen people would see Bone, so its selection by Sundance was a splendid bonus for the cast, crew and co-writer/director Debra Granik. It was only a few days after its first screening that she realized that perhaps she had underestimated its impact.
“I got recognized on the street, and someone said, ‘I loved Winter’s Bone,’ ” the 20-year-old actress recalls. “And I was like, ‘You saw Winter’s Bone?’ ”
By now, Lawrence no longer is asking that question. The winner of the Dramatic Grand Jury prize at Sundance, Bone became a genuine indie hit after Roadside Attractions released it in June, grossing more than $6 million domestically. Lawrence herself was propelled into the awards melee: She was nominated for best female lead at February’s Spirit Awards, and was a Golden Globe nominee, which signals the likelihood that her name also will be among the Oscar noms announced Jan. 25 (right in the middle of Sundance, where her new film, Like Crazy, is set to debut).
Lawrence had been working the audition rounds for several years — failing to win roles like Bella Swan in Twilight while slowly building a résumé in indie film — but that all changed once she was hailed as the latest Sundance breakthrough. Money may be the blood that pumps through Hollywood’s veins, but it’s that sudden sense of discovery that nurtures its battered soul. Indie film history — and the Sundance Film Festival in particular — is rife with actors who “popped” out of nowhere with standout roles.
Lawrence’s name is now part of an impressive honor roll that Sundance has nurtured: Carey Mulligan in An Education in 2009 and Melissa Leo in Frozen River the year before; Amy Adams in Junebug in 2005; Ryan Gosling in The Believer in 2001 and again with Half Nelson in 2006; Aaron Eckhart in the 1997 drama In the Company of Men. The enthusiastic chatter in Park City propelled all the actors forward with sudden momentum and an irrefutable credibility.
But if suddenly finding oneself in that intense spotlight can be disorienting, Lawrence is adjusting to the exposure with real equanimity.
At a casual lunch at the Snug Harbor diner in Santa Monica on a January weekday, she sits at the counter unrecognized in a gray belted sweater, blue jeans and boots. Taller in person than she seems in Bone, Lawrence periodically twirls her straight blond hair as she works through scrambled eggs and bacon and talks about the past year with a straightforward, relaxed manner and the occasional husky laugh. Later that day, she’ll be heading off to an industry screening of the film hosted by Kathryn Bigelow. But for now, she’s focused on making sense of just who or what is responsible for her current trajectory.
“I’d love to take credit for it,” says Lawrence, a Louisville native who took off for New York with her mother at 14 before landing a regular role on TBS’ The Bill Engvall Show and the part of the young Charlize Theron in Burning Plain. “But I was just like every actress in L.A. that auditions for everything, and those were the roles that picked me. I could try to plan everything — and I have, of course, because I’m controlling — but I’ve watched my career take shape, and I love what it’s done. I never could have designed that in a million years. I did go further for Winter’s Bone than I probably would have for other things because I loved the script and because it was the best female role.”
(…) Variety seems to be what appeals to Lawrence, who cites Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, James Franco and Michelle Williams as actors whose careers she admires. Even as she shines in the glow accorded the newest indie discovery, Lawrence has moved quickly to consolidate her new status. She recently completed filming Fox’s big-budget X-Men: First Class (which required eight hours a day in makeup to become the blue-tinted Mystique), and she has the horror film House at the End of the Street in the can. Her next film, offbeat family drama The Beaver, will have its world premiere in March at the SXSW film festival before a wide theatrical release. Beyond those, she’s considering roles that range from fringe to colossal.
“I’ve never cried over not getting a role,” Lawrence says. “I’m a big believer in what’s meant to be will happen. I’ve watched fate play out so wonderfully without me being in control of it. To be honest, I don’t know if I’m any better than anyone. I think I got really lucky with a really good movie.”
However things develop — every career has missteps — a celebrated Sundance debut can leave a lasting impression. Lawrence will always have Ree Dolly in her pocket. And future directors, producers, financiers and fans aren’t likely to forget it.
You can read the full article, which talks a lot about Sundance and the role of indies in establishing actors at the source. There’s also a short clip of Jennifer talking about the Festival.
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At a time when so many Americans continue to fall through the gaping holes in our healthcare system, it's hard to imagine a more dysfunctional debate in Washington than the charade this week over the Republican effort to repeal President Obama's healthcare law.
Consider that, to name just a few points:
• The number of officially uninsured tops 50 million,
• Half of all Americans are considered to have pre-existing conditions and thus subject to rampant insurance denials (and ways big insurers will surely find to game the system even if the law remains as is),
• Arizona is denying life-saving transplants to poor people on Medicaid,
• Blue Shield is ignoring protests and pushing through premium rate hikes in California of up to 59 percent for individuals
• A UNICEF report ranked the U.S. a pathetic 22nd in health well-being for our children.
Yet Congress is going a though a Kabuki theater that will end without repeal or real, comprehensive solutions to the ongoing healthcare crisis.
Here's a Top 10 list for the inanity of the repeal debate:
1. The public is already rightfully confused. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll last month found that nearly as many people (20%) favor expanding the law as favor repealing it entirely (26%). And, perhaps, most significantly, 43% of the public said they were still "confused" about the law.
2. Despite the rhetoric from the right, the law was not a "government takeover," much less "socialized medicine." In fact, it serves to prop up and protect the broken private system from a more fundamental reform, single-payer/expanding Medicare to cover everyone, just as President Nixon pushed HMOs as an alternative to single-payer 40 years ago (as Talking Points Memo noted last week).
3. Many Republicans do not really care if people are covered, they care about business making money. The "alternatives" discussed by the repeal crowd would unleash more of the same "magic" of the market that created the current crisis in access, cost, and quality.
4. Democrats and liberals have, ironically, become the foremost champions of "individual mandate," a concept first proposed by Republicans and adopted in Massachusetts by a Republican Governor Mitt Romney (with a law which has been steadily unraveling in rising costs with the state reducing eligibility and covered services). Yet Democrats now promote the deception that forced purchase of private insurance constitutes "universal" healthcare, while Republicans wail that idea they once loved is unconstitutional.
5. Though the Republicans publicly say they oppose the law in part because it is unfriendly to business, nearly all the giants in the healthcare industry backed the law.
6. Despite a desperate need for fundamental change, proponents of the most far-reaching reform are dismissed as "naive" and "not serious". Only those who support an unsustainable status quo in corporate control of our health were granted a seat at the table by the Democrats, and anything more than the most token coverage in the media.
7. In an environment where "objectivity" is defined as letting both sides have their say - as long as you stay within the parameters of the story as defined by the media - the side that is willing to tell bigger lies wins the most ink. Thus the debate was distorted by deliberate deceptions about "death panels," seniors being cut off Medicare, and similar fantasies.
8. Challenging the efficacy of healthcare as a commodity is off the table no matter how many lives are compromised and discarded. Thus, we have a law that is not universal, does little to control costs in rising premiums and un-payable medical bills, improve quality or reduce disparities. And the repeal fans want it to do even less.
9. Few are discussing that the healthcare crisis will grow if the law is repealed or left as is. Insurers, drug companies, and providers will continue to price gouge, insurers will continue to cherry pick healthier customers and find pretexts to deny needed care, the medical technology both sides promote as a panacea will put more patients at risk by eroding professional caretaker judgment, long waits for care will remain, and the ongoing recession will produce a further shredding of the frail safety net, especially as more public hospitals and clinics are forced to close.
10. While everyone talks about a global economy, no substantive consideration was given by policy makers or the media to the way other industrialized countries assure health coverage with lower costs and better outcomes through national or single payer systems, all while failing to challenge those who falsely claim "we have the best healthcare system in the world" (we don't).
Instead of repealing the law, let's urge Congress to expand it by opening up the cost-efficient, universal, equitable Medicare program to everyone.
Jennifer Lawrence cried when Winter’s Bone was accepted into the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The picture, set in the Ozark Mountains, might have been tiny, but the actress had recognized that the part of Ree Dolly — a teen struggling to hold her family together and keep their home — was a gritty, uniquely tenacious role. So she pursued it with unabashed commitment, even taking a spontaneous red-eye flight to New York to press the producers for the part. At the time, her highest-profile role had been in Guillermo Arriaga’s stark low-budget drama The Burning Plain, which had just scored her the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Lawrence expected maybe a dozen people would see Bone, so its selection by Sundance was a splendid bonus for the cast, crew and co-writer/director Debra Granik. It was only a few days after its first screening that she realized that perhaps she had underestimated its impact.
“I got recognized on the street, and someone said, ‘I loved Winter’s Bone,’ ” the 20-year-old actress recalls. “And I was like, ‘You saw Winter’s Bone?’ ”
By now, Lawrence no longer is asking that question. The winner of the Dramatic Grand Jury prize at Sundance, Bone became a genuine indie hit after Roadside Attractions released it in June, grossing more than $6 million domestically. Lawrence herself was propelled into the awards melee: She was nominated for best female lead at February’s Spirit Awards, and was a Golden Globe nominee, which signals the likelihood that her name also will be among the Oscar noms announced Jan. 25 (right in the middle of Sundance, where her new film, Like Crazy, is set to debut).
Lawrence had been working the audition rounds for several years — failing to win roles like Bella Swan in Twilight while slowly building a résumé in indie film — but that all changed once she was hailed as the latest Sundance breakthrough. Money may be the blood that pumps through Hollywood’s veins, but it’s that sudden sense of discovery that nurtures its battered soul. Indie film history — and the Sundance Film Festival in particular — is rife with actors who “popped” out of nowhere with standout roles.
Lawrence’s name is now part of an impressive honor roll that Sundance has nurtured: Carey Mulligan in An Education in 2009 and Melissa Leo in Frozen River the year before; Amy Adams in Junebug in 2005; Ryan Gosling in The Believer in 2001 and again with Half Nelson in 2006; Aaron Eckhart in the 1997 drama In the Company of Men. The enthusiastic chatter in Park City propelled all the actors forward with sudden momentum and an irrefutable credibility.
But if suddenly finding oneself in that intense spotlight can be disorienting, Lawrence is adjusting to the exposure with real equanimity.
At a casual lunch at the Snug Harbor diner in Santa Monica on a January weekday, she sits at the counter unrecognized in a gray belted sweater, blue jeans and boots. Taller in person than she seems in Bone, Lawrence periodically twirls her straight blond hair as she works through scrambled eggs and bacon and talks about the past year with a straightforward, relaxed manner and the occasional husky laugh. Later that day, she’ll be heading off to an industry screening of the film hosted by Kathryn Bigelow. But for now, she’s focused on making sense of just who or what is responsible for her current trajectory.
“I’d love to take credit for it,” says Lawrence, a Louisville native who took off for New York with her mother at 14 before landing a regular role on TBS’ The Bill Engvall Show and the part of the young Charlize Theron in Burning Plain. “But I was just like every actress in L.A. that auditions for everything, and those were the roles that picked me. I could try to plan everything — and I have, of course, because I’m controlling — but I’ve watched my career take shape, and I love what it’s done. I never could have designed that in a million years. I did go further for Winter’s Bone than I probably would have for other things because I loved the script and because it was the best female role.”
(…) Variety seems to be what appeals to Lawrence, who cites Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, James Franco and Michelle Williams as actors whose careers she admires. Even as she shines in the glow accorded the newest indie discovery, Lawrence has moved quickly to consolidate her new status. She recently completed filming Fox’s big-budget X-Men: First Class (which required eight hours a day in makeup to become the blue-tinted Mystique), and she has the horror film House at the End of the Street in the can. Her next film, offbeat family drama The Beaver, will have its world premiere in March at the SXSW film festival before a wide theatrical release. Beyond those, she’s considering roles that range from fringe to colossal.
“I’ve never cried over not getting a role,” Lawrence says. “I’m a big believer in what’s meant to be will happen. I’ve watched fate play out so wonderfully without me being in control of it. To be honest, I don’t know if I’m any better than anyone. I think I got really lucky with a really good movie.”
However things develop — every career has missteps — a celebrated Sundance debut can leave a lasting impression. Lawrence will always have Ree Dolly in her pocket. And future directors, producers, financiers and fans aren’t likely to forget it.
You can read the full article, which talks a lot about Sundance and the role of indies in establishing actors at the source. There’s also a short clip of Jennifer talking about the Festival.
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At a time when so many Americans continue to fall through the gaping holes in our healthcare system, it's hard to imagine a more dysfunctional debate in Washington than the charade this week over the Republican effort to repeal President Obama's healthcare law.
Consider that, to name just a few points:
• The number of officially uninsured tops 50 million,
• Half of all Americans are considered to have pre-existing conditions and thus subject to rampant insurance denials (and ways big insurers will surely find to game the system even if the law remains as is),
• Arizona is denying life-saving transplants to poor people on Medicaid,
• Blue Shield is ignoring protests and pushing through premium rate hikes in California of up to 59 percent for individuals
• A UNICEF report ranked the U.S. a pathetic 22nd in health well-being for our children.
Yet Congress is going a though a Kabuki theater that will end without repeal or real, comprehensive solutions to the ongoing healthcare crisis.
Here's a Top 10 list for the inanity of the repeal debate:
1. The public is already rightfully confused. A Kaiser Family Foundation poll last month found that nearly as many people (20%) favor expanding the law as favor repealing it entirely (26%). And, perhaps, most significantly, 43% of the public said they were still "confused" about the law.
2. Despite the rhetoric from the right, the law was not a "government takeover," much less "socialized medicine." In fact, it serves to prop up and protect the broken private system from a more fundamental reform, single-payer/expanding Medicare to cover everyone, just as President Nixon pushed HMOs as an alternative to single-payer 40 years ago (as Talking Points Memo noted last week).
3. Many Republicans do not really care if people are covered, they care about business making money. The "alternatives" discussed by the repeal crowd would unleash more of the same "magic" of the market that created the current crisis in access, cost, and quality.
4. Democrats and liberals have, ironically, become the foremost champions of "individual mandate," a concept first proposed by Republicans and adopted in Massachusetts by a Republican Governor Mitt Romney (with a law which has been steadily unraveling in rising costs with the state reducing eligibility and covered services). Yet Democrats now promote the deception that forced purchase of private insurance constitutes "universal" healthcare, while Republicans wail that idea they once loved is unconstitutional.
5. Though the Republicans publicly say they oppose the law in part because it is unfriendly to business, nearly all the giants in the healthcare industry backed the law.
6. Despite a desperate need for fundamental change, proponents of the most far-reaching reform are dismissed as "naive" and "not serious". Only those who support an unsustainable status quo in corporate control of our health were granted a seat at the table by the Democrats, and anything more than the most token coverage in the media.
7. In an environment where "objectivity" is defined as letting both sides have their say - as long as you stay within the parameters of the story as defined by the media - the side that is willing to tell bigger lies wins the most ink. Thus the debate was distorted by deliberate deceptions about "death panels," seniors being cut off Medicare, and similar fantasies.
8. Challenging the efficacy of healthcare as a commodity is off the table no matter how many lives are compromised and discarded. Thus, we have a law that is not universal, does little to control costs in rising premiums and un-payable medical bills, improve quality or reduce disparities. And the repeal fans want it to do even less.
9. Few are discussing that the healthcare crisis will grow if the law is repealed or left as is. Insurers, drug companies, and providers will continue to price gouge, insurers will continue to cherry pick healthier customers and find pretexts to deny needed care, the medical technology both sides promote as a panacea will put more patients at risk by eroding professional caretaker judgment, long waits for care will remain, and the ongoing recession will produce a further shredding of the frail safety net, especially as more public hospitals and clinics are forced to close.
10. While everyone talks about a global economy, no substantive consideration was given by policy makers or the media to the way other industrialized countries assure health coverage with lower costs and better outcomes through national or single payer systems, all while failing to challenge those who falsely claim "we have the best healthcare system in the world" (we don't).
Instead of repealing the law, let's urge Congress to expand it by opening up the cost-efficient, universal, equitable Medicare program to everyone.
Jennifer Lawrence cried when Winter’s Bone was accepted into the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. The picture, set in the Ozark Mountains, might have been tiny, but the actress had recognized that the part of Ree Dolly — a teen struggling to hold her family together and keep their home — was a gritty, uniquely tenacious role. So she pursued it with unabashed commitment, even taking a spontaneous red-eye flight to New York to press the producers for the part. At the time, her highest-profile role had been in Guillermo Arriaga’s stark low-budget drama The Burning Plain, which had just scored her the Marcello Mastroianni Award at the 2008 Venice Film Festival. Lawrence expected maybe a dozen people would see Bone, so its selection by Sundance was a splendid bonus for the cast, crew and co-writer/director Debra Granik. It was only a few days after its first screening that she realized that perhaps she had underestimated its impact.
“I got recognized on the street, and someone said, ‘I loved Winter’s Bone,’ ” the 20-year-old actress recalls. “And I was like, ‘You saw Winter’s Bone?’ ”
By now, Lawrence no longer is asking that question. The winner of the Dramatic Grand Jury prize at Sundance, Bone became a genuine indie hit after Roadside Attractions released it in June, grossing more than $6 million domestically. Lawrence herself was propelled into the awards melee: She was nominated for best female lead at February’s Spirit Awards, and was a Golden Globe nominee, which signals the likelihood that her name also will be among the Oscar noms announced Jan. 25 (right in the middle of Sundance, where her new film, Like Crazy, is set to debut).
Lawrence had been working the audition rounds for several years — failing to win roles like Bella Swan in Twilight while slowly building a résumé in indie film — but that all changed once she was hailed as the latest Sundance breakthrough. Money may be the blood that pumps through Hollywood’s veins, but it’s that sudden sense of discovery that nurtures its battered soul. Indie film history — and the Sundance Film Festival in particular — is rife with actors who “popped” out of nowhere with standout roles.
Lawrence’s name is now part of an impressive honor roll that Sundance has nurtured: Carey Mulligan in An Education in 2009 and Melissa Leo in Frozen River the year before; Amy Adams in Junebug in 2005; Ryan Gosling in The Believer in 2001 and again with Half Nelson in 2006; Aaron Eckhart in the 1997 drama In the Company of Men. The enthusiastic chatter in Park City propelled all the actors forward with sudden momentum and an irrefutable credibility.
But if suddenly finding oneself in that intense spotlight can be disorienting, Lawrence is adjusting to the exposure with real equanimity.
At a casual lunch at the Snug Harbor diner in Santa Monica on a January weekday, she sits at the counter unrecognized in a gray belted sweater, blue jeans and boots. Taller in person than she seems in Bone, Lawrence periodically twirls her straight blond hair as she works through scrambled eggs and bacon and talks about the past year with a straightforward, relaxed manner and the occasional husky laugh. Later that day, she’ll be heading off to an industry screening of the film hosted by Kathryn Bigelow. But for now, she’s focused on making sense of just who or what is responsible for her current trajectory.
“I’d love to take credit for it,” says Lawrence, a Louisville native who took off for New York with her mother at 14 before landing a regular role on TBS’ The Bill Engvall Show and the part of the young Charlize Theron in Burning Plain. “But I was just like every actress in L.A. that auditions for everything, and those were the roles that picked me. I could try to plan everything — and I have, of course, because I’m controlling — but I’ve watched my career take shape, and I love what it’s done. I never could have designed that in a million years. I did go further for Winter’s Bone than I probably would have for other things because I loved the script and because it was the best female role.”
(…) Variety seems to be what appeals to Lawrence, who cites Alec Baldwin, Cate Blanchett, James Franco and Michelle Williams as actors whose careers she admires. Even as she shines in the glow accorded the newest indie discovery, Lawrence has moved quickly to consolidate her new status. She recently completed filming Fox’s big-budget X-Men: First Class (which required eight hours a day in makeup to become the blue-tinted Mystique), and she has the horror film House at the End of the Street in the can. Her next film, offbeat family drama The Beaver, will have its world premiere in March at the SXSW film festival before a wide theatrical release. Beyond those, she’s considering roles that range from fringe to colossal.
“I’ve never cried over not getting a role,” Lawrence says. “I’m a big believer in what’s meant to be will happen. I’ve watched fate play out so wonderfully without me being in control of it. To be honest, I don’t know if I’m any better than anyone. I think I got really lucky with a really good movie.”
However things develop — every career has missteps — a celebrated Sundance debut can leave a lasting impression. Lawrence will always have Ree Dolly in her pocket. And future directors, producers, financiers and fans aren’t likely to forget it.
You can read the full article, which talks a lot about Sundance and the role of indies in establishing actors at the source. There’s also a short clip of Jennifer talking about the Festival.
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Why does anyone want to earn money online? This question was raised on a popular paid to post website by a friend of mine. She has been earning money online for a few months and decided to make a discussion on this question on Mylot and then asked everyone to go to her blog and read her reason for wanting to earn extra money online. Then she invited everyone to make their own post in their blog about their reason and link back to her and she would do the same for them. So I started thinking about why I want to earn money online and decided to write this article about my reasons for wanting to earn money on the internet.
My reasons for wanting to earn money online are a few very good reasons. First reason is that I can't hold down a regular job because of my mental health problems. I have Social Anxiety Disorder and Bi-Polar Disorder and because of this I cannot be around a bunch of people all day long without either having panic attacks or fighting with someone. I am on medication for it but it doesn't help like it should and I'm still trying to find the right kind of medication to help me. So with having the freedom to earn money from home I can stay at home and keep myself relaxed all day without having to worry about being around too many people and having major problems from it. Before anyone judges me please realize you are not me and you don't know what this illness really is unless you have experienced it yourself. This illness runs in my family and there was no way to avoid it. I am not the only one besides my family that deals with this. I have met other people online that also go through the same thing that I do. It is a hard life to live but at least I can work from home and not have to worry about having any attacks.
Another reason and the second most important reason is that I have been searching for online work for over a year so I can help my family make ends meet. Before I found Associated Content I was never able to help any of my family out with anything. I had to listen to their problems and know there was nothing I could do to help them and that really sucked. I hated hearing my mom and dad talk about this bill being due and that bill coming up and I knew I couldn't do anything about it. That is all changing with the money I'm earning online with Associated Content and a few other places.
My third reason for wanting to earn money online is that now I have a reason for getting up in the morning and I have something worthwhile to do with my life besides sitting at home and doing nothing but cleaning house all day long. I still get my house cleaning done but I have something else to do that allows me to earn money from home with my writing.
Now when my family calls me during the day to ask me what I'm doing I can say, "I'm working online right now can I call you back?" Or, "I'm writing an article for Associated Content right now but I can save my work and take a break to talk with you for a few minutes." Instead of saying, "Oh nothing. I'm bored and a little depressed today." I now have something to do with my life and I have a purpose. People can say all they want, "But all you're doing is writing articles how can that give you a purpose?" Because I can now have my voice heard through my articles on Associated Content and I can tell everyone who reads my stuff about things that are important to me. I can write about things that I have experienced and earn money at the same time. Some might say, "But can't you do that with a blog?" Yes you can do that with a blog but the only way you earn with a blog is if you talk about money making things and run ads on your blog. You can earn money with running other companies ads but it depends on the traffic you get and the clicks on the ads. With writing articles for Associated Content I can kill two birds with one stone. I can write about things that matter to me and earn some nice extra money at the same time.
So the option of earning money online and making a living writing articles helps me in many ways. I can work at home in my own pace without being around a bunch of other people, earn money for my writing which I enjoy doing anyway, help my family out when they need it and write about things I know about and have experienced in my life which also helps with my anxiety and depression. So to my friend who made the discussion on Mylot, here is your answer and everyone else's.
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