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Former Guiding Light Actress Dishes Out on Her Upcoming Ventures

Crystal Hunt of Guiding Light has moved on from being just a soap star to taking on various activities all at once. The actress most famous for playing Lizzie Spaulding, the troubled daughter of the long-suffering supercouple, Phillip Spaulding and Beth Raines Spaulding on Guiding Light, is not ready to take on her new film, her pet boutique and her very own clothing line.



Hunt is currently busy filming her thriller movie, Brooklyn to Manhattan, wherein she stars as Hannah, a woman who gets involved with drugs.



"It was great! I played this Upper East Sider high-school student. She's kind of the Barbie doll and the sheltered little girl, and yet she's a pill-popper. It's kind of funny because it's totally opposite of me or anything I've ever played," said the actress in a conversation with Soap Opera Digest. "[It was] definitely [challenging] because it's something new, and it's exciting to do something you've never done before."



Hitting theaters in 2008, Brooklyn to Manhattan is one of a handful of activities Hunt is engaged in after her departure from the long-running soap. She has recently been cast in the comedy Sydney White, and the phenomenal Disney hit High School Musical 3. Now that she's basking in the film spotlight, she isn't permanently leaving the world of soaps, which was the primary stepping stone for her success.



"I would never say no to that. It was a great experience in my life and I thank them so much for the experience they gave me and the knowledge I learned from it," Hunt said.



Aside from acting, Hunt will be opening her pet store and clothing line. Her franchise doesn't end there as she also owns a bakery which sells ice cream for people and pets.



"I've been working a lot on my high-end pet boutique in Florida [My Pet's Dream]. I started doing it this year…and my clothing line is Roxy Hunt Couture," the actress explained. "Roxy Hunt Couture came about when I was on [Guiding Light]. Roxy [her dog] was wearing outfits on the show and everybody wanted to know where I got the outfits from, so I created the line…and one thing led to another."



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Painting the Impressionist Landscape: Lessons in Interpreting Light and Color

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Brilliant, reminiscent of Lewis Hyde's The Gift in its reach and of Timothy Egan's The Worst Hard Time in its haunting evocation of human lives, offers a sweeping view of a surprisingly revealing aspect of human history--from the stone lamps of the Pleistocene to the LEDs embedded in fabrics of the future.

Brox plumbs the class implications of light--who had it, who didn't--through the many centuries when crude lamps and tallow candles constricted waking hours. She convincingly portrays the hell-bent pursuit of whale oil as the first time the human desire for light thrust us toward an environmental tipping point. Only decades later, gas street lights opened up the evening hours to leisure, which changed the ways we live and sleep and the world's ecosystems.

Edison's "tiny strip of paper that a breath would blow away" produced a light that seemed to its users all but divorced from human effort or cost. And yet, as Brox's informative and hair-raising portrait of our current grid system shows, the cost is ever with us.

Brilliant is infused with human voices, startling insights, and--only a few years before it becomes illegal to sell most incandescent light bulbs in the United States--timely questions about how our future lives will be shaped by light.Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best Books of the Month, July 2010: In Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, Jane Brox illuminates the fascinating and forgotten history of man-made light, tracing its development through centuries of sputtering, smoking candles, to the gradual refinement of gas and, finally, electric light. Brox captures the sense of wonder that permeated the Chicago World's Fair as electric light lit up the "White City," and shows how quickly we became reliant on electric light, recounting the trepidation and anxiety that accompanied the mandatory blackouts of World War II and the power outages that have plagued New York City's power grid since the 1960s. Brox also addresses the unexpected consequences of light pollution, detailing the struggles of astronomers who are no longer able to see stars, and migrating birds that confusedly circle lit buildings at night until they die from exhaustion. Brilliant is an eloquent account of how a luxury so quickly became a necessity, and permanently changed human history. --Lynette Mong

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Amazon Exclusive: A Letter from Jane Brox, Author of Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

Dear Amazon Readers,

So much of life as we know it--our long evening hours, our flexible working days, our feelings of safety at night--depends upon cheap, abundant light made possible by the incandescent bulb. Now that new government energy efficiency standards will make filament light bulbs illegal by 2014--and for the first time our new means of illumination may not be as satisfactory as the old--it's the perfect moment to look at the extraordinary story of how we came to inhabit our world built of light.

Just five hundred years ago almost everyone lived at the mercy of the dark. In a time before street lighting, travel at night was always perilous, and forbidden to all but a few. Most people were confined to their homes after sunset--authorities in some towns even locked citizens inside their houses for the night. Within their close quarters, many had no hope of more than a few hours of light in evening--meager, troublesome light cast by one or two stinking tallow candles or oil lamps.

Since then, each century of painstaking progress in illumination has had its own drama. The 18th century's need for more and more light spurred a world-wide hunt for whale oil, which proved to be so exhaustive it put the very survival of some whale species in peril, while the 19th century race to build a viable electric light involved the work of many scientists throughout Europe and America. In truth, Edison's bulb was not the isolated triumph it often seems to us now. His achievement was only possible after centuries of evolving understanding of electricity, and decades of experiments by dozens of scientists racing to fashion a workable incandescent light.

Edison's light assured cheap, abundant illumination for many, but not all. The democratic distribution of light in the United States depended upon the decades-long struggle by rural Americans to have the same access to electricity as those in the cities and suburbs. And controversies continue: as the demands for energy efficiency compete with our desires to have the light we want, we find ourselves in the midst of a new race for the perfect energy efficient light of the future. And as the grave consequences of light pollution become more and more evident we are faced with the question: How much light is too much?

When you read Brilliant you'll not only gain insight into the history of artificial light, you'll find that the surprising, complex story of our illumination is also the story of our evolving modern selves.

-Jane Brox

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Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light

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"ALEX?NDRA IV?NOVNA. If you were not my sister, but a stranger, and Nicholas Iv?novich not your husband, but merely an acquaintance, I should think all this very original, and perhaps I might even encourage him, J'aurais trouv? tout ?a tr?s gentil;but when I see that your husband is playing the fool?yes, simply playing the fool?then I can't help telling you what I think about it. And I shall tell your husband, Nicholas, too. Je lui dirai son fait, ma ch?re I am not afraid of anyone.

MARY IV?NOVNA. I don't feel the least bit hurt; don't I see it all myself? but I don't think it so very important.

ALEX?NDRA IV?NOVNA. No. You don't think so, but I tell you that, if you let it go on, you will be beggared. Du train que cela va??

PETER SEMY?NOVICH. Come! Beggared indeed! Not with an income like theirs.

ALEX?NDRA IV?NOVNA. Yes, beggared! And please don't interrupt me, my dear! Anything a man does always seems right to you!

PETER SEMY?NOVICH. Oh! I don't know. I was saying??

ALEX?NDRA IV?NOVNA. But you never do know what you are saying, because when you men begin playing the fool, il n'y a pas de raison que ?a finisse. I am only saying that if I were in your place, I should not allow it. J'aurais mis bon ordre ? toutes ces lubies. What does it all mean? A husband, the head of a family, has no occupation, abandons everything, gives everything away, et fait le g?n?reux ? droite et ? gauche. I know how it will end! Nous en savons quelque chose.

PETER SEMY?NOVICH [to Mary Iv?novna]. But do explain to me, Mary, what is this new movement? Of course I understand Liberalism, County Councils, the Constitution, schools, reading-rooms, and tout ce qui s'en suit; as well as Socialism, strikes, and an eight-hour day; but what is this? Explain it to me.

MARY IV?NOVNA. But he told you about it yesterday.

?PETER SEMY?NOVICH. I confess I did not understand. The Gospels, the Sermon on the Mount?and that churches are unnecessary! But then how is one to pray, and all that?

MARY IV?NOVNA. Yes. That is the worst of it. He would destroy everything, and give us nothing in its place.

PETER SEMY?NOVICH. How did it begin?

MARY IV?NOVNA. It began last year, after his sister died. He was very fond of her, and her death had a very great effect on him. He became quite morose, and was always talking about death; and then, you know, he fell ill himself with typhus. When he recovered, he was quite a changed man.

ALEX?NDRA IV?NOVNA. But, all the same, he came in spring to see us again in Moscow, and was very nice, and played bridge. Il ?tait tr?s gentil et comme tout le monde.

MARY IV?NOVNA. But, all the same, he was then quite changed.

PETER SEMY?NOVICH. In what way?

MARY IV?NOVNA. He was completely indifferent to his family, and purely and simply had l'id?e fixe. He read the Gospels for days on end, and did not sleep. He used to get up at night to read, made notes and extracts, and then began going to see bishops and hermits?consulting them about religion.

ALEX?NDRA IV?NOVNA. And did he fast, or prepare for communion?

MARY IV?NOVNA. From the time of our marriage?that's twenty years ago?till then he had never fasted nor taken the sacrament, but at that time he did once take the sacrament in a monastery, and then immediately afterwards decided that one should neither take communion nor go to church.

ALEX?NDRA IV?NOVNA. That's what I say?thoroughly inconsistent!"

The Light Shines in Darkness

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Discover how to create paintings with brilliant color and light. Packed with instruction, this book will demonstrate how to use color harmonies to create radiant watercolors. Step-by-step demos with color swatches will show you how to use analogous colors, textures and compositions that really make your work stand out. You will be delighted by 7 full step-by-step demos and 20 mini step-by-step demos that show how to create stunning, light-filled paintings.
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Color Harmonies: Paint Watercolors Filled with Light

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The definitive guide to the philosophy and practice of Yoga--the ancient healing discipline for body and mind--by its greatest living teacher. Light on Yoga provides complete descriptions and illustrations of all the positions and breathing exercises. Features a foreword by Yehudi Menuhin. Illustrations throughout.


Light On Yoga

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Journal of Light & Visual Environment

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Last night while I lay thinking here
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear
And pranced and partied all night long
And sang their same old Whatif song:

Whatif I flunk that test?
Whatif green hair grows on my chest?
Whatif nobody likes me?
Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...

Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.

From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.

Notable Children's Books of 1981 (ALA)
Best Books of 1981 (SLJ)
Children's Books of 1981 (Library of Congress)
1981 Children's Books (NY Public Library)
1981 USA Children's Books of International Interest
Winner, 1983–84 William Allen White Award (Kansas)
Winner, 1983 Garden State Children's Book Award (New Jersey Library Association)
1984 Garden State Children's Book Award for Non-Fiction (New Jersey Library Association)
1984 George C. Stone Center for Children's Books (Claremont, CA) "Recognition of Merit" Award

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A Light in the Attic

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Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent, bestselling novels have garnered him a revered position in the halls of parody next to the likes of Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.

In The Light Fantastic, only one individual can save the world from a disastrous collision. Unfortunately, the hero happens to be the singularly inept wizard Rincewind, who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.

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The Light Fantastic: A Discworld Novel