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Miss Vermont USA Photos
Miss Vermont USA Close-Up
Columbus Day Parade
Miss USA at PBR Event
Nebraska 2016
Miss USA and Miss Teen USA attend the holiday part
On Monday, June 7th Rima visited the New Providenc
Illinois 2011
Texas 2015
New York 2012
Stefania and Kristen attended the Knicks Bowl 2010
Maine 2014
Connecticut 2015
Wyoming 2011
Olivia Culpo attends a event at Henri Bendel to su
Seafood Celebration at Houmas House
Pennsylvania 2013
On Veterans Day, November 11th, Kristen visited th
Seafood Boil at Nottoway Plantation
Race for the Cure
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants attend Sugar Factory
The Pink Agenda Gala
Mississippi 2016
Georgia 2013
Erin Brady heads down south for some holiday cheer
On Wednesday, June 2, Rima and Stormi attended the
Georgia 2011
South Carolina 2015
New Hampshire 2012
Kansas 2014
Arizona 2015
Washington 2011
The newly crowned, Olivia Culpo travels throughout
Glamour Shot
Ohio 2013
On November 2nd, Kristen attended the Kerry Rhodes
Karaoke at Boudreaux and Thibodeaux with Chinese L
Same Sky America
The Official Start of the 2012 MISS USA Competitio
OCNA Advocacy Trip in Washington DC
Rima traveled to Massachusetts to help publicize t
Sherri Hill @ Trump Towers
Rima made some new friends on the set of "Fox and
Delaware 2011
Oregon 2015
Montana 2012
Illinois 2014
Wyoming 2014
Utah 2011
The 15th Annual EIF Revlon Run/Walk For Women on 5
Pool Day at Liberty Lagoon
New York 2013
On October 20th, Kristen made a very special schoo
Welcome Reception
Sherri Hill Fashion Show
Rima joined Project Renewal at two Scan Van locati
Olivia's Homecoming - Part 3
Massachusetts 2016
Delaware 2013
California 2011
North Carolina 2015
Minnesota 2012
Georgia 2014
Washington 2014
South Dakota 2011
Miss USA and Miss Teen USA help support Project Su
Horseback Riding at Farr Park Equestrian Center
New Hampshire 2013
On October 19th, Kristen attended the God's Love
Louisiana Culinary Institute
All Star Code Event
Wyoming 2016
Miss Universe 2013 Gabriela Isler and Miss USA 201
Rima and Kamie attended the Eric Trump Foundation
Oklahoma 2011
Louisiana 2016
California 2013
Kristen attended the Annual Las Vegas Uncork'd "Ga
Maine 2012
Delaware 2014
Utah 2014
Pennsylvania 2011
Volunteer Day at Emerge Center
Montana 2013
On October 6th, Kristen traveled to Washington D.C
Erin Brady works at Raising Canes
Woody Allen's Irrational Man Premiere
Washington 2016
NY Giants Training Practice
Rima participated in the 6th Annual BGC Charity Da
North Carolina 2011
Connecticut 2016
Iowa 2016
Alaska 2013
Kristen attended City Harvest's 16th Annual Gala,
Alaska 2011
New Jersey 2015
California 2014
South Dakota 2014
Miss USA Working at Marty J's
Minnesota 2013
On September 26th, Kristen traveled to North Carol
Final Look
The Top 16 contestants compete in their Swimsuits.
Soul Cycle Event Benefiting Best Buddies
Utah 2016
Hamptons Weekend
Rima made her first visit to Los Angeles on July 1
New Jersey 2011
Arkansas 2016
Idaho 2016
Wisconsin 2012
Kristen attended a screening of "Tanner Hall" at t
Montana 2015
Kansas 2012
Olivia participates in the Columbus Day Parade in
Kristen attends a Hearts for Haiti benefit event o
Miss USA Contestant Crowning Moments
Maryland 2013
On September 12, in the heart of Fashion Week in N
Evening Gown Competition
The live telecast event!
Breast Cancer Research Foundation Gala
South Dakota 2016
US Tae Kwon Do Education Foundation
On Friday, June 27th Rima traveled to Houston, Tex
Nebraska 2011
Alabama 2016
Florida 2016
Virginia 2012
Kristen goes to the Dominican Republic with Childr
North Carolina 2014
Michigan 2015
Illinois 2012
Olivia travels to Philadelphia and helps register
Alaska 2014
Pennsylvania 2014
Top 6
Kentucky 2013
On September 15th, Kristen and Stormi attended the
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants go to Pure Nightclub
Miss USA at the Sherri Hill Fashion Show
Pennsylvania 2016
2014 CCSU Commencement
Rima rode 50 miles in the Audi Best Buddies Hyanni
Mississippi 2011
Missouri 2015
Texas 2012
Kristen attended the New York premiere of "The Bou
New Jersey 2014
Maine 2015
Georgia 2012
Olivia teams up with Dangerous Curves to ride for
Wisconsin 2013
On January 5th, Kristen attended the 13th annual M
On September 11th, Kristen attended the Internatio
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants volunteer with Best
Miss Universe and Miss USA Visit Bucca di Beppo
Ohio 2016
Alyssa Campanella and Danielle Doty Attend The 4th
Soul Cycle and Best Buddies Event
Rima visits with one of her favorite fashion desig
Massachusetts 2011
Arkansas 2015
South Carolina 2012
On March 4th Kristen joined New York Assembly Memb
Nebraska 2014
Iowa 2015
Delaware 2012
Miss USA and Miss Teen USA 2012 attend a Same Sky
Swimsuit Competition
Virginia 2013
On Wednesday, December 16th Kristen visited the Mo
Preliminary Competition Evening Gown
Indiana 2013
Special Performance of Absinthe at Caesars Palace
Miss USA 2014 Nia Sanchez attends the 88th Annual
New York 2016
Erin Brady walks the red carpet at the NHL Honors.
Rima attended a reception at the Roosevelt Hotel w
Louisiana 2011
West Virginia 2015
Oregon 2012
On THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11th Stefania, Kristen and S
Mississippi 2014
Hawaii 2015
California 2012
Leila Lopes, Olivia Culpo and Logan West attend a
Olivia Jordan Crowned Miss USA 2015
Texas 2013
On November 18th, Kristen volunteered at God's L
Preliminary Competition
On July 29th, Kristen attended the grand opening o
The 51 2012 MISS USA Contestants photos from Caesa
41st Village Halloween Parade
Valentine's for Vets
New Hampshire 2016
Erin Brady attends the Muscular Dystrophy Associat
On Wednesday, June 9, Rima visited her former elem
Iowa 2011
Vermont 2015
North Dakota 2012
On Thursday February 4th, Kristen visited the West
Massachusetts 2014
District Of Columbia 2015
Alaska 2012
The Miss Universe Organization partners with Rock
Preliminary Competition - Backstage
South Carolina 2013
On November 16th, Kristen attended the MDA's VIP
On July 16th, Kristen visited the Guess showroom t
Ovarian Cancer National Alliance Trip to DC
West Point Army Academy Football Game
On Thursday, October 7, 2010 Kamie and Rima attend
Montana 2016
Miss USA and Miss Teen USA Team up to deliver toys
Rima attended prom at the William Cullen Bryant Hi
Idaho 2011
Tennessee 2015
New Mexico 2012
On Wednesday, January 27th, Stefania and Kristen v
Louisiana 2014
Colorado 2015
Wisconsin 2011
Olivia Culpo attends the ribbon cutting ceremony f
Official Swimsuit Photography
Oregon 2013
On October 30th, the girls attended several events
OPTX Rhode Island and Image Skincare Pool Party
Panasonic Beauty Bar at NYFW
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants dine at Cafe Martora
Minnesota 2016
Florida 2013
Erin attends the Pink Apron 5k Run and Fundraiser
Erin Brady, Miss USA heads to Times Square to film
Rima announced the day's "Top Ten" on the La
Florida 2011
Rhode Island 2015
Nevada 2012
Iowa 2014
Alaska 2015
Virginia 2011
44 of the 2012 MISS USA Contestants Tour New York
Passing of the Flag Ceremony
North Dakota 2013
On October 27th, Kristen attended the Vanity Fair
LAuberge VIP Party
Miss Universe and Miss USA Attend the US Open
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants walk in a Kooey Fash
Central Perk Pop-up Store in NYC
Rima and Kamie attended Island Def Jam and Nick Ca
Oprah Winfrey Network Premiere of Belief
One of Rima's first trips was to Houston, Texas to
Connecticut 2011
Ohio 2015
Missouri 2012
Idaho 2014
Wisconsin 2014
Texas 2011
Celebrating 10 Years in New York City. Honoring Th
Atchafalaya Swamp Tour
New Mexico 2013
On October 24th, Kristen attended the 10th annual
Tonys Seafood
Yankees vs Astros Game
On May 16, 2010 Rima Fakih was crowned Miss USA 20
New York Fashion Week - Part 2
Rima attended the Big Brothers Big Sisters Golf Ev
Maryland 2016
Connecticut 2013
New York 2015
Michigan 2012
Florida 2014
Virginia 2014
South Carolina 2011
Welcome Event
Nevada 2013
On October 17th, Kristen attended the USO of Illin
Nottoway Plantation
Wisconsin 2016
Chinese Laundry Meet and Greet in Las Vegas
Rima traveled home to crown her successor, Miss Mi
Ohio 2011
District Of Columbia 2016
Kentucky 2016
Arkansas 2013
Kristen visits the Harlem Children's Zone for he
Arkansas 2011
Connecticut 2014
Texas 2014
Myrtle's Plantation Tour
Missouri 2013
On October 2nd, Kristen was in North Carolina for
Blue Dog Exhibit
Miss USA Judges
Submit your imaginary "crowning moment" photo via
USO's Operation That's My Dress Event
Virginia 2016
Dolphin Cay at Atlantis
On Wednesday, August 4th, Darryl Strawberry & Eyta
New York 2011
Colorado 2016
Indiana 2016
Alabama 2013
Kristen attended the 2010 Azalea Festival in her h
Alabama 2011
New Hampshire 2015
Louisiana 2012
Arkansas 2014
South Carolina 2014
Kristen attended the Michael Jordan Celebrity Invi
Miss USA Registration and Fitting - Day 2
Michigan 2013
On September 24th, Kristen and Stormi attended the
Miss Congeniality USA 2015
The top 16 contestants are chosen.
NFL Draft Party in NYC
Texas 2016
Red Carpet at The Bank Nightclub
Rima returns home to Dearborn, Michigan for her fi
New Hampshire 2011
Arizona 2016
Hawaii 2016
West Virginia 2012
Kristen attended the ninth annual "The Art of Givi
Ohio 2014
Mississippi 2015
Iowa 2012
Miss USA 2010, Rima Fakih, and Miss Teen USA 2010,
Olivia travels to Rhode Island for Breast Cancer A
Kristen and 15-year old Project Sunshine auction w
Nia Sanchez is Crowned Miss USA 2014
Maine 2013
On September 23rd, Kristen visited the BMO Equity
Top 10 and Contestant Save
Donald Trump comes to Rehearsals to meet with the
The Opportunity Network Gala in NYC
South Carolina 2016
Rima traveled to Las Vegas for a visit at Mandalay
Montana 2011
Oklahoma 2015
Vermont 2012
Kristen goes to the Dominican Republic with Childr
New York 2014
Massachusetts 2015
Idaho 2012
Sunshine and golfing in Purchase, New York
Alabama 2014
Oregon 2014
Kansas 2013
On September 13th, during Fashion Week in New York
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants go to the Voodoo Lou
Miss USA Crowning Moments
Oregon 2016
The Miss Universe Titleholders attend the fashion
Miss Universe by CHI line
Rima joined the USO Fort Drum Organization at one
Minnesota 2011
Kansas 2015
Tennessee 2012
Kristen and Stormi attended a star-studded red car
New Hampshire 2014
Louisiana 2015
Florida 2012
Leila and Olivia support BGC Charity Day
West Virginia 2013
Miss Universe and Miss USA take their first intern
Top 10
On September 10th, Kristen attended the US Open!
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants dine at Buca di Bep
Miss Universe and Miss USA in Times Square
North Dakota 2016
Alyssa and Danielle read to kids on the Gray Line
New York Fashion Week Part 2
On June 13th, Rima attended The Carma Foundation's
Maryland 2011
Wyoming 2015
Rhode Island 2012
Stefania and Kristen met with Francine LeFrak and
Montana 2014
Indiana 2015
Connecticut 2012
Olivia Culpo attends a screening for the film in N
Top 15 Announcement
Vermont 2013
Kristen attended the Kerry Rhodes & Jimmy Choo Hol
Preliminary Competition Swimsuit
Illinois 2013
OPTX Rhode Island Pool Party at the Flamingo
Step Up Connections Conference at Columbia Univers
New Mexico 2016
Alyssa and Danielle get to watch Alyssa's favorite
2014 Miss USA Contestant Crowning Moments
Rima was a celebrity guest reader at the Bronx Zoo
Kentucky 2011
Washington 2015
Oklahoma 2012
On Tuesday, February 9th Kristen co-hosted China C
Minnesota 2014
Georgia 2015
Arkansas 2012
Olivia travels to Washington, DC for the 15th Annu
Preliminary Competition - Evening Gown
Tennessee 2013
On November 16th, Kristen attended Gilda's Club
Best Buddies event at Irene W. Pennington Planetar
On July 23rd, Kristen visited the Harlem Children'
Olivia's Homecoming - Part 2
New York Open Tae Kwon Do Championships
Super Bowl 50 Parties
Nevada 2016
Erin Brady attends the 2013 MISS CALIFORNIA USA Pa
On May 27, Rima joined the New York Mets for batti
Indiana 2011
Utah 2015
North Carolina 2012
On the morning of February 9th, Kristen was a gues
Maryland 2014
Delaware 2015
Alabama 2012
Olivia Culpo travels to Los Angeles for the Ted Pr
Visit to Charlie's Place Alzheimer's Activity Cent
Rhode Island 2013
On November 9th, Kristen and Stormi attended The C
Capitol Park Museum
On July 13th, Kristen attended Tuck's Celebrity
2012 MISS USA Contestants at Red Rock Hotel Pool
Rima traveled to Cairo, Egypt for an American Cham
Orphaned Starfish Gala
Missouri 2016
Hawaii 2013
Erin Brady, Miss USA stops by the Same Sky Kiosk a
On June 7th Rima attended a NSI Launch Event.
Hawaii 2011
South Dakota 2015
New Jersey 2012
On Tuesday January 26th, Stefania, Kristen and Sto
Kentucky 2014
California 2015
West Virginia 2011
Olivia Culpo attends the classical music event in
Evening Gown
Oklahoma 2013
On November 8th, Kristen attends the Gynecologic C
Houmas House
Team Up in the Fight Against Ovarian Cancer
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants and Registration and
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Michigan 2016
District of Columbia 2013
Miss USA and Miss Maryland USA attend a Chinese La
Rima poses with the hosts, Kelly Ripa and Regis Ph
District Of Columbia 2011
Pennsylvania 2015
Nebraska 2012
Indiana 2014
Alabama 2015
Vermont 2011
44 of the 2012 MISS USA Contestants Tour New York
Best Buddies Event
North Carolina 2013
On October 26th, Kristen attended the Thrugood Mar
OPTX Rhode Island Sunglass Shoot
City Sightseeing Tour
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants compete for a $2,000
Eric Trump Foundation Event
Rima meets the President of Lebanon, Michel Suleim
Rima stopped by "Fox Strategy Room" to discuss her
Colorado 2011
North Dakota 2015
Mississippi 2012
Hawaii 2014
West Virginia 2014
Tennessee 2011
Project Sunshine's 9th Annual Benefit Celebratio
Old Governor's Mansion
New Jersey 2013
On October 22nd, Kristen attended the Starfish Fou
High Tea at the Governors Mansion
Gray Line City Sightseeing New York Bus Tour
Kristen spends her last days as Miss USA with Stef
Vice President of the United States, Joe Biden
Rima traveled to Waterbury, Connecticut for Our La
Oregon 2011
Maine 2016
Colorado 2013
New Mexico 2015
Massachusetts 2012
District Of Columbia 2014
Vermont 2014
Rhode Island 2011
Maryland 2012
Yelp BR Dog Rescue
Nebraska 2013
On October 11th, Kristen volunteered at the Avon W
Queen of the Mississippi Riverboat
Media Tour in New York City
West Virginia 2016
Marvel Universe Live Event
Rima attended New York City's Fashion Week!
North Dakota 2011
Delaware 2016
Kansas 2016
Arizona 2013
In April, Kristen went to Haiti to help with the r
Arizona 2011
Colorado 2014
Tennessee 2014
Marucci Sports Tour
Mississippi 2013
On October 1st, Kristen traveled to Los Angeles to
Registration and Fitting
Miss USA 2014, Nia Sanchez' Final Walk
The 2012 MISS USA Competition
Vermont 2016
Yankees vs Tigers Game
Rima serves as a guest judge for the Detroit Pisto
New Mexico 2011
California 2016
Illinois 2016
Wyoming 2012
Stefania and Kristen attended the HealthCorps Four
Nevada 2015
Kentucky 2012
Olivia visits MS 180 in NYC and performs with the
Arizona 2014
Rhode Island 2014
Stefania and Kristen attend a Haiti Disaster Relie
Miss USA Registration and Fitting
Massachusetts 2013
On September 23rd, Kristen and Stormi attended the
Top 5 Announcement
Events from the live telecast event.
Self Defense Class at Hunter College
Tennessee 2016
Nasdaq Opening Bell with OCNA
Rima traveled to Shanghai for the 2010 World Expo
Nevada 2011
Alaska 2016
Georgia 2016
Washington 2012
Kristen goes to the Dominican Republic with Childr
North Dakota 2014
Minnesota 2015
Indiana 2012
Olivia travels to Boston to Support Breast Cancer
Kristen has dinner at one of her favorite NYC spot
Hosts and Talent
Louisiana 2013
On September 22nd, Kristen visited the New Balance
Miss USA Hosts
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants at the Preliminary C
Hispancize 2015 Awards
Rhode Island 2016
Stefania and Rima traveled to Rwanda to support Sa
Missouri 2011
Nebraska 2015
Utah 2012
Kristen attended the Snowflake Ball in Reidsville,
New Mexico 2014
Maryland 2015
Hawaii 2012
Miss USA attends events for New York's Fashion Wee
Wyoming 2013
Oklahoma 2014
Iowa 2013
On September 13th, Kristen attended the Susan G. K
The 2012 MISS USA Contestants at Chateau Nightclub
New York Fashion Week
Oklahoma 2016
Five of Florida's finest chefs prepare a at New
City Harvest Mid-Winter Tasting Event
Rima attended a fundraiser for Global Camps Africa
Michigan 2011
Illinois 2015
South Dakota 2012
Stefania, Kristen and Stormi took a trapeze class
Nevada 2014
Kentucky 2015
District Of Columbia 2012
Olivia and Leila attend the US Open in NYC.
Washington 2013
Top 20
On September 2nd, Kristen and Miss Universe Stefan
2012 MISS USA Contestants and Miss USA dine at Gor
Miss USA on the TODAY Show
North Carolina 2016
Alyssa Campanella shares her favorite beauty secre
Pillow Fight with Manny Pacquiao
Rima attended a rooftop party hosted by Ford Fiest
Maine 2011
Wisconsin 2015
Pennsylvania 2012
Kristen attended an Economic and Social Council (E
Missouri 2014
Idaho 2015
Colorado 2012
Olivia travels to Chicago for the Australian Gold
Opening Number
Utah 2013
On December 17th, Kristen spent the morning hangin
Backstage at the Preliminary Competition
Idaho 2013
Contestants have lunch at Carlos' n Charlie's at t
DIC Exhibition Trip to Prague
Miss Universe and Miss USA with EXTRA
New Jersey 2016
Alyssa bakes with the Institute of Culinary Educat
Erin Brady, Miss USA attends Maxim's Pre-Super Bow
Rima attended the "Ride of Fame" bus event by
Kansas 2011
Virginia 2015
Ohio 2012
On Friday, February 5th Miss USA and Miss Universe
Michigan 2014
Florida 2015
Arizona 2012
Olivia returns to Rhode Island for her homecoming
Preliminary Competition - Swimsuit
South Dakota 2013
On November 18th, YAI Benefit for Hope Gala at the
Old Governors Mansion
On July 17th, Kristen was the featured dancer at S
Olivia's Homecoming - Part 1
On May 19th, Kristen and Stevi walked the Yellow C
On May 20th, Gilda's Club New York held their 2n
On June 16th, Kristen attended Samsung's Four Seas
On Thursday, May 7th, Kristen attended the Educati
On Thursday, April 30th, Kristen attended 'Handing
On Friday, May 1st, Kristen Dalton visited Washing
Kristen attends the event at the Waldorf Astoria H
On May 26th, Kristen made her first visit home sin
On June 29th, Kristen traveled to Las Vegas to mak
On May 25th, Kristen attended the Coca-Cola 600 at
On June 18th, Kristen traveled to Atlantis, Paradi
On June 24th, Kristen attended the Gen Arts 15th a
On June 9th, Kristen attended the UJA-Federation o
On June 12th, Kristen visited the USO to welcome h
On June 11th, Kristen visited the Pentago in Washi
On June 8th, Kristen attended the 2nd annual benef
On June 15th, Kristen took part in her first Salsa
On June 6th, Kristen attended the YAI "Central Par
Fashion Week: Cho Cheng runway show Fashion Week B
Crystle at the Best Buddies Maryland event held in
A Star-studded capacity crowd "haunted" the annual
Crystle and Dayana attend the Frairs Club roast of
Crystle, Dayana & actress Hilary Duff visit P.S. 1
Crystle meets with Deputy Mayor for Education and
Miss Puerto Rico Universe Pageant.
One of the Miss Universe Organization's official c
Crystle, Dayana and Stevi pose on the red carpet a
The Miss Universe Organization gets together to ce
October 10th & 11th 2008 Miss USA attended the fou
Crystle and Dayana do a radio interivew with famou
Crystle and Dayana pose on the red carpet at the b
Crystle only had eyes for Sesame Street's Elmo dur
Crystle takes part in a celebrity on-line reading
Crystle attends the Autism Speaks United Nations W
Crystle volunteers at the American Red Cross Hurri
Crystle attended the Lipstick Jungle Premiere Part
Crystle appears on NBC News 3 Las Vegas, Nevada.
Crystle attends the Nevada Cancer Institute Gala i
Crystle signing autographs for students at Walter
Crystle visiting service members at the Naval Air
Wreaths of Joy Gala
To support World AIDS Day, Crystle took part as a
Macy's 84th Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade.
Crystle attended the 12th Annual Best Buddies Miam
Crystle kicks off the Consumer Protection Board's
Crystle attended the Gilda's Club New York City 14
Crystle attends the USO's "2008 Salute to our Troo
YMI Winter 08 Campaign Final Images.
Pensacola Tea Party
Crystle promotes the USO's "2008 Salute to our Tro
Crystle and Stevi at the YAI/NIPD Network Silver L
Crystle attended FASHION FORWARD, a runway show to
Crystle and her dance partner Brett pose for a pic
Crystle participates in the Susan G. Komen New Yor
Crystle Stewart attended NY Fashion Week - Spring
Crystle attends New York Fashion Week.
Crystle was an honored guest at the grand opening
Crystle attends the Lighting Ceremony at the Empir
Hosted by the United War Veterans Council of New Y
Riyo and Crystle attend A Caring Hand's 6th Annual
Crystle hits the red carpet of the 10th Annual You
Following the Capitol Files' After-Party, Crystle
After the White House Correspondents' Association
Annual Dinner of the White House Correspondents' A
Crystle begins her day in Washington, DC with a to
Crystle appears on 106 & Park.
EXTRA "Getting Glam" with Crystle.
Crystle and Riyo attend the ASPCA's 11th Annual "B
Crystle and Riyo attend the HealthCorps charity ev
Crystle gets acquainted with her new hometown.
Education Through Music Gala
Crystle attended the Gilda's Club 1st Annual Lunch
Crystle and Stevi attend the US Open.
YMI Winter 08 Campaign Behind-the-Scenes Images.
Crystle, Dayana, and Stevi attended the 43rd Annua
Crystle is introduced on stage at the 2008 Farouk/
Crystle participates on the runway during the SCAL
Crystle meets Brooklyn Borough President Marty Mar
Crystle poses with students from Brooklyn Middle S
Crystle was front and center at Madison Square Gar
Crystle and Hilary visit Central Park for the YAI
Crystle finds some time during her busy day to mak
Crystle visits her alma mater, Elkins High School,
Crystle visits Middle School 35 in Brooklyn, NY wh
Crystle and Hilary attend the the Audi Best Buddie
Crystle, Riyo and Hilary attend Cielo Latino, a be
Crystle, Riyo and Hilary at the 5TH Annual Lucky C
Crystle signs autographs for wounded U.S. soldiers
Crystle visits with the "Smart Girls".
Crystle attended the American Cancer Society's 15t
Fashion Week: William Rast Presents: New America
Trip to Atlantis Day 2
Trip to Atlantis Day 1
Crystle Stewart recently traveled to Yuma, Arizona
Crystle Stewart recently traveled to Yuma, Arizona
Viennese Opera Ball
8th Annual Michael Jordan Celebrity Invitational G
Crystle and Stevi at the Stephen Siller fundraiser
The Oxygen Network is dedicating a full day to Ame
Photos: Crystle and Stevi Visit Coney Island Hospi
Crystle was an honored guest at the USO of New Yor


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Switch & Go Dinos Review
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Kaboo Bag Giveaway
Kaboo Bags are the recently launched line of purses for the tech savvy momma. Since you are a blog reader I assume you own a computer and maybe even a laptop, e-reader or Ipad? Well these Kaboo Bags are perfect for you. They have plenty of pockets inside and a padded pouch for your Ipad […Read More]
Painted Octopus Canvas
The popular Lord Bodner's Octopus Triptych has been seen everywhere from celebrity's homes to design magazines. And, not surprisingly, it comes with a hefty price tag. This hand-painted knockoff version by Meg from Revamp Homegoods is just as graphically appealing, and you won't have to sell your first born to own it! Meg was inspired […Read More]
Wooden Herb Crates
Mel from Junkin' Junky decided to make her own rustic herb crates since the cost of shipping to Canada really ran up their purchase price. After building and staining her boxes, Mel used vinyl to create a stencil and painted on her wording. She's still working on adding hooks like those of her inspiration, but, […Read More]

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Omeros Submits OMS302 Marketing Authorization Application To European Medicines Agency
SEATTLE, Sept. 10, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Omeros Corporation (NASDAQ: OMER) today announced that it recently submitted a Marketing Authorization Application (MAA) to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) seeking approval to market OMS302 for use in patients undergoing intraocular lens replacement (ILR) surgery in the European Union (EU). Added to standard irrigation solution used during ILR, OMS302 is Omeros' proprietary PharmacoSurgery® product that, across multiple human trials, demonstrated clinically meaningful and statistically significant maintenance of intraoperative mydriasis (pupil dilation), prevention of intraoperative miosis (pupil constriction), and reduction of postoperative ocular pain. With the submission by Omeros of a New Drug Application (NDA) for OMS302 to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in July 2013, the MAA represents Omeros' second major submission seeking regulatory authorization to market OMS302. The EMA previously granted OMS302 eligibility for centralized review, determining that the product represents a significant therapeutic innovation. The MAA for OMS302, therefore, was submitted through EMA's Centralized Procedure, which allows submission of a single application that, when approved, authorizes the drug to be marketed in all EU member states and European Free Trade Association countries rather than requiring separate national approvals. The NDA and MAA are each subject to an initial evaluation prior to commencement of the formal review process. Assuming successful completion of the review process and approval of the NDA and MAA, OMS302 is expected to be available to ophthalmic surgeons and their patients in the U.S. and Europe in the second half of 2014."Having submitted two major marketing applications just weeks apart for our lead product is an outstanding achievement," said Gregory A. Demopulos, M.D., chairman and chief executive officer of Omeros. "Omeros' commercialization activities in anticipation of 2014 launches in both the U.S. and Europe are well underway, and we look forward to making OMS302 available to surgeons and their patients." About Omeros' OMS302 Program OMS302 is Omeros' product being developed for use during intraocular lens replacement, including cataract surgery and refractive lens exchange. OMS302 is a proprietary combination of the mydriatic (pupil dilating) agent phenylephrine and the anti-inflammatory agent ketorolac. Omeros submitted an NDA to the FDA in July 2013 and recently submitted an MAA to the EMA. ILR involves replacement of the original lens of the eye with an artificial intraocular lens. These procedures are typically performed to replace a lens opacified by a cataract or to correct a refractive error of the lens (i.e., refractive lens exchange). OMS302 is added to standard irrigation solution used in ILR and delivered within the eye to maintain intraoperative mydriasis (pupil dilation), to reduce surgically induced miosis (pupil constriction), and to reduce postoperative pain and irritation. Maintenance of mydriasis is critical to the safety and surgical ease of the procedure. Intraoperative pupil constriction increases the risk of injury to intraocular structures and can substantially prolong surgical time.
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In this fine detail I came to know my own life and to realize that life up to that point had been in the pursuit of someone else's dream on a horizon, far away from my own. Today the water washed over my skin, leaving only the bare original; the one that had hidden from view under the layers of others' ambitions until now.
To be like this, soaked on an autumn morning alone in the wilderness, risked desolation. What was left without the dreams of others, the inherited habits and the surrounding onward march towards the future? This change that I had made was in some ways like a death: like the wilting stems of the flowers and the rapidly vanishing summer. There was an unavoidable sorrow in everything left behind; even those things that hurt and that I knew were dangerous to me.
Yet in the fine detail of the island I knew that this dying scene was just the prelude to new life. In every drop of pre-autumn rain and in every leaf that fed the soil, there was a certain and stubborn push towards new life. As the water trickled down my face, the death that comes with change, though melancholic, was no longer frightening because it was the precondition for something strong and authentic to be born.
In the detail I also learned that no two lives, even if they were genetically connected, were the same. The future would never simply be a repetition of the past; it could not be. The branches would grow in different directions, the wildflowers would crop up in different places and new birds with their own personalities would come to raise their families in our bay. To insist that life was a sort of replay of what came before would be denying all fascination and beauty, which exists and is real. Basic as this knowledge seemed, I had not really understood it until now because my conscience had been perpetually chained down by all of the ways that I had deviated from another's blueprint. Today, after ten years of learning how to observe, my conscience lightened and my spirit soared.
I wasn't entirely alone on this day. Lucy the dog had taken refuge from the rain on the front door mat, which was warm due to the fact that this was her favorite place to lie. I liked the fact that the entrance to my home was warm. It is the way that I wanted things to be even if it meant that our door mat looked like a slab of tangled white fur.
The smell of the house was a caress. It wasn't a smell that I could compare to one source, rather it was an amalgamation of history and old books, pine oil soap, a decade of fires lit in our tiled stoves and the many loaves of bread baked over the years. My heart twinged as I sensed the house's warmth. It hadn't lived an easy life during the past hundred years of its existence, yet had the grace to take in this woman from nowhere and everywhere, and make her feel at home.
One had to excuse the leaks in the roof, which had covered the heads of so many generations. First there had been the large families of sand miners who had shared the house, living mostly around the cast iron stoves in the two back-to-back kitchens. Then it had been turned over to the badgers and the field mice for some time until the local nobility handed it and the island over to my husband's grandfather who sometimes tasked it with a stateliness that it wasn't born to. Within a few years it found itself at the zenith of a long flight of steps cutting through a series of grand stone terraces. Now it governed over a gaggle of smaller houses - boat houses, guest houses - that were all in the service of its existence. Yet to the badgers and the field mice it was the same welcome shelter, which they would happily take over once again for some years after the passing of the old man and before the return of the adult grandson.
Whether it had been ready for the arrival of a woman who demanded, in its old age, that it become her place for growing roots, her first real home in life, is an open question. It had been challenging to meet all of her needs such as year-round running water and electricity, water-tight shelter from rain and the wild creatures that it had been required to house in previous periods of its history.
I knew that I had never fully appreciated the limitations of this rust-red cottage and that I had been hard on it. Today it seemed to put its arms around me despite my cravings. Like any good parent, it embraced me for who I was, not who I would become, and for this reason put up with my occasional naïve cries for more and better.
My husband, Claes the grandson, knew instinctively that I was asking too much. He knew this place better than I did, because as a youngster during the 1950s he had handed the nails to his grandfather who had hammered in the planks over an insulation of old newspaper. Yet it was precisely because of his years that he knew certain windows open up only once in life and in the blinking of an eye can close again leaving you wondering what might have been.
Now on this rainy day, I opened one of the many windows facing onto the dock and the vast lake that reached inland from the Baltic Sea. I wanted to continue listening to the rain but it receded as though to teach me a lesson for deserting it. Gradually its sound was overtaken by the bird song that rises from the trees when the rain is over. A lone swan had glided out from the reeds to graze tail-up on the vegetation below the water's surface. I saw our twins, Hannes and Jesine, as they had been when we began our life here: toddlers crouching on their hind shanks on the pebbled beach, their rubber boots nudged by the water, which they ignored as they marveled in silence at a grazing swan.
To a great extent, it was because of the potential for these types of experiences that I wanted us to be here. I often felt that learning to watch a grazing swan in silence gave more than all of the traveling in the world. Maybe I had the luxury to think this having seen so much from the time that I was a crouching toddler. Perhaps it was my duty, having seen so many places, to call attention to the small cosmos that lay at our feet. You could travel the world and see nothing, arriving and departing with mental stereotypes. I wanted my youngsters to go out into the world, as I knew that eventually they would, looking more than judging, and listening more than speaking because that is the way that they and their world would become whole.
My gaze fastened at the long dock where Claes and I were married. Overcome by the energy of this place, the pastor had forsaken his Bible and welcomed the Norse gods to bless our marriage. It seemed fitting to be blessed by Thor, Odin and Freja whose benevolence I would draw upon in future years. Had I been watching the fine detail in those days, I would immediately have noticed that there were dangers in living isolated in this seemingly benign wilderness. My modern eyes saw lovely trees and flowers but not fog, thin ice, freezing water and merciless storms in which the trees could be lethal.
Had I known these things, I would have called myself irresponsible in suggesting that we should make this place our year-round home. Yet lack of foresight can sometimes bring benefits. Above all, it can bring the hard-won experience required to create respect. Our local doctor who became a great friend in these parts once said to me that youngsters with `problems' should be sent to survive in a Nordic forest for a week. It sounded like a harsh prescription, but with the years I began to understand what he meant. The power of respect for nature is immeasurable. It teaches us that despite our big brains, we are not greater than the place we live in.
The paint on the dock was crumbling with the wear and tear of the elements. "That will be a task for next year when we return," I thought. Once, this place had been an adventure; now it was home and it seemed like a desertion to be closing it down in waiting for the next summer. How could I forsake it and move on? This warm house on this minute island that not even the locals knew about had taught me almost everything valuable that I knew. My spirit lay under one of the flat, warm stones on the terraces and I didn't know whether it would follow me into the new phase of life that we were embarking upon.
The thought of leaving this place turned the rain on my skin clammy. I crumpled up some newspaper and stuffed it into the porthole of one of the tiled stoves. I piled up a bit of tinder on top of it, lit the fire and half-closed the porthole, knowing that this lighting of the fire in an old tiled stove is not a semi-automatic process. The draught can put out your initial effort and you might have to start over a few times. However many times it took, I would always know how to light a fire, I thought.
How could I live in a place for a decade where supposedly nothing happens? Many people have asked me that question in a more polite formulation. My answer is that if you go and sit in a place where supposedly nothing is happening for a while, you will soon find that everything happens because you are open to it.
A short tour around the coasts of the neighboring islands revealed that some of them had boarded up their houses with planks nailed across the front door. Painted in leftover blue on one of them was the message, "There is no point in breaking in, everything has already been taken." All upright citizens and their belongings were gone and we were left to deal with the pirates.
Amid my moment of doubt the children's first words rang out: "masses of boats". As they rattled the child-safe gate to the back terrace, I hesitated. Didn't most children say "mommy" and "daddy" before they got their vocal chords around boats? Maybe the prognostications of family and friends were already becoming a reality: the children would become socially maladjusted living away from cars, shops and play dates. We had registered them at the small day care not far away across the lake. Yet as the water cooled and the first north wind of the season began to blow, I sensed that they might be seeing more of me than their new friends.
The voices of doubt that encircle a decision to change life's direction are many and loud. They form a ring around you until it is hard to see any opening. In my case, the most obscuring voice was my father's. He had been my closest confidante in early life, and I assumed that all stability and confidence that I possessed flowed from my connection to him. I don't know whether he knew this since, had he known, I could not imagine that he would have said the things that eventually he did about my life choice. One of his milder descriptions was that it was "medieval." I tried to excuse him based on his early training to become a Catholic priest. Yet it was difficult because he still owned a direct channel to my confidence and by sending through a few hard words he could exponentially increase any existing doubts.
Dad had hoped that I would be a corporate whiz kid and travel the world just as he did. When at various points in time I showed indications of veering off this path, he suggested with a force disguised in calm that I reconsider, and I always did. My passion for Shakespearean tragedy was relegated to a dusty bookshelf when he asked what I could possibly do with that. I even entered into a marriage that was wrong at the time based on his distaste for people living together in sin. How I adored my father.
At the age of thirty I had begun to take possession, so to speak. I had re-married without consideration for anyone's feelings but my own and my beloved's . I had pulled back from corporations and travel to be a mother working from home. None of this could be classified as being particularly radical, but when the year-long island adventure came out into the open I had obviously crossed the Rubicon.
For me all decisions now flowed from the children. So, to start by insisting that this life in the middle of nowhere would somehow hurt their future was a strategically intelligent start by Dad. As I watched them shaking the safety gate on the terrace shouting "masses of boats" at the fleeing city folk, the children began to look more like two small inmates. Were we holding them back from the fullness of life that the other children were returning to?
"Love one another," the female pastor had said at the children's christening in the nearby church during the summer gone by. She looked sternly at Claes and me, each of us holding a child whose head had just been patted dry. Her thought was so blissfully simple yet at the same time loaded with the burden of experience, that no one in the congregation knew what to do with it except to give it air and silence. "Love one another". What did it really mean? I thought of a hundred things and then something that I could not describe. It was that thing, I thought, and whatever it was that I couldn't describe, it was something between the four of us that it was our greatest task to nurture and make grow. Everything and everyone else was secondary.
"How can you stand it here?" one of the guests asked, bolstered by a few glasses of wine at the modest event we threw on the island afterward. I paused; giving an opportunity for the feeling of offense to pass and to appreciate that asking the question demanded some courage. I glanced at our children who squealed with delight as they played crawl tag with one another on the floor. I smiled at the guest and scrounged around for some research findings that pointed to the fact that children under a certain age are more interested in being with their parents than with anyone else. In reality, the answer was as simple as, what can seem a trap for one person can be freedom for another.
Present at the christening and now sitting behind me on the terrace listening to the children repeating their first words was Jenny. She too was skeptical about our decision to move out to the island, which she knew meant that it was time for her to move on. She was young and setting out on her own life's adventure. Retreating to an isolated island understandably did not seem the right move for her. At the same time I knew that these two little `prisoners' rattling at the gate were like the two apples of her eyes. There was nothing that could wipe the warm smile from her face when they were around. Being a good au pair isn't just a job and Jenny was a very good one.
Jenny was important to me. She had become my bridge into a culture that I didn't know and that my children had been born into. I would have to learn the language, the pat-i-cake songs and the stories that all children knew. She made sure that I watched Pippi Longstocking and learned Astrid Lindgren's stories whose characters were everyday metaphors in the lives of Swedish adults and children. Jenny knew what it was to feel like an outsider since she had been raised by Swedish parents who had adopted her from an orphanage in Korea. I sometimes pictured that we had helped one another to cross many bridges.
Jenny's departure was the reduction of our island community to the bare basics. There were now only four of us and Mats the electrician, who lived on an island for a reason, which was that he liked more privacy than most.
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