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In 2003, with bonds approved by the citizens of Katy, the City of Katy provided a new 15,000-square foot library in a beautiful park-like setting. Designed for citizens of all ages to use and enjoy, the modern facility has an open, welcoming atmosphere, to encourage individuals to stay and read, study, relax or surf the internet.
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Prof. Dr. Shoji Hall, Prof. Dr. Piran Ravichandran Kidambi, and Dr. Haegyeom Kim have been awarded the 2020-2021 ECS Toyota Young Investigator Fellowships. Through this, ECS and Toyota aim to promote innovative and unconventional technologies borne from electrochemical research. The fellowship encourages young professors and scholars to pursue innovative electrochemical research in green energy technology.Read more


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The culture at Cornerstone is that each member serves in a ministry so that together we can accomplish the kingdom work that God has for us to do. We believe that God has uniquely equipped every believer with spiritual gifts, talents, abilities, resources and experiences to be able to sacrificially serve the needs of others. As we serve, we discover the heart of God for others and gain a better understanding of our own passions and abilities. This is how we serve one another and impact our community.
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Nina Wells is using her 2017 AL Guilford Emerging Cinematographer award to boost her cinematography skills.
She has told NZCS that she intends to use the $2,000 prize money to help fund attendance at ASC cinematography master classes in LA, and a lighting course in Australia, both of which promise to promote Wells to a new skill level.
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Tonight I will hold ceremony in honor of Mother Earth and Grandmother Moon. And I will work with the Platinum Light of our Silvery Grandmother and the Turquoise Light of the Thymus Chakra. And I will inundate the Moon with the BLESSINGS of Violet Ray FORGIVENESS to bring Her FREEDOM from any abuse she might have suffered from ... Abuse of Her magnificent power with which she reigns all water.
The time has come for the Moon to fully indulge in the Sun Light's Power and Energy. To do so, we can call on the SUN energy of the Earth, her copper golden light ... the colour of AMBER ... - and her Crystal Iris HEART will respond to our Intent that is nourished by pure Divine LOVE and DESTINATION ... Let us light up the dark side of the moon tonight ... our own inner moon ... the moon on planet dolphin ... let's see it FULLY lit up ... on all sides ... let's FEEL the power of CHANGE in our FEELINGS and emotional body! ... and know that wherever cleansing is needed, the Crystalline White Light of the Goddess turns VIOLET, affecting the necessary change and transmutation!
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SURE, Patrice!!! Encounter your gifts and talents - and ENJOY them. This definitely brings HEALING!!!
Just that I don't really believe that you cannot connect to lightgrid, lol! It's probably just that you don't feel it and thus don't realize it - and think you cannot do it ;-) Mostly, it is our expectations which keep us from the personal experience ... as we read what others say and think "Well, for me that's not like this!"
Of course it is not! You have to find your own way :-)
I just get the idea for an experiment ... What if you draw during our connection time - if that is somehow possible? Let yourself be inspired - and totally TRUST the process ... I would LOVE to see a lightgrid picture painted or drawn by you one day ;-)
I LOVE your hones being, dear Patrice, and send you much LOVE,
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These were letterpress printed at UWE, Bristol as part of a group contribution, where many other bookmarks were also made for the project during Angie Butler's evening class. I wanted to keep it simple so that people will have to search to find out what it is all about if they pick one up. The pile of books was printed with an existing rubber stamp in pale brown ink – the colour of which is 'desert sand'.
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Kelly Clarkson stunned by 'Voice' contestant: 'You just won The Voice'
The Voice Season 17 went live Monday with the top 20 semifinalists, seven of whom will go home on Tuesday's live results show. But if Kelly Clarkson was correct in her bold prediction, quirky folk singer Will Breman won't be going anywhere. Will isn't on Kelly's team – he's John Legend's contestant – but after Will's gender-flipped standout performance of Taylor Swift's "Style," she was "stunned," according to host Carson Daly, and she told him, "You just won The Voice… like, you won it all. That was crazy."
I sincerely hope that Kelly was right. Will is quickly shaping up to be my favorite contestant of the season, one of the few singers in the top 20 who takes creative chances and is never predictable or old-fashioned. Many singers on Monday stuck with safe oldies and pandering karaoke balladry, but the adorakble Will, as always, threw himself into a fun and fearless performance – scatty, jazzy, and wacky, but never gimmicky. There's truly never been anyone like him on The Voice.
John, who won last season his first time out, just might have a chance for a repeat victory with this likable guy. "I am so lucky to get to work with you," he told Will. You so musical. You are so inventive. You have such charisma, such personality. Are you a true artist. It's a joy to watch you perform."


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If you're looking for looking to cut your energy costs and soundproof your Denver-area home, there is a solution: Triple-pane laminated vinyl windows. These windows contain the components necessary to insulate your home from both outdoor weather AND noise.
Let's explore the advantages of triple-pane laminated vinyl windows in more detail, so you can see how they'll enhance the quality of living in your home.
While three panes of glass can provide a boost of soundproofing power, lamination is what does most of the legwork. A laminated window contains a clear layer of clear, dense, high-strength soundproofing plastic between the panes of glass. This dampens noise and vibrations coming from the outside.
How well an object blocks noise is measured on the Sound Transmission Class (STC) scale. A window must block over 90% of outdoor noise to be considered soundproof. Windows that are capable of this noise reduction have an STC rating between 45 and 50. For reference, a non-laminated single-pane window hovers around a 27 on the STC scale, while a non-laminated double-pane window rates about a 28.
Here is a chart from soundproofingcompany.com breaking down the STC scale:
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|Normal speech is easily heard and understood
|Normal speech is harder to hear and not understood; loud speech is understood
|Loud speech can be heard, but not understood
|Loud speech seems like a faint murmur
|Loud speech not heard at all; very loud speakers and heavy traffic noise can still be heard, but are muffled
|Very loud speakers and instruments are barely audible
|Superb soundproofing; almost nothing can be heard
According to the chart, non-laminated single- and double-pane windows will not even inhibit the noise of someone talking at a normal volume. But laminated, triple-pane windows block almost ALL outside noise, awarding them "soundproof status."
According to energystar.gov, upgrading from single- to double-pane windows can save Denver homeowners up to $381 per year on energy bills. These huge savings are the result of multiple panes of glass (naturally) and the energy-efficient gas that is injected between the panes. When you upgrade to a THIRD pane of glass, those savings are further increased—exponentially.
In a head-to-head comparison, homeowners also rate triple-pane windows better than double-pane windows for keeping their home comfortable. While the interior glass of a double-pane window may feel cool to the touch on a cold day, triple-pane windows stay within one or two degrees of the temperature of the interior of the wall. Why? Because that extra pane of glass—and the special gas that goes between it—provide an added layer of insulation.
Other factors that contribute to a window's energy efficiency and soundproofing are installation, weatherstripping, and foam insulation within the frame. If a window has gaps or cracks in the seal, laminated triple-pane glass will have a tough time doing its jobs. That's why it's important to go with a QUALITY window installed by experienced professionals with a great reputation.
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Microbiome strategy: ADM to acquire Probiotics International in US$243m deal
02 Jul 2018 --- Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) expands its reach in the probiotic market with the US$243 million (£185 million) acquisition of UK-based manufacturer Probiotics International Ltd (PIL).
"ADM is already one of the world's largest providers of human and animal nutrition solutions and the acquisition of PIL will add to our extensive portfolio of products that promote health and wellness," says Vikram Luthar, President of ADM Health & Wellness.
This acquisition step follows a trail of purchases by ADM in a bid to increase its standing in the microbiome solutions space: "We took a major step in this area last year with the addition of Biopolis and then added to our capabilities with our personalized nutrition collaboration with Mayo Clinic, our joint development agreement with Vland Biotech, and our new enzyme lab in California. Now, with the addition of PIL's extensive sales and marketing network to our existing R&D capabilities, we are building a world-class, fully integrated probiotics and nutraceuticals business," he adds.
Speaking on the Mayo Clinic collaboration announced in late 2017, Luthar told NutritionInsight at the time, "A major part of how ADM will make the collaboration with the Mayo Clinic work is by bringing to bear the investments we are already making in this space, particularly the technology and expertise we added earlier this year when we acquired a 90 percent ownership stake in Biopolis, a leading provider of microbial and sequencing technology with a strong portfolio of novel food ingredients."
PIL – also known under its umbrella brand Protexin – is a "leading" provider of probiotic supplements for human wellness and animal markets, including aquaculture, equine, livestock and companion animals. With sales in more than 60 countries, PIL produces the Bio-Kult brand of probiotic supplements along with contract-manufactured products.
"A key part of that integrated Nutrition platform is our Health & Wellness business, which includes bioactives, botanical extracts and specialty nutritional oils, including innovative products such as our Onavita algal DHA oil, and Novatol Vitamin E 1490PH. The addition of PIL is just one of the many important investments we are making to grow our entire integrated Nutrition business. From the growth of our bioactives platform, to new Animal Nutrition facilities in North America and China, to our expanding network of food and beverage ingredient innovation centers, we are enhancing our presence in a growing market and ensuring that we are the go-to provider for complete health and wellness and ingredients solutions for human and animal nutrition customers alike," says Vince Macciocchi, President of ADM's Nutrition business unit.
NutritionInsight has previously reported on PIL's Bio-Kult hitting headlines for its positive clinical performance in symptom reduction for those suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome – diarrhea (IBS-D) and its potential to reduce anxiety, actively tapping into the gut-brain axis market.
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How the Vision of IoT Leaders Extract Substantial Outcomes?
A recent study presented by McKinsey framed the analysis to determine what separates IoT leaders from other peers, and how do they drive better outcomes for their companies. The survey was conducted among 300 IoT executive level professionals from theRead More
Here is How IoT brings a Disruption into the Retail Industry
In this internet age, when a customer walks into a store in search of a new pair of jeans, this is what may happen: As you enter, your smartphone pings, and you open it to find a map, showing yourRead More
Internet of Things: CIOs are Getting Ready for the Next Big Revolution
"We are only at the beginning of the digital revolution, and the possibilities are endless." Analysts estimate there will be 4.9 billion connected devices by the end of next year and that this will increase four-fold in the following fiveRead More
IoT Security: How to Detect Vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things?
The popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) devices continues to grow among industries of all types owing to its practicality and adaptability. IoT devices have enabled companies to improve the architecture and performance of their digital environments by enhancing theirRead More
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Building Intelligent IoT with the Power of Artificial Intelligence
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Things to Remember If You're Prone to Forget By Katy, Wife, Writer, and Yoga Instructor • April 4, 2018
My short-term memory can sometimes ebb and flow. And I try to write some of that off to the fact that I'm not as young as I used to be. But still, the age of 36 seems a little early to walk into the grocery store or simply from my bedroom to the kitchen with a purpose, only to forget why I was headed there in the first place.
In these instances, my first instinct is, of course, to laugh and go on. But frustrations do arise when I get home from the store or climb back into bed and then remember what I needed to pick up or do.
My mind wants to wander to that place of fear.
If I'm forgetting things now, what will life look like in 10, 20, or 30 years? Am I at risk for losing precious long-term memories, as well?
Finding Solutions
I work full-time as a writer for a medical marketing communications company, and I have written countless articles about the consequences of conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia. In my research and the information that I share with readers, I am forced to focus on the fact that there are no surefire answers about how to stop progressive forgetfulness in its tracks.
There are, however, many tips that I use to make my experience of remembering tasks and other to-dos a lot easier. By taking ownership of the fact that my mind can sometimes get fuzzy and flooded with the chaos of overstimulation, I did some research and found some simple ways to gain a little more control.
4 of My Favorite Tips to Stay Mentally Sharp
1) Sleep. When juggling my career, my family, and my relapsing MS, taking time to get plenty of rest can often be an elusive goal. But a sound sleep schedule must be a priority to keep the brain in top form. About 30 minutes before bed, I take a warm bath, page through a book or a magazine, write in my journal, and sprinkle lavender essential oil on my pillow to help me drift off to dreamland. My goal is to get about seven hours each night.
2) Make lists. Throughout the day, I write down the things that I need to pick up on my way home from work as I pass by the grocery store or pharmacy. Without my lists, I have been known to walk into a business and literally ask myself out loud, "Wait, why am I here?" Having a piece of paper to reference makes the shopping process much easier, more enjoyable, and more productive.
3) Stay active. I've read in studies that regular exercise can help boost brain health. When I am getting my five days of yoga each week, I am able to think more clearly and focus more completely. By concentrating on my breath and the way it relates to movement, I can combat the chaos created by constant streams of emails, text messages, voicemails, and a relentless 24-hour news cycle.
4) Relax. While goals, lists, and responsibilities are important and motivating, I've found that the brain sometimes needs simplicity to properly reboot. When I'm in need of mental clarity and energy, I try to resist the urge to turn on the TV or check social media incessantly. Instead, I like to step outside, sit in the quiet, and watch my puppies play while listening to the birds or the cicadas, depending on the time of day.
All of us in the modern world—with or without relapsing MS—are at risk of forgetting things from time to time. Let's face it, we're human. And we need to give ourselves permission to take breaks from the constant demands on our attention, so we can change the narrative.
I'm always looking for new ways to keep my memory sharp. Do you have any tips to share below?
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I also attended Cindy Keefer's lecture, "Music for the Eyes: Visual Music Films". The lecture was a series of films that were meant to connect sound, color, and form. She explained that the intention is to "see sound". She introduced the artist and musician, Norman McLaren, as one of the pioneers in showing sound. His work was done in the 40s and had a huge impact on various other artists. This is an interesting video demonstrating his attempt at showing sound through these dots.
This is just the beginning of amazing attempts at showcasing what sound looks like. Artists have even used images of the sun to display sound. This reminds me a lot of musical fountains that captivated me when I was a child (sometimes even now). The musical fountains find the perfect harmony between sounds, colors, and visual effects. They are just the next step from videos, the 3-dimensional form.
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So, this braised pork situation is a total dream. It has tons of fall-time flavor, a little tartness from sour cherries, a bit of boozy twang, plus it's nestled atop a warm, creamy puddle of cheesy polenta. It's celebratory, even, and what do you know? I made it to celebrate the wonderful Jessica in honor of her and her sweet little babe who is due in just weeks! I am SO excited for Jessica, I can barely handle it. Bev and Ashley so kindly organized this mega-virtual-baby-shower deal and there are a TON of bloggers making all kinds of "trashed-up" fare all in the name of one of our favorite bloggers around. I mean, Jessica is a recipe-making-machine and an endless inspiration…plus she is so sweet and fun…that it's only natural that so many of her imaginary internet friends would want to celebrate her upcoming mama-hood together.
I've had this recipe idea swimming around in my brains since well before the crispy fall leaves started to hit the ground and I knew it'd be the perfect dish to make for this event. I mean, it has booze, but it's cooked booze and mama-friendly. Plus it contains sour cherries–the pride and joy of Michigan, which if you read Jessica's blog you know that she has a special place in here heart for the mitten-state. And, there's a cheesy polenta bed for it to rest on…because, I mean…cheese ya'll. AND, it's a slow cooker recipe, so the hands-on time is minimal.
Anyway, huge-mega-watt CONGRATS to Jessica and Eddie and that sweet little baby!! I cannot wait to see and hear and read all about this new little person and see where motherhood takes you, Jessica. It's truly amazing and wonderful and amazing and life-changing and awesome…did I say amazing? Well, it is.
Be sure to check out the massive amount of crazy-delicious recipes contributed by so many other amazing bloggers in Baby How Sweet's honor! Seriously, this is my kind of party.
trashed up salads
- Gimme Some Oven – Asian Broccoli Salad with Peanut Sauce
- The Lemon Bowl – Brussels Slaw with Tahini Dressing and Za'atar Crostini
- With Style & Grace – Kale Salad with Apple, Hazelnuts & Bacon
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- Dine & Dish – Hot Buttered Rum Cocktail
- Food For My Family – Cranberry Orange Dark and Stormy Cocktail
- Minimalist Baker – Bourbon Pumpkin Milkshakes
- Stylish, Stealthy & (sometimes) Healthy – Apple Cider Shandy
- A Spicy Perspective – Preggy Punch Mocktail
- Girl vs. Dough – Boozy Maple Peanut Butter Cup Milkshake
- Honestly Yum – Maple Bacon Pisco Sour
- Cookin Canuck – Pink Grapefruit Margaritas
- A Thought For Food – Mezcal Citrico Cocktail
- A House in the Hills – Pomegranate Rosemary Spritzer
- The Novice Chef – Ginger Bourbon Apple Cider
- Bran Appetit – Citrus Cider Punch Floats
trashed up burgers
- Edible Perspective – Meatloaf Veggie Burgers with Mashed Potatoes + Gravy
- The Little Kitchen – Salmon BLT Sliders with an Avocado Aioli & Brie
- Daisy At Home – Balsamic Beef Burger with Mac and Cheese
- Cookies & Cups – Candied Bacon Maple Cheddar Burger
- Climbing Grier Mountain – Trashed-Up Steak Burger with Chicken Fried Bacon & Dijon Gravy
- Dessert For Two – Bleu Cheese Burgers + Sweet Potato Fries
- Country Clever – Fig Rosemary Roast Chicken Brie Brussels Sprout Panini
- Foodie Crush – The Best Cheeseburger Soup
- Lady and Pups – Spicy Sambal Chicken Meatball Sub with Eggs
- Two Peas & Their Pod – Sweet Potato and Kale Grilled Cheese
- Bake Your Day – Ultimate Breakfast Sandwich
trashed up tacos
- Spoon Fork Bacon – Crunchy Ground Beef and Cheesy Tacos
- The Fauxmartha – Boozy Beef and Butternut Tacos
- With Food + Love – Harvest Hash Breakfast Tacos
- Mountain Mama Cooks – Crispy Kale and Brussels Sprout Tacos with Bacon
- Heather Christo – Bahn Mi Tacos with Spicy Sriracha Honey Sauce
- A Couple Cooks – Loaded Huevos Rancheros Tacos
- Fitnessista – San Diego Lobster Street Tacos
trashed up desserts
- Table for Two – Salted Caramel, Dark Chocolate, and Brown Butter Shortbread Bars with Sprinkles
- My Name is Yeh – Mini Vanilla Loaf Cakes, All Trashed Up
- Picky Palate – Pumpkin Spice Butterscotch Sprinkle Cupcakes
- Sprinkle Bakes – Cake Batter Confetti Cupcakes
- Averie Cooks – Easy Homemade Funfetti Cake with Vanilla Buttercream
- Sweet Phi – Trashed Up Shortbread Cookie Bars
- Love & Olive Oil – Loaded Junk Food Brownies
- Lauren's Latest – Bakery Sugar Cookies
- Cookie + Kate – Peanut Butter, Banana, Honey and Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Flourishing Foodie – Triple Layer Chocolate Cake with Salted Caramel Buttercream Frosting
- The Sugar Hit – Salted Caramel Popcorn Ice Cream Cake
- Hummingbird High – Breakfast Cereal Cake Donuts
- Top With Cinnamon – Triple Chocolate Vanilla Swirl Crumb Cake
- Bake at 350 – Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sundaes
- Simple Bites – Lemon Layer Cake
- Bakerella – Baby Block Cake Pops
- She Wears Many Hats – Chocolate Covered Grapefruit
trashed up pizza
- Bev Cooks – Beer Battered Fried Calamari Pizza
- Rachel Cooks – Apple and Chicken Sausage Pizza with Macaroni and Cheese Stuffed Crust
- Foodie With Family – Trashed Up Barbecue Turkey Pizza
- Shutterbean – Pesto Potato Bacon Pizza
- i am a food blog – Grilled Cheese Pizza
- My Life as a Mrs – Chili Cheese Dog Pizza
- Simply Scratch – Steak + Blue Cheese Pizza with Crispy Fried Shallots and Honey Balsamic Drizzle
- The Beeroness – Beer Cheese Tater Tot Pizza
- Yes I Want Cake – Roasted Pumpkin Pizza
- Two Red Bowls – Bacon Mashed Potato Pizza
- Dula Notes – Pork Bahn Mi Pizza
- Weelicious – Trashed Up Mexican Pizza Pockets
- Take a Megabite – Roasted Beet Pizza
- Hungry Girl Por Vida – Hard Cider Braised Pork with Sour Cherries and Cheesy Polenta
- Bakers Royale – Trash'd Street Tacos
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Slow Cooker Hard Cider Braised Pork with Sour Cherries and Cheesy Polenta
Makes 6-8 hearty servings
3 to 3 1/2 pounds boneless country style pork ribs, cut into large chunks
2 cups hard apple cider
2 apples, peeled, cored, and cut into wedges (I used honeycrisp)
1 onion, cut into wedges
1/2 heaping cup dried sour cherries
1 tablespoon finely minced rosemary
chives, optional, for garnish
1 cup polenta
5 cups water
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup shredded sharp cheddar
Heat a large skillet over high heat, sprinkle the pork liberally with salt and brown each piece in all sides (this step is optional, but recommended for maximum deliciousness), remove the pork from the pan and add about 1/4 cup of the hard cider, scraping up the browned bits as it bubbles. Pour the cider and browned bits, along with the browned pork pieces into a slow cooker, and add the remaining hard cider, apples, onion, sour cherries, and minced rosemary. Cover and set the slow cooker to high for 6 hours. Serve over cheesy polenta with lots of the pan juices and sprinkle with chopped chives.
Before serving, bring the 5 cups of water to a boil with a big pinch of salt. Slowly stir in the polenta with a whisk and turn down to a simmer and cook, stirring occasionally for about 30 minutes until the polenta is soft and creamy. Stir in the butter and cheese, add additional salt to taste. [/recipe]


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Simple homemade baked ziti is one of the most delicious, ooey-gooey cheesy, comforting recipes out there!
There's this little neighborhood pizzeria about two miles from our old house that has the best baked ziti recipe I've ever eaten.
I don't claim to be a baked ziti expert, but I know a good Italian recipe when I taste one.
What I love most about their baked ziti is that it's simple.
Just the right amount of fresh basil and fresh mozzarella, a sauce and ricotta ratio near to perfection, and barely a touch of their light marinara on top.
Did I mention ooey, gooey fresh mozzarella?
Over the weekend I decided to roll up my sleeves and take a stab at making baked ziti at home in one of my favorite casserole dishes.
I mean, it's not difficult, and the ingredients are really no secret.
And I, too, kept it simple—although I was lacking some of the fresh ingredients I would have preferred.
Still, we were all pleased.
By the way, my easy homemade Italian bread (made the same afternoon) went perfectly!
You're welcome.
Baked Ziti


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It has been 11 weeks since I started making actual changes where my health was concerned. It has been nearly two month since I last shared an update here on the blog but I did share a video of my December chat with my naturopathic doctor, Dr. Lisa, on our Facebook page. Now that we're two and half months into this journey I have updates and have some surprising discoveries. We're still dealing with my food issues and haven't started looking at my hormones but that will follow in the next month as I have some blood work that I will be going in for later this week.
Click here to read about why I started this journey and my issues.
Click here to read about why I decided to work with a Naturopathic Doctor.
Let's Talk About Food – Gluten, Soy, Rye and Barley Free Life
When I agreed to avoiding these foods I didn't have much hope because I felt that every ND I've met with asks me to do this and I see no results. The difference as you may recall was that this time I was asked to avoid it for 6 whole weeks. I was really good and was strict with my diet while continuing to go out and dine with friends. Most restaurants were pretty good on the gluten free knowledge but when it came to soy it was a hit or a miss. Gluten wasn't the hard thing to give up, it was soy! I know!!! Who would have thought that we have soy in EVERYTHING we eat?
At the end of 6 weeks I was super excited to report back to Dr. Lisa that I really didn't think gluten was my issue because I was CERTAIN it was soy. She smiled and asked me if the itching had stopped. YES!!! A thousand times YES! I may scratch a bit but nothing beyond a normal itch. I was so ready to go and dig my face into a fluffy croissant and told Dr. Lisa that my plan over the holidays was to test out my body's reaction to gluten and soy. While it wasn't necessarily what she would have liked for me to do, she looked forward to hearing about my experiment. She's probably going to read about it here first because I haven't met with her yet!
I didn't actually run towards the first restaurant and shove my face in noodles or baked goods, as planned. No, I took a few days and finally enjoyed a visit to T&T supermarket and a noodle bar on the same day. As you may have guessed, I mixed soy and gluten but I didn't itch but didn't feel so great either. I did my best to avoid gluten and soy as much as possible. Christmas week I started slipping back into my old ways and my mom's cooking (despite it being gluten free) wasn't helping me any. I started itching again and itching badly. My stomach didn't feel so great either.
Over the next 2 weeks I started really paying attention to my body and while I only occasionally indulged in gluten, I kept away from soy. I noticed that gluten and I were not friends but I could have a bit here and there without itching. That said, there's other issues gluten seems to be triggering for me!
What I've Learned About My Food Habits and My Body
After giving my body a 6 week break from gluten and soy (I barely seem to eat rye and barely so those didn't even come into my regular diet), I seem to have cleaned out my system and now every time I eat gluten I feel bloated and uneasy. I'm usually running straight to the bathroom after one of those meals. I am also acutely aware of my body's reaction to different foods. I now eat gluten filled products but not as an every day occurrence. My bread and noodles are gluten free and my mom bakes some delicious gluten free cakes. I also brought in gluten free bread and cake mixes, so I honestly haven't found it that hard. When I go out I'll indulge and when friends come over with treats, I indulge. However I feel rotten (but no itching). My solution to the sneak sessions is to fast for 12-15 hours and that seems to reset me nicely. I know intermittent fasting is a popular practice but I only do it from dinner to lunch and that has ensured that I don't snack beyond 11 p.m.
As for soy, my brother swapped my soy sauce with a coconut aminos and I'm so ready to bring my own sauce when I go for my next all you can eat sushi fest. Sadly most of my cooking sauces had to be dumped out and so it hasn't been easy cooking quick meals at home. I've been doing my best to avoid soy but haven't tried putting it back into my system because I'm so afraid of the itching returning. While the itching on my legs and arms have stopped and I no longer bleed, my under arms and scalp sores still exist. I'm starting to notice a bit of a co-relation with the flare ups coinciding with my gluten binges. So perhaps Dr. Lisa was right after all!
For those looking to take a break from gluten my advice is to go cold turkey but prep your pantry with substitutes. It's so easy to find frozen gluten free breads in the freezer section at your supermarket and now most places in Canada carry gluten free pastas, crackers and cake mixes. I've also discovered some great gluten and soy free bakeries in Toronto! Chris and the kids still eat gluten and I don't plan to remove anything from their diet because my issues aren't theirs. I'm simply making meals where I can EASILY substitute my gluten free products for their gluten filled ones.
Food Goals Moving Forward
I plan to be mostly gluten and soy free for the foreseeable future. I am definitely noticing a pattern when I eat those and I will admit that losing 7 pounds in the first 4 weeks of the program was a nice result. I told you weight loss was never the goal in this journey but having it come as a perk was a nice one. I'm sure I gained it all back during the Christmas holidays but losing those 7 pounds was noticeable and my stomach definitely went down as well! Sadly my period hasn't returned yet but we can deal with that in the next phase.
I would like to try giving up sugar and dairy to see if I am dairy sensitive (as many of my Instagram followers have been mentioning) but I know I won't be able to give up my cheese. I've already switch my milk to almond so that's taken care of but that cheese….ooooh cheese how I love you!
Oh by the way, I still enjoy my wine and spirits but haven't had beer since our 12 pubs of Christmas crawl when I felt SO lousy that I stopped drinking beer after the 4th spot! Only a few sips for me from now on, sadly.
Next Steps
One of Dr. Lisa's asks was for me to introduce more fruits and veggies and I am yet to do that. I am trying but it's still carbs and meats on my plate. She also wanted me to start back at the gym and like half of the population, I pushed it into the new year. My goal for the next 6 weeks is to get to the gym 2 to 3 times a week for 30 minute sessions. Even if I don't do much, I plan to get my butt in there right after school bus drop offs.
I also plan on getting my blood work updated and later this week I meet with my family doctor. She may not give me all the tests Dr. Lisa needs but she has already scheduled me for a food allergy test and hopefully she'll test me for gluten allergies and I may discover some other hidden allergies, like i did with my environmental one! I don't fully know what tests I'll have done but hopefully they'll provide some insight into my thyroid, liver and hormone conditions so we can move on to the next phase now that the itching problem has been solved.
How are you doing on your health journey? Share your stories with me! I know most of you love chatting with me via email or direct messages, so please continue to do so!


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What Comes After: The 46th New York Film Festival
We were in the storm last year. Whether it was a rampaging force of evil named Anton Chigurh, the plague of corruption that consumed the world of a fixer named Michael Clayton, or Brian DePalma's battalion of cackling hyenas, last year was all about spilling blood in America or, in some cases, to feed it. It came as little shock then to see that 2007 was one of the strongest recent years for American filmmaking. P.T. Anderson, Wes Anderson, and Todd Haynes all topped themselves while the Coen brothers, David Fincher, and Sidney Lumet reclaimed their relevance with staggering force. And that's not even mentioning Southland Tales.
Five of the films in those ranks premiered at the 45th Annual New York Film Festival. This year, perhaps expectedly, the English-speaking entries were lower in number but the quality, as witnessed so far, has been keen-eyed as always. It's only been one week and I've already taken in 13 new films, 14 if you count the newly-restored print of Max Ophuls' illustrious swan song, Lola Montes (). I'll write more about Mr. Ophuls and this majestic piece of cinema in a few weeks, but it's already obvious that no other filmmaker in attendance has anything on the German master.
If last year was all about the storm, 2008 takes on the aftermath. Considering the unnamed, doomed creatures of Herzog's Encounters at the End of the World or the world of wide-load humans and liquidated food that outlined Wall-E, sights seem to be set on the aftermath of political and sociological crimes, both psychologically and physically speaking. All this, and we haven't even breached Fernando Meirelles' sporadic Blindness nor, more importantly, John Hillcoat's much-anticipated adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Perhaps we're not yet prepared to fully delve into the wasteland of what the last eight years have brought us here in America but, across the ocean, several filmmakers are revisiting past political atrocities and finding inarguable relevance.
The most substantial and brilliant of these works thus far has been Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir (). This 'animated documentary' tracks the director's slowly-reforming remembrances of his times during the Lebanon War, specifically what hand, if any, he played in the Sabra and Shatila Massacre, in which approximately 3,000 Palestinians were slaughtered by Christian Phalangists in West Beirut after the assassination of Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel. Perception and memory are the key components to Folman's austere work, and by animating the tales of his comrades, he visually remarks on his own inability to fully remember what happened in the refugee camps. Director of animation Yani Goodman's mixture of Flash, classic, and 3D animation liquefies Folman's experiences into a menagerie of surreal set pieces and wartime necrosis, complimented by Max Richter's propulsive score, Israeli pop tunes, and PiL's 'This is Not A Love Song.'
Not unlike Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly, the argument might be made that the animation could have been done away with, that it subverts the violence. This might be true if Bashir was simply a war film, but this would disregard Folman's central rumination. The filmmaker's hallucinatory nightmare means to cogitate how we view war just as much as the immeasurable dread manifested in the wake of war. Essential and furious, Waltz with Bashir hasn't left my thoughts since its mid-day screening last week, and it's unquestionably one of the best films of this year.
Horrors of a different color loom in Tony Manero (), the second film from Chilean director Pablo Larrain. The title, which comes from John Travolta's character's name in Saturday Night Fever, also serves as the alias of Raul (stage actor Alfredo Castro in a blazing performance), a low-life nobody who dreams of mounting a small stage reinterpretation of the '70s disco classic. Raul beats the elderly to death, lusts after his girlfriend's daughter, and spends a dubious amount of time watching Travolta in a local movie house. Set in 1978 Santiago, Manero manifests the terror state developed by dictator Augusto Pinochet and the obsession over American culture that meant to subvert the corrosive world the General sustained from the early '70s until 1990. It's a coal-black dark comedy that hits its caustic peak when Raul defecates on the pristine Manero suit recently purchased by Goyo, the man who loves his would-be daughter-in-law.
The antithesis of Larrain's handheld wasteland, art-world staple Stephen McQueen took no time announcing his cinematic talents with Hunger (), a highly-aestheticized dramatic account of IRA figurehead Bobby Sands' hunger strike inside the infamous Maze prison of Northern Ireland in 1981. Shot brilliantly by Sean Bobbitt (Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland, The Situation), the filmmaker doesn't even introduce Sands (the excellent Michael Fassbender of 300 fame) until halfway through the proceedings, beginning instead with the introduction of incarcerated IRA members Davey Gillen and Gerry Campbell and prison guard Raymond Lohan (a brilliantly under-expressive Stuart Graham) during Sands' Blanket and No-Wash protests.
Gillen and Campbell's cell, covered with excrement, piles of disregarded food and homemade levees used to funnel urine into the cell-block, is just the first of many areas in which McQueen studies the body in its most radical use. Punctuated by audio snippets of Margaret Thatcher's thoughts on 'political crime,' Hunger forgoes dramatic weight, opting instead for an elongated discussion on belief between Sands and Father Moran (Liam Cunningham) in a single static shot, enlivened only by speech and lingering swirls of cigarette smoke. Fassbender's emaciated body becomes the dramatic equivalent of Sands' corpse: the last bastion of revolution in a country that's never been known to go quietly.
Cultural schisms of the psychological kind have been just as plentiful as those of the physical, none more celebrated than Laurent Cantet's Palme D'Or winner The Class (). Set in Paris, Cantet adapts sections of François Bégaudeau's Entre les Murs, the writer's memoir about his years working as a teacher in an inner-city junior high
school, and placed Bégaudeau as his central character. Using real students, Cantet and Bégaudeau have created a very entertaining contemplation on modern education and school politics. Focusing on a single school year, Cantet derives drama from the simplest of confrontations: a student's possible expulsion over behavior, another over his mother's pending deportation and his own imbroglio stemming from calling two students 'skanks.' The camera hardly ventures outside the school, regulating personal lives only to small bursts of gossip and whispers. Not content to paint Bégaudeau as a saint in a land of savages, the filmmaker allows for a more fertile debate over the relevance of classic education.
Similar assimilation becomes the dividing factor among three siblings deciding what to do with the art collection of their departed mother in Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours (). Played dutifully by Charles Berling, Juliette Binoche, and Jeremie Renier, the siblings agree to sell off a good portion of their mother's belongings while donating a few key pieces to the Musée d'Orsay but not without dissent from Frederic (Berling), the eldest offspring. Frederic stays in France while his sister moves to New York City to become an art-world name and his brother becomes a corporate supervisor for Puma Sneakers in Asia. There's a breezy, steady tone to Assayas' film that hasn't graced the versatile director in some time; it's his strongest work since the acidic demonlover. Nevertheless, Hours has a hard time locating the urges that lead Francs away from their homeland, but it's a well-paced, genuinely fascinating work that means to question the weight of familial history versus national culture, especially when considering the dilapidated state of the latter.
Another fascinating exercise in cultural displacement, Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo's Night and Day () stands as the director's most ambitious work to date. Too long by a solid 20 minutes or so, Sang-soo's latest follows Kim Sung-nam (Kim Yeong-ho), a painter who flees for France after a friend rats him out about some marijuana use. For a director who has often been compared to Woody Allen and, more rightly, Eric Rohmer, France holds a myriad of classic visuals but Sang-soo's film stays faithfully dialectical, detouring from his characters only at the most arbitrary of moments. Sung-nam slowly strays from his wife back in South Korea with a young artist named Yu-jeong (Park Eun-hye), who he obsesses about for most of this epic-length anti-romance. Women manipulate, men act like morons and the streets of Paris never looked so claustrophobic. Sang-soo handles the common misdeeds and anxieties of life with blunt honesty and beguiling delicacy.
Jia Zhang-ke's exquisite 24 City () continues the auteur's 13-odd-year run as China's leading practitioner of metaphysical film objects. The latest follows the demolition of Factory 420 of the Chengfa Group as it prepares to become the titular condo high-rise. Zhang-ke documents not only the interiors and landscapes of the factory but also the workers that have scattered since its destruction, ghosts rising from the graveyard of their one-time employer. Using both actors and real workers, the filmmaker investigates the Maoist notions that correlate with the lifetimes that have been built into the factory, hitting its heartbreaking peak as a woman describes her history of being the factory's 'Little Flower,' a name given because of her resemblance to Joan Chen. The joke is that it is actually Chen in the role. Punctuated by lines from W.B. Yeats, himself a figure of organized workers, 24 City solidifies Zhang-ke's rank as one of the modern masters of his craft.
The biggest disappointment of the festival so far, though by no means a true debacle, has been Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata (), a transitional work that steps away from the Japanese director's spectral, frightening oeuvre to study domestic disturbances very much in the real. The central intrigue of this drama, which follows a family's disintegration after the patriarch is downsized, is the procedure of a dinner prepared by the mother. The eldest son joins the American military, the youngest reveals a prodigious ability with the piano, and the mother, after an outburst at said dinner, goes road-tripping with a thief. Kurosawa basically invented J-horror and venturing away shows ambition, and for most of the film, he sustains a scintillating mood of domestic tension. But with the introduction of the thief and a chance encounter with a small fortune by the father, the film trails off into fickle and erratic movements that seem out of place in a film, like Laurent Cantet's brilliant Time Out, that is about the ties that bond employment and masculinity. It's an interesting work from a stellar director but the melodramatic bumps seem unfocused in an otherwise firmly concentrated film.
All this being said, the major triumphs in the festival, with the exception of Waltz with Bashir, have been the ones seemingly unencumbered by politics and focused rather on cinematic vernacular, style, and storytelling. The most humble of this set has been Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy (), the follow-up to the New-York-based director's lovely Old Joy. As with that film, the semblance of plot is minor: Wendy (Michelle Williams) wanders around Portland trying to locate her dog Lucy while her car gets fixed for a planned trip to Alaska. She talks to a Walgreens security guard, haggles with an auto mechanic (Will Patton), and takes shelter at a gas station bathroom. Fashioned, like Joy, from a story by Jon Raymond, Wendy and Lucy is a work of quiet heartbreak that is often so modest that one forgets how contemplative and singular a director Reichardt is. Williams generates and expresses a deep inner dialogue that is never released, lending a heavy emotional tension to the film. It might be early to call, but Williams has certainly given the best screen performance that I have witnessed so far this year.
Agnes Jaoui's third feature, Let It Rain (), signals a lack of the flamboyance and intimacy that drove Jaoui's last film, the excellent Look at Me. Two would-be documentarians (Jean-Pierre Bacri and Jamel Debbouze) take it upon themselves to make a short video portrait of feminist writer and politician Agathe Villanova (Jaoui) while she visits her sister at the family home. The sisters fight, the documentarians engage in buffoonery, and the maid (Mimouna Hadji) watches in constant grief. Jaoui's eye for the countryside is still spot-on, bathing the picture in soft light and sharp laughs. But the interplay is less flavorful and the balance of storylin
es, which include Agathe's emasculated boyfriend and her sister's Sarkozy-bourgeois husband, feels off-kilter. There's a lack of purpose in all the good humor.
Where Jaoui's family squabbles dulled, the troubles of the Vuillard family in Arnaud Desplechin's magnificent A Christmas Tale () cut like a straight razor. Rambunctious in its cinematic vernacular, employing all manner of narrative and filmic theatrics, Desplechin's latest charts the happenings as the three grown children of an ailing mother (Catherine Deneuve) and their boisterous father come together for the holidays and to check whose bone marrow matches the matriarch's. Richly constructed, this ensemble piece, led by the ever-genius Mathieu Amalric as the enfant terrible middle child, is endemic of Desplechin's work so far. But, both aesthetically and narratively speaking, this is much more complex terrain.
Bearing more than a passing resemblance to The Rules of the Game, this candied bouquet of family myths and eccentricities defamiliarizes the dysfunctional family film from its quirks, playing towards more grandiose purposes. The kinetic pacing belies Desplechin's dark central themes (medicine, mortality, disease, betrayal) but a work of such brilliant concentration and versatility depends on an ambidextrous tone. And yet it's such a sustained film of intoxicated jubilee. I'll write more about this masterpiece when it gets a proper release in November but let me say that in a year that has seen Gallic cinema both sharpen its old habits and take up new ones, A Christmas Tale is the crown jewel.
Of the dozen or so film's screened within the last week, two first-time features have caught major attention from critics, if little interest from distributors. The first comes from 25-year-old native New Yorker Antonio Campos, a Fred Wiseman fanatic and graduate of both NYU and the Cannes Residency Program. Campos' stunning debut, Afterschool (), has been dismissed by some as a rip-off of Gus Van Sant's Elephant or, as one colleague put it, a remake of said film by German provocateur Michael Haneke. It'd be ignorant to dismiss the similitude between Van Sant and Campos' imagery (static, elegantly constructed compositions) but it'd be equally ignorant to dismiss Campos' irrefutable ability.
Robert (Ezra Miller), a student at an East Coast boarding school, becomes the sole witness to the violent overdose of two of the school's most popular students, twin girls from a prestigious family. An amateur-video obsessive and would-be filmmaker, Robert catches the overdose on camera but, as with Campos, has only a passing interest in blame or school politics. Opening with a chorus line of online clips that range from a giggling baby to an abusive porn site, Afterschool takes on observation and perception in an age where one can see a grainy, blurry account of everyone's experiences if they so wish. It's through a YouTube darkly for Campos' preppies and the effects are mesmerizing and often haunting.
The other selection was Tulpan (), the first narrative feature from Kazakh documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy and winner of Cannes' Un Certain Regard section this past May. Settled in the world of a family of sheep-herders, Dvortsevoy's film is sensationally naturalist and an intimate, uncomplicated look at the forge for modernity, even in a world that feels incommunicable with anything but tradition. At the center of this fable is Asa (Askhat Kuchinchirekov), a young herder who yearns for his own piece of the steppe, as well as the affections of the titular young bride who wants nothing to do with him. Amply helped by his startlingly natural cast, Dvortsevoy's film can be extremely funny at times (there's a constant gag about Asa'a enormous ears) but it is mainly a study in cultural balances and trade-offs. If the choice is between dopey reggae pop coming from Asa's buffoonish friend's busted radio or the excruciating off-key traditional singing of Asa's niece, the right answer doesn't reveal itself easily.
It's made evident that tradition has little to do with the corroded slums of Italy in Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (). Adapted from Roberto Saviano's controversial exposé of the same name, the film offers a total immersion into the lives of the slum's inhabitants, from the initiation of a young gangster to a dyad of moronic wannabe Scarfaces to a tailor who betrays his greedy boss for a job teaching a warehouse of young Chinese seamstresses and tailors. Ruthless and unsentimental, Garrone's work emphasizes a world that took all the goodies from it's history and decided against all its lessons, the result being very much in the vein of its biblical namesake. The director wisely dismisses the humanism of works such as City of God but then it also is a less focused work than Meirelles' gangland epic. Nevertheless, Gomorrah is an urgent, acerbic celluloid nightmare that speaks more to Italy's chaotic social climate than any film in recent memory.
Another restoration of sorts, Ashes of Time Redux () reclaims Hong Kong auteur Wong Kar Wai's most indecipherable work, Ashes of Time, after some key restorations, digital colorizing, and new solos from Yo Yo Ma. What once seemed like a fractured oddity in an otherwise vital career might now become a defining work, more in line with Fallen Angels and Chungking Express than Days of Being Wild and As Tears Go By. Based on Louis Cha's four-volume martial-arts novel The Eagle-Shooting Hero, this still-frenetic work contemplates a set of sword-wielding heroes and the women who love them and/or want them dead. Filled with characters who forget their loves and obsess over them in equal strides, Kar-wai's fourth effort carries all the auteur's idiosyncrasies into a desert-set period piece. It's also a film that has to be experienced, taking in Christopher Doyle's gyrating camerawork in full scope. The entire film has a whirling, cyclical nature to it, accentuated by the appearance of a huge globe of a birdcage in the center of a conspirator's lair. In its parts, Kar-wai's martial-arts whatsit remains just a stitch less cryptic than its original incarnation, but the overwhelming effect renders what was once murky now mystical.
The world is still a cold place in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky (), his follow-up to Vera Drake, but it is still redeemable. Residing in London's Finsbury Park, an ever-chipper Poppy (Sally Hawkins) teaches elementary school, goes for drinks with her girlfriends and coworkers and takes driving lessons from a latter-day punk-racist named Scott (the excellent Eddie Marsan). A romance blooms with Tim, a social worker, and a boy comes to Poppy with a report of abuse, but neither weighs heavily in Leigh's elegant narrative. In fact, little weighs heavily other than Poppy's driving lessons with Scott, a man of dire seriousness whose face is stuck on sneer. Leigh orchestrates a roll of encounters between Poppy and the odd inhabitants in and around Haringey, most effectively with a homeless derelict who might be an elderly manifestation of Johnny from Leigh's Naked.
What some might dismiss as unrealistically cheery, Poppy embodies an exact world view, one that only falters at the most extreme moments (scared by the hobo, fearful of Scott's escalating obsession). Ms. Hawkins gives a lovely, nuanced performance but more important is Leigh's lively craftsmanship. The world constructed by Leigh is one of great emotional complexity and yet the narrative moves breezily. The opening of the film, in which Poppy's bike is stolen while she's in a bookstore, nods to De Sica and for whatever else it might be, Happy-Go-Lucky strikes me as an essentially realist parable; For cynics, it might come off as an open wound in dire need of salt.
As Leigh leaned towards lighter tones, one-time Polish troublemaker Jerzy Skolimowski returned from a 17-year self-imposed cinematic exile with Four Nights with Anna (), a winsomely-composed dark comedy. A painter and poet when not directing, Skolimowski uses dour colors to enrich this exceptional piece of gloom involving an ex-con/current-cremator names Leon (Artur Steranko, a deft artist at bumbling and lurching) who becomes obsessed with Anna, the nurse who lives across the way from him. The Lodz-born director, who you might remember as Naomi Watts' uncle in David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, plays hopscotch with the timetable but the work remains exact and focused, creating less of a character portrait than a murky, perverse miasma. Forever rainy and covered in a thin veil of snow, the dreary setting provides a perfect haunt for Skolimowski's fine imagery.
An oddly lackadaisical effort from an American icon, Clint Eastwood's Changeling () seems to have earned its place as the fest's centerpiece solely on the legend of its director. Based on the Wineville Chicken-Coop Murders and the ensuing investigation that caused major embarrassment for the corrupt LAPD, any effort to keep concentrated on this story of a missing son, his mother, and a campaign to sweep the investigation under the rug is thwarted by lead actress Angelina Jolie and her thick, rubicund lips. The transitions of this split-narrative come on like speed bumps, no thanks to a meandering script by television/comic book writer J. Michael Straczynski. Eastwood, a high artist in his use of color and tone, too often lets his camera swoon around his leading lady and the whole production smells of Oscar baiting rather than sincere revisionism. Though helped by two great supporting turns from John Malkovich as a hard-left, radio-broadcasted preacher and Jeffrey Donovan, of USA's Burn Notice, as the detective assigned to the case, Dirty Harry's '50s melodrama retread has less to do with composition than it does with pageantry.
The antithesis of Jolie's perfunctory showboating, Mickey Rourke's thumping, visceral central performance in The Wrestler () could either be considered a swan song or a resurrection of Lazarus-like proportions. The one-time Brando-to-be plays Randy 'The Ram' Robinson, a washed-up '80s wrestler who now makes minuscule dough at amateur matches, signings and extreme-fighting events. After a heart attack leads him to a job at a supermarket deli counter, Robinson attempts to patch up things with his lesbian daughter (Evan Rachel Wood) and starts a rocky relationship with a stripper (Maria Tomei in a sharp supporting turn). But as the relationships dim, a final match against his old nemesis, The Ayatollah, grows tantalizing.
Singular in vision and thoughtfully self-reflexive, this elemental, existential work is the fourth film by the otherwise spastic Darren Aronofsky, whom we last saw trying to get his metaphysics on with Hugh Jackman in The Fountain. For every narrative turn Aronofsky and screenwriter Rob Siegel could have taken, they constantly take the path of dramatic weight, and the ending, as tragic as any I've seen in the last decade, hits like a steel pipe to the chest. This is classic, classy filmmaking told through an aesthetic lens that is reminiscent of the Dardenne brothers. Fox Searchlight will release The Wrestler in mid-December and though God knows what guides an Oscar council that awards swill like Crash, I cannot foresee any other male performance making the sort of impact that Rourke's does this year.
Finally, there were two works that typified the spirit not only of the festival and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, but also the ambition of the selection committee which, as it was last year, is fronted by programming director Richard Pena, assistant programmer and Film Comment editor-at-large Kent Jones, Village Voice senior critic and columnist J. Hoberman, L.A. Times critic Scott Foundas, and Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum.
The first comes from Argentine director Lucrecia Martel, who was last seen with 2005's The Holy Girl, a film of such assured poise and atmosphere that one forgets that it was only Martel's second feature. Her latest, The Headless Woman (), is even more assured and cements Martel's status as one of the most fascinating young directors working today. Disorienting in content yet steady in its formalism, Martel's hypnotic third feature follows Veronica (an astounding performance from Maria Onetto), a woman who finds herself defamiliarized with her surroundings when she accidentally hits a dog with her car… or was it a young boy? The viewer, like Veronica, grapples with the actions of the other characters and, devoid of exposition, we ar
e relegated to a barrage of effects with no cause. Martel sets a spell of discombobulation, focusing on Onetto's blonde cloud of hair floating atop her lost head. Opening beautifully with a juxtaposition of shots of young kids playing around a canal and Veronica and her friends corralling kids into several cars, Martel's film is a work of concentrated daze, an unclassifiable trip through the ether.
But as exciting and forward-thinking as works like Woman, Waltz with Bashir, A Christmas Tale, and The Wrestler were, none of them had the concentrated power of the festival's towering giant: Che (). Bifurcated by a 30-minute intermission, Steven Soderbergh's epic anti-biopic chronicles both the Argentine Marxist's triumphant Cuba campaign and his doomed Bolivia campaign, registering in at just about five hours. Acting also as a mirror to the turmoils of guerilla filmmaking, Soderbergh opens on a quiet dinner where Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (a brooding, brilliant Benicio Del Toro) meets a cigar-smoking chap with a thin mustache named Fidel Castro (Demián Bichir, who you might know as Mary Louise-Parker's drug kingpin boyfriend from this past season of Showtime's Weeds).
A structuralist dreamscape? A hulking revolutionary procedural? Both parts of Che (the first half named The Argentine, the second Guerilla) are stubbornly didactic and stealthy in their academia. Yet, while the first half offers a more accessible template in the revolutionary's unfathomably successful Cuba campaign, the works need to be seen together to fully comprehend their cumulative philosophical/cerebral weight. Conjoined twins nipping at and lacerating each other's histories and mythologies, Che is one of those rare moments of cinema that has to be experienced fully in marathon viewing (think Bela Tarr's Satantango). Beautifully pictorial, Soderbergh's grand triumph is also a breakthrough technically: It was filmed using a prototype of the RED One, an ultra-light digital camera that brings every blue sky, swaying branch, and dust storm into peerless clarity. Thankfully, Soderbergh will unveil Che in its full glory for a 'Road Show' version that will hit all major cities in mid-December. Like few other modern films, it demands to be witnessed on the big screen.
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Captain Henry Guibor's Missouri State Guard Battery was located in this area during the first Southern assault on Bloody Hill. Guibor's four 6-pounder guns helped drive back the initial Union probe across Bloody Hill, and, as the Federals withdrew to the crest, the State Guard artillerymen fired in support of their comrades as they surged toward the Union line. During the second and third Southern assaults, Guibor's Battery was stationed west of this area (outside the current park boundary).
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A female driver was arrested after rear-ending a Metro squad car.
The crash happened around 3:15 a.m. Saturday on Lebanon Pike near the Briley Parkway exit. The officer was on the shoulder of the roadway when the driver's red sedan hit it from behind.
The driver is suspected of being intoxicated at the time of the wreck.
The officer was taken to Skyline Medical Center, but was expected to be okay. Charges have been pending.


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Tue, 31 May 2011
TT Commuter trains get underway today.
Workers from the south of the Island will be able to travel by train to Douglas whilst avoiding the TT congestion.
The services aim to have passengers into Douglas by 8.45, and heads back to the south at 5.45.
Tickets for the steam train commuter journeys are set at the same price as buses for the TT period
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In the ongoing battle against the bezel, smartphone manufacturers have been investing in various design ideas to increase screen-to-body ratio. With the Vivo NEX Dual Display Edition the idea is – as you can probably guess from the product name – to use a second screen on the rear by the cameras, thus removing the need for a front-facing camera.
Vivo – a Chinese giant, under the arm of BBK Electronics, which also owns OnePlus and Oppo – has been a front-runner of Chinese phone design. From its pop-up camera concept phone – which rapidly materialised as a on-market product, the NEX S, a mater of months later – to being the first manufacturer to utilise an in-screen fingerprint scanner in the X20, it seems poised to take its brand beyond its Chinese and limited markets position.
As a 6.39-inch device, the Vivo NEX sits alongside the likes of the Huawei Mate 20 Pro in terms of scale. That it squeezes a 5.49-inch Full HD screen onto its rear, however, is unparalleled in the industry – even the Nubia X can't match that. It ought to make for easy-to-snap selfies.
The real benefit this brings is that there's no front-facing camera, thus no notch on the front, for a screen-to-body ratio that's similar to the Honor Magic 2 or Xiaomi Mi Mix 3, making for a very screen dominant device. Those other phones are based on a slider design, however, with Vivo opting for yet another alternative idea in the quest against the notch.
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The NEX Dual Display isn't shy on the specifications front either, packing in a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, paired with 10GB RAM, alongside a trio of rear cameras (one solely used for depth detection).
We'll be at the NEX Dual Display Edition launch, on 11 December 2018 in Shanghai, China, where we'll bring you more information and our first impressions of the device once we've seen it in the flesh. Right now there's no further word on price, release date or market availability.


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Red Dead Redemption 2 System Requirements
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Sometimes, you've got to wait a little longer to get the very best and that's certainly the case with Rockstar Games' Red Dead Redemption 2 on PC. Available on the consoles in time for Christmas 2018, PC owners had to wait a full year for their iteration of RDR2 to arrive, with the Steam release scheduled even later still.
The gargantuan install size aside – you'll need 150GB of space – the fact that the original release came out on Xbox One led to the assumption that it'd run no problem on any number of more powerful PCs. Yet Rockstar has spent the extra time adding so many extras that, as we'll get to in a moment, there are some technical issues to deal with.
On the game front though, Red Dead Redemption 2 for PC includes new 'story mode' content such as extra weapons, bounty hunting missions and hideouts. It comes with free access to the multiplayer Red Dead Online as well as extra specialist roles. Simply put, all the tweaks, additions and modifications that have made this highly-acclaimed game so popular on the consoles are available on PC from day one.
Graphically, no one will be surprised that RDR2 on PC is the best-looking version. Increased draw distance, better global illumination, environmental textures, reflections and ambient occlusion and ultrawide aspect ratio across multi-monitor support offer an unparalleled level of immersion. Plus there's that unlocked frame rate too.
Yet, as it turns out, so many improvements have taken a bite out of Red Dead Redemption 2's frame rate. Shortly after the game's release, Nvidia announced that even its high-performing GeForce RTX 2080 Ti graphics card couldn't give you RDR2 at 4K and 60 frames per second. Nvidia suggests that rendering at a lower resolution, either 3264x1836 or 2880x1620, then upscaling to 4K will give you a sizeable performance improvement with only a minimal reduction in image clarity, while the company also dropped a day-zero patch to help all of its users.
Speaking of patches, the PC release was marred by a large number of players simply unable to get the game going, followed by a frantic scramble by Rockstar Games to understand what the problem is. We assume that, with enough time, this will be fixed. We'll keep you posted on this.
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July 4, 2019 (Mass Resistance) – Have you ever wondered what REALLY goes on at "gay" high school and middle school clubs and other "youth pride" programs for schoolchildren? We're constantly told that it's all about tolerance, anti-bullying, "AIDS education," and especially feeling "safe." We're told that we must trust the adults running these events – who are unsupervised and lacking background checks. Virtually all of these programs take place at schools or offsite locations where parents (and the public) are easily excluded.
The short answer is: It's a nightmare – and it's anything but "safe" for children!
'Teen Pride' event planned at a public library
But on Saturday, June 22, the local LGBT groups in Renton, Washington scheduled a "Teen Pride" event at the local public library.
In early June when some parents in Renton first noticed the library promotion for the "Teen Pride" event, they were very worried. Among other things, it advertised "safer sex presentations" and a "drag show," as well as an introduction for kids to local LGBT organizations. They also were shocked that it was advertised for "teens and tweens." This can include children as young as nine years old and as old as 19.
Of course, there's no way this was "designed by teens." It's all adult driven.
The parents contacted MassResistance for help, and our Washington MassResistance chapter got right to work. The parents first wanted to protest the event. But instead, we told them that the best thing would be to get inside and take photos and video of what happens. They agreed, and we worked with them on planning for that.
In the days leading up to June 22, as word of the event spread, there arose a big pro-family push to force the library to cancel it. In particular, The Activist Mommy Elizabeth Johnston asked her thousands of followers to call and email the library – resulting in a flood of phone calls. But the library refused to relent.
Instead, one of the library employees contacted the Antifa chapter in Seattle and urged them to take action against the local parents opposing it. We've already seen that Antifa makes it a point to attack parents who protest Drag Queen Story Hours. Maybe it reflects their own dysfunctional backgrounds, but individual Antifa activists seem very obsessed with protecting those who push homosexuality and other kinds of deviant behavior on children.


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It's the middle of winter and you want something decadent for a weekend breakfast, but it's too cold and rainy and let's face it — depressing, to go out. Spring is but a few weeks away but until then, you need something to cheer you up. Adapted from Bon Appetit, I made this easy one-skillet brunch one morning when it was blissfully sunny enough to sit outside and take in the vitamin D. If you stare hard enough, the egg sort of looks like the sun. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I served this with Iranian barbari bread to soak up the creamy tomato sauce, but any flatbread will work just fine.
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 garlic clove, thinly sliced
1 sprig rosemary
1 15-ounce can chickpeas, rinsed
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon paprika
3/4 cup heavy cream
2 eggs
4 thin slices of prosciutto
Flatbread, for serving
1. Heat oil in a medium skillet over medium. Cook garlic and rosemary, stirring frequently, until garlic is golden brown and rosemary crisps up slightly but isn't browned, about 30 seconds for rosemary and 2 minutes for garlic. Transfer rosemary to a plate.
2. Add chickpeas, tomato paste, and paprika to skillet and cook, stirring often, until coated, about 2 minutes. Mix in cream, season with salt and lots of pepper, and bring to a simmer.
3. Crack eggs into chickpea mixture and season them with salt. Cover and cook until white parts of eggs are set but yolks are still runny, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat and drape prosciutto around eggs. Crumble rosemary on top. Serve warm with flatbread.


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Michelle Obama wore McQueen to a state dinner in Washington, and Oscar de la Renta disapproves. Obama is the only first lady in the last 30 years that de la Renta hasn't dressed, and at this rate, he won't be dressing her ever! De la Renta seems to think that the first lady should have chosen an American or Chinese designer to wear to the dinner that was meant to honor and stimulate American-Chinese trade relations.
"My understanding is that the visit was to promote American-Chinese trade — American products in China and Chinese products in America," the designer told WWD. "Why do you wear European clothes?"
Hmm, we might disagree. Sure, we kind of see his point, but we also think that politics and fashion, while often intertwined, are also separate matters. A great dress is a great dress and shouldn't necessarily be taken as a sign of the political milieu. Plus, Michelle looked great in the McQueen frock. We think she wears enough diverse designers that it shouldn't matter who she wears to any specific event. What do you think?