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Maltodextrin is a sugar, specifically a polysaccharide that breaks down into glucose as it is digested, and so the most widespread maltodextrin side effects are the same as those associated with excessive sugar consumption, such as weight gain, obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes.
While maltodextrin consumption doesn't cause these health problems by itself, it's presence in the food we eat can contribute to them. Sugar consumption is at an all-time high in the standard American diet, and is increasing in other parts of the world as well. The addition of maltodextrin to processed foods is just one more way that additional sugar enters ours diets.
Individuals with diabetes, celiac disease, or allergies to particular starches should be wary regarding their consumption of maltodextrin. Dangers include insulin spikes and possible reactions to gluten or other substances that could be present in minute amounts in the food additive. If you have any of these ailments, it's generally a good idea to avoid eating processed foods altogether.
There are many anecdotal reports online and elsewhere of people experiencing maltodextrin side effects, however, there are no peer-reviewed studies that specifically confirm maltodextrin intolerance or malabsorption. Since maltodextrin is a complex carbohydrate made up of chains of glucose, these people may be experiencing some type of carbohydrate intolerance or malabsorption, either of maltodextrin itself or of other carbohydrates, such as sorbitol, fructose, raffinose, or galactose, which can often be found in the same processed foods as maltodextrin.
Carbohydrate intolerance or malabsorption is common in infants and young children, but many adults also experience carbohydrate intolerance, with acquired lactose intolerance being the most common.
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As a food additive, pure maltodextrin is designated "Generally Recognized as Safe," by the FDA. You often see this designation abbreviated as GRAS. However, GRAS does not mean that maltodextrin is a healthy, nutritional addition to our food.
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After sliding lower for most of the day, stocks bounced at the end of trade, and finished the day in the green. Why the huge reversal of fortune?
The Fast Money pros largely believe a turn in Apple provided the catalyst that buoyed the entire market into the green.
Apple finished its best day in five months after Goldman Sachs said now is the time to buy Apple stock.
n a note the firm called Apple "oversold," and said to expect a big bounce back to end the year.
"A lot of folks were significantly short of both Apple and the market," added OptionMonster Jon Najarian. "And the Goldman note sent the shorts scrambling. It turned things pretty dramatically."
Looking at the technicals, Apple results due on Thursday October 25th after the bell, could make or break the market. The S&P 500 closed on Monday just below its 50-day moving average of 1,434 - seen as a strong support level.
In case you're wondering, Goldman has a "buy" rating on the stock and a price target of $810.
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April 18th, 2013, 11:28 am by Ryan KartjeRedshirt sophomore nose tackle Brandon Tuliaupupu, who had split first-team snaps with Seali'i Epenesa this spring, will likely miss most, if not all, of the 2013 season after a freak, non-contact injury on Wednesday resulted in a torn ACL.
Tuliaupupu's torn ACL is the first serious injury to hit UCLA this spring, while mostly minor injuries have sidelined a handful of players. Those minor injuries, however, added up on Thursday, forcing the Bruins to go padless for the team's second morning practice of the week.
Without Tuliaupupu in the fold, and fellow nose tackle Ellis McCarthy also sidelined with an injury, UCLA has just one healthy nose tackle available in Epenesa. Head Coach Jim Mora did mention that redshirt freshmen defensive end Eli Ankou -- listed at 6-3, 290 pounds -- will get some work in at the position.
"It's really unfortunate," Mora said of Tuliaupupu's injury. "Boy, he was doing a really good job for us, too. The competition between him and Epenesa was outstanding. I think it makes it all the more important that Ellis come back strong, and we can put him at nose."
Injuries have hit UCLA especially hard on both lines and in the defensive backfield, while other position groups have remained relatively healthy so far in the spring. At wide receiver, however, one injured Bruin had a "setback" on Wednesday night.
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Still, the very fact that taking this liberal stance may jeopardise Tsvangirai's position in the upcoming elections is unacceptable. I've heard it expressed by people that the reason Mugabe has retained power for so long is that God placed him there because of his strong homophobic stance, so that legislation protecting gay rights could not be passed in Zimbabwe. So what this means basically is that God, in all his mercy would rather see thousands brutally assaulted and killed and millions more suffering under the yoke of oppression than allow gays the rights to live their lives in peace and without fear of legally backed hatred. Not only is that morally reprehensible, it is despicable, and no loving god would ever do such a thing.
But of course, God is simply people's projection of such people's own psyche, possessing their prejudices, and such moral paradoxes are the simple proof of this fact. If people could look beyond such dogma, superstition and close-mindedness and base their morality on a common respect and compassion for their fellow man the world would be a much sweeter place for all.


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The Age of Rebirth: The Turtles
Out of darkness sprang new life. It came in the form of the Renaissance. The Renaissance gave a breath of fresh air into art. It fostered scientific knowledge, humanism and nostalgia for the classics. It began in Italy, around the 1400s, and eventually caught fire and spread to the rest of Europe by the 16th century. However, today's blog will be focusing on the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," or more commonly known as a few of the Italian Renaissance masters: Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael.
The Renaissance gave way to more realistic and naturalistic forms of art. Through their scientific and technical approach to art, artists achieved new heights in both their status as artists and in the quality and prestige in the art they made. Their use of oil paints on stretched canvas, perspective, chiaroscuro (the use of light and shadow) and the pyramid configuration were all innovations and breakthroughs that made representing reality a possibility.
First up, we have Donatello. Donatello (1386-1466) was an Early Renaissance sculptor. He laid the groundwork in recapturing what the Greeks and Romans did in sculpting: presenting the human figure in a more realistic way. He used the Classical technique of contrapposto (weight shift) in his figures. His sculptures were life-like in scale and in look. It was almost if they had a skeletal system under all that stone. Then Donatello created his "David." It was the first freestanding nude sculpture since the Classical period. It is anatomically accurate and life-sized. This is what set the fascination with realistic sculptures in motion.
Next, we have Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Everyone knows this mad genius: an engineer, an inventor, an artist and a true Renaissance man. In fact, he is considered the Renaissance man. He is an artist of the High Renaissance. He left more than just art behind when he died, he left a whole slew of inventions, creations and most of all, he left behind a way of thinking. His most famous art piece is, hands down, the" Mona Lisa." The "Mona Lisa" in many ways set the standard of Renaissance portraiture. The subject, the woman, is no one important as suggested by her costume. But, what it lacks in "wealth," it is makes up for with feeling and realism. Away with the stiff portraiture of noble women. Welcome the enigmatic smile, the relaxed and natural pose, and the anatomically accurate figure that is the "Mona Lisa." Hello to Michelangelo (1475-1564). Or shall we call him the Divine M. Michelangelo believed sculptors were the most godlike. They are able to liberate beings from the marble that traps them. He always carved his sculptures from one block of marble. This is an absolutely difficult task, as the risk of fracturing and cracking becomes greater and greater as you near the end of chiseling. Most sculptors would sculpt pieces of the statue from different stone and then assemble it all into one, but Michelangelo would never do that. Michelangelo is written as a brooding and solitude-seeking individual. He was always trying to become better and better. He knew no limits. You can see all the glory that is Michelangelo in his "Pieta." Look at how Christ's body drapes over the Virgin Mary. This sculpture is in a pyramidal composition with the Virgin Mary echoing Classical idealisms. To offset the brooding Michelangelo, we have the adored Raphael (1483-1520). Raphael was definitely a lady's man—constantly trying to please his fans. If he were in high school today, he would definitely be awarded with the superlative of "Most Popular." Raphael is the culmination of all that is the High Renaissance. He used the pyramidal composition, played with shadows and light, and imparted dynamisms into all his figures. He was wildly successful and hordes of people worshipped the ground he walked. His most prominent work is the "School of Athens." It is balanced, well thought out, dynamic and fuses paganism and Christianity. And just for fun, see if you can figure out who inspired that brooding fellow leaning on a hunk of marble.You can reach the blogger at firstname.lastname@example.com


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"Kramer vs. Kramer" reworked in a very contemporary Japanese fashion, "Quartet for Two" covers pretty familiar territory but finds ways to make it fresh and interesting. What starts out as a fairly bitter look at a failing marriage becomes uncommonly quirky and lively before the end.
"Kramer vs. Kramer" reworked in a very contemporary Japanese fashion, "Quartet for Two" covers pretty familiar territory but finds ways to make it fresh and interesting. What starts out as a fairly bitter look at a failing marriage becomes uncommonly quirky and lively before the end. This fourth feature directed by actor Naoto Takenaka, who is best-known internationally for his hilarious turn as the dedicated hoofer in "Shall We Dance?" (1996), should do solid business in Japan and, at least, merits small-screen exposure in other territories.
The unusual thing about the Sasaki family, especially in the Japanese context, is the fact that Shotaro (Takenaka) is a house-husband, while his elegant wife, Minako (Yuki Amami) heads the design department of a large construction company. The Sasakis have two children, Mari (the film debut of popular teen model Keika Fukitsuka) and Toru (Yuta Amami). Their problems begin when Shotaro and Toru are visiting the local noodle bar. An anguished woman, the wife of one of Minako's employees, has hired a private detective to provide photographic proof that her husband and Minako are having an affair. Thoroughly humiliated, Shotaro confronts his wife and the result is a flaming row during which he hits her. She decides to file for divorce. Toru, who saw the photos, sides with his father in the dispute; Mari, who has been rehearsing a piano duet with her mother that they plan to perform at an upcoming recital, isn't so sure. Having established the basic plot, Takenaka proceeds to develop it along quite unexpected lines. He makes his own character a surprisingly feminine one, a typical "housewife," in fact, who usually wears an apron around the house. But there's something a little off-center about most of the characters in the film, just about all of whom sing or hum tunes to themselves, and behave in other odd ways. On the bus (Shotaro can't drive a car), just about everyone is sleeping. Pic culminates with the much-anticipated recital in which Minako and Mari will perform. Although the comedy is a trifle forced at times, on the whole Takenaka's penchant for the unexpected works delightfully. Pic could stand a little pruning, but it's an amiable and brightly packaged entertainment, charmingly acted by the four principals.Quartet For Two
A Shochiku Co. production. (International sales: Shochiku, Tokyo.) Produced by Hideshi Miyajima, Toshiaki Harada, Yasutaka Otsuka, Tomiyasu Ishikawa, Tsutomu Takano. Directed by Naoto Takenaka. Screenplay, Maruo Kyozuka.
Camera (color), Yasushi Sasakibara; editor, Yoshiyuki Okuhara; production designer, Iwao Saito; sound, Mineharu Kitamura. Reviewed at Berlin Film Fest (Forum), Feb. 13, 2001. Running time: 104 MIN.
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The greatest advertising opportunity of the year, aka the Super Bowl, is over, and one highly priced team of players beat another highly priced team of players. But as always, it's the ads everyone is talking about anyway, and this year, Hollywood dropped a bunch of cash hoping to lure football lovers to theaters over the next few months.
It's the blockbuster movies that tend to be the splashiest, and this year is no different. Universal continues to shamelessly push "Battleship" as "Transformers 4: Rihanna Vs The Space Aliens" and we can't blame them. Everything from the sound effects to the color palette to the creature design wreaks of the Hasbro franchise, but it still remains to be seen if this is worth getting wet over. Meanwhile, Disney positioned "John Carter" as an "Avatar" meets "Dune" meets 'The Phantom Menace' sort of thing, to middling effect. For all its epic scope, we still have no idea what that movie is about.
Winning the prize for best movie trailer is Marvel, whose one-minute spot for "The Avengers" is pretty goosebump raising. Yes, it's kind of ridicuous and still looks a bit overstuffed, but you gotta admit, that 360 shot of the the superhero team standing shoulder-to-shoulder is pretty badass, as is Hulk leaping over Manhattan skyscrapers. Good work, marketing team.
In other ads vying for your attention: "21 Jump Street" drops another tease for the highly buzzed comedy; "Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance" continues to look atrocious; "Act of Valor" nails the patriotic flag waving vibe they're going for; and "The Lorax" probably impressed kids and baffled Vampire Weekend fans. Meanwhile, Chrysler coralled Clint Eastwood for a pretty moving spot that will melt even the most cynical of hearts. And in a final related note, "Battleship" director Peter Berg also helmed that fucking weird "The Voice" ad that for some reason includes Betty White. Enough with Betty White America!
In case you missed it, click on the titles for "G.I. Joe: Retaliation" and "The Dictator" for their game day spots. Watch the rest below, and drink some Pepto Bismol before you go to bed.


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Laser Radials - Australian Laser National Championship 2012 Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron
Australian Laser National Championship 2012 day five, in Manly, was held in tricky conditions which lead to exciting racing.
The top three places in the Laser Standard are heating up after a shifty and unpredictable day on the water at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron. The wind from the south east was eight to 12 knots shifting through 40 degrees.
Ashley Brunning is making a comeback after a few disastrous races earlier in the series with two race wins today. 'Patience was really important today,' Brunning said of the conditions. 'I think I just found a little bit of mojo. Sometimes you find a little bit of it and you get a good feel for the equipment and what's around. When I found it I was as good in terms of speed as Tom Burton and we had some pretty tight races. I got back to that really good confident feeling I had on day one.'
Tom Burton sailed one of his drops today with a seventh and second which was enough to keep him in first place overall for now. 'With the second drop coming in tomorrow I think Ash has got another big one to discard. When he drops that he may take the lead. Ryan Palk is there as well so it will be a three way battle for the top spot.'
'My starts weren't good, that's what killed me. It was tricky out there. You had to be at the right spot at the right time,' Burton said.
In the Radial Gold Fleet overall standings were turned upside down with some of the leaders dropping back and some new boats entering the top five spots. Tristan Brown continues to lead the fleet, even with a 13th and second place, after closest competitor Jeremy O'Connell had a terrible day scoring 21st and ninth (O'Connell is carrying a DNF from the second day).
'The first race was really tough, there was two really big wind shifts,' Brown said.
'The first upwind there was one to the right then later in the race there was a massive one to the left. I was stuck on the wrong side of both of them and was buried in the pack but luckily most of the other tops guys except Mark Spearman were behind me so that turned out alright in the end. I was constantly catching up but there wasn't enough race to catch up anymore. It's all pretty close still. I just have to try to sail two good ones so I can get rid of the 13th.'
O'Connell was disappointed about his day but is hoping tomorrow will be more successful. 'Pretty tough day. I ended up with two really deep scores. I couldn't figure out a pattern out there. I'll see what I can do tomorrow. Just have to go out there and sail my best.'
Mark Spearman moved into second place overall by continuing his consistent sailing with two fifth places. 'It's much harder now we're into Gold Fleet.' Spearman is looking good to win the Junior division in the Radials.
Australian Sailing Team member Krystal Weir had a good and bad day with a 19th and a first moving her up to third overall. 'It's all open now because the racing was so tricky and difficult. We'll see what happens tomorrow.' Weir said.
Jack Felsenthal feels he has the Laser 4.7 National Championship won with 16 points separating him and second place Benjamin Knoop. After dominating the fleet again with two first places, Felsenthal is looking forward to next week's OAMPS Insurance Brokers Australian Youth Championship also being held at the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron.
'I've pretty well got it wrapped up,' Felsenthal said. 'I don't think I have to sail tomorrow so I am pretty happy about that. It's been a good regatta. I've worked pretty hard to get this far and it's great to win it. I'm having fun out there.'
Knoop hopes to maintain his second spot with eight places separating him from Megan Darby in
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Last month, the state Board of Private Investigators and Private Security Agencies voted to suspend all registrations it had approved previously for school employees in 13 school districts to serve as armed security guards. The board acted after Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said in an Aug. 1 advisory opinion that the board could not legally authorize school employees to carry guns on campus.
The panel heard appeals of the suspensions Wednesday, and though the attorney general's office maintained its position that schools cannot arm their personnel under current law, the board voted to rescind the suspensions and allow all 13 districts previously approved for such programs to proceed for two years and let the Legislature in 2015 consider the issue.
"The Legislature's going to have to make some kind of change, some kind of accommodations for a public entity to register their employees as security officers," the board's chairman, Ralph Sims, told reporters after Wednesday's board meeting.
The attorney general said in his opinion last month, which was requested by a state legislator, that a state law allows the board to authorize private businesses to train and arm security guards but that school districts are governmental entities, not private businesses, so the law does not apply to them.
Some districts have been arming a small number of employees for years with the board's authorization, but the law came under scrutiny after the Clarksville School District received national media attention for its plan to arm about 20 teachers and staff starting this fall. The district spent about $70,000 to train and equip employees as security guards, only to have its program blocked just days prior to the beginning of the school year.
Presenting his appeal to the board on Wednesday, Clarksville Superintendent David Hopkins said, "We felt like we did our due diligence in trying to ensure before we moved forward that we had checked with all the necessary people to move forward."
Lake Hamilton Superintendent Steve Anderson and Cutter-Morning Star Superintendent Nancy Anderson both testified that they could not afford to replace their armed employees with an equal number of school resource officers.
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Ten weeks into the 2012 NFL season, Colin Kaepernick's life changed. The San Francisco 49ers starting veteran quarterback, Alex Smith, left a game against the Saint Louis Rams with a concussion. 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh brought Kaepernick, who up until that point had served as a backup quarterback typically relied upon to run wildcat offense plays, in for Smith. And in a decision that stunned many NFL pundits, Harbaugh kept Kaepernick in that starting position throughout the 49ers' remaining regular season games, throughout the NFL playoffs and into Super Bowl XLVII. Smith's injury and Harbaugh's trust in his young quarterback not only served as the springboard furthering Kaepernick's career, but launched his endorsement opportunities to new heights.
Since playing in Super Bowl XLVII, Kaepernick has signed a number of endorsement deals. In April, he was at MusclePharm's Colorado headquarters to shoot a commercial. Today, Jaguar launched a global marketing campaign in support of the launch of the Jaguar F-TYPE model. Featured alongside Jaguar's first new true sports car model in over 50 years during a series of vignettes aired on 's Sports Center, was none other than Kaepernick.
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Growing up in Turlock, , Kaepernick's family instilled in him the importance of setting goals to achieve one's full potential in life. The instillation of this value into Kaepernick at a young age is demonstrated by a prophetic letter he wrote to himself in fourth-grade. In the letter, the young Kaepernick wrote, "I hope I go to a good college in football Then go to the pros and play on the niners or the packers even if they aren't good in seven years [sic]." Development of specific goals at an early age is a factor Kaepernick credits for his current success. "Setting goals--whether it be going to college or working in a particular industry--is good, because it gives you something to strive for. If you're going to strive for something, why not strive for something great? Having those goals kept my mind focused on what I wanted to do. It was in the back of my mind and something I was focused on. Everyday when I woke up, it was something I worked towards," he explained.
While Kaepernick has achieved his childhood goal of playing for the 49ers, he continues to move forward in working to achieve new goals. These days, his goals are focused on one achievement: Winning the Super Bowl. "My goal now is to be a Super Bowl champion–that's the number one goal. We were close last year, but close isn't good enough. I've been training and doing everything I can to get my drops cleaner, be one step faster on the field, become more accurate and improve my mental game," Kaepernick said.Another goal on Kaepernick's short list these days, is growing his personal brand. However, with his recent rise to fame, he has the help of others to rely upon in achieving this goal. "There have been a lot of opportunities that have arisen, especially with how well we did in the playoffs and in making it to the Super Bowl. Right now, we are just trying to make sure the opportunities we take advantage of are things that fit me." While his agency largely assists in seeking out and negotiating endorsement opportunities for Kaepernick, he is an active participant in determining which opportunities to pursue and accept. "For me, I look for things that when the offer comes my way, I feel like it fits me. For instance, working with MusclePharm was a very easy deal for me to sign, because I have been using their product for the last two years," he noted.In building his personal brand, Kaepernick notes that he sees it as being "different." "It's not something that fits any certain mold. It's like my personality–there is a little bit of everything behind it. I don't want to be seen as just a preppy boy or a hip-hop type of person or a country guy. I want to be able to cross a lot of different demographics, so there are a lot of people who can associate with what I do."
It is likely that Kaepernick will achieve his goal of entering various demographics. Major and prestigious companies are clamoring to work with him. And it's for good reason. "Colin Kaepernick is a young, successful and ambitious athlete that really embodies the type of customer we see driving the all-new Jaguar F-TYPE. Colin is the new rising star on the football scene and people want to know more about him," said Jaguar North America's communications manager, Joe Torpey.
Given his track record of reaching the goals he sets out to achieve, Kaepernick is not only likely to be gracing television screens frequently in commercials, but will likely give 49ers fans another Super Bowl victory to celebrate.


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Petals Around the RoseLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.You roll five dice. The computer calculates the score. Your job is to find out what the computer based the score on.
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Will she not be modeling ever again? Is this certain? Can someone reply please?
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Cute fun set, but a girl knows only after they see the photo's if they want to do that kind of modeling. Chelsea will be missed.
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I want to see her gorgeous feet and soles!
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It's Monday, March 24, 2014. Only NOW have I come across the stunning sets of Chelsea Dawson...and shame on me. [laughs]
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I'm the photographer and I only shoot for Zishy. I think people just need to be less uptight.
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Maybe if the photographer had taken them down after seeing this isnt the image she wanted they would probably shoot again and not for this type of site. no?
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For many girls on the site, this is as edgy as they'd ever model. And often it is difficult to get them to do it again!
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I'm not dissing her at all, but that's odd coming from someone who wants to model for VS. It's a HUGE shame that she won't work with you again, but I wish her the very best. She will be missed tremendously.
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From what I understand, these are probably too provocative for her.
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By that do you mean that she's given up on modeling in general or that she'll never do just nude or semi-nude modeling again?
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I doubt you'll ever be able to see any photos like this of her anywhere, EVER. Totally unfortunate.
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I was in Memphis last Thursday-Sunday for St. Jude Radiothon Seminar. Each year they bring in a surprise guest motivational speaker. We always try to guess who it is but they keep it top secret until they introduce the person. We've had country star Wynonna, ice skater Scott Hamilton, St. Louis Cardinals coach Tony La Russa, war heroes, sports heroes, movie producers and many others. This year it was another sports hero; Joe Theismann. Ok,I said, so who is Joe Theismann?….he must be someone really cool because all the guys in the room are cheering obnoxiously!! Maybe you don't now him either but you should. Mr. Theismann walks out and begins to speak; he's a larger than life guy with lots of energy and great stories.
Mr. Theismann is a former quarterback for the NFL's Washington Redskins. He graduated from Notre Dame in 1971 (that's the year I was born maybe that's why I didn't know him). He is a Super Bowl champ, Pro Bowl MVP, entrepreneur, former ESPN commentator and now works for the NFL Network. He does charity work for children's health and welfare. That is what led him to St. Jude Children's Hospital. Joe donates all of his website autograph fees to the hospital. Yes, he charges for his autograph but 100% of the money goes to helping find cures for catastrophic childhood diseases. He had us all laughing at his football stories and even let a couple of lowly dj's in the audience try on his huge Superbowl ring. He was a great motivational speaker and has great compassion for children and St. Jude. It's nice to see guys like this donate their time and money to help children.
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Angel Heart: Blu-ray
Alan Parker
Mickey Rourke, Lisa Bonet, Robert De Niro, Charlotte Rampling
DVD release date: 24 Nov 2009
Graft the Faust plot onto a traditional film noir, set it in 1955, then cast Mickey Rourke as a hard-boiled detective, Lisa Bonet as a voodoo priestess, and Robert De Niro as the devil, and you get Angel Heart, Alan Parker's masterful 1987 supernatural thriller.
Lou Cyphre (De Niro) hires Harry Angel (Rourke) to find crooner Johnny Favorite, who owes a debt to Cyphre. In the tradition of the noir detective who gets in over his head Angel, who works mostly on divorce cases, agrees to take the missing person job only when Cyphre offers him a fee he can't refuse. The search for Favorite takes the disheveled gumshoe from Harlem to New Orleans, and out of his familiar world of infidelity investigations into the sphere of murder and occult ritual. Corpses begin accumulating almost immediately, since Angel's informants exhibit the disturbing tendency to turn up dead shortly after he interviews them.
A lead takes Angel out of the city into rural Louisiana, where he finds Epiphany Proudfoot (Bonet), daughter of one of Favorite's lovers, and, like her mother, an adept in voodoo rites. Angel discovers that the debt Favorite owes Cyphre is no less than his immortal soul, which he traded for fame, and plot strands are neatly tied up in a revelation scene presided over by Cyphre.
Rourke, in one of his best performances, plays Angel's combination of world-weariness and naiveté perfectly. He's blowing a bubble and smoking a cigarette when we first see him, he mispronounces his client's name, he never misses the opportunity to help a stranger (early in the film he chases down a woman's hat, after a gust of wind blows it off her head), and in general he seems to be just on the edge of simple. Yet he knows how to cajole or threaten information out of people, and can hold his own in a fight. Rourke makes it all believable, and in the film's climax reduces Angel to a vulnerable, frightened naïf, largely through modulating his voice.
Bonet's performance is the weakest turned in by the film's principal actors. Whatever presence Proudfoot possesses comes from the voodoo paraphernalia and her rural Louisiana sack dresses, not from elements brought to the character by Bonet, who plays Proudfoot as strangely affectless, with none of the command you'd expect from someone able to channel occult powers. The film's notorious ritual dance, in which a barely clothed Proudfoot frolics with a sacrificial chicken, while not exactly an anthropologically correct depiction of voodoo rites, nevertheless succeeded in putting fans of the Cosby Show on notice that Bonet had graduated to adult roles, as did a rainwater- and blood-soaked sex scene with Rourke.
De Niro makes the most of limited screen time, rendering his Cyphre all the more horrific by portraying him as a creepily fastidious financier, whose precise diction, slicked back hair, well-groomed beard, long fingernails, and walking stick seem the affectations of an eccentric bean counter, not the Harvester of Souls. In one of the best scenes in the film, Angel and Favorite's amour Margaret Krusemark (Charlotte Rampling) match wits in Krusemark's New Orleans apartment. Angel's initially clumsy attempts at duping Krusemark give way to a craftiness that make us suspect that he may be more than a bumbling divorce detective.
The '50s setting, a subdued color palette (Parker reveals in an interview among the Blu-ray extras that he, the DP, and the production designer "wanted to make a black-and-white film in color"), and an understated score by Trevor Jones that avoids '80s pop signature synthesizers and drum machines—give Angel Heart a timeless quality that has helped the film age well. In a way, Angel Heart seems less retro than it did in 1987. Dark, procedural thrillers that share Parker's mise en scene, such as Seven, have abounded since then, often with a supernatural element.
Parker isn't the first director to update the noir formula and set his film in the era of the genre's heyday; Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974) is perhaps the best example. But where Polanski built his noir around incest, a topic hinted at but never openly broached in the '40s or '50s, Parker supercharges his homage with the gore and body count of the slasher genre. Not since Dressed to Kill (1980) had a film deployed the straight razor with such abandon. (Full disclosure: incest figures in Angel Heart, too.)
The celebrated introduction of a grown-up Bonet notwithstanding, the presence of African Americans in mainstream film was limited a generation ago, and Angel Heart flirts with racial stereotypes. It avoids the cringe-inducing lampoon of black culture that mars Roger Moore's 1973 debut as James Bond, Live and Let Die, another film that takes viewers from New York to New Orleans and suggests that voodoo lurks behind traditional elements of African American life like jazz and Christianity. But Angel Heart nevertheless relies heavily on black exoticism for suspense and atmosphere. The misrepresentation of voodoo in the film, as in other supernatural thrillers from the same time such as The Believers (1987) and The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), is a whole other subject.
The Blu-Ray disc extras include audio commentary by Parker, and recent interviews with Parker and Rourke. Parker's interview is brief but informative. He talks about adapting
William Hjortsberg's novel Falling Angel for the screen, and about filming in Harlem. Rourke's interview is longer, and he speaks generally about his acting career, and his forays into boxing before and after his rise to stardom in the '80s.
There is also commentary from Rourke on select scenes from Angel Heart that is painful to watch. Rourke has no interest in discussing the film, or his approach to acting in it. He stresses over and over that he did the film because he wanted to work with Parker, that he did no special preparation or research for the role—that, in fact, he simply "showed up". Perhaps Lionsgate was contractually bound to include the interview. I can't think of any other reason why it's among the disc extras.
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Roasted Garlic Cheese Baked Spaghetti (Crazy Cooking Challenge)
Another month of Crazy Cooking Challenge hosted by Mom's Crazy Cooking!
I feel like we JUST did the Chocolate Cake Challenge, which was so much fun.
This month the Challenge is Spaghetti and Red Sauce.
What I've made for it is one of my families favorite meals. This is easy and cheap to make! Your kids will gobble it up I promise!!
Roasted Garlic Cheesy Baked Spaghetti
1 box of spaghetti pasta (or other pasta if you'd like)
1 large jar of your favorite tomato sauce or 2 regular size jars (there are times I do not feel like making mine from scratch!)
1 16 oz container of ricotta cheese
1 bulb of roasted garlic
1 cup of grated Parmesan ( sounds like allot I know!)
Fresh Mozzarella
2 roma tomatoes sliced thin
Boil pasta according to box directions. Strain and mix with sauce, and ricotta.
Mash up your garlic into a paste, mix that in with the pasta as well have half of your grated parm cheese.
Pour into a casserole dish.
Top with slices of fresh mozzarella (In my picture I did not use it.. we were out :( but I normally always top with it!)
Top mozzarella with slices of tomatoes, and grated parmesan cheese.
Bake at 400 for for 20 minutes.
Dish up and enjoy!
Your kids will love it I promise =)
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Your opening photo is killing me, killing me!!! Crazy good.
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If you haven't already, I'd love for you to check out my CCC entry: Tomato Sauce with Onion & Butter.
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What brand of Tomato Sauce did you use in this recipe. What size do you consider a large size.Do you mean spaghetti sauce when you say tomato sauce? Tomato sauce doesn't usually have the seasonings in it like spaghetti sauce does. Just wondering. Sounds and looks so delish! :-)
ReplyDeleteHello Bakeaholic Mama. Thanks for the recipe. I'm making this now - looks delicious. I don't know what size box of spagetti I need to use? Don't expect to hear back from you in the next half hour so I'm going to use a 375 gram box (I'm in Canada). If anyone knows if this is correct or in correct please reply. Thanks so much!


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This newspaper has written volumes about comprehensive immigration reform over the past eight years. We've always been especially cautious about how to handle the 11 million to 12 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States because no viable solution has surfaced on how to deal with them. Any reform measure must include inducements for people to step forward and legalize their status. There's no easy or politically harmonious way to do it. Some people think that the carrot of possible citizenship would work best. Others say, "no way." It's so complicated and politically tenuous that Sen. Ted Cruz steadfastly avoids addressing the issue of what to do with the illegal immigrants already here. You can't just put all 11.7 million of them on a bus and send them home, but you can't just swear them all in as citizens and call it a day.
One thing we on the editorial board have never been able to embrace is the "pathway to citizenship." We've been careful never to call for comprehensive immigration reform to include a pathway to citizenship because we don't think it's politically workable and, realistically, it probably isn't even necessary.
Some immigrants certainly would jump at the chance to have citizenship if it were offered, even if it involved a difficult 15-year hoop-jumping process. But lots of illegal immigrants don't really want to become citizens, as The New York Times reported Thursday. What they want is a way to come and go between here and their home countries. They don't want to be threatened with permanent expulsion just because they go home for Christmas. That's a far cry from wanting to be a U.S. citizen.
"For many undocumented people, citizenship is not a priority," says Oscar A. Chacon, executive director of the National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities, a network of immigrant organizations that includes many undocumented immigrants. "What they really care about is a solution that allows them to overcome their greatest vulnerabilities," he told The Times.
What many want is very similar to what seasonal U.S. employers, who account for a very large percentage of the jobs employing illegal immigrants, want to see happen with immigration reform. I'm talking about restaurant owners, landscapers, farmers and construction companies. The Texas Association of Business is among those advocating for higher seasonal temporary visa quotas that allow workers to come and go depending on the forecast work demand here. Ease up the travel restrictions, and you take away a lot of the pressures that cause people to stay illegally, year-round, instead of going back home.
So why complicate comprehensive immigration reform with this poison pill called a pathway to citizenship? Conservatives hate it. It is the single biggest impediment to a broad set of reform measures that almost all agree must be passed. The pathway to citizenship debate is how conservatives have been able to boil down this very complex, multifaceted piece of legislation down to the simple, abhorrent phrase, "the amnesty bill." Instead of talking about the real issues that must be dealt with on illegal immigration, opponents just say, "amnesty," and they've got enough of a rallying cry to kill the entire measure.
Proponents of comprehensive immigration reform, including this newspaper, need to be a lot more selective on their phraseology. We have advocated a pathway to regularization or legalization. But we have been careful not to fall into the trap of advocating a pathway to citizenship because we know it simply will not fly on Capitol Hill. And it might not really be something most immigrants even want.


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Four years ago when Andrea Frost's daughter was an infant, clothes were among the obstacles that came with new motherhood.
"There just wasn't anything around for my baby to wear that I could tolerate," says Frost, who vehemently dislikes pastels, bears (with the occasional exception made for a vintage Care Bear design) and any Disney or other character associated with big corporations.
There didn't seem to be any toddler Clash T-shirts or onesies calling George W. "president poopyhead." So she made them. Now the Portland, Ore., mom's business Babywit caters to people who want "something cutting-edge, hip and hilarious for the radical kids in their lives." In short, parents who want to put their youngsters in something they wouldn't mind wearing.
It seems more and more people are hopping on Frost's bandwagon and marketing pint-sized versions of adult tastes. It's down with Barney and up with the black CBGB onesies. Out with the primary colors and pastels and in with cool, contemporary children's furniture. There are now lullaby cover versions of songs by rock bands such as Coldplay, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Bob Marley. Even Gymboree is being challenged by hip events such as Baby Loves Disco dance parties, which are held at popular night clubs (but during the day).
To Robert Lanham, author of "The Hipster's Guide," a tongue-in-cheek look at the world of the up-to-the-minute urbanite, this is a natural evolution. "As more and more [of the Gen X and Gen Y parents] get older the inevitable question is: Can I still maintain my hip credential and be a parent?" says Lanham. The conclusion many parents reach, he surmises, is that while it may not work out perfectly at least they can hang on to some shred of coolness through their children.
Or maybe they even believe they can increase their coolness.
Kid as accessory?
Think Angelina and Zahara with matching designer handbags. Or just the average mom decking her kid out in the latest alternative band T-shirt or hot gear.
"I really think a lot of people buy cool clothes for their kids because it's sort of this idea 'you may not be cool, but your baby can be,'" says Frost. "That's kind of how I felt."
But is it really cool for the kids? Are celebs and others just using offspring as the latest "in" accessory, instead of a big purse or a Chihuahua?
Both Frost and Neal Pollack, author of "Alternadad," a memoir of life as a new father, and creator of offsprung.com (tagline: Your life didn't end when you became a parent), think maybe there's the inclination to do this but it doesn't really work that way in reality. "Why would you want an accessory who throws himself down on the floor of the restaurant? Some accessory," says Pollack.
He says edgier kid gear and more adult-friendly youth events and music should simply be viewed as a breath of fresh air. He theorizes that the trend is a backlash, a reaction to the idea that once you have a kid your life must be entirely consumed with Thomas the Tank Engine and scrapbooking baby's every BM.
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Over the last 15 years or so there's been a proliferation of hyper-parenting, he maintains, and what we're seeing now is merely parenting done the new way."It's good for kids to have culturally relevant parents and see them having fun," says Pollack, who formed a punk rock band shortly after his son was born.
According to developmental psychologist Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, director of the National Center for Children and Families at Columbia University in New York, a change in the flavor of Kiddy World is predictable.
"If I had my druthers kids would still wear smocks," she says. "But each generation is going to do something a little different."
Furthermore, if you rewind and take a look at the baby pictures of yore, says Brooks-Gunn, you'll see that very often children were dressed like little adults of the day. Since popular culture looks edgier today, so will our kids.
What about using your tot to advertise your taste in music or politics, though?
As long as it doesn't glorify and condone drinking — for example, Brooks-Gunn would not recommend Babywit's onesie that says, "My mama drinks because I cry" — or use terms that you wouldn't encourage your child to use (such as poopyhead), she doesn't care.
Punk concerts? Disco parties instead of Gymboree? Watching fire dancers in lieu of Sesame Street?
"I think our children deserve to be brought up in their parents real and child-friendly worlds," says Ariel Gore, a mother of two and author of "The Hip Mama Survival Guide," a book that answers questions such as whether mothers with nipple piercings can nurse. "If I'm a punk rocker or I'm really into Hungarian folk dancing or I'm a first-generation immigrant and that's who I am, why should I have to leave that behind and raise my kid in some generic middle class American reality that doesn't feel authentic to me?"
Brooks-Gunn says you don't have to. Children thrive when parents are having fun and engaging them. "Enrichment activities help broaden children's view of the world and they're wonderful learning experiences," she says. "It doesn't matter if it's Bach or an alternative band. If you're talking about it with your kids and you're asking what they think about it, it's great."
While she's concerned that kids are being bombarded with messages about buying the latest cool stuff, she says whether that stuff has a mini-adult look or a Barney face, it's all the same. Kids with crazy haircuts and parents with tattoos don't rattle her either.
"If I'm concerned about something it won't be about clothes or haircuts. It will be about parents not engaging children, not talking about views, not taking them places. There are a lot of ways not to be a great parent, this is not one of them," says Brooks-Gunn.
Dora is cool to kids
Lanham, however, worries that if parents are turning their kids into pop tots because they think the result will be better, they may be disappointed. "If you think that your kid is going to pick up hipness through being in contact with a hipper aesthetic, you're just delusional. Face it. Kids much prefer a Dora the Explorer shirt than a Wilco or CBGB shirt," he says.
Edward Christophersen, a psychologist at the Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., says it's really about balance and perspective.
"The most important thing to a kid is stability, not coolness," says Christophersen.
Indulging in hipster events, music and clothes can be fun and interesting but, overall, kids should be left to develop their own culture, he says. "Clothes and music don't make the kid and they shouldn't be the highlight of the child's life. The highlight should be bedtime and other important rituals."
But Frost isn't giving up. She just had her second child and is hard at work on her latest creation: the anti-princess dress. "It's made locally with organic cotton; it's really comfy but it's hip," she says.
And you can twirl in it. Twirling will always be cool.
Victoria Clayton is a freelance writer based in California and co-author of "Fearless Pregnancy: Wisdom and Reassurance from a Doctor, a Midwife and a Mom," published by Fair Winds Press.
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