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Seven years ago, mostly in 2007, more than 8,500 cats and dogs in the United States died from eating contaminated pet food. Ever since, American consumers have been fearful and suspicious about the seemingly chaotic pet-food industry.
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Dog food is continuously evolving. There is always something new that is trending, and it can be a lot to keep up with. Every brand of food has something different to offer the market, which is good because consumers are always looking for something unique, and tailored to their pet's specific needs.
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By Michael J. Berens
With 2014 only a month away, last year's business plans are heading for the shredder. 'Tis the season once again for sharpening pencils, creating fresh spreadsheets and bringing the team together for a visioning and planning session. And just in time, here comes the annual parade of predictions, forecasts and trends for the coming year to give you a bit of help. Should you factor them into your plans or dismiss them as just so much seasonal industry buzz? Here are a few rules-of-thumb to help you get the most from this year's forthcoming crop.
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Dog clothing is a very broad topic that attracts a wide range of customers for a variety of different reasons. For some, it's purely cosmetic. They want to dress their dog in a costume for a special occasion, like a Halloween, St. Patrick's Day or a birthday. For others, it's about functionality, style or necessity. And some, just do it for fun.
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The Pet Leadership Council held its first meeting in Dallas recently to discuss the initiatives it intends to address over time. PLC members represent manufacturers, distributors, retailers, veterinarians and breeders, and 32 industry leaders were in attendance at the meeting.
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We hear wedding bells for Kaye Abad and Paul Jake Castillo — and we're not going crazy. It's actually happening.
Paul, a Pinoy Big Brother alumnus, proposed to the 34-year-old actress on Wed, May 17.
A video uploaded by writer Darla Sauler shows him popping the question to Kaye at a surprise party at the Bellevue Hotel in Alabang, Muntinlupa City, on Wed night, when the actress turned 34.
"We started off as friends tapos naging partner in crime kita, best friend, tapos hindi mo talaga napigilan at ginawa mo akong boyfriend. Now I'd like to seal it. Will you marry me?" Paul asked Kaye.
Kaye's celebrity friends, like Pooh and Nikki Valdez, were present during the proposal.
Kaye and Paul Jake admitted two years ago that they're officially a couple.
Kaye initially said that she didn't think it was possible for them to have a romantic relationship since they started out as friends. They've been friends since 2010, when they both starred in an afternoon soap opera on ABS-CBN.
"Sinasabi ko noon na hindi at imposible kasi very platonic yung relationship namin [ni Paul Jake]. Oo, magkasundo kami pero pag-iniisip ko na yung romantic side, parang hindi. Actually nagulat kaming dalawa and kinain ko yung mga sinabi ko na imposibleng maging kami," she said in a June 2014 interview.
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North Carolina beats Kentucky after crazy last-second sequence to get back to Final Four
After two halves full of plot twists, physical play, questionable officiating and everything else you could want in a basketball game, North Carolina is headed back to the Final Four thanks to a final-minute flurry that gave us one of the best finishes of the tournament.
The top-seeded Tar Heels held off a spirited effort from No. 2 Kentucky on Sunday in the South Regional final, getting a game-winning shot from Luke Maye with just 0.3 seconds left to win 75-73.
The shot came just seconds after Kentucky's Malik Monk had hit a 3-pointer to tie the game at 73, and that was less than a minute after Kentucky was trailing by seven. Here's the last sequence:
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North Carolina led 38-33 at the end of a physical, contentious, foul-filled first half. Kentucky's De'Aaron Fox drove to the basket in the closing seconds, drawing a boatload of contact but getting no call, leading to a chorus of boos for the officials as the players ran off the court. The Tar Heels never trailed in the first half and led by as many as nine.
The Wildcats responded by opening the second half with a 6-0 run to seize their first edge. North Carolina pushed right back with a 6-0 run of its own, then built the lead back up to six at 47-41 with 13:42 to go.
Kentucky wouldn't go away. A 17-6 run over the span of about five minutes gave the 'Cats their largest lead of the game, 64-59 with 5:12 to go. But there was North Carolina again with a 6-0 run to answer and retake the lead with 3:22 to go. But the run didn't stop there. The Heels made it 12 unanswered to go up seven with under a minute to play before Fox hit a 3-pointer to stop the bleeding.
On the ensuing inbounds play, North Carolina was whistled for a 5-second violation, giving it back to Kentucky. Monk then hit a 3-pointer to trim the lead to one, but the Tar Heels got a long pass up to Justin Jackson for a layup to go back up three.
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The Wildcats then turned it over, and the Heels went to the free throw line to ice the win. Jackson, though, missed the first free throw, setting up the end-game heroics.
Jackson led all scorers with 19. Maye added 17.
It's the 20th trip to the Final Four for North Carolina, which joins two first-timers (South Carolina and Gonzaga) and one school (Oregon) that hasn't been there since 1939, when the tournament looked very different.


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a few weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure (and all-out fun!) of partnering on the latest Nursery Project from The Animal Print Shop. sharon montrose, the talented photographer who magically captures these beautiful animals with her camera invited me to help style the darling nursery with the addition of some vintage pieces from our super marché collection. her brand new print series is aptly entitled Kindred — comprised of four prints to start (Kindred Tigers, Kindred Sheep, Kindred Kangaroos, and, shown here, Kindred Camels), showcases the tender, loving bond between parent and child. So naturally, they figured, what more appropriate place for them to make their debut than in a bright, sun-splashed nursery, freshly designed to welcome a lucky family's newest member?
we curated a vibe we like to call "eclectic modern bohemian" by pairing The Animal Print Shop's darling Kindred collection with an energizing hodgepodge of patterns and cheerful color palette, accented with hints of saffron and rose along with some standout pieces from super marché: one of our dreamy rattan daybeds with our hand-stitched tufted pillows, and the brassy vintage chandelier found at a French flea market, too. To complement the rustic elegance of the daybed (and the playfulness of its colorful cushions) we chose a tasseled Moroccan rug in shades of pink and cream, and a hand-embroidered cotton whale, who is, as described, "quite big, but very kind."
Nearby, a classic Oeuf Sparrow crib, handmade bedding encourages deep, restful sleep; on the opposite wall, an Oceanscape — part of Montrose and Merrick, a new series of large-scale photographs by Sharon and designer Heidi Merrick — contributes an additional lulling moment of quiet. Meanwhile, the room's joyful patchwork was rounded out with a spunky printed wallpaper. In the end, we thought it set just the right sort of scene for greeting a curious baby camel and her devoted, ever-doting parent. i couldn't be happier to introduce you to Kindred from The Animal Print Shop family. you can find the sweet Kindred Camels — and the rest of the Kindred series — here.
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Social Media is customer service, and this isn't about to change!
Having both a background in customer service and social media marketing, this is something I introduce to everyone I work with, and there is a reason for that.
The world is changing, and so are expectations, ways of communications and ways to deliver a stellar customer experience! Social media is a powerful customer service tool.
So if you were to ask me "Where do we start when it comes to social media for customer service?"
I would tell you that it starts by getting social. That's your first step, if you aren't on social media, start using it for your business if you are let's see what we can do better.
Once you are on social, get to know your community. Be proactive by polling your audience to find out what they want, and how they want it delivered. Ask engaging questions. You have an opportunity to get to know your audience and find out what they want with every platform available to you.
Take the feedback received and provide VALUE! This can be in the form of webinars, posts, videos, pieces of training, blogs, and more.
You'll want to be mindful of first impressions. With social media, the world is watching you.... front row! So be mindful of your response time, how you respond, your tone, and your willingness to help.
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'Thinking and theorizing about film is almost as old as the medium itself. Within a few years of the earliest film shows in the 1890s, manifestos and reflections began to appear which sought to analyze the seemingly vast potential of film. Writers in France, Russia, and Britain were among the first to enter this field, and their texts have become cornerstones of the literature of cinema. Few nations, however, failed to produce their own statements and dialogues about the nature of cinema, often interacting with proponents of Modernism in the traditional arts and crafts. Film thus found itself embedded in the discourses of modernity, especially in Europe and Soviet Russia. "Film theory," as it became known in the 1970s, has always had a historical dimension, acknowledging its debts to the... Show More
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Italian survey (osservatorio permanente) to recognise and promote migraine suffering patients' well-being
Among primary headaches, migraine affects 12-15% of the adult population in Italy, representing one of the most common medical complaints, and a major cause of both social and familial problems. Furthermore, especially if not properly recognised and treated, it may cause significant economic losses, due to decreased workplace productivity amounting to more than 3 thousand billion euro per year. Despite the high incidence, only a minor percentage of migraine patients consult their own general practitioner (GP) and even less a specialist. These data are surprising considering that around 50% of the attacks are severe and totally disabling, 44% are moderate and only 6% can be defined as mild. This picture is worsened by the fact that about 40% of migraine suffering patients are misdiagnosed. A consequence of under-recognition or misdiagnosis is a delay of proper treatment that could significantly improve disability and patient's quality of life by controlling the attacks' frequency, severity and duration. In this context, the GP plays a pivotal role being the patient's first consultant and his/her proper diagnosis becomes an important screening of the population, which could eventually be directed to a Headache Centre for further assessments. The GP is the ideal link between the migraineur and the Headache Centre's Specialist for a proper and efficient collaboration focussed on the patient's well-being. With the aim of significantly improving this collaboration, an Italian Survey named "osservatorio Nazionale Permanente" has recently started collecting new and updated information on the disease's epidemiology. Data will be collected by GPs especially trained on migraine through the participation of an "ad hoc" Continual Medical Education (CME) course. This will assure the double objective of improving both the GP's scientific knowledge and the reliability of the collected data. The project is running and preliminary data will be presented.
Autori: F. Frediani, G. Casucci, G. Bussone
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Organisers of the annual Guitars on the Beach bonanza are backing a call by Prince Charles for more music in schools.
The Prince of Wales recently made a "music matters" call and spoke out against the lack of music education in schools.
The team behind Guitars on the Beach (GOTB), a record-breaking event which attracts hundreds of guitar players to Lyme Regis, has joined the drive for more music to be taught in schools, and thanks to the donation of 11 guitars by Anderton's Music Company, one of the main sponsors of this year's event, a new generation of guitarists will be able to join the giant band on the sand next June.
Organisers of GOTB have provided nine instruments to Lyme Regis' Woodroffe School in the hopes of starting a guitar class there.
The guitars were received by head of music, Jon Cullimore, who was told that if students learn to play well, then GOTB will give them a slot onstage at next year's event.
Brian Street, chairman of GOTB and former pupil at Woodroffe School, said: "Like Prince Charles, we're keen for more youngsters to learn music and now, thanks to this kind donation from our sponsor, we can help make this happen.
"We especially hope that students who have never played guitar before will be inspired to become good enough for us to add them to the line-up of bands playing at next year's GOTB."
Organisers have also given a guitar to one of its biggest supporters, 15-year-old Joshua Denning, who has collected donations for the free event every year since in began in 2013.
Mr Street added: "Josh is a local lad who is very proud to be part of GOTB. For years he has raised money for us by walking around all day collecting donations.
"Whether it rains or shines on GOTB, Josh is always there with his collection bucket, and over the years he has personally raised hundreds of pounds for us. we think he's brilliant, and it's because of the work of great people like Josh that our show can go on."
Nick Dixon, a blind guitarist from Colyton, was also a recipient of one of the guitars donated by Anderton's, worth at least £1,000.
Mr Street, who is teaching Nick how to play the instrument, said: "Anderton's kindly gave us a prototype Chapman guitar which they said they wanted to go to a worthy cause, and we can't think of anyone more deserving than Nick.
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"I then was able to teach him some simple chords and then some simple songs. He obviously practises and works hard and now he's picking things up pretty quickly and enjoys playing a good selection of songs including Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here'.
"Nick comes to GOTB every year and as he often jokes about how I ruined his old guitar, we thought he deserves this new one."
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Ranking the Ghost in the Shell movies and TV shows from worst to best
It's been a long ride since 1995 – Shirow Masamune's brilliant 1989 manga aside, the Ghost in the Shell franchise has so far blessed us with 4 amazing television series, 4 epic anime movies and one absolutely terrible live action Hollywood adaption.
For the uninitiated it's difficult to describe exactly what Ghost in the Shell viewers can expect when they first sit down to watch it, but seeing as I wouldn't be doing my job as an writer if I said nothing, I thought it might be prudent to take a look through the GITS back-catalog and give readers a brief overview of each movie and TV series. This way should anyone feel like getting their feet wet and jumping into the franchise they can use this article as a guide to help them navigate the long list of releases and find a series or film that suits them best.
At its core Ghost in the Shell is essentially a cop show, a very elaborate cop show with incredibly complex (and sometimes downright confusing) plotlines, but a good old fashioned police drama all the same. It's no "The Bill" or NYPD Blue, sure, in fact many times it blurs the lines between surrealist science fiction, downright existentialism and sometimes even nihilism. The name itself is derived from the main character's internal struggle to understand where her humanity begins and her manufactured cyborg body ends; the term Ghost referring to Shirow's vision of how we project our individuality as human beings.
While this may sound ambitious for the premise of a science fiction detective drama, these questions of existential understanding usually present themselves in conundrums that the members of Public Security Section 9 need to face when attempting to tackle the various villains in Japan's futuristic Newport City.
Truth be told I think by the end of 2019 and into early 2020 we'll start seeing a lot more interest generated in the GITS franchise, largely due to Netflix's announcement of a new series that is slated to be released through the online platform in 2020.
If you've stumbled across this article and you're new to it all and looking to dive in head first, I've compiled a suggested viewing schedule that I think will help new viewers make the most out of their Ghost in the Shell experience:
Ghost in the Shell [Movie - 1995]
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence [Movie - 2004]
Stand Alone Complex [TV Series 2002 – 2004]
Solid State Society [TV Movie - 2006]
Arise [TV Series - 2013]
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie [Movie - 2015]
Alternative Architecture [TV Series - 2014]
Ghost in the Shell [Live action movie - 2017]
So without further ado, here are the Ghost in the Shell TV and movies ranked from worst to best:
Ghost in the Shell (Live action) [2017]
There's always an air of, "No thanks we've already got one" when Hollywood announces a live action western remake of an anime classic; one more than one occasion I've given myself a mini aneurysm stressing over the news of repeated attempts to make westernized versions of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira.
While it shares its name with the classic Japanese franchise, it's best to approach this movie by not thinking about it as a remake at all; blending in elements of the Stand Alone Complex storyline with key visuals from Mamoru Oshii's original 1995 movie, it actually stands as more of a hybridization than a modern day remake or reboot. A new storyline that replaces the Japanese main character Motoko Kusanagi with a western version of The Major was hacked and slashed into the narrative in an attempt to justify Scarlett Johansson's existence in the movie. Honestly I think Johansson actually does a great job as a western Kusanagi, but the film itself seems to exist solely to cash in on Johansson's success in the MCU. Take the Ghost in the Shell title away from this movie and you're left with a science fiction film that can moderately hold its own, but that's really as far as it goes.
Alternative Architecture [2014]
Intended as a 10 episode extended version of the GITS: Arise OVA series, Alternative Architecture was potentially the most confusing of all the Ghost in the Shell movies and series. AA is the franchise's attempt to show in detail how Major Kusanagi formed her team and joined Section 9, all while trying to uncover the genesis of a deadly new virus that can infiltrate people's brains and implant false memories. Set up as both a prequel and a reboot of the GITS franchise, Alternative Architecture takes the seemingly linear story line of Arise and jumbles it around confusingly. Like a scene reminiscent of South Park's Family Guy joke generator, the chronological order of the series is thrown out the window with Kusanagi's team seemingly forming AFTER they're shown working together in episodes 1 and 2. While this was likely done to create a better way of "Setting the scene" for the story that was about to unfold, for a viewer that hadn't yet watched Arise it would have been unbelievably confusing.
If you're someone that has never seen a single minute of anything Ghost in the Shell related, more than likely my description above probably seems a little confusing. Just keep in mind however that AA as a whole was just as confusing for GITS veterans as it was for you reading this, which goes a long way in understanding the lukewarm reaction its received since it was launched in 2014.
In all it's not bad; there are some great visuals and seeing how Section 9's best team was formed gave me a little bit of a kick and the early interactions between Major Kusanagi and Batou were somewhat amusing. If you're looking to jump into GITS, this is definitely not the place to do it.
Stand Alone Complex (Season 1) [2002]
Ghost in the Shell's first television series is remembered very fondly within the anime community. Aside from the various reprints of Shirow's original manga it was the first time since 1995 that Major Kusanagi and Section 9 had made an appearance on anyone's screens. For the GITS purists it also had the added bonus of drawing its inspiration more from the manga than the theatrical feature, so the audience really got to see the day-to-days of Section 9 instead of just focusing on a single story line or villain.
Honestly, the first time I saw SAC I was ultimately impressed; the series has this weird ability to tickle a certain desire within the audience. When you're exhausted watching anime about magic-girls, maid cafes and people getting sucked into video games, every now and then it's great to just engage adult-mode and stimulate some brain cells watching agents solve crimes.
In the first season of SAC, Section 9 are on the hunt for a cyber-terrorist called 'The Laughing Man', an individual accused of murder, corporate terrorism and espionage. While attempting to uncover his or her identity, Kusanagi's team are exposed to secrets that people in positions of power want to see buried and they find themselves under attack from all sides. It's pretty great.
So with all my gushing over SAC why is it sitting so far down the list? Well, while SAC was pretty revolutionary in expanding upon the Ghost in the Shell universe over the original 1995 movie, the first season was actually pretty confusing at times. Important information would be glossed over very quickly and if you missed something that happened briefly in an earlier episode, suddenly you're lost wandering down a path that you didn't know you had even stumbled into. It might take two or even three viewings of season 1 to really come to grips with the mystery of The Laughing Man.
Secondly, SAC turned the character of Major Kusanagi into somewhat or a sexpot. Entire sections of the show seemed to be written exclusively to show her wearing revealing clothing or ridiculous sexy outfits. Seriously, take note of her outfits in season 1, she looks like she dressed herself in the dark or was styled by Stevie Wonder. Her overt sexuality was a stark contrast to the original movie and while giving her agency is something to be applauded, agency was definitely not in the minds of the writers. Showing off them titties to appeal to a younger audience definitely was however.
In all season 1 is a great whodunit. It's light on action compared to other series or movies, but it's clearly geared towards the detective qualities of Section 9's work. For a new viewer it's not a bad place to dive in and get your feet wet, however be prepared to be confused. Information and dialogue comes shooting at you like Sonic the Hedgehog pinging off a gram of speed, so be prepared to dig in and maybe pull out a notepad for notations.
Oh, and prepare to fall in love with Tachicoma's. You've been warned.
Solid State Society [2006]
The success of Stand Alone Complex generated a lot of additional products set in the same universe: two TV series, a new manga series and Solid State Society, a full length TV movie.
Set two years after the conclusion of SAC season 2, Togusa is now in command of Section 9. A terrorist with ties to an international independence movement starts hacking the minds of refugees in the city and Togusa's team investigates.
In all it has all the trappings of a great GITS: SAC extended episode. SSS (For new GITS viewers, get used to the concept of acronyms) was pretty well received and I certainly got a real kick out of watching it. It doesn't move the needle along much further and honestly its existence just kind of ruins the really great ending of SAC: 2nd Gig. SAC season 2 did a great job in wrapping up the SAC universe and every character got the ending they deserved, so truth-be-told SSS didn't really need to exist. But it does.
And it's pretty neat.
Arise [2013]
I was so hyped for ARISE.
Billed as both a reboot of GITS and a prequel to SAC, ARISE attempted to tell the story of how Aramaki pulled together his team and the first major incident they investigated.
I've put it so high on the list because it helps put SAC into perspective and honestly it helps explain a lot about Motoko's actions in the original 1995 theatrical movie. Diving into SAC the first time I was struck by how much of Kusanagi's "humanity" had been ripped out of her character. She was presented as a cold and calculating killing machine that had the handle on every situation thrown at her. While that helps the story line of SAC move along just fine, it doesn't explain her feelings of existentialism and the ultimate decision to depart her body in the original movie. Why would someone with such a handle on their own existence question their reality so much in other iterations of the franchise?
ARISE attempts to answer that – Major Kusanagi's origins are slightly retconned: SAC explains that she lost her body as a child, ARISE however tells us that Kusanagi never HAD a body to begin with. Her ghost was retrieved from her mother's lifeless body when Motoko was still unborn, something that helps to explain her feelings of separation from humanity in Mamoru Oshii's first two films.
Initially released as a 5 episode limited OVA series in 2013, ARISE garnered enough of a positive response to turn it into a full blown series. This became Alternative Architecture. Since its release it has generated a tepid trickle of positive reviews, but honestly it has an unexplained quality that I like a lot more than the titles listed above. I think it has a lot to do with the limited number of episodes; there is no filler, no episodes where the characters have a party or spend time at the beach together. It's just all good old fashioned detective work.
What begins as an origin story develops into the makings of Kusanagi's first major case, trying to uncover the identity of a mysterious Super-Wizard class hacker that has developed the ultimate weapon, a digital virus that can implant false memories into anyone's brain. Instantly, untrained nobodies can become powerful assassins and unwitting citizens quickly become the victims of a nefarious plot that is threatening to destroy the entire city.
For new GITS viewers it's definitely not the place to get acquainted with the universe. While it may present itself as an origin story, a lot of the terminology and lore of GITS isn't explained. It's a series that seems to rely a lot on viewers having watched either the original 1995 movie or Stand Alone Complex first.
Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie [2015]
While ARISE sets the viewer up and explains the new universe, The New Movie (imaginative name, I know) perfects it.
There isn't really a lot to add here. It has the great new animation style we were given in ARISE and it has a great whodunit style story that is reminiscent of previous outings within the franchise.
All round it's pretty neato.
Stand Alone Complex: 2nd Gig (SAC Season 2) [2004]
I'm not sure what happened behind the scenes between season 1 and season 2 of SAC, but whatever it was the quality of the show was raised significantly. Both the Major's backstory was interwoven into the narrative and the motives of the antagonist shifted significantly, making the whole thing a much better experience than the first season.
With a focus more on international affairs than on the world of domestic cyber terrorism, 2nd Gig is a truly unique GITS experience. While the franchise has always been relatively self contained, content in existing in a world that is largely unexplained, season 2 rather successfully explains the impact of the two successive world wars that lead to Japan's rise as a dominant global power and the depth of political unrest still residing within the GITS universe.
2nd Gig teaches us that Tokyo was destroyed in WWIII; in its destruction a new city emerges, Newport City, a city that is powered off the economy of Japan's greatest export, the Japanese Miracle.
It also teaches us that technology in this new world has done great damage to the concept of equality. Japan's desire for cyberization has created a new class system, where the poor or working class citizens that can't afford cyber implants are left behind in the mad rush to move society forward. Of course it also reinforces the double edged sword of GITS' version of the future – technology has brought us all closer together, however it has also opened us up to exploitation from antagonists wanting to rage against the system. Cyber-Brains are now standard fair, but they can be hacked. Even the elements of our psyche's that make us individuals can be copied and transferred like data moving back and forth between a USB stick. It feels like 2nd Gig really drives home the messages that Masamune Shirow attempted to show us in both his original comic and the 1995 animated movie. In the future, are 'ghosts' really human if everything can be cyberized?
In all 2nd Gig is a political thriller, but it's soaked with considerably more drama and sci-fi action than the previous season. Sometimes it's confusing, but it feels like the writers took their time to explain things more than SAC season 1, which regularly skipped from one extreme to the next hoping in vain the audience was able to keep up.
Apart from the two Mamoru Oshii directed original films, I feel like 2nd Gig is GITS at its finest. While it probably isn't a great place for a new audience member to begin acquainting themselves with the universe, it's definitely a series that anyone at least familiar with GITS can jump straight into.
Plus, the ending with the Tachicoma's will probably make you cry. I mean, I didn't, I was just cutting onions, but YOU probably will.
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence [2004]
I'm not gonna lie man, this movie probably passed a lot of people by. There were even some folks I know that never realized this movie even existed.
Released around the same time as 2nd Gig, it somewhat flew under the radar for many. Even when watching it for the first time I had to verbally remind myself that this is a direct sequel to the original 1995 movie and it doesn't fit into the SAC universe.
This is probably going to be jarring for a first time viewer, especially when you remember that Kusanagi abandoned her body at the conclusion of the first film. For this reason it's a Ghost in the Shell movie without its main character, but trust me, that isn't a problem when it comes to the quality of the production. In many ways it gives the other members of Section 9 more time to shine on the big screen, particularly Batou and Togusa.
I'm willing to admit that a lot of the philosophical content of this movie didn't quite move the needle for me, but with Oshii back as director it's a wonderfully beautiful movie with visuals that are just as striking as the first film. Other viewers may probably feel justified putting this movie further down their own rankings or list, I don't necessarily disagree with that.
However for me it feels like Innocence and the original 1995 movie are two sides of the same coin. One doesn't exist without the other and the issues and philosophical viewpoints raised by the first movie are carried on for discussion in its sequel.
Perhaps I'm gushing too much over the director, but Innocence reminds me of Oshii's other work, particularly Patlabor 2; a visually appealing story with little action that just somehow seems to tick the right boxes. Innocence is gorgeous.
I think a lot of critics will agree with me on that. GITS 2, while certainly not as financially successful as its predecessor, is still highly ranked by film critics that exist in every space of the internet.
It lives up to its pedigree, and boy, what pedigree it is.
Ghost in the Shell [1995]
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The Dallas appearance of author John Green and the cast and musicians of his upcoming Paper Towns movie was announced only a few weeks ago. But Rachel Welch, 22, of Fort Worth, first in line of the hundreds who have camped out at the Bomb Factory for theThursday event, had been preparing for this moment for a year.
Welch, who has short crimson hair and a quote from Paper Towns tattooed on her right arm, arrived at her coveted concrete spot, with two friends in tow, at 8:30.
A.M.? No, p.m. - Wednesday night. For an event that started at 4 p.m. Thursday.
She had plenty of company. By midday, more than 600 people were already standing outside the Deep Ellum venue under the blazing summer sun for a chance to see their favorite author.
Being first in line has earned her some jealous comments by passers-by. Also, she says, threats on Twitter - saying she disobeyed instructions not to camp out for the event.
Welch, who doesn't have a car, paid her sister-in-law, with money she had made from babysitting, to drive them. They left "as soon as I could get here, after work."
"John Green is my favorite author, and this is my favorite by far of his books," Welch said. "When I found out it was becoming a movie, I just kinda freaked out."
Not far behind Welch in line, at lucky spot number six, was DD Sanchez, 16. Sanchez was first in line at a similar event in May 2014, which promised a meet-and-greet with Green in anticipation of [then-upcoming movie] The Fault in Our Stars. Welch was there too, but far back in line.
This year, she and her father drove five hours from Johnson City, Texas, to arrive at 1:20 a.m.
But Sanchez has no hard feelings about Welch stealing her thunder. They, and the other 10 in front of the line, amicably shared a blue tarp, rigged to shield against the blinding midday sun. In the process, they became friends.
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Scroll through the gallery below for photos from the Paper Towns Tour red carpet.
Though there was no guarantee they'd meet Green, even despite their hours of waiting, Welch and Sanchez explained it was worth it.
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Fandom and friendship collided at the front of the line, the girls said.
"We want to thank him for writing books so we can have these experiences," Carly Merritt, who was fourth in line, said, gesturing to the cluster of girls standing around her.
Hundreds have been camped out at The Bomb Factory for hours for @johngreen #papertownsTX. Here, the first 10 in line. pic.twitter.com/E1QURgu0fF— Emma Court (@emmarcourt) July 16, 2015
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Ultimately, the girls at the front of the line said, the characters of Paper Towns would have approved of their camping out. Especially the free-spirited Margo, one of the book's main characters.
"Oh yeah, Margo would have loved it," Welch said.
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Hidden Killer Ingredients In Your "Healthy" Food
The saying "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" isn't always true. The truth is that your food is so contaminated with hidden ingredients that it can set you up for exhausting chronic illness, cancer, heart disease, obesity, diabetes… the list is endless.
If it doesn't kill you, it sure will make you weak, sick, slow and miserable.
I know, because I was there.
Before I shifted my diet completely overnight, I was doomed by the doctors to live the rest of my life on the couch and in bed. A wheelchair was in my near future. That's in how much pain and how exhausted I was. You can read all about my story here if you want.
But today I want to focus on making you aware of the hidden dangers in your food: the ingredients that you're trying to ban by making healthier choices but bump into again without knowing.
The signals are showing up in how you feel and look like;
✗ You may have been trying to lose weight but can't get it off, or gained weight rapidly despite of eating well
✗ You are trying to catch up with sleep but wake up as tired as when you went to sleep
✗ You are exercising to get mental clarity but your brain is foggy as can be
✗ You've banned alcohol but you're drowsy and have headaches worthy calling a hangover
✗ You have been replacing meat by vegan options but your stomach is still acting up with acid reflux
Stop blaming yourself or your "lack of will power." Instead let's have a look at what your food is hiding from you.
First you need to understand that the food industry recently discovered a new money well: health. More specifically: the vegan movement is taking over the world.
Yay to that! But wait…
As happy as I am with the positive evolution towards more conscious eating, as concerned I am when I see how junk food is being taken over by what I call "healthy junk."
The industry has shifted its attention to an inspiring trend but with the same old mindset: making as much money as possible at the lowest cost possible.
That means they're pouring "natural" additives and tastemakers into our food, masking them with names they don't need to explain and labeling them as "vegan" or "plant based." And guess what. It sells BIG time!
What's most upsetting about that… YOU pay the price twice:
first at the counter and
with your health later.
As soon as something is being labeled as healthy, most of our suspicion fades. We want to trust that package with the promise so badly that we lose our common sense for what's real, true and genuine.
A very essential principle for you to understand is: as soon as a food has been heated and canned, pasteurized, bottled or packaged, "improved" with chemicals to give it a longer shelve life and the flavour you're hooked on, is beautified with refined and bleached ingredients, or in short: altered in any way, we're talking about processed food.
Sadly, that's the food 60% of the Americans consume daily.
In 2013, 80% of packaged foods in America were containing chemicals that were illegal and banned in other countries.
YOU can do better, because you are here. Learn what is making you feel so exhausted, what sizes you up year after year, what inflames your joints and what is killing you slowly.
I know that the truth is shocking because what you were taught to eat and consider to be "normal" is actually a threat to your wellbeing. Even the core essential products you were raised on: milk, cheese, your daily bread, yogurt, meat, chicken and fish need a critical eye and mind.
⤠ Educate yourself about what the industry is feeding you, why you keep craving foods you don't want to eat anymore, turning you into their junkie who wants (and needs) more of the same.
⤠ Learn the different names of how the industry labels ingredients to keep the truth from you
⤠ Read every label with that knowledge and make genuine choices that support your life and ambitions
I would like to share my personal experience, because that's how my investigation and this article started.
When I moved to New York from Belgium 6 months ago, I was delighted by all the healthy options I found in this city. And during the first months of my stay I was calming down from a very stressful time to make the big leap, honeymooning with my love, relaxing.
We investigated plant based restaurants, grabbed salads for lunch at the Diggin's and Sweet Greens that popped up everywhere, made our own salads at Wholefoods when we were in a hurry on the go and didn't feel like making and taking our own dishes. Why wouldn't we? It's all healthy and plant based and available! :-)
Nevertheless I started gaining weight very quickly.
First I thought: "Ok, that's what happens when you aren't running around from morning till night to get the deadline of a BIG move, fixing and staging the whole house to sell it, ticking hundreds of to-do's on your endless list, plus taking care of everyone while moving and shaking your business."
It was nothing alarming, as I was at the lowest end of my BMI and I could use a few extra pounds, but after a while, when I felt recovered and re-charged, I started wondering why I couldn't get those few too many pounds to my taste, back off with my plant foods.
The only thing that had changed was, that we were eating out more often, taking things easy while enjoying our new life together. And of course, I understood that my body had to adjust to a different continent, new foods.
Heck, even my hair and skin had to get used to the New York water :-)
My curiosity took me on a new quest: I started reading all the labels of "healthy," "vegan" and "plant based" foods wherever I came, the ingredients in the lovely looking and tasting salads at Wholefoods. And what I discovered was that we're being fooled by the industry. Again.
I must say that I was in shock, because what when you can't even trust the health food industry that everyone is so happy about?
I mean: by 2010 a whopping 1,525 million people had already hopped on the vegan wagon with the understanding they are making healthier choices.
But… are they?
By the way: I went on my yearly spring detox and lost the size that made me feel uncomfortable in my clothes in 2 weeks, feeling free from the burden of the hidden ingredients and their effects on me.
Now let's move on to what my findings are.
The 1 ingredient I found in EVERY salad and dish I considered as healthy and didn't give a second thought, was one that made all my alarm bells go off. It was Canola oil. So let's start there.
Originally coming from rapeseeds, over 90% of canola oil is now genetically modified, highly processed, bleached, refined and deodorized to turn the omega 3's that may cause rancid reaction, into the more stable trans fatty acids. The 4,6 % of trans fats don't have to be labeled and are unknown by you, the consumer.
Some of the health issues that canola oil can cause:
✗ promotes inflammation
✗ increases the risk of heart disease because of calcification and high intake of trans fats
✗ promotes rapid weight gain
✗ triggers brain issues, memory-loss and Alzheimers
✗ GMO-related issues: kidney disease, allergies, toxicity, immune-suppression, loss of nutrients, cancer
The FDA allows smaller amounts (under 0,5% per serving= 1 TBSP/14 grams of oil) of trans fats in vegetable oils without mentioning them on the label.
So to make sure you're safe you need to read the small print that states "Zero grams trans-fat per serving."
Look for high-quality, more expensive oils such as an excellent cold pressed virgin olive oil or raw coconut oil.
To demonstrate what I mean, here are some of the "healthy" salads that all contained canola oil (I circled them for you) and are serious food for thought. As you can tell by the pretty empty containers in the pictures, people love them… happy as they are to scoop up a healthy salad they don't have to spend time on.
Made of the starch of (GMO) corn, this syrup has to add more volume to food, soften textures, prevent that sugars crystallize and give that sweet touch most people are addicted to.
Researchers have found that its chemical structure encourages overeating, upsetting the metabolism and of course you know the result of that: more belly fat.
So I was really bummed to see Corn syrup in prepared salads that looked like they only have 3 ingredients: green beans, tomatoes and bell peppers. We all just want more taste to nature's simple ingredients, and so, your supermarket will add what it takes to perk up that salad so that you will scoop up generously.
Since the name "high fructose corn syrup" has been under fire lately, I see more and more how it is being labeled as the short "corn syrup." Somehow it has a softer sound to it, but it's still exactly the same harmful sweetener.
Very disturbing is that you will find this highly processed and blood sugar damaging sweetener in healthy snacks, energy bars, in dressings and sauces, even in meat products.
Be aware of how it's being covered with other inventive and misleading names such as:
⤞ D-glucose
⤞ Dextrose: the name given to glucose, derived from corn
⤞ Corn sugar: applies to both high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) and glucose/dextrose
⤞ Fructose: principal fruit in sugar but extracted from all fiber and nutrients it's harmful for your health
⤞ Corn sweetener
⤞Corn syrup solids
Aside from the harmful GMO effects (most corn is genetically modified), peaking your blood sugar levels with this sugar sets you up for diabetes and obesity.
But here's more about corn syrup that is being taken as safe enough to add to what you consider as good for you.
✗ High fructose corn syrup affects memory and slows down cognitive (learning) processes
✗ It adds up empty unsuspected calories that cause rapid weight gain
✗ Drives body-wide inflammation (and an inflamed body triggers chronic disease and cancer)
✗ Peaks your insulin levels into insulin resistance, causing diabetes type 2
✗ It's fuelling tumors, cancer cells
✗ Increases high blood pressure, increases the risk for heart disease
"THERE IS NO SAFE AMOUNT TO CONSUME POISON" Marie-Claire Hermans
We love sugar. It's our drug. It brings that soothing rush over our brain, the exact same rush as cocaine. Which is why it's so difficult to ban all sugar in your life: it's a socially accepted addiction, openly promoted and present in every packaged food you buy.
Even when you understand that you can no longer be controlled by your sweet cravings, your brain will look for a way to get that same experience by looking for healthy alternatives.
The health industry understands that it has to follow that need within the plant based movement and is coming up with some smart ideas to get around the bad effects and reputation.
"Natural" sugars could bring a satisfying solution as they still contain calories and nutrients.
Brown sugar, cane sugar, xylitol, brown rice sugar, maple syrup, honey and yes, agave: they all sound pretty ok.
But they have all been processed in one way or another (just have a look at the white Xylitol). Most of them have been heated, are being extracted from all fiber, were bleached, thickened, thinned out with low cost sugars (your supermarket honey isn't honey most of the times), you name it.
But it's not just about the fact if you are using a supposedly healthy alternative or not:
It's about the reaction of the body to ALL sweetness. As soon as the body picks up a sense of sweet, the pancreas will react by producing more insulin to balance the blood sugar levels.
So, even with the "natural" sweeteners that are now easy to find in every store around the corner, you are not safe, your brain is not letting go, you haven't gone through the withdrawal that comes with banning sugar from your life.
It's a mentality and mindset shift to ban sugar.
"What about Stevia?" you may think.
Only when you put a Stevia plant on your window sill, pick the leaves as you go and use them as you use herbs.
Take this general rule: everything that is green in its natural state has to be green in a powdered form.
Usually Stevia comes as snow white powder. That means it has been processed, heated, bleached to make it more attractive to the consumer.
A sugar in its true natural state is the best way to consume sugar: eat or use a whole fruit (fresh or dried): its fiber has the function to level out the peak of the sugar intake.
Dates or figs are a much better option to add to your desserts. You can blend them with some water and lemon juice if you want them as a syrup or just throw them in your blender as they are.
Banana, an apple, a peach, some raisins… those are the real natural sweeteners that give you a chance to keep your blood sugar levels balanced.
Still in the sweet department, but the bitter truth must be told: you're not helping yourself by leaving out sugar and replacing them by artificial sweeteners. Here's why:
You are still addicted to the taste (and thought) of sweet.
Even artificial sweeteners encourage your taste buds to keep looking for something sweeter. And that's what you get: they have an intensity that's 200 to 13.000 times sweeter than regular sugar.
Uncontrollable cravings are now a fact and your draining reality.
When your taste buds are being over stimulated on a daily basis, it's normal that you find all truly healthy foods plain, unattractive and dull.
Tasteful fruit and vegetables have no flavour at all in your opinion and you turn away from them, looking for the processed foods that meet your numbed sense of taste and for carbohydrates that feed into your sugar cravings.
Saccharin, aspartame, acesulfame, neotame, sucralose: they are added to most processed foods, beverages in the softdrink industry but also in what is sold under a "healthy" label.
Here's a line up…
Chewing gum, breath mints, beverages, alcoholic beverages, dairy products, salad dressings, desserts, candies, gelatine, preserves, baked goods, toothpastes, mouthwashes, yogurts, vitamins, children's vitamins, pharmaceuticals, breakfast cereals, snack foods, soups and tabletop sweeteners…
No wonder it's hard to avoid them and break with the cycle of addiction.
Further more, artificial sweeteners are hard to detect for the consumer as most of the above processed products are labeled as "sugar-free."
But every sugar-free food is hiding a silent artificial sweetener to meet your need and maintain it, so you will want more.
On a longer term, this trend will leave you deprived from real nutrients and cause you to gain weight.
But it doesn't stop there. The zero calorie substitutes cause a real risk for your health: scientists believe that there is a relationship between sweeteners and certain cancers, chronic fatigue syndrome, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, multiple sclerosis, autism and systemic lupus.
⤞ Stop throwing those aspartames in your coffee, avoid processed foods and yes, go through the withdrawal that every addiction takes to get to the other side of misery. You are worth it! ⤝
To make a long story short: ban ALL foods that hide "isolates." Carrageenan is just one of them. But I'm mentioning it as one of the most used examples, also in healthy and vegan products.
An isolate is an ingredient extracted from a whole food.
As a whole food it has many benefits, but as soon as it stands alone it loses all its nutritional value and it behaves as a toxin that is very harmful for your health.
As an isolate, carrageenan becomes a strong promoter for cancer, weakens the immune system and is linked to digestive disease, ulcers and chronic disease such as diabetes.
You may already know that carrageenan is a thickening agent, preservative and emulsifier for many processed foods and creamy drinks, extracted from Irish moss, a nutritious sea weed. That's why you will see it labeled as a "natural" ingredient (you're getting the picture now).
You will find it in yogurt, meat products, dairy products (cheeses, Cottage cheese, ricotta cheese,…), soy drinks, ice creams, prepared puddings, chocolates, dips, spreads, powdered milk, coffee creamers (Half & Half), toothpaste, beer, pet foods, but also …
in your "healthy" organic almond and coconut milk (although there is a change in the make in that area), certain vegan cheeses, in your beloved protein powder and supplements, in prepared foods that have to make you lose weight but do the opposite. The list is endless and worry-some. Read your labels!
If you are concerned about finding organic products that don't contain carrageenan, visit the Cornucopia Institute. I don't usually link through, but they have an impressive list that will help you with your shopping.
⤞ The message of this paragraph is: ban all foods that contain isolated ingredients, especially carrageenan.
Instead, you can easily make your own thickener from real Irish moss and enjoy all of its amazing benefits.
That's one of the many things that I teach my busy clients, so if you want to learn how to take full control in your kitchen to master your body and life, book a breakthrough call with me so we can talk about what's on your mind and see how I can help.
We had a very unpleasant experience as a family with soy and it was then, when I discovered that what was assumed as a truly healthy alternative for cows milk when it popped up in the eighties, was actually the opposite.
It started when I had to find a substitute for my 6-month old son, who turned out to be extremely allergic to all dairy when I started transferring from breast feeding to the suggested powder milk for babies.
He started crying and hardly stopped. He always had several infections going and coughed as if he was smoking a package a day. Oh, if I had only known what I know now! We shifted to the new -then only- alternative that paediatricians recommended: soy milk.
I made his milk bottles with soy, later made dressings, sauces, desserts with soy. I made his yogurt with it, learned how to make ice cream that he could eat, cookies, you name it.
Even though he had such a sweet character and heart, he grew into a boy who had multiple anger outbreaks a day, in the end aggressive without any explainable reason. We could see how much he suffered and in a moment of rest he would say: "I can't help it. I just can't control it."
No matter how many doctors and therapists we asked for advice, no matter what we tried, how we adjusted the rest of his diet (he also had a spastic colon and was on the couch with heavy migraines most of the time), there was no relief.
Until one day I came home from work (he was then 14) and he told me all excited and upset at the same time, how he had watched a documentary on television (this is pre-internet era): a study had found how soy was related to behavioural problems in children. "I threw everything out!" he said triumphing.
We didn't hesitate one moment and left out all soy from that moment on. His behavioural issues disappeared in the next month and we couldn't be happier to see him turn into the sweet boy we knew, he was. With the help of a (finally) excellent homeopathic doctor, we were able to heal the allergies, his colon and the disabling migraines.
When soy became a real rage and trusted source for all kinds of children products, we often vented our concerns at our table.
Because what we had found in the meantime is, that soy contains 80 times more the mineral manganese than in breast milk!
Consumed in healthy ranges, it enables cells to obtain energy.
⤞ In high doses, it can produce "Manganism," a syndrome that can trigger spasmodic, often violent behaviour. Combined with the proven link to decreased dopamine production, I could finally understand how trapped my son had felt all these years (He is now a happy man with a lovely family).
Studies are still bending over the link of soy with ADHD but they do confirm that behavioural problems can result from manganese exposure.
As with all "new" foods that enter and conquer the market, it takes years -if not a few decades- to discover their healing, but also their harmful side effects. That's what happened with soy products, too. One by one, the hidden dangers of non-fermented soy come to the surface.
✗ The most common known one is that most soy is genetically modified, a danger to your overall health
✗ Soy is loaded with phytoestrogens that can block the estrogen hormone
✗ Its goitrogens can mess up your thyroid function by depressing it
✗ Soy is linked to increased risk for breast cancer, brain damage…
✗ as well as to infant "abnormalities"
⤞ If you want to consume soy, only buy certified organic, GMO-free products!
⤞Only use fermented soy products: they provide you with the anti-ageing Vitamin K2 (promotes heart health and redirects calcium to your bones)
⤞ Use the healthy, fermented soy products moderately (nato, nato miso, miso, tempeh)
⤞ Always realize that, when a product is genuine, truly healthy, raw, organic, they WILL brag about it on their packaging and labels. If not, they will try to cover up, be vague in their descriptions.
⤞ Always look for the certified organic, non-GMO label and clear mentions in pronounceable (read: edible) words.
⤞ Be alarmed every time you see the term "natural." It may have started as a natural ingredient but has been highly processed until it becomes toxic.
When you get confused, keep a few common sense rules in the back of your mind.
Nature designed all its foods for you to be consumed without any process
A "natural" ingredient is only natural when it still has its natural colour (and ideally, shape)
Never consume "isolates:" they are extracted from natural ingredients and now carcinogenic
I hope this article was helpful, eye-opening to you or at least: raising your awareness. There are many more hidden ingredients in your supposedly healthy food, but when you keep your eyes open for these 5, you will already make a big difference to yourself and your loved ones!
If you want to know what is the most under estimated and missed toxic place in your kitchen, I'm happy to give you a tour in your fridge door in this video.
Let me wrap this up with a thought. Keep the industry out of your kitchen and bring your kitchen back to where you can cultivate your and your family's health: in the heart of your own home.
Want help with replacing the killer ingredients with kickass alternatives? I offer virtual and live VIP days so you can get the full inside scoop of how to detox your kitchen and set it up for a fresh start in 1 day!
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