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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Schedule Schmedule
Weekly Homemaking Schedule... works for me, doesn't work for me, works for me... okay, so it does work - I just rebel against it.
I remember a time in my life, 6 years ago, when I was following flylady properly and as a result, there was next to nothing that needed doing around the house. Bliss.
I'm not knee high in junk or anything (that was my teenage years!) but I am sick of not knowing where to begin, or seriously thinking nothing needs doing and then waking up the next morning and remembering that the ironing was desperate, the milk needed to be made up and I forgot to bake the bread - or whatever... just things that demonstrated that the evening off caused more problems than joy!!
For the last 6 months I've nutted out a schedule and I think this week I have hit on one that will work for us - when I make it work of course, that's the key :o) It's working because I started in the right place
Where to begin in making a schedule?
First I needed to identify what in life was important for us. Until I did that, no schedule was going to fit. By important, I don't mean which things need to be clean for my sanity. I mean the big rocks, life changing stuff. The big one for us was keeping the Sabbath. Once I knew that, a whole bunch of other things fell into place.
To keep our Sabbath (Sunday), it automatically means I need to prepare a meal the day before. So that went onto the weekly schedule . I want the house clean for the Sabbath, so that also went on the schedule for Saturday. I call it a weekly home blessing, a flylady term :o)
I also want cleaning to be as simple as possible. That means it needs to be done regularly so it's not a huge chore. And often enough that if it needs to be skipped on the odd occasion, that we're not going to be living in filth. And thus a 2nd weekly home blessing was introduced, with a slightly different cleaning list but much the same. Some tasks were split between the 2 lists, some beds on one WHB, other beds on the other WHB list. Because I need to clean on Saturday in preparation for the Sabbath, I've then put the 2nd WHB on Tuesday
Then I thought what I want the house to look like the rest of the time and I figured my floors need mopping an extra couple of times a week, so I added that in. And then the house was done. On paper of course. And as I type this, it is time for my Tuesday WHB lol
Other things we do that help us work out our schedule... Wednesday's: raw milk must be collected in the afternoon, so this is also a good time to go to the library or the supermarket. The market is also open on a Wednesday, so if I am good, we'll go to the market, then the library or park and then on to collect the milk and home again. I'm going to need a bit of practice on that one.
Here's what I have on paper
Daily: Load of washing: including fold and put away
Saturday: WHB 1 hour, cook Sunday's meal
Sunday: Evening - sweep, mop, bake bread and cake
Monday: Sweep, Ironing
Tuesday: WHB 1 hour, bake bread
Wednesday: Sweep & Mop in the evening
Thursday: Sweep
Friday: Bake bread, sweep & mop in the morning
Yes, there's a lot of sweeping and mopping around here, but we all live here, all the time and so it's needed. The children help with tidying and half of the tasks above
There's no huge secret to it other than this: You just have to do it! Tweak it some, then do it again and again, tweaking as needed!! You will enjoy your home and life so much more!
(I have a house cleaning theory that I'll share another day. It's for those that think they're too busy or whatever to keep a clean home, all the time)
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A CAMERA has captured Prince Harry stroking Meghan's back further fuelling rumours that she is pregnant.
The loving moment was filmed at the WellChild Awards in London on Tuesday night while the royal couple spoke to 10-year-old Scarlett Mathison.
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Rating: 7.2/10
Director: Imtiaz Ali
Writer: Imtiaz Ali
Stars: Deepika Padukone, Ranbir Kapoor, Javed Sheikh, Faraaz Servaia
Runtime: 2h 19min
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 27 Nov 2015
Storyline: Tamasha is about the journey of someone who has lost his edge in trying to follow socially acceptable conventions of society. The film is based on the central theme of abrasion and loss of self that happens in an attempt to find oneself.
All stories are same and yet one needs to find their own story. But before you start the journey of creating your own story, one must free oneself from being a character in stories created by other people. Ved (Ranbir Kapur) is one such character displaying erratic behavior who realizes that the end to his suffering is to create his own story.
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The film moves to real time where Tara meets adult Ved, while both are holidaying in Corsica. They come up with an amusing verbal pact to keep their real identities undisclosed. They explore the island together. They pretend to be "Don" and "Mona Darling" and talk in filmy dialouges. When she realizes she is falling in love with Ved, Tara decides to leave Corsica despite the romantic friendship with him. The story flashes back to young Ved who questions the story-teller about the reason for happy times ending quickly and notices each story has a sad episode in it.
Tara returns to Kolkata, India. Tara's father (played by Nikhil Bhagat) hands over his tea business to Tara, she expands it by starting a line of tea boutiques, taking the company ahead. She is off to Delhi for work and four years have passed. One day, Tara surprisingly meets Ved, who is now a product manager. They reveal their original identities. They plan for a date at a Japanese restaurant. She expects him to talk like the days in Corsica but Ved talks about business. She calls Ved up home to be intimate. Ved leaves for his home and next morning Ved wakes up on time, completes the morning chores, wipes the car, ignores the transgender on the way, lets a female colleague into the lift—all this happens on his way to the office. He fixes a plan for meeting Tara again in the evening. Each morning to evening, similar incidents repeat monotonously. On Ved's birthday, he proposes to Tara but she is unhappy with the real-life Ved. She declines the proposal. Ved leaves for his home by an auto-rickshaw. The driver (played by Ishteyak Khan) narrates how his dreams of becoming a singer were crushed. Ved breaks down and his residual mental disorder is triggered.
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The level of MRD quantified by flow cytometry is more informative than a 0.01% threshold and independently predicts OS.
There was approximately 1 year survival benefit per log depletion. A lower cut point for predicting improved outcome was not reached.
The detection of minimal residual disease (MRD) in myeloma using a 0.01% threshold (10−4) after treatment is an independent predictor of progression-free survival (PFS), but not always of overall survival (OS). However, MRD level is a continuous variable, and the predictive value of the depth of tumor depletion was evaluated in 397 patients treated intensively in the Medical Research Council Myeloma IX study. There was a significant improvement in OS for each log depletion in MRD level (median OS was 1 year for ≥10%, 4 years for 1% to <10%, 5.9 years for 0.1% to <1%, 6.8 years for 0.01% to <0.1%, and more than 7.5 years for <0.01% MRD). MRD level as a continuous variable determined by flow cytometry independently predicts both PFS and OS, with approximately 1 year median OS benefit per log depletion. The trial was registered at www.isrctn.com as #68454111.
Minimal residual disease (MRD) in myeloma is an independent predictor of progression-free survival (PFS)1⇓-3 and is under consideration as a surrogate trial endpoint to improve the identification of effective treatments,4,5 particularly for frontline trials, which now require 5 to 10 years of follow-up to identify survival differences.6 Conventional response assessment is unsuitable in this setting because of insufficient sensitivity and/or because changes in serum M-protein concentration may only occur several months after tumor depletion because of a long immunoglobulin half-life. In addition, MRD-negative patients in a partial response may have a similar outcome to MRD-negative patients in a complete response (CR) and better outcomes than patients with an MRD-positive CR.2,3
Acceptance of MRD as a surrogate endpoint requires correlation with PFS and overall survival (OS) benefit in multiple trials. Although most studies confirm longer PFS for MRD-negative patients, OS benefits have been more difficult to demonstrate, at least in multivariate models. This may reflect the development of more effective treatments for relapsed disease,7 as well as also the fact that optimal timing for MRD assessment is not known. MRD assays are quantitative and can assess a large range of disease levels,8 and the degree of tumor depletion may be more informative than a positive-negative analysis.9 Quantitative analysis may also improve understanding of the kinetics of response to specific treatments in multicomponent sequential strategies typical of current myeloma trials.
The Medical Research Council Myeloma IX study was a multicenter, randomized phase 3 trial, with protocol, clinical results, and cytogenetic characterization all having been previously reported.6,10 The protocol was approved by the relevant institutional review boards, and all patients provided written informed consent. This analysis involves 397 patients randomly assigned to receive CTD (cyclophosphamide, thalidomide, and dexamethasone) or CVAD (cyclophosphamide, vincristine, doxorubicin, and dexamethasone) for 4 to 6 cycles, and then high-dose melphalan (200 mg/m2) and autologous stem cell transplant (ASCT). Bone marrow aspirates for MRD assessment were obtained at the end of induction and day 100 after ASCT. Patients were then randomly assigned to maintenance thalidomide (50-100 mg daily) or no further therapy at day 100 after ASCT. Flow cytometry for MRD detection was performed as reported previously, briefly assessing 500 000 cells incubated with 6-color antibody combinations including CD138/CD38/CD45/CD19 with CD56/CD27 in all cases and CD81/CD117 in some cases, as required.3 Statistical analysis was also performed as reported previously, with PFS and OS data landmarked to the date of the MRD assessment, with a median follow-up of 71 months.3 For the Cox proportional hazards model, analyses of PFS and OS variables were considered continuous unless otherwise stated. Simple transformations were also considered, and beta-2-microglobulin (B2M) and MRD were subsequently log-transformed. Hemoglobin and platelets were used as stratification factors, and these stratification codings were used in the model. Cytogenetic groups were classified as unfavorable for patients with gain(1q), del(1p32), t(4;14), t(14;20), t(14;16), and del(17p), or favorable for hyperdiploidy, t(11;14), and t(6;14), as previously described,3 or unknown/inevaluable. For the multivariate model, all variables were included to ensure the MRD result allows for all the other variables, whether significant or not.
Results and discussion
The level of residual disease at day 100 after ASCT varied across 5 logs: less than 0.01% (ie, MRD-negative) in 247/397 (62.2%), 0.01% to less than 0.1% in 49/397 (12.3%), 0.1% to less than 1% in 72/397 (18.1%), 1% to less than 10% in 26/397 (6.5%), and 10% or higher in 3/397 (0.8%; supplemental Table 1, available on the Blood Web site). The PFS and OS for individuals with 1% or more residual disease was comparable to that of individuals with a partial response/minor response/stable disease (supplemental Figure 1), confirming that MRD assessment is most relevant in patients achieving good-quality M-protein responses. The level of MRD correlated with PFS/OS (Figure 1). Across the 5-log MRD range, the median PFS values were 0.8, 1.7, 1.9, 2.7, and 3.1 years, respectively (P < .001); median OS values were 1, 4, 5.9, and 6.8 years and "not reached," respectively (P < .001), with 5.9 years' median follow-up. This pattern was also demonstrable when the analysis was restricted to patients achieving a conventional CR (Figure 1C-D).
Induction therapy affected MRD. The proportion of patients achieving less than 0.01% MRD was higher with CTD than CVAD (25% vs 13%, respectively, after induction [P = .0039]; 71% vs 54%, respectively, after ASCT [P < .001]).3 Induction treatment also affected the distribution and overall levels of MRD, such that a higher proportion of CR patients were MRD-negative after CTD, and a higher proportion had more than 0.1% MRD after CVAD (supplemental Table 3). We therefore investigated the kinetics of response to induction and ASCT. Bone marrow samples were available both at end of induction and at day 100 after ASCT in 253/397 cases, of whom 47/253 had less than 0.01% MRD at both times, 96/253 had 0.01% or more MRD at both times, and 110/253 achieved less than 0.01% MRD after ASCT only. In those patients with 0.01% or more MRD at the end of induction, the level of disease was approximately 0.5 log lower in those achieving less than 0.01% MRD after ASCT (postinduction median, 0.44%; range, 0.02%-14%) compared with those with 0.01% or higher MRD after ASCT (postinduction median, 1.5% MRD; range, 0.02%-25%; P < .001). For patients with MRD at both times, ASCT resulted in a median 0.67 log tumor depletion (best 2.6 log depletion, worst 1.4 log increase). For patients with 0.01% or higher MRD after induction and less than 0.01% MRD post-ASCT, the minimum log depletion was higher than 1.7 in 50% of cases. The log tumor depletion was similar for patients whether they achieved CR or not (supplemental Table 4). Patients achieving less than 0.01% MRD typically had a 2-log tumor reduction with ASCT, although more sensitive MRD assessments would be required to determine the true tumor depletion.
Given that CR patients had residual disease levels detectable across 4 or more logs, we chose to perform our initial multivariate analysis in all patients regardless of M protein response. This demonstrated that both quantitative MRD assessment and cytogenetic risk profile were the only factors that predicted independently for both PFS and OS (P < .001; Table 1). The benefit of attaining a conventional CR loses independent significance when considered with MRD level, as do International Staging System and B2M. This analysis was also performed in CR patients, and again quantitative MRD and cytogenetics were the only factors that independently predicted for PFS and OS (multivariate Cox model for PFS, P = .0001; for OS, P = .002; supplemental Table 2).
The prognostic value of MRD is also independent of treatment type, with patients achieving less than 0.01% residual disease having the same outcome whether they received CVAD or CTD induction.11 Patients with adverse cytogenetics had slightly lower MRD (median log MRD, −1.63 for adverse vs −1.53 for favorable cytogenetics); the difference was not significant (P = .40), and this confirms previous reports that the worse outcome for adverse cytogenetics is not a result of posttreatment disease burden.1,2
There was no evidence for a lower cutpoint to predict survival benefit per log tumor depletion; therefore, more sensitive approaches are likely to provide better prediction of outcome. The 0.01% MRD threshold was originally based on technical capability,12 but quantitative MRD detection is now possible at 10−5 by flow cytometry and 10−6 by high-throughput sequencing, and there is evidence that very deep remissions predict even better survival.13 Current treatment approaches are now sufficiently effective that high-sensitivity quantitative MRD analysis is required for meaningful response measurement, particularly in large multicenter trials. As discussed recently at a US Food and Drug Administration roundtable meeting,5 these data strongly support the role of MRD assessment as surrogate endpoint for survival in clinical trials.
Contribution: A.C.R., W.M.G., G.J.M., J.A.C., and R.G.O. conceived and designed the study; F.E.D., G.C., G.H.J., G.J.M., J.A.C., and R.G.O. provided study materials or patients; A.C.R., W.M.G., R.M.d.T., S.E.B., M.T.D., and R.G.O. collected and assembled the data; A.C.R., W.M.G., R.M.d.T., M.T.D., J.A.C., and R.G.O. analyzed and interpreted the data; all authors participated in the writing of the manuscript; and all authors approved the final manuscript.
Conflict-of-interest disclosure: A.C.R. acted as a consultant for Celgene and BD Biosciences; received honoraria from Genzyme, GlaxoSmithKline, and Roche; and received other remuneration from BD Biosciences. F.E.D. acted as a consultant for Celgene, Ortho Biotech, and Novartis and received honoraria and other remuneration from Ortho Biotech and Celgene. W.M.G. acted as a consultant for Celgene and received other remuneration from Celgene and Ortho Biotech. G.C. acted as a consultant for and received honoraria from Celgene and Janssen-Cilag, received research funding from Celgene, and received other remuneration from Celgene and Janssen-Cilag. G.J.M. acted as a consultant for, received honoraria from, and received other remuneration from Celgene, Merck, Novartis, and Johnson & Johnson. J.A.C. received honoraria and other remuneration from Science Agency and Network. G.H.J. received honoraria from Celgene and Janssen-Cilag. R.G.O. received honoraria and other remuneration from Celgene and Ortho Biotech. S.B. received other remuneration from Celgene and Ortho Biotech.
Correspondence: Roger G. Owen, Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service Laboratory, Level 3, Bexley Wing, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom, LS9 7TF; e-mail: rogerowen{at}nhs.net.
A.C.R. and W.M.G. contributed equally to this study.
The online version of this article contains a data supplement.
The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. Therefore, and solely to indicate this fact, this article is hereby marked "advertisement" in accordance with 18 USC section 1734.
- Submitted July 22, 2014.
- Accepted January 16, 2015.
- © 2015 by The American Society of Hematology


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Rob Beckett - Wallop
Rob Beckett - Wallop
Tuesday 01 & Wednesday 02 October 2019
Pavilion Theatre, Bournemouth
Due to popular demand, the Mouth of The South has added a second date at Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre for his show next year!
Rob Beckett is back on tour with a brand new stand up show. It's been a busy few years for the Mouth of the South and he's coming to see you to fill you in and make you laugh.
Host of BBC One's All Together Now and team captain on Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats. He is also the star of BBC One's Live At The Apollo, Would I Lie To You?, Channel 4's 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, BBC Two's Mock The Week, ITV's Play To The Whistle, ITV2's Celebrity Juice and Sky's A League of Their Own. And he is a host of Dave's podcast, The Magic Sponge, alongside Jimmy Bullard and Ian Smith.
"There are hints that his eyes are set firmly on arenas that are as big as his mouth of his "– Metro
'Relentlessly smiley, perpetually grinning Londoner whose unshowy, unpretentious but thoroughly funny shtick has every chance of winning him a big audience…'– Guardian
"Lights up the stage with his magnetic personality (not to mention the dazzle from his teeth) "- Mail on Sunday
14+ (Parental Guidance) Likely to be swearing and adult content


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YARMOUTH — The largest American elm tree in New England, affectionately known as Herbie, came crashing to the ground Tuesday morning.
The majestic tree grew for more than 200 years and was removed in a little over five hours. A few dozen onlookers and news crews watched quietly, as falling snow shrouded the neighborhood in a blanket of white.
Herbie stood on the corner of East Main Street and Yankee Drive and was 110 feet tall. The tree's canopy spread 120 feet wide and his trunk measured 23 feet around. He battled Dutch elm disease for 50 years, but lost the fight on Jan. 19.
Frank Knight served as the town's tree warden for 50 years, and saved the tree 14 times from destruction. He sprayed with pesticides, inoculated the trunk and cut off diseased branches. But Knight, 101, said he accepted it was time to let his friend go.
Tuesday morning he said there is a time for everything, and Herbie's time had come.
"It is the time for him to go, and I'm just grateful he was around for as long as he was," Knight said. "It's his time now, and soon it will be mine."
Donna Felker grew up in the house closest to Herbie and gave the tree its name. Like Knight, Felker said all things must come to an end.
"It is an eventuality for everyone, but I am going to miss it," she said. "The house will be hotter now in the summer and there will be more noise from the highway. Wildlife will have to find another place to live and everyone will miss the pleasure of looking at it."
Knight arrived after Herbie was already a mere stick figure of his former self, but watched the tree's largest limbs being cut from its trunk. He saw its massive body pulled to the ground, and stood next to the tree's huge stump after it was cut down.
Knight's son, 68-year-old Dick Knight, said he grew up hearing about trees – but Herbie in particular.
"My diet was made up of trees for breakfast, lunch and dinner," the younger Knight said. "It was the discussion at every meal and all the time."
Like his father, Dick Knight worked in the wood business. Frank was a pulpwood and land contractor and Dick was in the pulpwood and Christmas tree business.
Dick Knight said it was poetic that Herbie was scheduled to be removed Monday, Jan. 18, but a snow storm delayed the plans.
"Mother Nature always has the final say," he said.
The snowfall Tuesday morning did not deter Whitney Tree Service of Gray from removing the tree a little before noon.
Matt Jackson, Whitney general manager, said his crew of nine removed some limbs last Thursday, which made Tuesday's job easier. They started at 6 a.m.
Maarten Zeaan operated the crane that plucked the massive branches from its trunk and placed them gently on the ground. Brandon Brewer was in the bucket 100 feet in the air cutting pieces off the giant elm.
"It was exciting to be up there," Brewer said. "I've been up that high before, but this has such historical value. It is a monster tree."
Dean Cornish of Topsham came to watch Herbie's removal. As an arborist and a member of the Topsham tree committee, he said he wanted to see the progress the crew was making.
Suzanne Chinatti travelled from Connecticut to witness Herbie's last day. She said Frank Knight's dedication to save the tree was inspiring.
"I think this is such an amazing piece of history," she said. "The whole town cares about this tree. I hope people can learn something from this."
Dorothy McAloney said she grew up in a house near Herbie, and came from North Yarmouth to watch his removal. Her father, Willis Reed, was the selectman who nominated Knight as tree warden in 1956.
"It's amazing to think Herbie was standing here when Maine was Massachusetts and when Yarmouth was North Yarmouth," she said. "If only it could talk and share all it has seen."
Herbie was originally estimated to be 240 years old, but after examining the rings inside Herbie's trunk, Peter Lammert of the Maine Forest Service said he believes Herbie was about 212.
But Lammert, who has been counting tree rings since he was 8 years old, said his calculation may be a little conservative.
In addition to Lammert, Jan Santerre and Laura Zitske of Project Canopy were on hand to answer questions.
Santerre, director of the Project Canopy, said Herbie held the title as the largest standing American elm in New England.
She said trees that line streets have many benefits. They help foster safe, more sociable neighborhoods, keep cities cooler, improve property values and offer habitat for wildlife.
"At its root though, it is something less scientific than all that," she said. "Trees like Herbie are beautiful, awe-inspiring and majestic."
She said she hopes people are inspired by Knight, and feel the urge to give something back to their communities. Although the felling of the mighty elm is sad, she said it is for the best, because Dutch elm disease could spread to other trees.
"Frank is realistic about today," she said. "He knows that like us, trees are mortal. They are beautiful and worth caring for, but they get sick and die like us."
To invest in the future of trees in Yarmouth, Debra Hopkins, the town's current tree warden, has created a tree trust. The trust will help pay for the care and replacement of trees and will bring in disease-resistant elms and other species.
Hopkins has also arranged for Herbie's wood to be cut and kiln-dried at Joe Sullivan & Sons in New Gloucester, so local woodworkers can create lasting memories of the tree.
According to the Project Herbie Web site, items created from Herbie's wood will be for sale tentatively starting March 1 at Yarmouth Community Services, 200 Main St., and Estabrook's, at 337 Main St. Crafts available will include 1,000 wooden bookmarks, 400 cutting boards and 600 ornamental medallions.
"This whole process has been educational and fun," Hopkins said. "I have met so many wonderful people, and I'm proud to have worked with Frank on the project."
After Hopkins helped Knight back into her car, she turned and faced Herbie's trunk, lying in the sawdust-covered snow. Tears welled in her eyes.
"It's so sad to see him down," she said. "If it wasn't for Frank, this wouldn't be a story."
Amy Anderson can be reached at 781-3661 ext. 110 or [email protected]r.net
Herbie's massive trunk is prepared for the final cut on Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Yarmouth.Whitney Tree Service workers are dwarfed by Herbie's massive trunk on Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Yarmouth.A message for Herbie, scrawled on a truck windshield in Tuesday's snowstorm.
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Former Yarmouth Tree Warden Frank Knight, 101, center, watches as Peter Lammert of the Maine Forest Service counts Herbie's growth rings after the largest American elm in New England was cut down on Tuesday, Jan. 19.Peter Lammert of the Maine Forest Service examines Herbie's rings after the American elm, the tallest in New England, was felled on Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Yarmouth. Lammert, who is also Thomaston's tree warden, estimated Herbie to be 212 years old.
A crew from Whitney Tree Service in Gray moves a crane into place in preparation for the removal of Herbie, New England's largest American elm at 110 feet, on Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Yarmouth.
Part of Herbie dangles from the crane during the removal process on Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Yarmouth.What's left of Herbie begins to topple Tuesday, Jan. 19, in Yarmouth.Snow rises in a cloud around Herbie as the massive trunk hits the ground on Tuesday, Jan. 19.
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Elsie de Wolfe, the pioneering, proselytizing, fashion-obsessed, and madly social decorator (1858–1950), launched many a trend in her long life. Early in her career, in the first and second decades of the 20th century, the former actress popularized Frenchified decors, pretty but uncluttered rooms splashed with flowered chintz. That was followed, in the 1920s, by zebra skins for carpeting staircases, and mirrored walls as well as mirrored furniture. De Wolfe also had a mania for green-and-white stripes, black-and-white color schemes, and fabrics that mimicked animal pelts, namely ocelot and leopard. But what I admire most of all in de Wolfe's oeuvre are her baths. Not just any baths, mind you, but baths that were planned as actual rooms rather than merely as spaces in which to scrub, shave, and primp.
Elsie de Wolfe's Iconic Bath at Villa Trianon
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Back in 1981, photographer David Massey traveled from his home in Paris to Villa Trianon, de Wolfe's still fully furnished country house in the château-side village of Versailles, to snap the historic spot from top to bottom for an issue of House & Garden. (Sadly, the original film has been lost; our archives possess only a scan of the published spread, so forgive the center seam.) Its previous resident had been an heir to the defunct French throne, Prince Louis d'Orléans, Duc de Nemours, who lived there with his spinster daughter, Blanche, for nearly a decade before De Wolfe and her lover, literary agent Bessy Marbury, purchased the rather tired four-bedroom residence in 1905, for the bargain price of about $12,000, or $310,000 in today's money, and thoroughly if sensitively renovated it.
At the time of Massey's visit, Villa Trianon's chic contents had been reverently preserved for decades by De Wolfe's devoted client and erstwhile landlord, French industrialist Paul-Louis Weiller (1893–1993), who used it as one of his numerous weekend houses. Ultimately he decided to sell the place and auction off De Wolfe's belongings at Paris's Hotel George V by Ader Picard Tajan. The sale would erase a prime surviving example of the old-fashioned style of a hedonistic yet hard-nosed native New Yorker whose advice to aspiring young decorators was simple: Find a rich client. De Wolfe's had been Henry Clay Frick, the steel magnate, and the commission set her on the road to success. As Janet Flanner wrote in a 1938 New Yorker profile, the tastemaker (by then coupled in a socially advantageous mariage blanc with Sir Charles Mendl, a British press attaché cum spy), "is said to have made a million in her decorating business, which she invested in public utilities, and to have a fortune today of about two and one half million dollars, invested principally in English holdings managed through the Mendelssohn bank of Amsterdam." Handily enough, Mendelssohn's Amsterdam director was Fritz Mannheimer, one of De Wolfe's most free-spending patrons and the father of arts patron Annette de la Renta; his villa in nearby Vaucresson was decorated by De Wolfe, in association with Stéphane Boudin of Jansen.
For me, the most inspirational room at Villa Trianon—where the decorator spent a part of the year, barring the interruptions of war, from 1907 until her death in 1950—was De Wolfe's own bath on the second floor. Twice the size of her adjoining bedroom, it was tricked out as a virtual salon, with antique furniture, objets d'art, paintings, and more deployed in the name of comfort and domesticity, including a corner fireplace with a mantel of black and green-veined marble; the tub surround was painted to match. That warming detail, a fire crackling behind andirons in the shape of rearing bronze d'oré horses, was a fulfillment of a youthful dream of de Wolfe's, as she recounted in her 1935 memoir After All: Obsessed with 18th-century French art and architecture since beginning her acting career in the 1880s, she recalled, "I thought if I could ever afford it I would certainly have a fireplace in my bathroom."
De Wolfe filled the panels of the room's moss-green boiserie with a cotton fabric hand-painted with pink, red, and purple flowers—roses, peonies, and carnations predominated. Atop that hung 18th- and 19th-century Chinese reverse-mirror paintings depicting court ladies, which had previously belonged to England's second and last Marquess of Ripon; De Wolfe likely snapped them up in 1925, at one of the London auctions of the late lord's collections. Eighteenth-century Chelsea porcelain birds perched on shallow brackets and faced off on the mantel, and, in a gesture combining modesty with annoyance, the toilet (De Wolfe squeamishly tended to euphemize such fixtures as "the ugly necessities" or "the unmentionables") was obscured beneath a Louise XVI–style chaise percée (a chair with a hinged seat) and behind a scarlet Chinese screen. Yellow-curtained windows framed a view of the garden, catching glimpses of the topiary animals—a large rooster and an elephant among them—that cavorted on the grass. A vitrine contained antique paste shoe buckles, glittering if minor covetables that De Wolfe began collecting in the 1890s, when she began appearing in, costuming, and conjuring up sets for French period plays such as Victorien Sardou's Thermidor. There were inviting banquettes, too, upholstered in leopard, though whether fabric or fur isn't entirely clear.
"For Elsie, the bathroom was a place for fantasy, luxury, and relaxation, and what was most remarkable about her new room was not how well it worked but how well its workings were disguised," Jane Brown, the decorator's biographer, once observed. A ladies' magazine reporter visited Villa Trianon in 1927, not long after de Wolfe nailed up Lord Ripon's mirror paintings, and was surprised to discover that her subject's bath was as welcoming as any other room in that luxurious house and that it was often fully utilized, a gathering place for everything from coffee to cocktails—not unlike the master bath and home office of fashion photographer Steven Meisel, published several years ago in AD.
"In this minuetting challenge to the dreary business of getting cleaned up," the American reporter observed, "Miss de Wolfe sits every Sunday morning in a chair covered with yellow petit-point, and discusses the art of living with her visitors. She might well. She understands it."


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We all have one but no one else can hear it. Yep, you got it. I'm talking about that little voice in your head. Sometimes it can do more harm than good. Nobody else can hear the voice whisper "Oh, I can't do that" or "I'm not good enough". Do you remember the first time you heard it? How about the first time you hesitated to do something? When I was a child, I watched from the sidewalk as the kids on the street played hockey. The other kids would invite me over to play, but I would just shake my head sideways. "I can't" The voice whispered. I sat back and watched the kids smile, laugh, and yell in excitement. Even though I really wanted to join the fun, my inner voice held me back.
Now don't get me wrong here, sometimes the voice keeps you in line with the values you were taught as a kid growing up. Let's call that part of your inner voice your moral compass. Right or wrong? Good or bad? Our moral compass allows us to function in society according to our cultural norms. It's the part we want to keep and once awhile retune. Let's address the inner voice that puts you down, stops you from new experiences, or limits your opportunities. This the voice we can change.
It is one thing to just think of happy positive thoughts but let's take it a step further. Let's beyond "I can do it" or "You can do it!". These phrases alone will only encourage us temporarily. Let's aim for lasting change. A tool in our toolbox that we can turn to time and time again when that little voice whispers doubt.
Over the years, I started to have a dialogue with my inner voice. Strange as you might find it, I started questioning the "I can't do that" moments. I started asking "Why"? Why can't I? Once I found the answer to why? It then brought me to "What" do I need to do?Then once I found the answer to What? I then started to ask myself "How do I"? This simple process in itself has led me towards countless opportunities and experiences. Hell, I wouldn't be writing in this blog if I stopped at "I'm not good enough". I went through Why, What, & How, and Here I am now! ( You can quote me on that one 🙂 )
Eventually, my inner dialogue stopped using the words "I can't". If it does, It's only for a moment, and then my habit" "Kickz" in. ( Yep ) I begin to think oh yeah why not? I perceive obstacles as challenges, mountains to climb so to speak. You too can free yourself to your limitations of your mind with these three words. Confidence comes with knowledge and practice of a craft. Why What & How will give what you seek in all of your endeavors.
Show me the proof you say?
In a University of Waterloo study "Training Impulsive children to talk themselves: A means of developing self-control", Meichenbaum and Goodmen use instructional self-talk as a means for impulsive children to tackle their problems. Below is an excerpt of their work, but before you read on I'd like you to bring you to a different state of mind. Remember as a child you when you were naive and ignorant of the world? Filled with so much imagination and wonder? Take a moment to imagine you as your five-year-old self. Ok ready? Now try speaking the words out loud. ( Or in your head – readers choice )
Okay, what is it I have to do? You want me to copy the picture with the different lines. I have to go slow and be careful. Okay, draw the line down, down, good; then to the right, that's it; now down some more and to the left. Good, I'm doing fine so far. Remember go slow. Now back up again. No, I was supposed to go down. That's okay. Just erase the line carefully. . . . Good. Even if I make an error I can go on slowly and carefully. Okay, I have to go down now. Finished. I did it.
How good did that feel? Now, what if your five-year-old-self came across trying to copy the same picture, failed, threw pencil down and said with teary eyes: "I can't do this It's too hard". What kind of feeling does this kind of attitude leave you with? Not so good is it? I bet you would do everything you could to convince your past self otherwise!
The Two Wolves
A Cherokee elder was teaching his grandchildren about life.
He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me… it is a terrible fight between two wolves.
One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, hatefulness, and lies.
The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, humbleness, kindness, friendship, generosity, faith, and truth.
This same fight is going on inside of you, and inside every other person, too."
The children thought about it for a minute. Then one child asked his grandfather,
"Which wolf will win?"
The Cherokee elder replied…
"The one you feed."
The study goes on to show children who followed this model of verbalized behavior were more adaptive to learning and achieved higher test scores. They then applied the same model of self-verbalization towards other applications such as smokers, addicts, & the speech anxious. When this process was used, all groups showed greater behavioral change & persistence. If you followed along in our little exercise you can clearly see why this method works.
Question. Answer. Self-instruction. Self-reinforcement. This is the whole process in a nutshell. Begin to ask yourself Why & What & How and guide yourself through any problem you come across. Don't you dare let the five-year-old in you wallow in defeat!
Till next time!
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When I was young and prone to a terrible, racking cough, my mom would pull out the most awful tasting, blue-green prescription medicine. She wasn't one to buy into the "spoonful of sugar making the medicine go down" theory. In fact, she wouldn't even let me take a sip of water after I'd swallowed the terrible concoction because she didn't want its power diluted.
I dreaded taking it—even though I knew it would be good for me in the long run. To keep from coughing, I'd hold my breath. I'd cram my face down into a pillow to muffle the noise. I'd hide out in the bathroom awhile. But eventually Mom would hear the coughs and whip out a teaspoon and that vile liquid. I can still remember the horrendous taste decades later, and my mouth will start to water (NOT in anticipation of something good). The aftertaste was strong and bitter, lingering for many minutes.
Eventually, though, my cough would cease. So I learned doing something you don't like but that can be good for you does work out in the long run. I've tried to apply that lesson to several things in life—from studying for a test in a much-reviled subject to going through labor to give birth to my daughter. The studying and course only lasted a semester and helped me earn my college degree. The labor produced the miracle of a miniature combination of my husband and myself in this tiny person who's grown into an exceptional adult.
This lesson can even apply to the small things in life, such as my book club. Now I adore the ladies in Bookworms. Besides talking over books, we share everything from our opinions on politics and fashion to recipes and our families. Almost always, I fall in love with the book chosen for that month. Many times it's something I've never heard of or wouldn't have thought to pick up and read, but doing so has brought hours of pleasure. Even once or twice when someone's chosen a novel that I read and didn't much care for, I still loved discussing its various aspects. Many times through our discussion, I gain new insight and come to look at the book in an entirely new light.
Then came the upcoming selection for October. A Barbara Kingsolver book. I've never been able to get into her novels. Everyone raved about The Poisonwood Bible . . . except me. It was like when The English Patient came out. I think Ralph Fiennes is so talented, but it went on way too long. I would've edited 20 minutes outta that baby and tightened it up so that it really did deserve that Oscar for Best Picture. Everyone loved it, though, so I learned to keep quiet and smile politely whenever the subject came up.
Until Elaine on Seinfeld expressed my opinion. She didn't like The English Patient. She said everything I'd thought about the movie. Even though she was a fictional character, I appreciated her spunk in standing up.
But I have to hearken back to my 'take the cough medicine' experience. Although I never could abide the taste, that stuff worked its magic—and I was glad in the long run that I'd taken it. I really respect the Bookworm who selected Flight Behavior. She smart and funny and very caring, and I know she must really love this Kingsolver book to have made it her choice for the year. I need to trust her judgment and go for it.
So I'm going to open the book now and begin. And if I wind up not caring for it? Then I'm in for a lively discussion with a terrific group of women.
That's always a winner in my book.


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We spent 3 nights camped at Big Springs National Park after meeting up with our Dean's RV Camping Club friends in Branson, Missouri.
It was wonderful to see our friends and spend some time catching up on the news from home. Branson has a lot to offer, and one can be as busy or idle as they choose.
I visited Big Springs National Park not far from Van Buren, Missouri thirty years ago and wanted to share its magic with Phil. The park is open and the spring is still blue-green, cold and glorious. There are caves to explore and trails to walk. We spent time when it was not raining to enjoy what was available. However, the Lodge, Dining Hall and Cabins are closed for 2015 for repairs and updating.
I was sad to see the decline in structures and a drop in available programs that were on-going so long ago. However, once the updating and rebuilding is finished, it will be a beautiful place again. Perhaps we can return in a couple of years and admire the newness.


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San Diego is a beautiful city full of people and activities around every corner; however, it is easy to get lost in the concrete jungle. If you're hoping to reconnect with nature while, here are a few places you might think of exploring!
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Even in downtown, if you're looking for somewhere to put your toes in the grass and kick back, swing by Waterfront Park! The area offers a variety of jungle gyms and climbing structures for kids, water fountains in the summer, plus a waterfront view.
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve
Torrey Pines State Natural Reserve is 2,000 acres of coastal state park located in the community of La Jolla, just off North Torrey Pines Road. Perfect for both hiking experts and those simply looking for a leisurely walk, the reserve has a wide variety of trails and scenic spots overlooking the blue San Diego waters. Make sure to bring a water bottle with you, as the warm San Diego weather can sneak up on you!
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Torrey Pines Gliderport
Located in La Jolla right across from UCSD, the Torrey Pines Gliderport overlooks the infamous Black's Beach. Perfect for sunsets or simply to enjoy the breeze! Bring a chair or just sit on the ground and watch the hang gliders soar over your head and above the beautiful view.
San Diego Zoo
If you'd prefer to see your nature at a distance, check out the famous San Diego Zoo! Come see their habitats for over 3,700 animals, open year-round. If you would prefer to walk your way through the maze of exhibits or coast about in their gondolas, there is something for everyone.
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Home to more than 16 museums, multiple performing arts venues, lovely gardens, trails and many other creative and recreational attractions, Balboa Park is perfect mix of nature and culture. Walk through over 1,200 acres of beautiful gardens either on your own, or sign up for a tour to get the full experience.
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Explore your way through intricately carved coastal bluffs, arches and sea caves. You might even get lucky and see a California gray whale, which migrate annually from the Bering Sea to Baja California and back. Street parking is available at any of the entrances.
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If you're looking for a bite to eat after, swing by Little Italy or grab some San Diego seafood!
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TinyWars Gameplay Prototype Re-Launched, Features Updated Animations, Graphics & DifficultyPress Releases, TinyWars
The TinyWars game-play prototype has received its final update, bringing about updated visuals, difficulty and a special re-launch trailer to mark the same. Enhanced character attack, upgrade and particle effects serve to graphically improve the prototype experience, while overall game-play difficulty has been reduced significantly in favour of user accessibility.
'Many of our early players noted that the prototype was extremely difficult, although this did lead to some very interesting play-through videos on Youtube.' states Lead Developer Andrew Taraba. 'We didn't feel like we were doing any good to potential new fans by making the game practically impossible to beat.'
Released for Windows PC and Android devices in the month of December, last year, the TinyWars Prototype is a crude, functional demonstration of the game's tower defence engine. Serving to keep fans engaged in its development, it has also been providing the developers with valuable feedback pertinent to development of the full TinyWars experience.
Players might note that character animations within the prototype are still incomplete, given as the developers have opted to move focus to the main game's production instead. 'Having our character animations hand-drawn, frame by frame, is a very time consuming project,' continues Taraba. 'But it does allow us to create animations and characters that we feel are more alive and fluid.'
'Rest assured, we will be including complete character animations in the upcoming story-demo of the main game.'
Due for a release sometime this year, the story-demo will be a vertical slice of the full TinyWars experience, featuring finished animations, enhanced controls, story/narrative cut-scenes and the implementation of its first four narrative chapters. With production of the same having officially begun mid-December, the team has since been involved in developing its visual theme, menus and other related assets. Seen below is a sneak-preview of the story-demo/main game's updated main-menu and worldmap.
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Nearly all of the refined, updated game-play mechanics from the prototype will translate over to the story-demo and main game. 'Players can get a taste of what the full TinyWars experience will seem like in our prototype Re-Launch trailer' affirms Taraba. 'It features some of the best music and visuals that we have gathered over years of working on this project.'
The updated TinyWars prototype may now be downloaded for Windows PC and Android devices via the Downloads section of the game's website.
The following months will feature various visual and game-play snippets from the main game's development. To ensure you're up to date, be sure to subscribe to E-mail updates via the sidebar on the game's Higher Eclectic Space or to the game's Sub-Forum.
Feedback, queries and interactions with the development team may also take place within the same. This Press Release was brought to you by Higher Eclectic Ground, network for independent game talent to which TinyWars and the Bizurk Software team is currently affiliated.
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Developed by Bizurk Software, TinyWars is an upcoming game of the Tower Defence genre for PC, Android & iOS devices.
A journey of growth — both of characters involved and players themselves — its narrative encompasses the kingdom of Tiny and its inhabitants, as they journey through a world of constant conflict and learn of things far greater than themselves. Following the tale of one such inhabitant, a young girl named Mary, said narrative will illustrate her pursuit of justice from those that belittle her as she journeys to save her Kingdom for good.
Players will be tasked with strategic thinking, dynamic unit management and a plethora of boss fights across varying degrees of challenge. All the aspects of this Tower Defence element, although not ground breaking, will ingeniously parallel the aspects of the story and the concept of growing as an individual. A prototype of these mechanics is now available for download.
Although not representational of the main game, the purpose of the prototype lies in providing fans, followers and tower defense enthusiasts with a snippet of the TinyWars game-play experience, while also assisting the development process with user-related feedback.
The months that ensued after the game's bare-bones prototype from 2015 were graphic & artwork intensive, with the team designing original assets, primary characters, animations and even recording a live orchestra for the main game in order to provide it with its own flair.
A large portion of 2016 meanwhile had been devoted to the development of TinyWars' game-play prototype. Prior to its release, a closed beta test of the same transpired between the months of October-November, the same year, with all gathered user feedback being used towards the development of the main game.
Despite the prototype being devoid of any narrative elements and fleshed out visuals, the team is currently working towards releasing a more representational vertical slice of TinyWars' primary experience by 2017. Comprising of a portion of TinyWars' soundtrack and early concept art meanwhile, a pre-gameplay demo is now also available for download.
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TinyWars is its first independent venture into the gaming industry. While CEO Andrew Taraba himself has extensive experience in the world of website & app development, the team itself comprises of both experienced artists, musicians and programmers along with novices alike.
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Founded in August, 2015 and operated ever since by Sean Braganza, Higher Eclectic Ground is a curated network of independent developers and artists involved in the creation of Video Games and Video Game related media.
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I grew up reading bodybuilding magazines. One page after another, they elaborated on the importance of protein (how you need it to build muscle, how you should consume massive amounts, and how you should take the X or Y supplement to make sure you are consuming enough).
When I went to get a Ph.D. in nutrition, many of the manuals I read simply said the opposite: protein is not that important. In fact, it can be completely dangerous. You eat too much protein and your kidneys could explode.
This debate is currently emerging. Types of workouts often recommend huge doses of protein, sometimes as high as three to four grams per pound of body weight. On the other hand, medicine says that most of us eat more protein than we need. The U. S. Department of Agriculture, meanwhile, has recommended a dietary ration (RDA) of 0.36 grams of protein per pound of body weight. Therefore, if your weight is 160 pounds, your RDA for protein is 58 grams. Eat a 12 oz. Sirloin steak and that's it! You will have covered your goal for the day.
The problem with these estimates is that none really describes a realistic need. The wrong portion of bodybuilding protein might work if you want to look like Lou Ferrigno (although no one needs as much as three to four grams per pound of body weight). For the rest of us, it's too much. And the recommendation of the USDA? The organization describes that "the average daily intake of the dietary nutrient levels enough to meet the nutritional requirements of almost all healthy individuals (97 percent) in a particular state of life." Basically, it's enough to make sure you're not going to die.
What we really need is a standard that tells us how much protein we should eat based on our personal goals and aspirations. I prefer to call this the level of optimal intake. And although that number may not be as high as the numbers cited on the pages of those magazines he used to read, it is certainly greater than the USDA recommendation.
"The USDA recommendations do not cut it, what we really need is a standard that tells us how much protein we should eat based on our goals and personal aspirations."
Dr. Mike Roussell
Proteins: find your optimal level
Suppose you want to lose weight. This means that you probably have to follow some simple guidelines like eating less sugar. But research also indicates that eating more protein can help you pursue that goal.
Scientists at the University of Illinois designed a weight loss program in which one group of people ate the RDA for protein, while an equal group ate twice the recommended amount of RDA.Both groups also did exercises. The RDA group lost 12 pounds of fat in 16 weeks, while the highest protein group lost almost 20 pounds during the same period. The RDA group also lost 2 pounds of muscles. This suggests that you need more protein during a weight loss program, both to lose muscle and to conserve it.
"But wait," the protein pessimists bark, "eating all the proteins does not put your cardiovascular problem at risk? It is meant to block your arteries. "
To assess that concern, the researchers combined a group of people with hypertension and one with cholesterol below normal, and tested the impact of adding more protein to their diets (The OmniHeart study). Nobody gained or lost weight during this analysis, so the changes could not point to the benefits of losing a few pounds. Some individuals ate a diet with 18 percent of their total calories coming from proteins, which is very close to the recommended amount of USDA. A second group raised their protein intake to 28 percent.
What happened?
The group with the highest protein intake showed better overall health. People in that group had excellent decreases in blood pressure, LDL ("bad" cholesterol) and triglyceride levels. Moreover, their risk of estimating 10 years of heart disease decreased compared with those whose protein intake was lower. If these individuals had the opportunity to lose weight, the results could have been even more dramatic.
Therefore, what is optimal? If you laugh at science, about 30 percent of your calories should come from protein. At that level, you will not have to worry about the deficiencies and you will know that you are getting enough nutrients to lose fat while also improving your heart health. Consume some protein in each of your meals and snacks and you will reach the goal with ease.
Proteins and energy
Allow me a break in our discussion about proteins to talk about your blood sugar level. When you eat a meal, your body breaks down the carbohydrates into individual sugars and wastes into your bloodstream. It does not matter if those carbohydrates come from broccoli or cookies. Your body needs energy and that is how it is produced. The result is an increase in blood sugar levels.
Now, your body is very particular about the level of blood sugar, such as Goldilocks was particular about your mazamorras (you want your blood sugar levels to be correct, that is, 70 to 99 milligrams per deciliter, for those interested in the numbers).
When you eat a large meal, your blood sugar levels increase a lot.This causes your body to be affected. Your pancreas responds by releasing the hormone insulin. The work of this one in this case is very simple: it takes care of removing the excess of sugar in your blood. It does it by going "door to door" through your body, hitting every entrance door of muscles and fat cells to see if they will open and take some amount of sugar until the blood sugar levels return to normal.
If your body overreacts, your pancreas will release too much insulin. This insulin will hit too many doors, removing too much sugar from your blood. Now you have a new problem: hypoglycemia (hypo = low, glycemia = sugar). You will begin to feel tired, the sugar in your blood will suddenly be exhausted. You should eat because your low blood sugar is one of the most powerful hunger signals in your body. This one will crave foods rich in carbohydrates to get your blood sugar levels back to normal, even if you've just eaten.
This is where protein comes into play in this equation. The protein can help displace these carbohydrates. The amino acids that make up the building blocks of the protein cause a much lower insulin response than that achieved with foods that contain high levels of carbohydrates. Therefore, consuming more protein will have a less dramatic effect on your blood sugar level.
Proteins also trigger the release of a hormone called "glucagon." This protein is the yin of the yang of insulin. While insulin removes sugar from your blood and carries it to your muscles and fat cells, glucagon makes your fat cells release the stored fat into your bloodstream, where it provides fuel for your muscles, your brain and everything else that uses Energy. This means that of all the types of foods you can eat, protein is the most efficient for your body. It controls insulin and helps burn fat.
A better elimination
When we talk about burning calories, we tend to focus on exercise. But our bodies are constantly using energy during the day and night. Even when we are sleeping, we are still breathing and pumping blood. Our brain is dreaming. We still digest food and look for places to store it. And not all foods are digested in the same way.
Food components (proteins, carbohydrates, and fats) require different amounts of energy to digest and process, such as different types and intensities of exercises to burn more or fewer calories. Scientists call this process "metabolic cost of the effect of the meal" (metabolic cost of the thermic effect of food, TEF for its acronym in English). That is, simply eating more protein means that your body burns more calories during the digestion process.In some cases, doubling your protein intake will increase the number of calories you burn during the day. This is one of the reasons why proteins, in themselves, help you lose weight.
Building muscle blocks
During digestion, your body breaks down proteins into individual amino acids. He uses them in many different ways, putting them together as a child combines the Legos to build a castle (luckily, your body does it in a more consistent way than the average elementary school kids). These castles are muscle tissue. To build them, you need an adequate amount of blocks to build.
But imagine that the Legos do more than simply pile on top of each other (they are part of building your castle telling you when to build your towers and walls). That's what amino acids do in proteins. They are not just inert food pieces waiting to be broken down. On the contrary, they actively signal your body to build muscle.
The most important amino acid in the process is leucine, which is found in almost any food you've eaten that contains protein. But for leucine to optimize and maximize your ability to convert proteins into muscles there must be a certain amount present (a protein threshold, if you will). Scientists estimate that this threshold is around 30 grams of protein. You can build muscle with less or more than this amount, but this dose is what research has found to be ideal for optimal functioning.
Once built, the muscle is metabolically active, which means that it burns more calories than fat even while you're resting (it burns more when you're active). And the more muscle you have, the more effective and efficient each activity will become, which will help you burn more calories.
Daily protein diet
I recommend consuming lean proteins throughout the day. Here you have easy and quick ways to work with this essential nutrient at every meal.
* BREAKFAST: eggs, white eggs, lean meats for breakfast, Greek yogurt, shakes with protein powder.
* LUNCH OR DINNER: salmon, chicken breasts, minced lean turkey meat, extra lean minced beef, turkey or chicken sauce, lean beef (top, roast, skirt), tuna, cod, tilapia, shrimp and tofu.
* SNACKS: nuts and seeds, roasted green beans, protein bars (choose bars with at least 10 grams of protein and no more than 30 grams of carbohydrates), protein shakes.
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Deaf Bach. Alain Platel and "les ballets C de la B" Visit Riga
The Riga public is offered to see "tauberbach", one of the latest performances by Platel created in collaboration with Munich Kammerspiele, at the Ķīpsala Exhibition Centre on the 8th and 9th of November. The performance starts at 7 p.m. both days. In addition to the guest performances, there will be a free programme of documentary films at the "K.Suns" cinema. The performance on the 8th of November will be followed by the artist's meeting with members of the public.
The Flemish artist Alain Platel has been the head of "les ballets C de la B" for thirty years. The company has won widespread acclaim as a result of its unique mixture of artistic visions and the unusual, "wrong" and anarchic movement of the performers that nevertheless cut deeper and express much more than the most beautiful and perfect classical pas-de-deux.
"les ballets C de la B" is made up of dancers and choreographers who have studied classical and contemporary dance, as well as musicians, circus artists, and non-professionals also.
Alain Platel's performances are based on the individual experiences, abilities and traits of the company's artists because he, much like Pina Bausch, is interested in the personalities of the artists. Alain Platel is tirelessly looking for new ways to express via movement such diverse feelings as love, passion, desire, hatred, depression, tensions between the individual and a group. He is able to find beauty in many things that are generally considered ugly, abnormal, controversial. Movements that imitate spasms, convulsions, fits become fragile and beautiful when performed by "les ballets C de la B" dancers.
In several performances, this kind of body language is set to the otherworldly music by Bach, Purcell, Monteverdi, creating a particularly powerful effect.
The performance "tauberbach" (a compound of two seemingly incompatible words: "deaf" and "Bach") focusses on a woman and five hybrid beings that have something from an amoeba, an animal, and a child. The woman is talking constantly because that is how she can survive. She is talking to the voices in her head and around her, and to life itself – while she has fundamental objections to life, she bears it with dignity. But gradually the five oddities help her discover new things and stop talking so she can feel, see and hear.
The performance was inspired by Marco Prado's documentary "Estamira" and Polish artist Artur Zmijewski's recording of a choir of deaf people interpreting Bach's music.
The programme of films screened at "K.Suns" cinema presents Alain Platel's documentary film about the "les balets C de la B" artists, called "les ballets de ci de la", on the 9th of November at 2 p.m., German directors Jörg Jeshel and Brigitte Kramer's film "Last Stop Kinshasa" about the play "vsprs" staged in various countries around the world with the last performance in Kinshasa, the capital city of Congo – on the 9th of November at 4 p.m., and Brazilian film director Marco Prado's documentary "Estamira", which tells about a woman who suffers from schizophrenia and who lives and works at a waste disposal site in Rio de Janeiro, on the 8th and 9th of November at 6 p.m.
Alain Platel received the New Theatrical Realities Prize in 2011, a number of festivals, publications and contemporary theatre organisations in various countries have recognised Alain Platel and "les ballets C de la B" performances as best performances of a given year, or even a decade, and "tauberbach" has been ranked among the ten greatest performances staged in Germany, Austria and Switzerland last season.
Tickets to the performances can be purchased from "Biļešu paradīze" outlets and online shop, as well as at the New Theatre Institute of Latvia at Miera iela 39-2. The film programme is free of charge. The contemporary theatre programme forte forte is organised by the New Theatre Institute of Latvia, and so far this year it has showcased plays staged by Alvis Hermanis, Jan Lauwers and "Needcompany", and "Rimini Protokoll".


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PRINCETON, W.V. – Benji Hicks used a lap 13 restart to take the lead in Saturday night's FASTRAK Racing Series feature at West Virginia's Princeton Speedway, and went on to score the victory in the UBB 29 Miners Memorial.
It marked the second straight win in the in the event, giving him a $3,000 payday.
Fast qualifier Brandon Umberger led the early laps. But it was Hicks taking advantage on a restart after a caution 13 laps in, as the leaders stacked up four-wide. Hicks used the outside line to sweep into the lead.
A late race caution set up a 12-lap shootout, with Hicks coming home with the victory. Umberger finished in second, followed by Matthew Nance in third, Tyler Arrington in fourth and Henry Hornsby III in fifth.
Brett Hamm, Michael Bland, Carder Miller, Eddie Hambrick and Hunter Stinnett rounded out the top ten.
The FASTRAK Racing Series will return to action at Beckley Motorsports Park in Mt. Hope, West Virginia on Friday August, 31. Visit FASTRAKRacing.com for more information.
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UBB 29 Miners Memorial – August 4, 2018
1. Benji Hicks
2. Brandon Umberger
3. Matthew Nance
4. Tyler Arrington
5. Henry Hornsby III
6. Brett Hamm
7. Michael Bland
8. Carder Miller
9. Eddie Hambrick
10. Hunter Stinnett
11. Trey Watson
12. Jonathon Miracle
13. Brad Basey
14. Shane Greco
15. Matt Long
16. Tate Hughes
17. Brandon Riffe