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ulkaralakbarova · 4 months ago

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Strange things begin to occurs as a tiny California coastal town prepares to commemorate its centenary. Inanimate objects spring eerily to life; Rev. Malone stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding; radio announcer Stevie witnesses a mystical fire; and hitchhiker Elizabeth discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Stevie Wayne: Adrienne Barbeau Father Malone: Hal Holbrook Kathy Williams: Janet Leigh Nick Castle: Tom Atkins Elizabeth Solley: Jamie Lee Curtis Sandy Fadel: Nancy Kyes Andy: Ty Mitchell Mr. Machen: John Houseman Dick Baxter: James Canning Dan O’Bannon: Charles Cyphers Al Williams: John F. Goff Tommy Wallace: George Buck Flower Mrs. Kobritz: Regina Waldon Dockmaster: Jim Haynie Mel: Darrow Igus Bennett: John Carpenter Dr. Phibes: Darwin Joston Ashcroft: Fred Franklyn Grocery Clerk: John Strobel Ghost: Tommy Lee Wallace Ghost: Lee Socks Ghost: Ric Moreno Blake: Rob Bottin Blake (voice): Charles Nicklin Blonde Girl on Bleachers (uncredited): Debra Hill Film Crew: First Assistant Director: Larry J. Franco Director of Photography: Dean Cundey Producer: Debra Hill Original Music Composer: John Carpenter Producer: Barry Bernardi Executive Producer: Charles B. Bloch Producer: Pegi Brotman Editor: Charles Bornstein Production Design: Tommy Lee Wallace Art Direction: Craig Stearns Costume Design: Stephen Loomis Costume Design: Bill Whitten Sound Designer: William L. Stevenson Stunt Driver: James Winburn Production Accountant: Donald P. Borchers Assistant Art Director: Randy Moore Second Assistant Director: Jim Van Wyck Camera Operator: Raymond Stella Script Supervisor: Jeanne Rosenberg Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Richard Tyler Assistant Editor: Joe Woo Jr. Boom Operator: Joseph F. Brennan Makeup Effects: Rob Bottin Supervising Sound Editor: Gregg Barbanell Sound Effects Editor: Frank Serafine Makeup Artist: Erica Ueland Hairstylist: Tina Cassady Makeup Artist: Dante Palmiere Makeup Artist: Edward Ternes Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Bob Minkler Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Ray West Supervising Sound Editor: Ron Horwitz Special Effects: Richard Albain Jr. Gaffer: Mark Walthour Unit Publicist: Ed Pine Unit Publicist: Katy Sweet Sound Mixer: Craig Felburg Grip: David Michels Title Designer: Burke Mattsson Key Grip: Ben Haller Stunts: Mags Kavanaugh Movie Reviews: John Chard: 00:00: 21st April, 1980. The Fog is directed by John Carpenter who also co-writes the screenplay with Debra Hill. It stars Adrienne Barbeau, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, Hal Holbrook, Jamie Lee Curtis and Nancy Loomis. Carpenter also scores the music and cinematography is by Dean Cundey. The Californian fishing town of Antonio Bay is preparing to celebrate its 100 year anniversary. As the clock ticks past midnight strange events start to occur around the town, it seems that the town has a secret and that secret is back to make a point… Not as praised as Halloween and The Thing from John Carpenter’s early horror output, The Fog sees the director tackle the ghost story premise. For many who lapped it up back when the 80s began, it still enthrals and holds in its eerie vice like grip, for others in this desensitised age of gore and cgi overkill, it proves to be a film unable to justify the love poured on it by the fans. Which is a shame. Being able to appreciate the craft of John Carpenter back in 1980 certainly helps to avert some harsh criticisms thrown its way, because Carpenter has achieved, pound for pound, a better ghost story on a fraction of the budget afforded big Hollywood genre productions that have been made since. That’s not to say it’s perfect, for it’s not, Carpenter himself has never been wholly satisfied with the final film, this even after re-shooting a third of the film after originally making a picture reliant on suggestion over presence, but with some smoke machines, a synthesiser, a game cast and a spooky revenge story on the page, he’s made a sub-genre classic. Carpenter has so...

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celestialmazer · 3 years ago

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Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon

Henry is a fixture in millions of homes – including 10 Downing Street – despite almost no advertising. Meet the man behind a curiously British success story

Simon Usborne

Sat 24 Jul 2021 10.00 BST

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jul/24/how-henry-vacuum-cleaner-became-accidental-design-icon

" In March this year, photos of the government’s glitzy new briefing room, where Boris Johnson’s new media chief was set to host daily press conferences, leaked to the media. The centrepiece of a “presidential” approach to communications, it was already controversial for its cost to taxpayers of £2.6m. With its gaudy blue backdrop, giant union flags and imposing podium, it looked like the stage for a US political or legal TV show: The West Wing with a touch of Judge Judy.

What the briefing room needed was something to suck the pomposity out of it. What it needed, it turned out, was a cameo appearance from a 620-watt anthropomorphic vacuum cleaner. The stocky red and black appliance was barely visible in the wings, stage left, yet instantly recognisable. Turned away from the podium, his chrome wand propped casually against a varnished dado rail, the Henry vacuum cleaner looked almost as if he were rolling his eyes.

The image quickly went viral; there were gags about a “leadership vacuum”. “Can we put Henry in charge?” asked TV presenter Lorraine Kelly. Executives at Numatic International, based in a sprawling complex of giant sheds in Chard, a small town in Somerset, were delighted. “It’s amazing how little of Henry was in that picture, and how many people came through to us and said, ‘Have you seen it? Have you seen it?” says Chris Duncan, founder and sole owner of the firm where a Henry rolls off the production line every 30 seconds.

Duncan, who invented Henry 40 years ago this summer, is now 82, and worth an estimated £150m. Known as “Mr D” to his 1,000 employees at the factory, he still works full-time at a standing desk that he built himself. He is speaking to me, after months of persuasion, in his first proper interview.

Henry has become an accidental icon of British design and manufacturing. Equally at home in the hands of princes and plumbers (Charles and Diana received one of the first models as a wedding present in 1981), he is also an under-stairs stalwart in millions of ordinary homes. As well as the Downing Street cameos, Henry has been photographed hanging from a rope as abseilers cleaned Westminster Abbey. The week after my visit to Henry HQ, Kathy Burke spotted one while touring a palatial mansion in Money Talks, a Channel 4 series about wealth. “No matter how rich, everyone needs a Henry,” she says.

Henry is the anti-Dyson, rolling over the social codes of the household appliance market with a modesty and humour that escapes the bigger, more expensive brand and its billionaire creator. James Dyson has hoovered up a knighthood and more land than the Queen. He has faced criticism for outsourcing production and offices to Asia while also cheerleading for Brexit. His latest memoir is out this September, while his early vacuum cleaners are venerated in design museums. Henry? Not so much. But if Dyson brought aspiration, innovation and an air of exclusivity to Big Vacuum, Henry, the only mass-produced consumer vacuum cleaner still made in Britain, brought simplicity, reliability – and a cheerful lack of airs. “Bollocks to that!” is Duncan’s reaction when I suggest that he should also write a memoir.

The son of a London policeman, Duncan wears a short-sleeved shirt with open collar; his eyes glint behind gold-rimmed specs. He lives 10 minutes from the Chard HQ. His Porsche has a “Henry” numberplate, but he owns no other homes and eschews yachts and other baubles in favour of a 40-hour week and the company of Ann, his wife of 35 years (he has three sons from a previous marriage). Modesty permeates Numatic. The campus is more Wernham Hogg than Silicon Valley; the firm never advertises Henry and retains no PR agency. Yet it has a turnover of almost £160m and has now made more than 14m Henry vacuums, including a record 32,000 in the week before my visit, thanks to a pandemic-related surge in demand for household appliances.

When Duncan received his MBE at Buckingham Palace in 2013, Ann was led into the auditorium to witness the honour. “A guy in uniform said, ‘What does your husband do?’” he recalls. “She said, ‘He makes Henry vacuum cleaners.’ He nearly shit himself! He said: ‘When I get home and tell my wife I’ve met Mr Henry, she is going to be so livid she wasn’t here.’ And it’s stupid, but those sorts of stories are worth their weight in gold. We don’t need a publicity machine because it’s self-generating. Every Henry goes out there with a face on it.”

I will at this stage admit to a slight Henry obsession. I didn’t think about my girlfriend Jess’s Henry a great deal when I moved in with her 10 years ago, or when he moved with us to a new home after our marriage. It was only after the arrival of our son in 2017 that he began to occupy a bigger place in our family.

Jake, who is nearly four, was one when he first met Henry. It was early one morning, before dawn, and Henry had been left out of the cupboard the night before. Jake wore a striped babygrow and, placing his milk bottle on the wooden floor, crouched to inspect a curious object that was as big as he was. It was the start of a great romance. Jake insisted that Henry be liberated from his dark cupboard; for months, he was the first thing Jake went to in the morning, and the last thing he thought of at night. “I love you,” Jess said above his cot one evening before lights out. “I love Henry,” came the reply.

When Jake discovered my mum had an upstairs Henry and a downstairs Henry, to save on lifting, he was beside himself. For days, the imaginary stories he demands after his book at bedtime were about Granny’s Henrys. They would call out to each other at night, meeting for domestic adventures. In an effort to return Henry to the cupboard, I bought Jake a toy Henry. He could now hug little Henry as he fell asleep, his “trunk” entwined in his fingers.

To find a lid, I took the oil drum round all the shops – then I ordered 5,000 black washing-up bowls

The affair peaked with the onset of the pandemic. In the first lockdown, big Henry became the closest thing Jake had to a friend of his own size. When he accidentally bumped into the vacuum with his mini pushchair, he reached into his toy doctor’s kit for his wooden stethoscope. He began to watch Henry content on YouTube, including earnest reviews by vacuum influencers. His infatuation is not surprising; Henry looks like a giant toy. But the strength of the bond, which rivals only Jake’s love of his stuffed dog, Doggy, got me wondering about Henry’s backstory. I realised I knew nothing about him. I began firing off emails to Numatic, a company I had not even known was British.

Back in Somerset, Henry’s creator fills me in on his origin story. Duncan, who was born in 1939, spent much of his childhood in Vienna, where his father had been posted after the war to help build a police force. He moved back to Somerset at 16, got some O-levels and joined the merchant navy. A naval friend then got him a job at Powrmatic, a company in east London that made oil-fired heaters. Duncan, a natural salesman, ended up running the business until he left to launch Numatic in 1969. He had spotted a gap in the market for a sturdy, reliable cleaner to suck soot and muck out of coal- and gas-fired boilers.

The vacuum industry had been growing since the early 1900s, when British engineer Hubert Cecil Booth designed a horse-drawn machine whose long hoses would wind through the doors and windows of posh houses. In a 1906 advert, a hose is coiled on a thick carpet like a benevolent snake, imaginary eyes attached to its steel mouth gazing up at a housemaid. “Friends” is the slogan.

Meanwhile in Ohio, an asthmatic department store cleaner called James Murray Spangler created a handheld vacuum using a fan motor in 1908. When he made one for his cousin Susan, her husband, a leather goods manufacturer named William Hoover, decided to buy the patent. The Hoover was the first successful domestic vacuum cleaner and – in the UK – a trademark that became synonymous with a product category (“hoover” is now in the dictionary as a verb). But it wasn’t until the 50s that the cleaners sucked their way into the homes of the masses. Dyson, a privately educated art student, began developing his first bagless cleaner in the late 70s, eventually shaking up the industry.

You forgive its foibles because it’s doing a useful job. It's almost like walking a dog

By the mid-70s, after Numatic had found some success, Duncan was on a British stand at a Lisbon trade show. “It was as boring as sin,” he recalls. One evening, Duncan and one of his salesmen idly began to dress up their latest vacuum cleaner, first with a bit of ribbon, then with a union flag badge on what started to look a bit like a hat. They found some chalk and drew a crude smile under the hose outlet, which suddenly looked like a nose, then some eyes. Searching for a nickname that felt suitably British, they settled on Henry. “We put it over in the corner with all the other equipment and the next day people were laughing and pointing,” Duncan says. Back at Numatic, which then had a few dozen employees, Duncan asked his advertising guy to design a proper face for the cleaner. “Henry” remained an in-house nickname; the product still had Numatic printed above its eyes.

At the next trade show, in Bahrain, nurses from the nearby Aramco oil company hospital asked to buy one for the children’s ward, to encourage recovering children to help with the cleaning (a strategy I may attempt at home at some point). “We were getting all these little reports and we thought, there’s something in this,” Duncan says. He increased production and, in 1981, Numatic added the Henry name to the black lid, which had begun to resemble a bowler hat. Duncan was still focused on the commercial market, but Henry was taking off; they heard that office cleaners were talking to Henry as a way to break up the grind of night shifts. “They took him to heart,” Duncan says.

Soon, big retailers started contacting Numatic: customers had seen Henry in schools and on building sites, and his reputation as a hardy friend of the trades had created a word-of-mouth cachet. Some also smelled a deal (Henry today costs a good £100 less than the cheapest Dyson). Henry hit the high street in 1985. Despite attempts by Numatic to discourage use of the word “hoover”, which is banned at company HQ, Henry quickly informally became known by the public as “Henry hoover”, marrying the brands in an alliterative union. Sales are growing at a rate of roughly a million each year, and now include Hettys and Georges, among other siblings, in a range of colours. “We turned an inanimate object into an animate object,” Duncan says.

“Timing might be part of it,” says Luke Harmer, an industrial designer and lecturer at Loughborough University. Henry arrived a few years after the first Star Wars film, with its hapless robots, including R2-D2. “I wonder if there was a connection to this product that provides a service and is slightly robotic and you forgive its foibles because it’s doing a useful job.” When Henry topples over, it’s hard to get cross with him. “It’s almost like walking a dog,” Harmer says.

Topples are not the only frustration for Henry owners. He gets caught on corners and has occasionally fallen down the stairs. Cramming his ungainly hose and wand into an overstuffed cupboard can feel like wrestling a snake into a bag. There are also average reviews for performance among the generally positive ones (though he gets the job done in my house).

Jake, meanwhile, is far from alone in his infatuation, presenting Numatic with passive marketing opportunities that suit its modesty – and save millions in advertising. In 2018, a Cardiff University student was forced by the council to cancel a Henry picnic when 37,000 people signed up to attend with their vacuum cleaners. Henry’s appeal has gone global; Numatic increasingly exports its products. Duncan passes me a copy of “Henry in London”, a professionally produced photo book in which Henry tours famous sites. Three young Japanese women flew from Tokyo with a Henry to take the shots.

In 2019, Erik Matich, a five-year-old fan from Illinois who was being treated for leukaemia, flew 4,000 miles to Somerset with the Make-A-Wish charity. It had been his dream to see Henry’s home [Erik is now doing well and is due to complete his treatment this year]. Duncan says dozens of children with autism have made the same trip. “They seem to relate to Henry because he never tells them what to do,” he says. He has tried to work with autism charities, and recently found an illustrator to help create Henry & Hetty books that the charities could sell (they are not for general sale). In Henry & Hetty’s Dragon Adventure, the dust-busting duo are cleaning a zoo when they discover a dragon enclosure. They fly with a dragon to a castle where a wizard has lost his crystal ball – until some more vacuuming uncovers it. It wouldn’t win awards, but when I read the book to Jake that evening, he is rapt.

Henry’s appeal to children has also brought challenges, as I discover during a factory tour with Paul Stevenson, 55, a production manager who has worked at Numatic for more than 30 years. Paul’s wife, Suzanne, and their two grownup children also work at Numatic, which still makes other commercial products, including cleaning trolleys and rotary floor scrubbers. The factory has chugged along despite the pandemic and Brexit-related delays to parts; Duncan, who quietly backed Brexit, is prepared to ride out what he sees as teething problems.

In a series of giant sheds, rich with the smell of hot plastic, 800 workers in hi-vis jackets feed plastic pellets into 47 injection moulding machines to create hundreds of parts, including Henry’s red bucket and black hat. A reeling team adds Henry’s coiled power cord. The cord reel sits on top of the “hat”, transferring power to the motor below via two lightly sprung metal prongs that spin against a greased receptor ring. The motor powers a fan in reverse, drawing air up through the hose and red bucket, to which another team adds a filter and dust bag. In the metal section, steel tubes are fed into a pneumatic bender to create the signature kink in Henry’s wand. It’s quite mesmeric.

Humans far outnumber robots, one of which is employed every 30 seconds to lift an assembled Henry into a box for dispatch. “We do a different job every hour,” says Stevenson, who started out making Henry in around 1990. The Henry line is the busiest in the factory. Elsewhere I meet Paul King, 69, who is about to retire after 50 years at Numatic. Today he’s making attachments for a ride-on floor scrubber. “I worked on Henry years ago but they’re too fast for me on that line these days,” he says after turning down his radio.

Regulations are not the only headache. As I continued to feed Jake’s Henry habit via the internet, a less wholesome side of his dust cult emerged. There are flame-throwing Henrys, fighting Henrys, X-rated fan fiction and a music video in which a man takes in an abandoned Henry only for it to strangle him while he sleeps. Some take things further. In 2008, one fan was sacked from his job as a builder after being caught in flagrante with a Henry in a works canteen. He claimed that he had been vacuuming his underpants.

“The Russell Howard video is the one that won’t go away,” says Andrew Ernill, Numatic’s head of marketing. He’s referring to a 2010 episode of Russell Howard’s Good News. After riffing on a story about a policeman who had been arrested for stealing a Henry during a drugs bust, the comedian cuts to a video in which Henry snorts a huge line of “cocaine” from a coffee table.

Ernill is keener to talk about Henry’s future, as is Duncan. This year he added Emma McDonagh, Numatic’s first chief technical officer, to the board, as part of wider plans to prepare the company “in case I get hit by a truck”. A veteran poached from IBM, she will help the company grow, and make more Henrys, more sustainably. There are also plans for more automation, and increased local employment. Henry and his siblings now come in various sizes and colours; there is even a cordless model.

Yet Duncan is determined that his vacuum stay true to its roots: it remains a remarkably simple machine. Duncan beams with pride as he tells me almost all of the 75 parts that make up the latest model could be used to repair “Number one”, as he calls the 1981 original; Henrys are made to last – and to be easily repaired – in the landfill age of rapid obsolescence. When my own Henry’s hose popped off his nose a couple of years ago, I trimmed an inch off it and screwed it back in place with a bit of glue.

In the end, Downing Street Henry was surplus to requirements. A month after his cameo, No 10 binned the idea of daily press conferences: the briefing room has been used mainly for the prime minister’s pandemic announcements. Henry has not been seen again. Was his unscheduled appearance to blame for the communications U-turn? “Henry’s work behind the scenes has been greatly appreciated,” is all a government spokesperson will say.

My own Henry spends more time under the stairs these days, but his bond with Jake remains strong. Jake can talk for England now, if not always coherently. When I attempt to interview him, it’s clear he sees nothing unusual in loving a vacuum cleaner. “I love Henry hoover and Hetty hoover because they’re both hoovers,” he tells me. “Because you can hoover with them.

“I just love hoovers,” he goes on, getting a little exasperated. “But, Daddy, I only like hoovers with a name.” "

#henry hoover #vacuum cleaner #the guardian #Chris Duncan #Simon usborne

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thepelagoislands · 6 years ago

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I would love to leave the Charde Jewelers to Elise. Bell hotel- goes to Max. Mineral supermarket To Molly. Collectors closet to Pia. Leuda Broadcasting Station and Adonea Theatre- to Lanna. Arcadia guild to Gwen. Celestia church to Sliuka. Daybreak Orphanage- to Dia. And Moonlight cafe, to Kathy.

The following muses may take ownership of these businesses, if they’re interested:

@piccola-cara - Charde Jewelers

@theperfectheir - Bell Hotel

@shyshutterbug - Mineral Supermarket

@childlikemermaid - Collector’s Closet

@lannathepopstar - Leuda Broadcasting Station & Adonea Theatre

@valkyrgwen - Arcadia Explorer’s Guild

@silukaura - Celestia Church

@icequeendia - Daybreak Orphanage

@kathyonthesea - Moonlight Cafe

If not, please let us know, so that we can leave those business spots open for anyone genuinely interested in them in the future!

#gun-nun

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shypandanight · 2 years ago

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Would it be a good idea for you to attempt the keto diet? ⚡️The Ultimate Keto Meal Plan⚡️⚡ Meticore

Would it be a good idea for you to attempt the keto diet?

It’s publicized as a weight reduction wonder, yet this eating plan is really a clinical eating regimen that accompanies serious dangers. In the realm of weight reduction abstains from food, low-carb, high-protein eating plans frequently snatch consideration. The Paleo, South Beach, and Atkins eats less carbs all fit into that class. They are now and again alluded to as ketogenic or “keto” eats less carbs. In any case, a genuine ketogenic diet is unique. Not at all like other low-carb consumes less calories, which center around protein, a keto plan focuses on fat, which supplies as much as 90% of everyday calories. Furthermore, it’s not the kind of diet to attempt as a trial.

“The keto diet is fundamentally used to assist with diminishing the recurrence of epileptic seizures in kids. While it additionally has been gone after for weight reduction, just transient outcomes have been considered, and the outcomes have been blended. We couldn’t say whether it works in the long haul, nor whether it’s protected,” cautions enrolled dietitian Kathy McManus, overseer of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard-subsidiary Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

How does the keto diet work?

Here are the rudiments of keto: The eating routine intends to compel your body into utilizing an alternate sort of fuel. Rather than depending on sugar (glucose) that comes from carbs (like grains, vegetables, vegetables, and natural products), the keto diet depends on ketone bodies, a kind of fuel that the liver produces from put away fat.

Consuming fat appears to be an optimal method for losing pounds. Be that as it may, getting the liver to make ketone bodies is interesting: It expects that you deny yourself of sugars, less than 20 to 50 grams of carbs each day (remember that a medium-sized banana has around 27 grams of carbs). It ordinarily requires a couple of days to arrive at a condition of ketosis. Eating a lot of protein can disrupt ketosis.

What do you eat?

Since the keto diet has such a high fat necessity, devotees should eat fat at every dinner. In an everyday 2,000-calorie diet, that could seem to be 165 grams of fat, 40 grams of carbs, and 75 grams of protein. Notwithstanding, the specific proportion relies upon your specific requirements.

A few solid unsaturated fats are permitted on the keto diet — like nuts (almonds, pecans), seeds, avocados, tofu, and olive oil. Be that as it may, soaked fats from oils (palm, coconut), grease, margarine, and cocoa spread are energized in high sums.

Protein is essential for the keto diet, yet it doesn’t ordinarily segregate between lean protein food varieties and protein sources high in immersed fat like meat, pork, and bacon. And products of the soil? All organic products are rich in carbs, however you can have specific organic products (generally berries) in little parcels. Vegetables (likewise rich in carbs) are confined to salad greens (like kale, Swiss chard, spinach), cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, chime peppers, onions, garlic, mushrooms, cucumber, celery, and summer squashes. A cup of slashed broccoli has around six carbs.

Keto diet gambles

A ketogenic diet has various dangers. First spot on the list: it’s high in immersed fat. McManus prescribes that you hold immersed fats to something like 7% of your everyday calories on account of the connection to coronary illness. Furthermore, to be sure, the keto diet is related with an expansion in “awful” LDL cholesterol, which is additionally connected to coronary illness.

Other potential keto gambles incorporate these: Supplement lack. “In the event that you’re not eating a wide assortment of vegetables, natural products, and grains, you might be in danger for lacks in micronutrients, including selenium, magnesium, phosphorus, and nutrients B and C,” McManus says.

Liver issues. With such a lot of fat to use, the eating routine could exacerbate any current liver circumstances. Kidney issues. The kidneys assist with utilizing protein, and McManus says the keto diet might over-burden them. (The ongoing suggested admission for protein midpoints 46 grams each day for ladies, and 56 grams for men). Stoppage. The keto diet is low in sinewy food varieties like grains and vegetables.

Fluffy reasoning and emotional episodes. “The cerebrum needs sugar from solid carbs to work. Low-carb diets might create turmoil and crabbiness,” McManus says. Those dangers add up — so ensure that you converse with a specialist and an enrolled dietitian before truly endeavoring a ketogenic diet.

And different eating regimens?

The famous low-carb consumes less calories (like Atkins or Paleo) change a genuine keto diet. Be that as it may, they accompany similar dangers assuming that you get carried away on fats and proteins and lay off the carbs. So for what reason truly do individuals follow the eating regimens? “They’re all over the place, and individuals hear narratively that they work,” McManus says. Speculations about momentary low-carb diet achievement incorporate lower craving since fat consumes more slow than carbs. “Yet, once more, we have barely any insight into the long haul,” she says. “Furthermore, eating a prohibitive eating routine, regardless of what the arrangement, is challenging to maintain. When you continue a typical eating routine, the weight will probably return.” Learn More…..

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skinflesh97-blog · 5 years ago

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Vegan Buddha Bowl

This Vegan Buddha Bowl has smoky maple flavors and so much love from rim to rim. The dressing is a cashew-maple-lemon with a hint of garlic. Grab a few plant-based ingredients and have this delicious meal on your table in under thirty minutes! Plus, find out the ingredient I totally forgot...

Happy April everyone. I don't know about you, but this month has been kinda crazy so far. I won't bore you with all the details, but I will say that I hope you are feeling good and excited about moving into spring and summer. Seasons filled with rebirth, warmth, sunshine, color and hopefully, happiness.

So, what exactly is a Buddha Bowl? Well, I asked Alexa, as one does these days and she had this to say:

"A Buddha Bowl is a vegetarian meal served in a single bowl or high-rimmed plate, which consists of little dishes, served cold." - Alexa, aka Amazon.

For me, a Buddha Bowl is a collection of colorful, whole-food, plant-based ingredients piled into a bowl and served with a flavorful creamy dressing. The dressings I usually see are nut or seed based. Cashew or tahini, etc. Buddha Bowls are perfect for whipping up with a misfit collection of leftover veggies - like roasted potatoes, greens and such. As well as leftover grains like rice or quinoa. I like to add some sort of protein aspect like legumes or something like tofu, tempeh or seitan.

Skillet tofu with maple-spice flavors.

Tender sweet potatoes.

Today's Buddha Bowl with smoky Maple Flavors: - Smoky Paprika + Maple Tofu Cubes - smoky Paprika + Maple Sweet Potato Cubes - Brown Rice - wilted Kale, tossed in the Cashew Dressing - Diced Cucumber - Mandarin Orange - Candied Cashews - Maple-Lemon-Cashew Dressing

And how could I do this, but I forgot to add the avocado! It was there, sitting on my counter all perfectly ripe and lovely, waiting to be cut and diced, but nope, I failed. Forgot the avocado. Ah-well. This bowl was delicious without it, but if you have avocado on hand, it is always a lovely add to a Buddha Bowl.

This creamy cashew dressing on top..

Quickie Version! You could totally use a store-bought dressing in place of the homemade one if needed. The homemade dressing definitely adds a special flavor and texture, but for ease, store-bought is fine! You could try a vegan ranch, vegan Caesar, peanut sauce or really any dressing you'd like.

A few ingredient tips:

Sweet Potatoes: You could roast your sweet potatoes in the over, but to speed things up I will peel the potato, dice and then bowl until tender. Then I finish them in an oiled skillet for maximum flavor.

Kale: You could just rinse and chop or shred your kale leaves - or you can wilt it like I do. Once my fluffy kale leaves are rinsed and dried, I add them to the hot oiled skillet for a few seconds. I press down and toss while they are in the skillet so that the leaves darken a bit and very lightly wilt. I find that the flavor is more appealing and the leaves more tender when you do this.

Cashew Dressing: I soaked my cashews for a few hours, but this is totally optional. Just note that if you do not soak your cashews, your dressing may be slightly clumpy. Especially if you are not using a high speed blender, which I highly recommend.

If you have been following my blog for a while you may already know that one of my very favorite flavor pairings is smoky paprika and maple syrup. I love this flavor duo on basically every ingredient in this bowl. Especially for the potatoes and tofu. Substitutions. You could very easily swap out any ingredient in this bowl for something similar. So like for the kale, you could use spinach or chard. For the tofu, you could use tempeh or beans. For the cucumber, you could use any other veggie you have on hand. Pepper, mushrooms, sliced onion, corn, broccoli or basically anything would work. I think that is the beauty of a Buddha Bowl, you are free to customize as desired, based on your tastes and what ingredients you have on hand.

The dressing is creamy and lemony with sweet and savory, complex flavors.

A hint of sweet and citrus from Sumo Mandarins.

Basic Buddha Bowl Components:

- grain - leafy greens - crunchy or raw veggie - hint of fruit - protein-rich ingredient - any additional veggie you may have on hand - creamy dressing

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Vegan Buddha Bowl

By Kathy Patalsky

Published 04/04/2019

These flavorful, plant-filled Buddha Bowls are easy to make for a healthy meal. Smoky-maple flavors throughout and a creamy cashew dressing. Vegan.

Ingredients

2 cups brown rice, cooked

1 medium sweet potato

4oz firm tofu, cut into cubes

1 cup cucumber, diced

a few pieces of orange or mandarin

1 bunch of kale, leaves shredded

Cashew Dressing:

1 1/2 - 2 Tbsp maple syrup

1/4 cup raw cashews, soaking recomended but optional

1 juicy lemon or 3 Tbsp lemon juice

2 Tbsp spicy, Dijon or brown mustard

3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 clove garlic

1 Tbsp tamari

water as desired to thin

Also:

extra virgin olive oil, for pan

smoky paprika, to taste

maple syrup to taste

optional: raw cashews to candy in the skillet

Instructions

First, soak your cashews for a few hours. This step is optional, but may help your dressing blend to be more creamy. TIP: For easier blending, you may also want to simply double the dressing recipe and have some leftover for later.

Boil the diced sweet potato until tender. Do not overcook. you do not want them mushy, just barely tender enough to pierce with a fork. They would be ready to eat, but not overly done. Strain and set aside.

Prep your kale by pulling the leaves from the stems, discarding the stems and rinsing the leaves well. Shred or chop the leaves. Warm your skillet over high heat and add a tiny splash of olive oil. Add the kale to the pan and press the kale into the heat and oil for about thirty seconds. Then turn off the heat and transfer the kale to a large mixing bowl. Set aside.

Warm the skillet again, over high heat. Add a drizzle of EVOO. Dry your tofu cubes as well as you can and add them to the skillet. cook for two minutes them flip and cook for another few minutes. When the tofu cubes are browned, add a sprinkle of smoky paprika, a pinch of salt and a drizzle of maple syrup. You can all three of these things to taste. Turn the heat OFF and let the tofu sizzle in the hot pan, absorbing all the maple and spice.

Push the tofu to one side of the skillet, add another drizzle of olive oil and add the boiled potatoes. Add a sprinkle of smoky paprika and a pinch of salt. Cook the potatoes over high heat for two minutes, toss and cook for another minute or so, just until you start to see some color on the sides. The maple syrup and spice should help with that. Turn off heat when done and allow these ingredients to rest. Optional: If adding cashews, add them to the skillet a few minutes before turning the heat off - they will candy and toast with the maple syrup in the pan. Add more if needed.

Dressing: Place all the ingredients in a high speed blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Add a few splashes of water to thin things out to your desired consistency.

Add a spoonful of the dressing to the kale mixing bowl and toss well. (You can always add more dressing over top to serve, so no need to overdo it.)

Dice your cucumber and prep any other ingredient you want to add. (Like avocado!)

Build Your Bowl: Add the rice and kale side by side. Then on top add: tofu, sweet potatoes, cucumber, citrus, optional cashews and anything else you might want to add to your bowl. Drizzle some dressing over top and serve!

Yield: 2 bowls

Prep Time: 00 hrs. 05 mins.

Cook time: 00 hrs. 25 mins.

Total time: 30 mins.

Tags: buddha bowl,vegan,recipe,food,dinner,sweet potatoes,tofu,vegetarian,cashews, dressing,

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Vegan Buddha Bowl

So, what exactly is a Buddha Bowl? Well, I asked Alexa, as one does these days and she had this to say:

"A Buddha Bowl is a vegetarian meal served in a single bowl or high-rimmed plate, which consists of little dishes, served cold." - Alexa, aka Amazon.

Skillet tofu with maple-spice flavors.

Tender sweet potatoes.

This creamy cashew dressing on top..

A few ingredient tips:

The dressing is creamy and lemony with sweet and savory, complex flavors.

A hint of sweet and citrus from Sumo Mandarins.

Basic Buddha Bowl Components:

- grain - leafy greens - crunchy or raw veggie - hint of fruit - protein-rich ingredient - any additional veggie you may have on hand - creamy dressing

Vegan Buddha Bowl

By Kathy Patalsky

Published 04/04/2019

These flavorful, plant-filled Buddha Bowls are easy to make for a healthy meal. Smoky-maple flavors throughout and a creamy cashew dressing. Vegan.

Ingredients

2 cups brown rice, cooked

1 medium sweet potato

4oz firm tofu, cut into cubes

1 cup cucumber, diced

a few pieces of orange or mandarin

1 bunch of kale, leaves shredded

Cashew Dressing:

1 1/2 - 2 Tbsp maple syrup

1/4 cup raw cashews, soaking recomended but optional

1 juicy lemon or 3 Tbsp lemon juice

2 Tbsp spicy, Dijon or brown mustard

3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 clove garlic

1 Tbsp tamari

water as desired to thin

Also:

extra virgin olive oil, for pan

smoky paprika, to taste

maple syrup to taste

optional: raw cashews to candy in the skillet

Instructions

Dressing: Place all the ingredients in a high speed blender and blend until smooth and creamy. Add a few splashes of water to thin things out to your desired consistency.

Add a spoonful of the dressing to the kale mixing bowl and toss well. (You can always add more dressing over top to serve, so no need to overdo it.)

Dice your cucumber and prep any other ingredient you want to add. (Like avocado!)

Yield: 2 bowls

Prep Time: 00 hrs. 05 mins.

Cook time: 00 hrs. 25 mins.

Total time: 30 mins.

Tags: buddha bowl,vegan,recipe,food,dinner,sweet potatoes,tofu,vegetarian,cashews, dressing,

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Christmas Tree Salad. Pomegranate. Pecans. Raw Chard.

originally published: 12/3/12, updated: 12/16/18 I had no intentions of making this raw chard ribbon salad a "Christmas Tree" Salad. It was just going to be a holiday salad. Until I piled it into my bowl and watched as it formed a peaked tower that resembled a decked out holiday tree.

Complete with shiny red pomegranate "lights" - glossy grape bulbs - twinkly satsuma ornaments - and then, of course, I needed a star on top...

..sprouted grain toast star it was!

So my holiday salad turned into an edible tree.

And now, (six years later!!!), this has been a festive fave of mine. I hope you can give it a try and even bring your own creativity to it...

Christmas Tree Salad

By Kathy Patalsky

Published 12/03/2012

This festive holiday salad looks like a sparkly, twinkly Christmas tree! Citrus, kale and pomegranate. Toast star on top.

Ingredients

1 bunch swiss chard (red or green), chopped

1/3 cup pomegranate seeds

3/4 cup red grapes, sliced

2 mandarin oranges, peeled and sliced in half, segments separated

1 small onion, diced

2 Tbsp dried cranberries or raisons (optional)

1 small apple, chopped

1/4-1/2 cup chopped pecans, raw

Dressing:

1 Tbsp maple syrup

1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

1/8 tsp coriander

a few pinches of orange zest

pinch of cayenne

1/3 tsp salt - or to taste

1/4 tsp black pepper

Star topper: 1 slice of toast, sliced into a star

Instructions

Simply prep all your ingredients and toss them with the dressing/spices in a large bowl. Toss and mix very well since this will help to distribute the flavors and infuse the chard with flavor.

You can serve right away or chill in the fridge for up to 12 hours in advance before serving. Any longer and your chard will begin to get a bit soft. Serve raw and chilled. Top it! For the "star" tree topper, simply toast any slice of bread and using either your knife (free-hand) or a star-shaped cookie cutter, cut out a toast star to top the tree salad.

Yield: 4 servings

Prep Time: 00 hrs. 15 mins.

Cook time: 00 hrs. 02 mins.

Total time: 17 mins.

Nutrition

Calories: 150

Tags: salad,holiday,christmas tree salad,christmas,chard,pomegranate,citrus,vegan,recipe,

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This Christmas Tree Holiday Salad will fill your holiday season table with cheer! And healthy-deliciousness too. Dive in. Twinkly lights not needed for this shiny-fabulous tree..

Shopping Tip. Make sure you buy organic, super fresh chard since it is your main ingredient! Look for perky green leaves with plenty of "bounce" in their movement. Wash and pat dry your chard leaves very well. Nutrition Bonus! This salad is filled with healthy things. Those pomegranate seeds are loaded with antioxidants. The pecans are rich in healthy fats and minerals. The chard is loaded with vitamins and minerals - including even more free radical fighting antioxidants. The citrus is rich in vitamin C. The dried fruit and pretty much all of the ingredients are rich in fiber.

Chard or Kale. You could also try using kale in place of chard. Both are fluffy enough to give the "tree" some body, while staying nice and green with texture.

Other optional ingredients that would be fabulous: pear, avocado, dates, bell pepper, corn, grains like quinoa or brown rice, beans, tomatoes, diced roasted squash or sweet potato ...... gosh, pretty much anything yummy would be beautiful in this salad!

Source: http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2012/12/christmas-tree-salad-pomegranate-pecans.html

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Christmas Tree Salad. Pomegranate. Pecans. Raw Chard.

Complete with shiny red pomegranate "lights" - glossy grape bulbs - twinkly satsuma ornaments - and then, of course, I needed a star on top...

..sprouted grain toast star it was!

So my holiday salad turned into an edible tree.

And now, (six years later!!!), this has been a festive fave of mine. I hope you can give it a try and even bring your own creativity to it...

Christmas Tree Salad

By Kathy Patalsky

Published 12/03/2012

This festive holiday salad looks like a sparkly, twinkly Christmas tree! Citrus, kale and pomegranate. Toast star on top.

Ingredients

1 bunch swiss chard (red or green), chopped

1/3 cup pomegranate seeds

3/4 cup red grapes, sliced

2 mandarin oranges, peeled and sliced in half, segments separated

1 small onion, diced

2 Tbsp dried cranberries or raisons (optional)

1 small apple, chopped

1/4-1/2 cup chopped pecans, raw

Dressing:

1 Tbsp maple syrup

1 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil

1 Tbsp apple cider vinegar

1/8 tsp coriander

a few pinches of orange zest

pinch of cayenne

1/3 tsp salt - or to taste

1/4 tsp black pepper

Star topper: 1 slice of toast, sliced into a star

Instructions

Simply prep all your ingredients and toss them with the dressing/spices in a large bowl. Toss and mix very well since this will help to distribute the flavors and infuse the chard with flavor.

Yield: 4 servings

Prep Time: 00 hrs. 15 mins.

Cook time: 00 hrs. 02 mins.

Total time: 17 mins.

Nutrition

Calories: 150

Tags: salad,holiday,christmas tree salad,christmas,chard,pomegranate,citrus,vegan,recipe,

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This Christmas Tree Holiday Salad will fill your holiday season table with cheer! And healthy-deliciousness too. Dive in. Twinkly lights not needed for this shiny-fabulous tree..

Chard or Kale. You could also try using kale in place of chard. Both are fluffy enough to give the "tree" some body, while staying nice and green with texture.

Source: http://kblog.lunchboxbunch.com/2012/12/christmas-tree-salad-pomegranate-pecans.html

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Gouda Marmalade Grilled Cheese

I have been on a grilled cheese sandwich kick lately. And today's sandwich creation is a new fave: Gouda Marmalade Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Get the recipe and start your own vegan grilled cheese obsession..

Simple ingredients. Bold flavors.

Grilled Cheese. Today's recipe is a winter season dream. Toasty, buttery, sourdough bread cradles melty Gouda cheese, chopped walnuts, a hint of greens and black pepper and an accent of sticky-sweet marmalade jam. Super simple ingredients with flavors that really pop.

Vegan Grilled Cheese of the Month. This is December's creation. I can't wait to see what I dream up for you next month and beyond. #VGCOTM

Variations:

- Swap out the marmelade for any jam you'd like. You could even do maple syrup. - Swap Gouda for another flavor - I like any vegan white cheese - provolone, mozzarella, Parm - even DIY cashew... - Swap out the walnuts for any chopped nut or seed. Spicy pumpkin seeds would be nice. Or chopped pecans. - Add garlic! Add minced garlic to your sandwich, or slather on some soft roasted garlic. - Sage. Toasted sage leaves could also be a nice accent. - Black olives. Olives would add another punch of saltiness. - Kale. Wilted chopped kale would be really yummy in this sandwich. Spinach or chard could work too. Any wintery greens to add more flavor, fiber and nutrients. - Hot Sauce. A splash of your fave hot sauce will add a spicy kick! A pinch of cayenne could also work. - Add tempeh bacon or garlic hummus for a boost of legumes. - Avocado. Avocado is always a good idea...

What Vegan Cheese Melt Well? Honestly, there are SO MANY these days that I barely need to answer that question. I used Follow Your Heart for this sandwich, but other faves include: Daiya, Chao, Parmela and So Delicious. Browse my Vegan Cheese Guide for more ideas.

Other fave grilled cheese sandwiches? Here are a few..

- I love my spinach-stuffed grilled cheese. - Classic melty grilled cheese, inspired by the movie Chef. - Tomato-basil grilled cheese. - Apple-stuffed Grilled Cheese on Cinnamon-Raisin Bread. - Also my grilled cheese sandwich bites as tomato soup toppers...!

Holiday Shopping: DONE. Looking for an awesome plant-based + no-wrapping paper required gift for friends and family? Give them a gift that will keep on giving. The Finding Vegan Meals Program. This program is packed with fun and inspiring tools, tips and resources for starting or reinvigorating a plant-packed diet.

..To purchase the program as a gift, simply click the little present icon and put your giftee's email address into the order form when placing your order. If you have any questions, let me know. Get all the details about the program at FVmeals.com.

...aaaaaaand now I have Lady Marmalade stuck in my head. The Xtina + P!ink version. Sing + grill some cheese!..

Gouda Marmalade Grilled Cheese Sandwich

By Kathy Patalsky

Published 12/04/2018

Sticky sweet marmalade pairs with vegan Gouda cheese and chopped walnuts on sourdough bread.

Ingredients

2 slices sourdough bread

2-4 slices vegan Gouda cheese

1 Tbsp orange marmalade jam

2 Tbsp raw walnuts, chopped

small handful of mixed greens

pinch of fresh black pepper

1 Tbsp vegan butter

splash of extra virgin olive oil for the pan

Instructions

Warm a skillet over high heat. Add a splash of olive oil - coating the pan well.

Spread the vegan butter on both sides of the bread. You can use a bit more for a truly buttery-crusted sandwich.

Place one slice of the bread in the warm pan, rub it into the hot oil a bit and flip it. Then pile the cheese slices on one side.

On the other slice of bread, spread the marmalade.

Sprinkle the walnuts over top the cheese slices - in the pan - and then add the greens and black pepper over top. Then top that with the marmalade-slathered slice.

Using a spatula or heavy pot top, press down on the sandwich. Turn the heat to low and cover the pan with a lid - or the heavy pot lid. Allow to toast and warm for 2-3 minutes.

Flip the sandwich and repeat with pressing down the bread or covering the pan with a lid. The flipped bread side should be lightly browned by now with darker, toasty edges. Give the sandwich another 2-3 minutes to allow the cheese to melt.

When the cheese looks melted and both side toasty, remove from the skillet. Slice and serve.

Yield: 1 sandwich

Prep Time: 00 hrs. 05 mins.

Cook time: 00 hrs. 08 mins.

Total time: 13 mins.

Nutrition

Calories: 468

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In 1959, an alien experiment crashes to earth and infects a fraternity member. They freeze the body, but in the modern day, two geeks pledging a fraternity accidentally thaw the corpse, which proceeds to infect the campus with parasites that transform their hosts into killer zombies. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Christopher ‘Chris’ Romero: Jason Lively James Carpenter ‘J.C.’ Hooper: Steve Marshall Cynthia ‘Cindy’ Cronenberg: Jill Whitlow Det. Ray Cameron: Tom Atkins Detective Landis: Wally Taylor Brad: Allan Kayser Sgt. Raimi: Bruce Solomon Coroner: Vic Polizos Walt: Dick Miller Johnny: Ken Heron Pam: Alice Cadogan Karen: June Harris Young Scientist: David Paymer Steve: David Oliver House Mother: Evelyne Smith Sorority Girl with Hairbrush: Leslie Ryan Lisa: Suzanne Snyder Kathy: Elizabeth Cox Todd: John J. York Patrolman with Searchlight: Robert Kerman Beta Zombie: Earl Ellis Beta Zombie: Robert Kurtzman Beta Zombie: Howard Berger Alien Zombie: Daniel Frishman Extra (uncredited): Greg Nicotero Young Ray Cameron: Dave Alan Johnson Chett: Jim Townsend Lori: Lori Lively Alien Pursuer #1: Kevin Thompson Alien Pursuer #2: Joseph S. Griffo Cop in Station: Jay Arlen Jones Alley Cop: Elizabeth Alda Film Crew: Writer: Fred Dekker Producer: Charles Gordon Associate Producer: Donna Smith Executive Producer: Billy Finnegan Original Music Composer: Barry De Vorzon Director of Photography: Robert C. New Editor: Michael N. Knue Casting: Ilene Starger Production Design: George Costello Set Decoration: Maria Caso Costume Design: Eileen Kennedy Special Effects Makeup Artist: David B. Miller Makeup Artist: Kyle Sweet Hairstylist: Frankie Campbell Special Effects Makeup Artist: Howard Berger Special Effects Makeup Artist: Earl Ellis Special Effects Makeup Artist: Robert Kurtzman Special Effects Makeup Artist: Frank Charles Lutkus III Special Effects Makeup Artist: Mark Maitre Special Effects Makeup Artist: Shawn McEnroe Special Effects Makeup Artist: Bruce Zahlava Makeup Artist: Bonita DeHaven Sound Editor: William H. Angarola Sound Editor: Clark Conrad Supervising Sound Editor: Joe Fineman Sound Editor: Doug Gray Sound Editor: Barbara Issak Sound Recordist: Brian Ruberg Sound Editor: James Wolvington Visual Effects Supervisor: David Stipes Visual Effects: Dana O’Connor Costume Set Supervisor: Gayle Evans Special Effects: Roger George Special Effects Makeup Artist: Tim Lawrence Movie Reviews: John Chard: What is this? A homicide, or a bad B-movie? Not exactly what you would call an unknown horror comedy, but there is the distinct feeling that it should be better known. As its cult fan base will attest, this is blast of a movie, a homage to the “B” schlockers of lore. Directed by Fred Dekker, the premise sees some alien beings eject a flask of alien slugs down to earth, which lands at a fraternity campus, something which cause mayhem some years later when a frozen body is disturbed at the medical lab and the slugs are unleashed. Cue infestation that turns people into zombies! The pic plays up to the clichés of fraternity based movies, with nerds and nudity on tap, all smothered in a gooey horror comedy sauce. One-liners are ripe, the characterisations also, the latter of which fronted by a glorious Tom Atkins as a hard drinking hard – boiled detective with issues and quips ready to be poured out. It’s not genius film making, but given the low budget it deserves its cult status, because it never pauses for breath and it’s very aware of what it wants to be – and crucially who its target audience is. 7/10 Dsnake1: Night of the Creeps is a fantastic movie to watch in many different situations: with friends, at a sleepover, in the middle of the night, in the middle of the day, and so many more. It’s an easy to watch flick, and it contains the right balance of horror elements, gore, campiness, humor, and absurdity to make each viewing as enjoyable as the last. It’s got a touch of body-stealing aliens, a touch of zombies, a touch of traditional serial killer, all mixed with all the fun that can come fro...

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Going back to basic. Is the time of the year to focus again. I do Keto my husband Paleo. I had chard with ground beef and eggs all sauté in butter with macadamia . He had eggs, avocado and macadamia . The difference between both is that he is allow to eat some fruits and sweet potato but the base of both diets is the same Low Carb and includes h Kathy fats ! ◦ #keto #ketogenic #ketosis #ketones #ketofood #ketofood #ketolunch #lchf #paleo #paleodiet #paleofood #weightloss #fatloss #ketolifestyle #keto #paleo

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Risks and working tips of keto diet

In the world of weight-loss diets, low-carbohydrate, high-protein eating plans often grab attention. The Paleo, South Beach, and Atkins diets all fit into that category. They are sometimes referred to as ketogenic or "keto" diets.

But a true ketogenic diet is different. Unlike other low-carb diets, which focus on protein, a keto plan centers on fat, which supplies as much as 90% of daily calories. And it's not the type of diet to try as an experiment.

"The keto diet is primarily used to help reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures in children. While it also has been tried for weight loss, only short-term results have been studied, and the results have been mixed. We don't know if it works in the long term, nor whether it's safe," warns registered dietitian Kathy McManus, director of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital. Related Articles : http://www.ketogasmic.com

How does it work?

The keto diet aims to force your body into using a different type of fuel. Instead of relying on sugar (glucose) that comes from carbohydrates (such as grains, legumes, vegetables, and fruits), the keto diet relies on ketone bodies, a type of fuel that the liver produces from stored fat.

Burning fat seems like an ideal way to lose pounds. But getting the liver to make ketone bodies is tricky:

• It requires that you deprive yourself of carbohydrates, fewer than 20 to 50 grams of carbs per day (keep in mind that a medium-sized banana has about 27 grams of carbs). • It typically takes a few days to reach a state of ketosis. • Eating too much protein can interfere with ketosis. What do you eat?

Because the keto diet has such a high fat requirement, followers must eat fat at each meal. In a daily 2,000-calorie diet, that might look like 165 grams of fat, 40 grams of carbs, and 75 grams of protein.

However, the exact ratio depends on your particular needs.

Some healthy unsaturated fats are allowed on the keto diet — like nuts (almonds, walnuts), seeds, avocados, tofu, and olive oil. But saturated fats from oils (palm, coconut), lard, butter, and cocoa butter are encouraged in high amounts. dairy free keto meal plan http://www.ketogasmic.com/quick-guide-to-dairy-free-keto-meal-plan

Protein is part of the keto diet, but it doesn't typically discriminate between lean protein foods and protein sources high in saturated fat such as beef, pork, and bacon.

What about fruits and vegetables? All fruits are rich in carbs, but you can have certain fruits (usually berries) in small portions. Vegetables (also rich in carbs) are restricted to leafy greens (such as kale, Swiss chard, spinach), cauliflower, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, asparagus, bell peppers, onions, garlic, mushrooms, cucumber, celery, and summer squashes. A cup of chopped broccoli has about six carbs.

Keto risks

A ketogenic diet has numerous risks. Top of the list: it's high in saturated fat. McManus recommends that you keep saturated fats to no more than 7% of your daily calories because of the link to heart disease. And indeed, the keto diet is associated with an increase in "bad" LDL cholesterol, which is also linked to heart disease. Other potential keto risks include these: Nutrient deficiency. "If you're not eating a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, and grains, you may be at risk for deficiencies in micronutrients, including selenium, magnesium, phosphorus, and vitamins B and C," keto budget meal plan http://www.ketogasmic.com/keto-budget-meal-plan-a-handy-guide-for-beginners

McManus says.

Liver problems. With so much fat to metabolize, the diet could make any existing liver conditions worse.

Kidney problems. The kidneys help metabolize protein, and McManus says the keto diet may overload them. (The current recommended intake for protein averages 46 grams per day for women, and 56 grams for men).

Constipation. The keto diet is low in fibrous foods like grains and legumes.

Fuzzy thinking and mood swings. "The brain needs sugar from healthy carbohydrates to function. Low-carb diets may cause confusion and irritability," McManus says.

Those risks add up — so make sure that you talk to a doctor and a registered dietitian before ever attempting a ketogenic diet.

What about the other diets?

The popular low-carb diets (such as Atkins or Paleo) modify a true keto diet. But they come with the same risks if you overdo it on fats and proteins and lay off the carbs. So why do people follow the diets? "They're everywhere, and people hear anecdotally that they work," McManus says. Theories about short-term low-carb diet success include lower appetite because fat burns slower than carbs. "But again, we don't know about the long term," she says. "And eating a restrictive diet, no matter what the plan, is difficult to sustain. Once you resume a normal diet, the weight will likely return."

All of the food above sticks to the strict 5% carbohydrate allowance that we use on keto. In general, you can eat from the following food groups:

• Fats & Oils. Try to get your fat from natural sources like meat and nuts. Supplement with saturated and monounsaturated fats like coconut oil, butter, and olive oil. • Protein. Try to stick with organic, pasture-raised and grass-fed meat where possible. Most meats don’t have added sugar in them, so they can be consumed in moderate quantity. Remember that too much protein on a ketogenic diet is not a good thing. • Vegetables. Fresh or frozen doesn’t matter. Stick with above ground vegetables, leaning toward leafy/green items. • Dairy. Most dairy is fine, but make sure to buy full-fat dairy items. Harder cheeses typically have fewer carbs. • Nuts and Seeds. In moderation, nuts and seeds can be used to create some fantastic textures. Try to use fattier nuts like macadamias and almonds. • Beverages. Stay simple and stick to mostly water. You can flavor it if needed with stevia-based flavorings or lemon/lime juice. If you scroll down, you can see in-depth breakdowns of each section along with some ideas on what types of food to eat! If you’re not much of the planning type and would rather follow along to get meal ideas, take a look at out Fats and Oils

Fats will be the majority of your daily calorie intake when you are on a ketogenic diet, so choices should be made with your likes and dislikes in mind. They can be combined in many different ways to add to your meals – sauces, dressings, or just simply topping off a piece of meat with butter.

Fats are vital to our bodies, but they can also be dangerous if you are consuming too much of the wrong types of fats. There are a few different types of fat that are involved in a ketogenic diet. Different foods usually have various combinations of fats, but the unhealthy fats are easy to avoid. Here’s a brief overview:

• Saturated Fats. Eat these. Some examples of these are butter, ghee, coconut oil, and lard. • Monounsaturated Fats. Eat these. Some examples of these are olive, avocado, and macadamia nut oils. • Polyunsaturated Fats. Know the difference. Naturally occurring polyunsaturated fats in animal protein and fatty fish are great for you, and you should eat these. Processed polyunsaturated fats in “heart healthy” margarine spreads are bad for you. • Trans Fats. Completely avoid. These are processed fats that are chemically altered (hydrogenated) to improve shelf life. Avoid all hydrogenated fats, such as margarine, as they’re linked to heart disease.

Saturated and monounsaturated fats such as butter, macadamia nuts, avocado, egg yolks, and coconut oil are more chemically stable and less inflammatory to most people, so they are preferred. Below, you can see some common ways to increase the amounts of fat you eat on a ketogenic diet.

You also want to have a balance between your omega 3’s and omega 6’s, so eating things like wild salmon, tuna, trout, and shellfish can help provide a balanced diet of Omega-3’s. If you don’t like fish, or just prefer not to eat it, we suggest taking a small fish oil supplement. You can also take krill oil for omega 3’s if you are allergic. what to eat before workout on keto http://www.ketogasmic.com/what-to-eat-before-and-after-workout-on-keto-diet

Keep an eye on your intake for nut or seed based foods, as they can be quite high in inflammatory omega 6’s. These include items like almonds, walnuts, pine nuts, sunflower oil and corn oil. Eating fatty fish and animal meat, keeping snacking to a minimum, and not over-indulging in dessert items that are dense in almond flour is usually enough to keep your omega’s at normal ranges.

Essential fatty acids (the omegas) provide core functions to the human body, but they are often times out of balance when on a standard diet. On keto, with a little bit of preparation, your omega fatty acids are easily manageable. If you want to know more about essential fatty acids, omegas, and how they interact with our body on a ketogenic diet,

Some ketogenic diet foods that are ideal for fats and oils (organic and grass-fed sources are preferred): • Fatty Fish • Animal Fat (non-hydrogenated) • Lard • Tallow • Avocados • Egg Yolks • Macadamia/Brazil Nuts • Butter/Ghee • Mayonnaise • Coconut Butter • Cocoa Butter • Olive Oil • Coconut Oil • Avocado Oil • Macadamia Oil • MCT Oil If you’re using vegetable oils (olive, soybean, flax, or safflower) choose the “cold pressed” options if they are available.

If you tend to fry things up, try to go after non-hydrogenated lards, beef tallow, ghee, or coconut oil since they have higher smoke points than other oils. This allows less oxidization of the oils, which means you get more of the essential fatty acids.

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Just when you thought it was safe to go back to New Zealand…more LOTR geek touring.

It started when Kathy an I went to Wellington for a day to fail to apply for our visas for French Polynesia. A visit to Weta Studios was always on our bucket list and we couldn’t go to Wellington without making time for it.

The Weta Cave

We had some initial disappointment when we learned that you can’t actually tour the Weta Studios. I guess hey’re always filming movies there and doing actual work. Instead, they’ve set up the Weta Cave tour, which is adjacent to the studios and intersects with some of the buildings.

It’s not a long tour – 45 minutes or so. But it you love movies – and in particular if you’re fond of the Lord of the Rings & Hobbit movies, it’s worth the time to take it.

We had no idea how many movies Weta had been involved with. Turns out I’ve seen over thirty of them.

Unfortunately you can’t take pictures on the tour, but they do provide some photo ops before and after.

The techniques and detail work they do there is simply amazing.They have the ability to create or re-create almost anything with 3D modelling, composite construction and painstaking painting and fine work. They even have a sword-smith on premises to make perfect swords for closeups.

Of particular interest to us was that both of our children were using some of the same 3D design and modelling tools they use in house – a tool called Rhino. Will uses it almost daily in his yacht design job, and Danielle learned as part of her digital art and 3D modeling course at Bucknell.

The Second Road Trip

With all of our problems with Evenstar and us getting stuck in Tauranga waiting for parts to arrive, we decided to take Danielle and go on a road trip. We were frustrated waiting around AirBnBs and decided to just DO something rather than stew around the house and grumble about UPS and their inability to get a package through customs without punting it.

South to Wellington

Kathy and I spent one day in Wellington, and most of it was ruined by the pall cast over our failure in the French Embassy. We returned there with the boat for a week or so, but we didn’t really get to spend as much time seeing things as we wanted to. We knew Danielle would love Weta, so we decided to press on for Wellington and work our way back. We still had one of our crew members with us (Lauren) but she was departing halfway through.

So we took Danielle to Weta, then explored the town for some locations after an enormous breakfast at Americano’s with one of the best (read only, except for Denny’s) bottomless cups of filter coffee in New Zealand.

Mount Victoria & Flight from the Shire

Many locations around Wellington, both in the city and around it, were used in the LOTR movies (presumably some were used for the Hobbit movies too, but we didn’t much like those). Right smack in the middle of the city is Mount Victoria, a wooded park full of walking paths and trails with a stunning view from the top.

It’s also where they filmed a number of scenes around the flight from the shire, including the road scenes and the terrifying sequence where the Nazgül almost finds the hobbits as they cower and hide under the roots of a large, gnarly tree.

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Most of this was filmed in Mt. Victoria park, though the tree was built and later removed so you can’t see the roots. But there still are trees like that along the paths, and you can feel the atmosphere and the lighting from the movie walking through the woods. The topography is obviously the same and the dappling of the light similar even if it’s not so easy to find the exact spots since props have been removed and scenery restored.

The Hutt River

North of Wellington, the Hutt river was the site of several other scenes. One scene which annoyed purists like me (because it was 100% created for the movie) was when Brego the horse finds a sodden and unconscious Aragorn lying on the banks of the Anduin river. Aragorn dreams of Arwen Evenstar and imagines the horse starts sniffing his face and…

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…it didn’t go the way it could have.

Our rental car’s GPS had a number of LOTR movie sites conveniently marked on the map for us. This location was on a very scenic river, with fast moving clear water and smoothed stone beaches.

The exact spot, as always was a little difficult to pinpoint. Rivers run higher and lower, and lever camera angles show you differences. But the GPS doesn’t lie…

Lower Hutt & Rivendell

Outside the town of Lower Hutt lies the Kaitoke regional park where many of the scenes in Rivendell were filmed.

The Greater Wellington Regional Council was wise enough to commemorate the filming and preserve it with several signs and plaques and maps which show where certain scenes were filmed.

The maps and posts and guides are more helpful than many of the locations which are barely visible any more. This one even had Peter Jackson! Even if his face in that kiosk is more evocative of Jack Nicholson coming through the bathroom door in The Shining than any of Jackon’s cameos in the LOTR.

Many of the scenes like this were filmed on sets built in this area.

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After the filming was complete, all of the sets were removed and the sites restored, as they did in every location. The trees are still there though, an someone left a scale model of an arch to leave as a reminder.

Nerdvana IIa – Confession Time

If you read these posts, you’d think that between our last LOTR and now we’d done no other movie sites. That’s not completely true. In March of 2018 Kathy and I came to New Zealand for a week to clear out visas back in Australia and celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary.

While we were there, we visited Arrowtown and the Ford of Bruinen where the Nazgül almost catch an injured Frodo only to be rescued by the combined magics of Arwen (Glordindel, dang it!!) and Gandalf.

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We also came really, really close to finding the canyon where the Argnonath was filmed, somewhere near the Kawaru Suspension bridge.

Anyone who has spent any time in New Zealand or around Kiwis wouldn’t be surprised for a second to learn that bungee jumping was basically invented, at least commercially, by jumping off this perfectly nice bridge into a terrifying gorge.

Anyone who has spent any significant time around us wouldn’t be surprised to learn that we never found the Argonath, but we did find Chard Farm winery which was quite delightful and distracted us from the mission at hand.

We don’t know how many more movie sites we’ll be able to take in. We’ve seen many of the ones you can reach without a helicopter. But it’s been a fantastic way to see New Zealand, because every time you look for a movie site you find three other cool things on the way worth seeing.

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