I’m on my way over to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, hoping against hope that my missing Dollar rental wasn’t stolen but towed. I parked it around 2 pm alongside a snow-covered curb on Montrose Ave. It may have been parked a bit too close to a bus stop. If it hasn’t been towed I’ll have to call 911 and report it stolen. What do rental car companies do when this happens? Do they slap you with stiff penalties? I rented it with a debit card.
The arrival of Criterion’s latest Blu-ray disc made my day. I watched about 15 minutes of it, hopping around from chapter to chapter. I thought the regular DVD was devastating — one of the most perfect pure-film transfers I’d ever seen; the Blu-ray, believe it or not, is a refinement.
God is just not that into you. Sometimes he/she seems to intercede, which most of us interpret as a kind of celestial rooting gesture. But he/she could just as easily watch you get flattened by a chunk of concrete and or be roasted to death inside a burning building. Not because of your number or your karma, but because it’s not his/her call. It’s not that God doesn’t care, but that he/she is way beyond “caring.” I still find it truly mind-boggling that hundreds of of millions of adults believe that that some kind of activist moral force is quietly at work. It’s the biggest sucker fantasy in the history of the planet. And yet I always melt a bit when James Stewart says “oh, God, help me” near the end of The Spirit of St. Louis.
I spoke this morning with Greenberg star Ben Stiller inside a semi-quiet restaurant (i.e., not really quiet enough) adjacent to the Waldorf Astoria’s main lobby. It went well, perhaps of my certainty that Stiller delivers the performance of his career in Noah Baumbach‘s intensely granular film about midlife stagnation and L.A. loneliness. No ambiguity in your head means calm and clarity.
Greenberg (Focus Features, 3.19 limited) is easily the most intriguing film of the new year, and more than worth a tumble. It doesn’t exactly “entertain,” and yet it does — it’s just operating in a low-key way that’s almost entirely about observation, and without a single false note. If your girlfriend doesn’t like it (and she may not), you may want to think about dumping her. Seriously. Because Greenberg is about what a lot of 30ish and 40ish people who haven’t achieved fame and fortune are going through, or will go through. It’s dryly amusing at times, but it’s not kidding around.
Greenberg is a fascinating character-driven drama about Roger Greenberg (Stiller), a neurotic 41 year-old who’s caretaking his younger brother’s Los Angeles home while the brother and his family are on a vacation in Vietnam. It’s mainly about a curious attract-repel relationship between Greenberg and the brother’s gangly, emotionally vulnerable assistant (Greta Gerwig), and an amiable ex-musician friend (Rhys Ifans) with whom Greenberg shares various confessions/reflections.
Things don’t “happen” as much as we learn more and more about Greenberg’s internals. The basic drill is that he’s become stuck in a moderately unhappy fall-back position in his life, and is close to astonished that things haven’t turned out as well as he thought they might when he was younger. He blew a shot at being in a successful rock band in his 20s, we’re told, and is now working as a carpenter in Brooklyn. Not miserable but neurotic and fickle, and certainly not content.
Is Greenberg funny? In a LQTM sense, yeah, but to most people LQTM isn’t what they go to movies for. I do, however. I was quietly smirking at Greenberg the whole time, having a quiet little blast with it. And then it grew on me the second time. I didn’t realize how sublime the ending is until I saw it again. That’s my fault.
What is clear from the start is that for Stiller’s Greenberg, carpentry won’t do. He’s too much of an artist-searcher complainer, and it’s not enough to anesthetize the demons. The film reminds that when you have a hungry visionary Bengal tiger inside you, you’d best express it or the tiger will eat you up from within. That or you’ll start collapsing bit by bit.
I know that tune myself. My main job in my early to mid 20s was trimming trees, which didn’t work for me either. At all. I was fucking around on the margins as a party-hound and a rock-band drummer and a chaser of skirt. And the Bengal tiger began to growl more and more loudly — let me out! — and I began to see myself as a failure because I wasn’t trying hard enough to make that happen.
I’d told Stiller earlier that I was impressed with how deeply Greenberg just settles in with the manner and psychology of Stiller’s character without feeling the need to go all “story” on the audience. A genuinely ballsy move on Noah’s part. The humor is so subdued and embedded within situation and milieu that it’s not humor — it’s John Cassevetes-like introspection. I’m obviously saying that with respect.
Stiller’s performance, in any event, seems to me like a landmark-type thing — a seriously ego-free inhabiting of antsy-quirk neuroticism. Being, not acting, and certainly with any audience comfort-winks. A breakthrough of some kind.
If there’s a rowdy commercial horse laugh in Greenberg, I missed it — and bravo to that. I didn’t “laugh” when I saw it, but I was constantly LQTM-ing by way of surprisingly intimate recognition. I felt that I was communing in part with my late brother, Tony. Greenberg is nothing if not relentlessly itself, and never seems to go for schtick of any kind. Personal recognition laughter, as most of us know, is never “hah-hah-hah.” As Michael O’Donoghue once said, making people laugh is the lowest form of humor.
“I think you connected in the same way with the movie that we all did while making it,” Stiller replied in an e-mail — eloquently, I thought. “I too recognize Greenberg, and I have to say I’ve never had an experience like this, where a character was so specifically written, and I ended up feeling a connection with that aspect of myself. I actually feel protective of him — or maybe that aspect of people I love who have not had the good fortune to have outward success or acknowledgement in this world. It can be very painful, just to get through the days. To get past your own self imposed barriers, that are all very real.
“I feel very fortunate to have had this experience, and I love Noah for it. He is a truly good person, who as you said did something brave in movies now — allowing the character’s real, incremental growth, to be the story. I learned a lot from him.”
During last Saturday’s panel discussion of the withered state of film criticism following a screening of Gerald Peary‘s For The Love of Movies, notoriously snarly critic Richard Schickel (formerly of Time) was asked if he ever reads criticism online. “Why would you do that?,” he replied. “I don’t actually read many reviews. I never did. But I’m not going to go around looking for Harry Knowles. I mean, look at that person! Why would anybody…pay the slightest attention to anything he said? He’s a gross human being.”
Critic/documentarian Richard Schickel; AICN’s Harry Knowles
Besides Schickel the panel included Vogue‘s John Powers, former L.A. Weekly and current NPR critic Ella Taylor, former Christian Science Monitor critic David Sterritt and Christian Science Monitor critic Peter Rainer. The talk was moderated by Indiewire‘s Anne Thompson. It happened at the Billy Wilder theatre inside Westwood’s Armand Hammer Museum.
“Watching all these kind of earnest people discussing the art or whatever the hell it is of criticism, all that, it just made me so sad,” Schickel remarked. “You mean they have nothing else to do? I don’t know honestly the function of reviewing anything.
“I remember talking to Paul Schrader once about how when he came into movies, he thought he entered what was the natural state of movies, which is you got to make Taxi Driver,” he recalled. “You got to make all these weird, interesting movies and Hollywood wanted you to do it and it was only when it began to stop he realized he was living in the historical aberration.
“And for a lot of film critics, we are living in the historical aberration probably in the history of the arts where you got to make a lot of money, write about an art form at its peak and actually not only have it at its peak, but the public in general was going to that art form for ways of understanding the world. It’s not that way now.”
I’d love to attend Friday night’s Spirit Awards presentation at L.A. Live in Los Angeles, but, as I noted on 2.17, it seems excessive to throw down $600 or $700 bills (plane fare, car rental, incidentals) to that end. Plus I never get invited to any of those pre-Oscar agent parties in the hills. Plus I just watch the show on Sundays and live-blog, which I could do from Prague or Santiago if I had to.
So I’m thinking instead about attending Movieline‘s Oscar-viewing soiree at 92YTribeca. Maybe. If I can be assured there won’t be too much yappity-yap from the hosts (Michelle Collins, Sarah Benincase, Sara Schaefer), and if there’s a good spot to live-blog from (table, semi-comfortable stool or chair, nearby wall outlet). Otherwise screw it — I’ll just watch it from home with the cats.
Two or three recent articles in which military vets have challenged The Hurt Locker‘s accuracy have been counter-balanced to some extent by a 2.28 ABC News article — co-authored by Martha Raddatz, Richard Coolidge and Joel Siegel — that quotes two former bomb-deactivation specialists. Their view is that certain events depicted in the film are actually fairly dead-on.
Marine Tim Colomer, who de-activated “more than 150 bombs in Iraq” as a Marine explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) technician in 2006 and ’07, says that The Hurt Locker “took me back to Iraq almost immediately…it was tantamount to being there.” And Marine Staff Sgt. Gabriel Burkman, wounded twice during his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, says that a scene criticized by some vets — i.e., Jeremy Renner‘s Sgt. James removing his bomb suit before a defusing — is grounded in reality. “Sometimes the bomb suit is not applicable,” he says, “and some team leaders won’t use it.”
Colomer “says the movie takes some ‘artistic license,’ but he calls the bomb scenes realistic — and acknowledges that he took off his bomb suit once in a while, just like Renner’s character. ‘You are so slowed down in that bomb suit, especially if you’re getting shot at or there’s indirect fire — you can’t afford to be that slow,’ he says.”


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With only two seniors and one starter lost to graduation, the Canon-McMillan girls softball team finds itself in a different position than it did a year ago.
Last spring, head coach Michele Moeller was pretty sure she had a good team, albeit a young one.
Now, Moeller has spent the offseason and early workouts preparing the Big Macs for the task of defending their WPIAL Class AAAA championship.
“We’ve talked to the players about it,” said Moeller. “They’re used to being the underdog. This is going to be a change of direction. They’ve got a target on them. But I think they’re up to the challenge.”
The Big Macs were good during the 2012 regular season, going 13-5 and sharing the Section 4-AAAA title with Peters Township. They caught fire in the playoffs, overwhelming opponents with a power-laden lineup and the pitching of Alayna Astuto to roll to a WPIAL championship and into the PIAA semifinals.
“We really peaked at the right time,” Moeller said.
Much of the nucleus of that team returns with juniors Olivia Lorusso, Giorgiana Zeremenko and sophomore Abby McCartney providing perhaps the most feared top of a batting order since the 1927 Yankees.
The young trio banged 21 home runs last season, many of them coming in postseason play.
“The challenge for us is going to be to repeat some of those things,” said Moeller. “But they’ve grown noticeably in the past year.”
That has to be a disconcerting thought for opposing pitchers.
Speaking of pitching, the Big Macs have plenty of that, as Astuto returns for her senior season after a solid junior year. The Big Macs also return senior Kayla Kiger and sophomore Tara Fowler, giving them three capable starters.
“Alayna is still the starter, but as we found out last year it’s good to have two,” Moeller said. “Alayna had a sore arm against Norwin in the playoffs, and Kayla came in and did a good job. We’ll probably get Kayla some more work this season just to be prepared.”
That’s not to say that everything is great for the Big Macs.
Starting shortstop Veronica Rothka suffered a torn ACL playing indoor soccer and will miss the season.
Replacing Rothka, a three-year starter, wasn’t something Moeller planned on, but she feels she has the answers in her dugout.
Freshman Linda Rush will get the first opportunity to play shortstop, and Rothka will remain with the team throughout the season to offer tips on how to handle the position.
“She’s got a unique opportunity,” Moeller said of Rush. “If Veronica hadn’t gone down, we would have only been looking to fill one spot.”
Moeller has a backup plan as well. Lorusso could slide over from her third base spot to play short, or McCartney could move in from right field.
Moeller would rather see Rush succeed.
“We’re trying not to reinvent the wheel and change too many positions,” Moeller said. “We’d like to keep people at the positions they are at.”
If things fall right again, the Big Macs could be poised for another long run in the postseason, provided they don’t succumb to the pressure of having a target placed squarely on their backs as the defending WPIAL champs.
“That part all comes with it,” Moeller said. “They understand that.”

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A couple of my closest friends recently moved to Collingwood St in Paddington and prior to moving, they were particularly excited about the close proximity to a new breakfast spot opening, Shouk Cafe, which was taking over where Jazzcat had recently vacated. While I was in India, a group of our friends including them checked it out and I returned to hear glowing reports about the Middle Eastern-inspired food. Shouk Cafe has also been popular with the food bloggers, Urbanspoon reviewers and even got a Gourmet Traveller Hot Plates mention. So when S, who recently returned from a holiday to the Middle East, and I were trying to think of a place to breakfast, I suggested Shouk Cafe in Paddington. Now Paddington is not a particularly bike-friendly area (at least not for me and my bike) with it’s many hills so I decided this would have to be a non-biking adventure.
We planned to meet at 8:30am but I, running late as usual, turned into Collingwood St a little after 8:30 and then spent the next ten minutes looking for a park, maneuvering my car into an awkward space and then walking from the car which was about 200m from the cafe. Note to self and readers: parking in Paddington is painful. Anyhow, by the time I finally arrived at Shouk, S already had a seat by the front window. Brisbane is definitely cooling down and due to being next to the open door, it was a bit cold. But there were already people outside waiting for a table so I was just happy we had one. The friendly waitress appeared soon after I sat down to take our order so we ordered our coffees and asked for a few extra minutes to decide on meals.
The menu was already at the table when I arrived and although I’d already looked at the online menu, there were some minor differences. The all-day menu has some interesting options such as Goats Milk & Date Panna Cotta ($15), Lamb Shwarma ($16) and the Israeli breakfast for two ($35), which is a continental-style selection of rolls, pastries, smoked salmon, salad, cheese, olives, eggs and jam and house-made condiments. They also offer the standards like Avocado on Toast with poached eggs ($16) but with a Middle Eastern twist of added dukkah and pomegranate molasses. Their extras are all priced at $3 each or 2 for $5, which sounds like fantastic value given that they includes bacon, merguez sausage, leg ham and latkes, but there isn’t really a basic menu item that you could order multiple extras with. The Grilled Zucchini & Haloumi on flatbread with dill, mint, hummus, olives and rocket ($14) appealed to me but I wasn’t sure how I would handle the flatbread so opted for the Shakshuka (Tunisian style baked eggs) with toasted challah and olives ($17). I asked about the gluten-free bread ($1) and was told it was just sandwich bread so decided to leave it. Unless the bread is an integral part of the meal or great bread, I tend to not bother paying the extra to switch it. S decided on the slow cooked Lamb Shwarma on flat bread with hummus, pickled red onion, olives, marinated artichoke heart and lemon ($16). She was somewhat pained by the price given that a few months ago she was paying $2 for a similar meal. By the time we had ordered, the waitress had already been over a few times to see if we were ready to order so I get the feeling that high turnover is encouraged, possibly to cater for the number of people waiting for tables. It didn’t really bother me though as I would appreciate it if I had been waiting!
Coffees arrived quickly and my long black was smooth and not at all bitter. Meals took a while longer, about twenty minutes. I was starving by the time my Shakshuka arrive so was a little disappointed it wasn’t bigger but it really was a good breakfast size. The sauce was thick with large chunks of tomato, capsicum and olives surrounding the baked eggs. I thought one of the eggs was over-baked with the yolk set but the other was perfectly cooked with a gooey center. The capsicum still had some bite to it – I would have preferred that it had been cooked for longer to blend in with the other ingredients more but that may just be the style. I had a small bite of the challah and it reminded me a lot of brioche and was delicious – pity I couldn’t eat more!
S’s lamb shwarma looked delicious with a huge amount of hummus smeared on the homemade flatbread and a generous serve of shredded lamb atop it with the pickled red onion, artichoke and olives. I had a taste of the lamb and it was flavourful and tender and no doubt complemented by the onion and hummus. I think next time I’d just take the pain of eating the bread to have that meal! I was a few other meals being served to other customers and they were all beautifully presented, especially the panna cotta.
We hung around a little longer but, seeing as we could see a small queue forming outside, felt bad about staying too long. We went up to the counter to pay and only then I noticed that there was a large, sunny room out the back too which looked like it fit larger groups.
Overall I enjoyed my meal at Shouk although my meal didn’t blow me away. Still I think I’d like to return to try one of the other meals!

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A pair of homers from John Lindsey and a one-hit performance from Adam Wilk propelled the Hens past the Clippers in the series finale on Thursday night at Fifth Third Field. Wilk pitched six shutout innings with seven strikeouts in the 6-1 win.
The Mud Hens played an all-around solid game against Columbus. Toledo racked up nine hits while the lone blemish for the pitching staff came by way of a Russ Canzler homer in the top of the seventh.
The Hens scored two runs in the third, sixth and eighth innings. Lindsey was 2-for-4 from the plate with his pair of homers and four RBI.
The Mud Hens finish up the first half of the season with a road trip to Louisville starting on Friday night. First pitch is scheduled for 7 p.m.
- Matt Young and Argenis Diaz (2) were the other Mud Hens with RBI.
- Luis Marte gave up one run and three hits in two innings for Toledo.
- LHP Casey Crosby is scheduled to start for the Hens tomorrow night.


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Pizza has become a weekly occurrence in our house and slowly over time I have revised my recipe, to what I finally consider the perfect crust. It gets nice and crispy but still is a little chewy and full of flavor. It's hard to make a whole wheat crust that's not dense and flat. I guess it's not just the recipe that has been revised, but also the cooking technique to achieve the perfect pizza. I realize this recipe may not be user friendly to some given the weight measurements instead of cups and teaspoons. Next time I make my crust I will try to remember to measure it out for you. But I would also recommend that if you don't have a kitchen scale already, to invest in one, if you cook a lot. Its very handy and makes measuring out this crust so easy.... everything goes right into one bowl so you can put the bowl on the scale and keep taring it to zero with each new ingredient (or do the math). Using a scale is not only more accurate, but also takes a lot less brain power and usually prevents measuring errors. I am also pretty sure that not everyone has durum (semolina flour), or vital wheat gluten hanging out in their cabinets but you can work around that if you don't want to buy it. The vital wheat gluten is added to help with the addition of the whole wheat flour (to develop more gluten). The durum helps make the crust a little chewier. You can par this down to a more basic recipe using 300 grams of flour (all white bread flour if you wish) and leave out the durum and vital wheat gluten.
150 g whole wheat flour
100 g bread flour
50 g durum
2 g instant yeast
6 g salt
190 g water
6 g oil
9 g honey
1 tbs vital wheat gluten
You can scale everything into one bowl, starting with your dry ingredients. If using active dry yeast you will need to bloom it in the water ( warm it up first) and then mix everything else in. Mix the dough either using a mixer or by hand until all the ingredients have been completely incorporated. I find my hand to be the most efficient tool. After you get everything mixed let the dough sit about 5 minutes to let the liquid hydrate the flour. Then you want to knead the dough until it is smooth and elastic. If it looks like the dough is getting too tight, let it rest for five minutes (giving the gluten a chance to relax) and then go back to it. The dough will be more supple and easier to knead. Place the dough in a greased bowl and cover it and let it double. For maximum flavor it's best to let is sit overnight in the refrigerator, and it can sit for up to three days*. Pull it out of the refrigerator about 2 hours (depending on how warm the room is) before using it, to give the dough a chance to warm up. While it is warming up you can prepare your toppings- usually when I make my pizza's I will put a thin layer of sauce and then I like to put dollops of ricotta cheese before putting my toppings down and then finishing with a sprinkle of cheese. I don't like a pizza that's over loaded with cheese (we try to keep it on the healthy side) so that's why we put the ricotta on the bottom to give that creamy effect and then a sprinkling of cheese on top maximizes it's flavor. This pizza I have posted is a winter inspired pizza with no sauce ( a thin layer of garlic infused hazelnut oil takes it's place), ricotta, roasted cauliflower, caramelized onions, pears and smoked blue cheese which was awesome!
The key to a successful pizza, is baking in a hot oven directly on a hot pizza stone. I turn my oven up to 500 degrees (but this may be too hot for different ovens I think ours runs a little cool it will be slight trial and error) with the pizza stone already in the oven.
Now with the oven and stone heating, and the dough at room temp, toppings ready, it's time to build the pizza. Depending on how thick you like your crust will depend on this next step. You can use a small amount of flour if you find your dough sticking.
For a thicker crust the best way is to gently start stretching the dough out. This takes some practice to not stretch the dough too thin in places you can cheat by starting with a rolling pin and then from there you want hold the dough on one end and let it hang in the air (so gravity can help) and slowly rotate the dough so you work your way around the entire edge. This dough will make about a 15 inch pizza. So by the time you're done, what you want is for the edges to be a little thicker than the center. If the dough is too thick underneath the toppings, it won't get crispy enough.
For a thinner crust you can just keep using the rolling pin and keep everything the same thickness, rolling the dough out to about 1/4 inch.
Now that the dough is rolled out your going to need a piece of parchment paper (NOT wax paper, this is going in the oven) a little bigger than the size of the dough, and you will need another flat sheet pan and a little bit of semolina or cornmeal. If the sheet pan has sides turn it over so you are using the back. Sprinkle some of the cornmeal on the sheet pan (this is going to make sure the parchment slides right off the pan) and then place the parchment on top and sprinkle some more cornmeal (so the dough doesn't stick to the parchment). Place the dough onto the parchment and smooth it out so it's fully stretched out. (This is where it gets tricky- you need to make sure the dough is the size of the sheet pan so it doesn't hang over the edge. After the dough is on the parchment, build your pizza and then pick up the pan and give it a slight shake to make sure the parchment will slide off the pan. Open the door and put the pan in the oven and angle the back down close to the stone. This should cause the pizza to slide as well. In one sweeping motion you want to gently push the pizza to the edge so it's almost touching the stone and as you lower it down, pull the sheet pan quickly away. What you should end up with is the pizza nice and flat on the pizza stone! (this move can take a little practice) From there the pizza usually takes about 10 minutes to bake (depending on the temperature). You want to make sure you see that the crust is a dark golden brown (don't be afraid of some color) and that the cheese is bubbling and is taking on a little color, this will assure that the bottom is also cooked. If you pull it out too soon , the top may look nice and done but the bottom will be soft and not hold up well. To remove from the oven the easiest way is to pull on the parchment and slide the pizza back onto the sheet pan you used to put it in the oven. That way you don't have to deal with taking the hot stone out of the oven. Good luck, let me know how it goes! (or if you have any questions)
*You also have the option of freezing the dough at this point. To do that, you want to gently deflate the dough and then, to freeze it, wrap the dough well and immediately place in the freezer. To use after frozen, let it thaw completely (either in the refrigerator overnight or at room temp for a few hours) and continue as normal.


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Beef Short ribs with Pomegranate and Soy
Beef Short ribs were for years the under dog of beef cuts. People went for the steaks, the shin ( for stew), the tail (oxtail) and over Christmas time the tongue, but beef short ribs were just for the odd winter stew.
Lately beef short ribs are the rage. Smokey BBQ beef short ribs are the new thing when having a “braai” and lamb shanks are happily replaced by beef short ribs cooked for ours in red wine with earthy mushrooms and pancetta lardons ( makes you hungry just thinking about it, right?) I am on such a Eastern food binge at the moment. I crave stir fries, dim sum, Chinese Chicken and have had dreams of my Chinese Pork with Plum Sauce.
So when I saw the beef short ribs at the butcher, I could not resist and I also knew exactly what to do with it. I wanted that sweet, sour combination with hints of ginger, garlic, soy and lemongrass. Oh my word, my mouth is watering just thinking about it. One has to be careful when using soy though, especially in such big quantities, because your end result might be too salty, so I thought pomegranate juice will do the trick. The little red pomegranate rubies will also be a fresh element to the dish in the end. Well, I was not disappointed, the end result was exactly as I had planned it. Packed with flavor, the meat literally fell off the bone and it certainly ticked all the right Easter binge boxes for me. So next time you see short ribs, don’t walk pass. Grab some and…… yes, you can thank me later!
Beef Short ribs with Pomegranate
8 pieces beef short rib ( mine was about 1.3kg)
30 ml olive or coconut oil
4 cloves garlic – peeled and kept whole
a thumb length piece ginger – peeled and cut in pieces
1 star anise
2 sticks lemongrass
250 – 300 ml pomegranate juice
100 ml thick soy
1 red chili – keep whole
1 T grated ginger
15-30 ml brown sugar
Heat a pan on the stove or,if you have, a cast iron oven casserole and brown the meat in the oil. If you are using a pan, transfer the browned meat to a oven casserole or just keep the meat in the cast iron pot. Add the pomegranate juice, soy, ginger, garlic, lemongrass and star anise. place the lid on and cook in the oven for 2-3 hours. The meat must be very soft and come off the bone easily.
Gently remove the meat from the sauce in the pot and keep warm. Add the sugar and grated ginger to the sauce and reduce to a light syrup consistency. Place the meat back in the sauce and gently warm through.
Serve on fluffy Jasmin rice with fresh pomegranate, chopped spring onion and chopped chili.
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Much mischief in Catholicism often results from over-emphasizing one or another pole of a continuum. For example, push too hard on the church as a hierarchy, and the result is an inflated notion of authority; put too much stress on the church as the “people of God,” and you get congregationalism.
Applied to the current Synod of Bishops on the Bible, this "both/and" feature of Catholicism means that the bishops need to do two things at once: foster a deeper knowledge and love for the Scriptures, without generating an exaggerated cult of the printed word divorced from broader notions of tradition and the living church. A more succint way of phrasing the point is this: How can the church stress the Bible as fundamental, without turning Catholics into fundamentalists?
Yesterday saw just such an effort to strike the right balance, with a forceful plea from a key papal advisor to reject the idea of Christianity as a “Religion of the Book.”
By most accounts, the afternoon’s most memorable address came from Bishop Salvatore Fisichella, the rector of the Lateran University and President of the Pontifical Academy for Life. Under any circumstances, ears would prick up when Fisichella takes the floor. He’s a longtime advisor to Pope Benedict XVI; the two men worked closely together, for example, on Pope John Paul II’s 1998 encyclical Fides et Ratio. (The joke around Rome at the time was that the text could have been titled Fisichella et Ratzinger.)
Fisichella began yesterday by arguing that the document of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) on Scripture, Dei Verbum, offered a piece of “authentic dogmatic progress” that has yet to be adequately discovered and developed: Its stress on the unity of the sources of revelation.
(By way of background, the big debate over Dei Verbum at the time of the council pitted what was then known as the “two-source theory,” which held that Scripture and tradition are essentially two separate streams of revelation, against the “one-source theory,” which posited that Scripture is the lone source of revelation and tradition is an elaboration of it. In effect, Dei Verbum held that Scripture and tradition are interdependent and integrally related to one another.)
Fisichella said the failure to appreciate the solution offered by Dei Verbum has had dangerous consequences.
“Many believers, when asked what the phrase ‘Word of God’ means, respond: ‘The Bible,’” Fisichella said. “That response isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete , or at least it reflects an incomplete perception of the richness present in the expression, and as a consequence it tends to identify Christianity as a ‘Religion of the Book.’”
“In our language, we shouldn’t fall into the ambivalent expression ‘the three religions of the Book,’” Fisichella said, referring to Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Instead, he insisted, Christianity is properly understood as a “religion of the Word.”
“It’s important that we commit ourselves to constructing a culture that sees Scripture as a living word,” Fisichella said. Otherwise, he warned, “we run the risk of humiliating the Word of God by reducing it exclusively to a written text, without the provocative capacity to give meaning to life.”
Fisichella asserted that the church finds itself facing an “educational emergency,” created by a culture in which the Bible is often seen as a collection of “myths, lacking any historical character and intended solely for the naïve.” In that context, he said, it’s critical to present Scripture in its “totality” – meaning that it’s part of a living tradition, which is ultimately aimed at salvation.
Fisichella’s call to reject the phrase “Religion of the Book” echoes a point already made by Cardinal Marc Ouellet of Quebec City, the relator of the synod, in his opening address. Ouellet, too, expressed a preference for the term “religion of the Word.”
Other notes struck yesterday afternoon:
•tBishop George Punnakottil of Kothamangalam, India, from the Syro-Malabar Church, offered a gentle rebuke to synod organizers for neglecting the Eastern tradition, noting that the working paper for the synod contained just eight citations from Eastern fathers. He argued that the Eastern perspective can help achieve one of the synod’s main aims, which is restoring spiritual depth to the way the Bible is read, beyond historical and literary analysis. Emphasizing development of the “inner eye of faith,” Punnakottil said that “true theologians are true saints.”
•tArchbishop Orlando Quevedo of Cotabato, Philippines, who also serves as secretary-general of the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences, stressed that “God spoke his Word especially for the sake of the poor.” Asia today, Quevedo said, is “a continent of the poor, of economic and political imbalances, of ethnic division and conflict.” Yet in precisely that context, he said, “thousands of small communities of the poor” are springing up, drawing strength and consolation from reading the Bible. Quevedo’s endorsement of “Basic Ecclesial Communities” carries particular importance in light of the controversy that has sometimes surrounded them, especially in Latin America but also in other parts of the world. Critics charge that base communities can be excessively political and sometimes at odds with the hierarchy, but Quevedo praised them as “communities of solidarity and fellowship at the grassroots, effectively challenging in their own little way the modern culture of secularism and materialism.”
•tBishop Desiderius Rwoma of Singida, Tanzania, returned to one of the most popular themes so far in the synod – the need for better homilies. “If we speak of people being lukewarm concerning matters of our faith, and the phenomenon of religious sects which are spreading at an alarming speed in many parts of the world, the causes for this can possibly be traced back to a lack of good and proper preaching,” Rwoma said. He proposed a return to “mystagogical preaching,” meaning a style that gradually leads people more deeply into the central mysteries of the faith.
•tBishop Filippo Santoro of Petropolis, Brazil, was the first to raise the issue of “extraordinary ministers,” referring to lay people who under certain circumstances play roles once performed exclusively by priests, such as distributing communion during the Mass. Santoro asserted that extraordinary ministers “by themselves, and in themselves, do not arouse an encounter with Christ,” but rather “can end up exacerbating the bureaucratization of the church.”


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Usually we get told that midnight snacking isn’t good for you, and I can see that, but sometimes you just can’t stop yourself from leaving your room and going in to the kitchen to look for something tasty. This especially happens to me on those late study nights when I just have to stay awake and study.
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5. Think about what could finish this masterpiece off perfectly, and settle on chocolate.
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The Pape Adolescent Resource Centre (PARC), is a preparation to independence program serving youth ages 15-29 years of age presently in care and/or former youth in care. PARC is a joint program operated by the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto (CAST), the Catholic Children’s Aid Society (CCAS), and Jewish Family & Child Services (JF&CS). PARC assists young people by providing access to practical resources which are necessary for a successful transition to independence.
Youth most often come to PARC for the first time seeking support to do practical things like find a job, a place to live or find support with furthering their education. Youth arrive at PARC at various stages of readiness for independence and service is designed to accommodate their wide range of needs. During intake, youth meet with an Adolescent Centre Worker to establish an individualized service plan outlining the areas in which the young person requires support and the skills that they wish to develop.
Young people can receive supports in the following areas: employment, education, housing, substance abuse, immigration, life skills, emotional/mental health, identity, sexual health/sexuality. As a relationship develops between a young person and their worker, often more personal work occurs in which a young person is able to reflect upon the factors which brought the into care and their experience in the child welfare system. This individual work is the glue that binds the services of PARC in addition to workers assisting in providing access to resources that a young person may need in their transition to independence.
In addition to individualized services, PARC also offers young people a number of specialized support services such as groups, a housing program, the Ambassador school and the Element program.

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The Welfare Improvement Strategy (WIS) of Uzbekistan has the objective of improving living standards of its people with the help of strong economic policies for all priority areas of development. The report reviews economic and social policies and assesses the living standards of its people. It also reviews the macroeconomic policies for implementing goals and priorities of the WIS in individuals and estimates the cost for the same. Studies show the need for forming a conceptual framework for the WIS implementation process as well as for monitoring and evaluating the policy strategies.


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Over half of Americans believe hate speech is an "act of violence," according to a new study by the Cato Institute.
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We find that Americans believe free speech has both benefits and costs. First, nearly two-thirds (67%) think that “freedom of speech ensures the truth will ultimately win out” and 58% say free speech does more to protect minority viewpoints. But also, most believe that speech can turn violent: 53% say hate speech is an act of violence and even more say that hate speech leads to violence against minority groups (70%). Ultimately, a majority (56%) think it’s possible to both ban hate speech and still protect free speech.
There are wide racial and partisan divides over how people think free speech operates. Democrats, African Americans, and Latinos are more likely than Republicans and white Americans to believe that hate speech is violent and allows majority views to crowd out minority viewpoints, that supporting a racist’s free speech right is as bad as being a racist, that people who offend others with their ideas have bad intentions, and that we can simultaneously ban hate speech and protect free speech.
It's troubling that over half of Americans believe that society can both "prohibit hate speech and protect free speech." As Cato notes, the issue is most likely that "hate speech" can often be an amorphous idea with varying definitions. For example, many on the left believe that rhetoric used by President Trump to describe illegal immigrants constitutes hate speech.
According to the study's respondents, if such stated beliefs truly are hate speech, then they should be restricted. Otherwise, it could lead to "violence against minority groups."
Citizens in countries like Canada, or the UK for example, are subject to far more onerous speech laws than in the United States. The First Amendment gives United States citizens unique freedoms that should be cherished. To think that over half of Americans want those freedoms infringed upon suggests a naive populace that doesn't fully appreciate the rights granted by free speech protections.


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Someone in the world develops dementia every three seconds, with an estimated 50 million people living with dementia in the year 2017, and doubling every 20 years, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International. To do something about these exceedingly high year-after-year statistics, medical professionals are embracing a variety of technologies, including virtual reality.
Alleviating Symptoms of Dementia
There are a variety of dementia symptoms including stress, agitation, and even mood swings. As we already know, the healthcare industry already leverages virtual reality to manage pain and anxiety, so it seems only sensible to use it for addressing anxiety-induced dementia symptoms as well.
In order to explore how virtual reality calms patients, helps uncommunicative patients speak, as well as rekindle lost memories, a VR healthcare project, ImmersiCare, partnered with a care home group, Quantum Care. They implemented virtual reality into the daily lives of residents in elderly care by providing immersive experiences showing calming and peaceful scenes to dementia patients. These tranquil scenes help create an effective distraction that allows healthcare professionals an alternative for altering patient stress levels with drugs.
Healthcare and Human Connectedness
For the elderly, the loss of mobility can lead to isolation and depression. While using virtual reality technology cannot replace visiting somewhere in person, for those who can no longer be mobile, or have extreme difficulties in being mobile, it can be the next best thing. Virtual reality offers a chance to reconnect with places that many may thought they would never see again, or even for the first time.
One company making this happen is Rendever, which allows users to visit a virtual world together as a group, uplifting social interaction at the same time. This tool also enables something called reminiscence therapy, which is a way to spark memories and discussion from users as they view familiar locations. For patients with dementia, memories become something that is hard to recall, especially life events or even family members.
Rendever plans to leverage their tool to be used by families of dementia patients in order to create their own custom tours or experiences of things like family homes or videos. Their hope is that these memories can be recalled back, helping dementia patients to stimulate their cognition and even slow the progression of the disease.
Continued Research for Diagnosis Improvement
Spatial navigation is one of the very first cognitive functions that is inhibited by dementia. This causes the loss of ability to recognize landmarks, paths, and other clues to determine where you are, and how to get to where you’re going.
To continue to research human spatial navigation, Alzheimer’s Research UK developed Sea Hero Quest VR, a virtual reality game to aid in these studies. It’s available now for iOS and Android, and as users play anonymously, data is collected to gain greater insight into human spatial navigation behaviors. The research team believes that establishing the baseline for these skills will ultimately lead to better diagnostic tests so that a dementia diagnosis can be made earlier, and progression of the disease can be tracked. It also provides more opportunity for users to provide raw, usable data to the scientific community and continue to advance research.
Enhancing Efficiencies and Improving the Patient Experience
There is still no cure for dementia, as well as Alzheimer’s, and no treatments that even slow the progression of either disease. The treatments that are currently available only help in managing symptoms. While researchers continue to find better treatments, and even a cure, earlier diagnoses can help both patients and healthcare providers plan ahead for the many challenges that a dementia or Alzheimer’s diagnosis can bring.
For healthcare providers and facilities for the elderly and dementia patients, virtual reality technology can absolutely help address the quality of life and coping challenges that are faced. It can also offer a solution that leads to happier, more engaged patients as well as satisfied families.


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Yes, many people in the Bible experienced depression just like we do today. Some were even suicidal, such as Moses, Elijah, Jonah, Jeremiah, Judas, and King Saul. Others who experienced depression include David, Naomi, Martha and Mary, Ahab, and even one very surprising Individual. Some of the people successfully came out of the depression, others did not. In this very revealing book you will learn lessons from their lives to help you come out of the dark cave of depression and into God’s glorious Light.
• In reading this book you will be able to: • See what leads to depression. • Differentiate between normal “healthy” depression and dangerous harmful depression. • Learn about Dr Nedley’s 10 depression hits. • Identify which hits can be changed. • Hear examples of what works to come out of depression. • Experience freedom once again - permanently.
Hope is just a few pages away. Open this book and get started today on your journey out of the darkness into the Light.


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So stay true to your own nature. If you like to do things in a slow and steady way, don’t let others make you feel as if you have to race. If you enjoy depth, don’t force yourself to seek breadth. If you prefer single-tasking to multi-tasking, stick to your guns. Being relatively unmoved by rewards gives you the incalculable power to go your own way.
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November 26, 2019 - Wellness
Every Thanksgiving, millions of people join their loved ones around the dinner table to enjoy a delightful feast, traditionally consisting of turkey and other holiday foods. Following a delicious meal and casual conversation, people often find their way to the nearest bed for a quick nap before digging into the leftovers or participating in family traditions.
In the past, people have attributed their post-dinner sleepiness to turkey. Why? The holiday bird contains Tryptophan, an amino acid found in high-protein foods like cheese, yogurt, fish, meats, and poultry. When you consume Tryptophan through one or more of these foods, your body uses the amino acids to produce two sleep-inducing hormones: serotonin and melatonin.
Even though turkey does contain Tryptophan, research suggests that turkey has the same amount of Tryptophan as other types of foods. This means turkey consumption is not the main culprit behind your sleepiness. So why are you feeling so tired? While there could be several reasons for your “turkey” snoozefest, here are three possible explanations.
1. Overeating: With any holiday or special occasion, comes lots of delicious food—and it can be hard to resist another serving of mashed potatoes or an extra slice of grandma’s pumpkin pie. When consuming large amounts of food (especially foods high in carbohydrates), your blood sugar suddenly increases and then decreases. This reaction can lead to a significant drop in energy levels and make you tired as a result.
2. Travel Fatigue: Travelling for long periods of time can be exhausting. And even when you reach that final destination, you might have a hard time sleeping in an unfamiliar environment. For better sleep, stick to your regular schedule as much as possible. For extra support, check out these five natural remedies for restful sleep.
3. Extreme Stress: The busyness of the holidays can sometimes leave you feeling emotionally and physically drained. While some stress is considered healthy, ongoing stress can cause a myriad of health problems, such as depression and anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and eating disorders. As the holiday season progresses, remember to take consistent breaks and make more time for yourself.
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The Valentine’s Mini Cakes are perfect to make with the kids while the Strawberry Delight Muffins and the Mini Amaretto Chocolate Hearts will no doubt ignite your hubby’s passionate side this February 14th. The muffins are crammed full of fresh strawberries and the chocolate ganache hearts are kissed with Amaretto liqueur.
Strawberry Delight Muffins
450g Plain Flour and 1 1⁄2 tsp for dusting
1 1⁄2 tsp Dr. Oetker Baking Powder
1⁄2 tsp Salt
2 medium eggs
2 tsp Dr. Oetker Vanilla extract
450g fresh or dry strawberries
1. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together. In a separate bowl, cut the strawberries into bite size piece, toss them in a sieve with 1 1/2 tsp of plain flour to lightly coat them.
2. Cream the butter and sugar with electric hand held mixer until they become fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs and beat until combined. Mix in the vanilla extract.
3. Add the flour mix and beat them until they have combined fully. Add milk and beat till all are mixed well. Using a spatula fold the strawberries in the mix and keep it ready.
4. Preheat the oven to 180C. Grease the muffin pan and divide the batter among the cups evenly.
5. Bake for about 20-25 min.
6. Transfer it to the wired rack to cool.
Mini Amaretto Chocolate Hearts
50g caster sugar
1 medium egg
40g plain flour
1⁄2 tsp Dr. Oetker Baking Powder
10g cocoa powder
2 tbsp amaretto
100ml whipping cream
Chocolate Hearts or other cake decorations
For the ganache
41⁄2 tbsp double cream
100g Dr. Oetker continental Plain Chocolate
1 tsp butter
1. Heat the oven to 180°C. Grease and base line 20cm sandwich tin. Whisk the sugar and egg together until pale and thick. Sift the flour, baking powder and cocoa into a bowl, then fold into the egg mix. Pour into the prepared tin and level.
2. Bake for 12-15 mins until cooked through. Cool on a wire rack, then cut out four 7cm hearts using a cutter. Drizzle each heart-shape sponge with 1⁄2tbsp amaretto.
3. For the ganache, heat double cream until hot, but not boiling; add the chocolate and butter and leave to melt. Stir briefly until smooth and leave to cool.
4. Whisk the whipping cream until thick, then use to sandwich together each pair of cake hearts.
5. Using a teaspoon, smooth cooled ganache on top of the cakes and sprinkle with chocolate hearts or other pretty decorations.
Valentine’s Mini Cakes
250 g butter
125 g Dr Oetker Continental dark chocolate
300 g caster sugar
3 large eggs
100 g wheat flour
50 g cocoa
1 tsp Dr. Oetker Baking Powder
75 g Dr Oetker Continental dark chocolate, broken into pieces
75 g Dr Oetker Continental milk chocolate, broken into pieces
75 g Dr Oetker Continental white chocolate, broken into pieces
1. Melt butter and 125 g Dr Oetker Continental dark chocolate in a saucepan over low heat.
2. Whisk eggs and sugar until foamy and fluffy.
3. Fold in the flour, cocoa and baking powder.
4. When fully combined, stir in the remaining chopped chocolate.
5. Pour into heart shape muffin tins.
6. Bake at 180 ° C for approx. 20 min until baked through.
7. Cool cakes on a wire rack.
8. Decorate with romantic message to your loved one.


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DETROIT (FOX 2) - Tuesday, Oct. 24 marks two anniversaries at FOX 2: One is the 75th anniversary of WJBK, the other is the 25th anniversary of the iconic implosion of the Hudson's building in downtown Detroit, which enveloped everything around it – including FOX 2 anchors Huel Perkins and Monica Gayle – in a massive cloud of dust.
Known as The Big Store, the J.L. Hudson's Department Store was the premier shopping center in the heart of downtown Detroit. Opened in 1891 and standing proudly at over 400 feet, Hudson's was not only the tallest department store in the world with over 2 million square feet of floor space but also was one of the three largest department stores in the world.
Although many Metro Detroiters will remember its Maurice Salad, Hudson's was famous for its most beloved tradition - the J.L. Hudson Thanksgiving Day Parade through downtown.
Complete with marching bands, giant heads, elaborate floats, costumes, clowns, balloons and of course, Santa Claus, the parade route attracted hundreds of thousands of people from all across Metro Detroit into downtown. According to architect and author Bruce Kopytek, for Detroit Hudson's was truly an icon.
"It became an institution that was really associated with the city of Detroit," Kopytek told FOX 2 in 2020. "You trusted the store to have the best of everything. At Christmastime, if there were Hudson's boxes under the tree that meant that you're getting something really good."
Over its 107-year lifetime, Hudson's become an international fixture of Detroit with the largest American Flag in the country on its exterior. During its peak in the 1950s and '60s, it featured more than 200 departments with over 16,000 vendors from 40 different countries.
"If you walked around downtown Detroit and you had a nice green polka dot Hudson's shopping bag that meant that you were somebody because you just bought something at Hudson's," Kopytek said.
For years, that department store was the premier spot to shop in downtown Detroit and was also one of the most important department stores in the county. Its heyday was in the 1950s and '60s. In fact, in 1954 Hudson's reportedly had sales of more than $163 million -- which is equal to more than $1.4 billion today.
Sales started to decline by the mid-70s and, coinciding with the dwindling population of Detroit as residents moved out of the city, Hudson’s closed its doors in 1983.
As the city population dwindled, so did Hudson's and, by 1983, the building closed its doors.
For 15 years, the century-old building stood at the corner of Woodward Ave and Grand River between Grand Circus and Campus Martius.
Eventually, in 1998, the building was imploded – which added an iconic chapter to this legendary building.
On October 24, 1998, the old flagship store was demolished in a ‘controlled implosion’. At the time, the 14-story building was the tallest structure ever imploded.
FOX 2 covered the implosion live from downtown Detroit with Huel and Monica sitting a few blocks away, overlooking the implosion.
Behind them, the building built into a billowing dust cloud before eventually enveloping them and all onlookers in a massive pile of dust and debris. The dust cloud was so big, it could be seen from Southfield.
Perkins and Gayle held face masks as they turned around and faced the spreading dust.
"We can see and feel little tiny particles of the building coming down," Perkins said.
He then went to Al Allen – wearing a hard hat, mask and safety goggles – to find out if the People Mover's rails survived the implosion.
"We survived the dust. There was a lot of dust down here, thousands of pounds of dust, like a huge cloud that engulfed everyone here. People were running," Allen said.
The People Mover sustained some damage but is, of course, still working today.
Fortunately, there were no serious injuries to the 20,000 people who watched the implosion live in person but it did shatter windows at many of the then-abandoned buildings across Woodward Avenue.
After the implosion, the lot was turned into a four-level underground parking garage in 2001.
Huel and Monica sit among the cloud and debris from the Hudson's building in Downtown Detroit on Oct. 24, 1998.
If you head downtown to Woodward Avenue today – or at any point in the past five years – you'd have seen construction crews working on the building of the new Hudson's building. Once complete, the 685-foot-tall building will be the second-tallest in the city and state.
Starting on the first floor, the building will have retail and ‘experience’ spaces along Woodward and Grand River.
The mixed-use building will have public spaces throughout, venues on the second and third floors of the building, and more. Events in these spaces can hold between 50 and 2,500 people.
Construction started in 2017 with the groundbreaking ceremony. Since then, 130-foot caissons were drilled to support the foundation and more than 10,200 tons of steel and 11,600 beams were used to create structural support.
Since March 2021, the building has been steadily growing up and the office building topped out at 220 feet. Structural work on the tower is still underway and will reach its final height of 685 feet later this year, making it the second-tallest building in Detroit and Michigan.
The development is expected to be finished by 2024.


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Before stepping out on the red carpet for Hollywood’s biggest event of the year, celebrities sit for hours in the hair and makeup chair. But even before the big night, they’re getting primped and preened with high-tech facials and old-fashioned root touch-ups. Tracey Cunningham’s Beverly Hills salon, Meche is a must for a roster of stars with the most-wanted hair in Hollywood from Gwyneth Paltrow to Jennifer Garner. Meanwhile, Oscar host Ellen DeGeneres will be dropping by her trusted skincare guru Mila Moursi’s Beverly Hills Skin Care Institute for The Mila Moursi Global Anti-Age Treatment. Moursi says, “It’s the ultimate skin rejuvenation to naturally contour and tighten the skin, stimulate new cell production, increase blood circulation, and create healthy glowing skin.” These beauty all-stars are so indispensable they even make house calls! Anastasia stopped by Julia Roberts‘ house last night for an eyebrow prep. Click through the gallery to see other destinations on the road to the red carpet.
What are all the hot moms in Hollywood wearing? Striped tees from Los Angeles-based fashion brand Hye Park and Lune. Debuting this spring, the clothing line features cool separates and stylish basics designed by jet-setting supermodel Hye Park, in partnership with leading apparel manufacturer Lune.
Ali Larter, Jennifer Garner, and Alessandra Ambrosio have all been spotted out in the line’s comfy staples, and Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba, and Isla Fisher are also fans. Hye Park and Lune’s beloved garments are “Made in the USA” from a unique hacci fabric, making them ultra soft and cozy. Park brings a fresh perspective to fashion, offering luxury essentials inspired by her life off the runway and a desire for comfortable yet stylish pieces. Quite possibly the softest tees you’ll ever wear, the new collection was designed with the quintessential girl-on-the-go in mind, and includes versatile pieces that make an effortless transition from day to night.
For more easy fashion, click through our gallery to get advice from stylists on how to look cool while staying warm this winter.
Jennifer Garner always stuns, whether she’s walking the red carpet or strolling the streets with her little ones. And with three kids, one can’t help but wonder “how does she do it?” A burning beauty question of our own, we sat down with the star and mother of three for our January issue to get the scoop on her beauty routine. Garner dished on how she balances her workout schedule with her beauty regimen, who she really enjoys getting dolled up for (hint: they’re under the age of 10!), and her must-have beauty products. Read on for the full Q&A with Jennifer Garner.
I see this is a ponytail day—not surprising since you’re a busy mom.
Well, my hair is clean, so let’s stop and appreciate that for a moment! But I’ll be going to work later, and that’s nice because I get blowouts on the set.
You got up early to fit in a shampoo?
Actually, I worked out at 5:30, then showered quickly. Oh, wait, no—I took the kids to school first, then came back and showered and washed my hair. The moms who show up at school already looking great that early in the morning? I don’t understand them.
You seem to be doing just fine! Do you always exercise first thing in the a.m.?
Yeah. I’ve seen more sunrises with my trainer, Valerie Waters, than with anyone else. If I don’t work out early, it’s hard for me to gear up and do it later. We do a mix of strength training and cardio. Of course, if I’m nursing, it takes a hit. If I have a sick kid, it takes a hit. It takes a lot of hits.
What about your beauty routine?
Pretty simple. I wash my face in the morning, then put on sunscreen, concealer, blush, mascara, and I’m good to go. At night, if I’m going out, I’ll use an eyebrow pencil, a cream eye shadow, and a nude lip pencil. I’m not one to do a dramatic eye or a bold red lip.
And when you’re all made up and looking gorge, is your husband good about sending compliments your way?
Oh, he notices, but it’s my daughters who really care. When I dress up, it’s for them!
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Some of Hollywood’s finest gathered last night to celebrate five deserving students at the Children’s Defense Fund-Calfiornia 23rd Annual Beat the Odds Awards. The Children’s Defense Fund-California is a non-profit child advocacy organization that has worked relentlessly for 40 years to ensure a level playing field for all children. CDF-CA helps lift children out of poverty, protect them from abuse and neglect, and ensure their access to healthcare and quality education.
Five Los Angeles-area high school “stars” were honored by celebrities like Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Garner, and Matt Damon for beating the odds, and overcoming tremendous personal obstacles in order to achieve academic excellence. Other attendees included Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Josiah Bell, Conan O’Brien, J.J. Abrams, and Katie Lowes. Witherspoon, who serves on the CDF-CA’s National Board, spoke highly of the work the charity performs. “What I really love about this organization is that it is truly all about the kids,” the actress stated. “I am so proud to be a part of the organization.” This sentiment was echoed throughout the evening, in more ways than one. Each winning student was honored individually, and gift bags were forgone in favor of creating five gigantic gift bags for the honorees. “These kids are going to be really excited when they open them later this evening!” Witherspoon said.
As the emotional and inspiring evening came to a close, CDF President Marian Wright Edelman recognized the many accomplishments of the organization, but asserted that there is still much further to go. “Building on the leadership of young people and those that are here tonight, we can force our nation to make new choices and to really make large strides forward. We must not move backwards. We’ve got to turn this around. We’ve got to change it and we will change it,” Wright Edelman concluded.
It was a momentous night for Angelina Jolie as she was honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s 5th annual Governors Awards over the weekend in Los Angeles. Accompanied by Brad Pitt and son Maddox, along with some of Hollywood’s finest—Lupita Nyong’o, Jennifer Garner, Octavia Spencer, Naomie Harris, Amy Adams and more—Jolie’s heavy dedication to her humanitarian work garnered her the prestigious Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, making her both the youngest person and seventh woman to receive the award, not to mention raising her Oscar statuette count to two (she won in 2000 for her supporting role in Girl, Interrupted).
During Jolie’s emotional acceptance speech, she paid tribute to her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who passed away in 2007 from ovarian cancer. “She was very clear that nothing would mean anything if I didn’t live a life of use to others,” Jolie said. “And I didn’t know what that meant for a long time…It was only when I began to travel and look and live beyond my home that I understand my responsibility to others.” With over 30 films to her name, Jolie has been involved in more than 40 United Nations Refugee Agency field missions, and in addition to being a mother and a director, she has founded several charitable organizations, and she’s still doing more. “I will do as my mother asked and do the best I can with this life, be of use, and to stand here today means that I did as she asked and if she were alive, she’d be very proud.” Jolie joins fellow Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award recipients—Oprah Winfrey, Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Quincy Jones, and others —and continued the night in celebrating fellow honorees Steve Martin, Angela Lansbury, and Piero Tosi.
The 2013 Toronto International Film Festival is in full swing, and the stars are celebrating! InStyle, along with Focus Features, Remstar Films and Max Mara, hosted the cast of Dallas Buyers Club for a private dinner to celebrate the world premiere of their film at Hudson Kitchen in Toronto. “They’re incredible people,” Leto (in a Hugo Boss jacket) said of his castmates, Jennifer Garner and Matthew McConaughey (both in Dolce & Gabbana) before sitting down for the intimate meal. And incredible people give incredible performances — the morning after the premiere, critics said this movie had Oscar buzz written all over it. Click through the gallery to see more stars at TIFF’s hottest parties!
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Hollywood invaded our Northern neighbors! The stars are in Toronto for the annual Toronto International Film Festival, and InStyle crossed the border to get the scoop on the buzziest movies and talent to come from the fest, including Dallas Buyers Club stars Jennifer Garner, Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom star Naomie Harris (shown above in Alexander McQueen). We set up a pop-up portrait studio at the Windsor Arms Hotel so the casts from the top films could stop by and get snapped by photographer Henny Garfunkel. We also have two pairs of Google Glasses on site, which grabbed the attention of The Last of Robin Hood star Dakota Fanning (in Marni), who tested them out. “Wow, this is crazy weird!” she reacted. For more photos and behind-the-scenes dish, click the gallery. Plus, get more updates by following @instylemagazine on Instagram and the hashtag #TIFFInStyle on Twitter.
Fall gala season is almost under way, and there will be a new event added to the lineup—Calvin Klein Inc. will present the first ever Save the Children benefit gala on October 1st in New York City. The event will honor Hillary Rodham Clinton and Save the Children ambassador Jennifer Garner, among others. Former First Daughter Jenna Bush Hager will host the gathering, which will feature a performance by recording artist Daughtry as well as a short film produced by Garner that documents the real-life story of a family that has benefitted from Save the Children programs. The inspiring event will serve to increase awareness for Save the Children, as well as early childhood education programs in the U.S. in order to create lasting change in the lives of children in need around the world. We can expect many Calvin Klein-clad attendees, possibly in these looks from the Fall 2013 line, but expect to see guests stepping out in the brand’s yet-to-debut Spring 2014 collection as well! For more information about Save the Children, visit savethechildren.org.
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The main purpose of the sniper rifle is to destroy valuable targets at extended ranges with aimed fire, and with as few ammunition as possible. In most cases, "the target" means the human being (enemy soldier, armed criminal, terrorist, president etc.), and the "as few ammunition as possible" often means "one shot". The range for sniper fire may vary from 100 meters or even less in police/counter-terror scenarios, or up to 1 kilometer or more – in military or special operations scenarios.
Some sniper rifles, mostly – large caliber ones, used also as anti-material weapons, to destroy, or, more often, render unusable or unoperable, targets such as radar cabins, jeeps, parked aircrafts etc.
History of sharp-shooting traces its ancestry well back into XIX or even into XVIII centuries. Early sniper rifles were standart issue army rifles, selected for accuracy, or privately purchased commercial target or hunting rifles. During WW I and WW II both sides used a lot of general issue bolt action rifles (such a Russian/Soviet Mosin M1991/30, US M1903A4, British SMLE No.4(t), German G98k etc.) fitted with some kind of telescopic sight. Some of general issued semi-auto rifles also were used in sniper role, such as Soviet SVT-40 and US M1 Garand.
The practice of developing the military sniper rifles from standart issue firearms is still used in many countries. Ususally, manufacturer or special military unit select some rifles for their better-than-average accuracy, then adopt these rifles for sniper role (i.e. convert them from select-fire into semi-autos, add ajustable stocks, bipods, scope mounts etc.). Many of military sniper rifles, discontinued in service or currently in use, such as US M21, German G3-ZF and G3-SG/1, were made that way.
Some sniper weapons were made for marksmen use from the scratch, because the clients wanted some special characteristics, that were unavailable in any service or commercial weapons. One such example – Soviet SVD Dragunov rifle. It was designed on Soviet Army request as a lightweight, powerful and reliable semi-auto rifle, and remains in service for almost 40 years.
But wast majority of sniper rifles, especially – police ones, were designed on existing commercially available hunting or sporting rifles. The best examples – the US military sniper rifles M24 and M40, along with many custom police rifles, were (and still are) built on Remington 700 actions, available for general public in many hunting and target rifles. Famous SIG-Sauer sniper ifles also buil on their (SIG or Sauer) hunting rifles. Some sniper rifles, mostly also police ones, designed on target/sporting rifles. To name few: Blaser R93 Tactical (Germany), Sv-98 and MC-116 (Russia).
In general, all sniper rifles may be rougly separated into 3 major categories: Miltary sniper rifles, Police/Law Enforcement tactical/sniper rifles, and Special purpose sniper rifles.
Military sniper rifles used by different military units. Along with main requirements for accuracy and sufficient effective range, military use commands some other: military sniper rifle must not be too heavy, because sniper usually must carry it for the long hours, with ammunition and other stuff. Also, military sniper rifle must be extremely reliable in any weather and climatic conditions and could withstand hundreds of rounds fired without cleaning and maintenance and without any loss of accuracy. Third, military sniper rifle must be easy to fieldstrip and easy to repair in field conditions. Also, military sniper rifle often must have backup iron sights, in case of telescope breackage.
Another requrement is that military sniper rifle must use military ammunition, conforming to international war threaties and generally available to the troops. In most cases, military sniper rifle use variants of the standart caliber army cartridges (such as 7.62mm NATO or 7.62x54mm R), specially developed for sniping.
Effective range for the standart-caliber sniper rifles against the single human-sized target may be estimated as 700-800 meters for first-shot kills. To extend effective range beyond 1000 meters, often used sniper rifles, designed to fire more powerful ammunition, such as .300 Winchester magnum (7.62x67mm) or .338 Lapua magnum (8.6x70mm).
Military sniper rifles may be further separated in two tactically diffrent categories: the sniper rifles itself, designed to achieve aimed hits at long distances, and the Designated Marksman Rifles (DMR), designed to provide accurate fire support for line troops. While the "true" sniper rifles usually are bolt action ones, to achieve maximum accuracy, the DMRs usually are semi-autos, such as Russian SVD or German G3ZF or MSG-90, to gain higher rate of fire. But the difference lays more in tactical applianses, than in the rifles itself.
Police / Law Enforcement (LE) sniper rifles are somewhat another kind of tools. If in most military/war scenarios wounded enemy is equivalent to killed enemy, or even better, in LE and counter-terror (CT) scenarios wounded criminal or terrorist may lead to many innocent wictims. Sometimes, the LE or CT sniper must not only kill the terrorist, but hit the particular part of the body – head, or hand, holding the gun, etc. So, in general, LE and CT sniper rifles require more accuracy, but at shorter distances. The majority of LE or CT scenarios require precision shooting at the distances lesser that 300, or even 100 meters. These scenarios also require really few shots per scenario – sometimes one and the only one shot. This also require extreme accuracy and stability of results in any weather conditions. LE and CT snipers also has no limitations on caliber and ammunition selection, so they could select almost any caliber/cartridge they department want, or can afford.
Usually, LE/CT sniper rifles had completely ajustable stocks to suit snipers of different statute, sometimes they got half-of-dozen ajustable screws. This is absolutely unsuitable for military sniper rifles, but for LE sniper rifles, which are usually carried to the point of action in special cases, this is OK.
Many USA made LE sniper rifles are built on the hunting "varmint" rifles. Varmint rifles are small or medium caliber hunting rifles, designed to kill small pests, such as squirrels, rabbits etc., at extended distances. Some LE sniper rifles, such as Remington 700 Police, are simply Remington 700VS varmint hunting rifle barreled actions, bedded into sniper-style stocks.
In Europe, some sniper rifles built on sniper rifles (such as Mauser 66, SIG-Sauer SSG2000, Blaser R93 Tactical), and some built on hunting rifles (such as Steyr Scout Tactical). LE/CT sniper rifles use many kinds of ammunition, from .22LR for training and short-range sniping, to .308 Win, 6.5x55mm, .300 Win magnum etc.
Special Purpose sniper rifles may be, in turn, splitted into 2 sub-categories:
Large-caliber rifles for ulra-long range sniping and ani-material use, and silenced rifles for covert operations.
Large caiber sniper rifles usually built to use heavy machineguns ammunition, such as .50BMG (12.7x99mm) or 12.7x108mm. Effective range of such rifles is up to 1500 meters and above, depending on size of target and quality of the ammunition. General purpose machinegun ammo usually produced not-too-good accuracy, but recently some special "sniper" rounds developed in .50BMG caliber.
Silenced sniper rifles usually are used with special sub-sonic ammunition and removable or integral silencers to produce lower sound report. Sub-sonic ammo decreases effective range down to 300-400 meters, but it's worth. With the correct ammo and silencer, the sound of the gunshot could be easily mised completely at the distances of 100-200 meters at night, or even at 30-50 meters – in daily urban noize.
Sniper rifle Accuracy
The most common way of describing the accuracy of the sniper rifle is to measure average diameter of the circle, that may be drawn arount the group of bullet holes in the target. Usually, the rifle is fired from the rest with groups of the 5 (or 3) rounds, and then every group is measured. Average group diameter is the most common criteria of rifle accuracy.
Today, the thin line between "good" and "poor" accuracy is usually laid in 1MOA group. 1 MOA (Minute Of Angle) is measure of the angle, that formed with the triangle with muzzle as the top and the group as the base. 1 MOA is roughly equivalent to 1 inch group diameter at 100 yards (91 meter), or to 2 inches at 200 yards etc. So, if you read that rifle XXXX shooths 1MOA groups, it means that at 300 yards this rifle could place 5 or so bullets in circle of no more than 3 inches in diameter. Many modern sniper rifles, when loaded with right ammunition, could shoot 0.5MOA, or even 0.3MOA, which mean 1 inch groups at 300 yards, or 2 inch (50 millimeters!) groups at 600 yards (550 meters).
(c) Max Popenker, 2001


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